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2026-08-02 07:38:41 UTC

gunson on Nostr: There is always vendor competence risk for any HWW, so I wonder if the lesson is ...

There is always vendor competence risk for any HWW, so I wonder if the lesson is actually "always bring your own entropy" and not "extra super duper don't trust a vendor with an obnoxious CEO".

So, just from this point of principle I'd argue Coinkite deserve credit for enabling dice roll input which many used specifically to protect against device entropy risk.

While they haven't had any issues (well done!) maybe the real lesson is to be pushing other providers to ensure they're mitigating the RNG risk of their own devices - according to Opus 5 these vendors don't have an in-built way to add your own entropy:
- ❌ Foundation Passport
- ❌ Bitbox02
- ❌ Trezor
- ❌ Ledger

The only other major HWW that has a dice roll input path seems to be ✅ SeedSigner.