Not Your Entropy, Not Your Keys In a previous post I discussed the advantages of using using ShowMyWork, a process I developed which enables a Bitcoin user with no technical background to fully audit the generation of his own set of seed words. Perhaps the easiest way to use ShowMyWork is by booting up a…

As a follow up to my previous post, Two Heads Are Better than One, I’m excited to announce the initial release of Rudefox Burrow. There is certainly much work ahead to get it to where I want it to be in terms of features and user experience, but I’m satisfied…

Cheap Security Enhancement for Every Hardware Wallet Setup — Whether it’s a TREZOR, Ledger, COLDCARD or any other hardware wallet, it (hopefully) uses techniques or devices (such as a “secure element”) to make it difficult for an attacker with physical access to the hardware wallet to extract your seed words. Single-board computer (SBC) -based devices, like my Raspberry Pi-based…

Written in response to a client who asked for my thoughts regarding this article by Paul Vigna, published in the WSJ in November of 2019 and headlined “Large Bitcoin Player Manipulated Price Sharply Higher, Study Says” TL;DR: No. Retail FOMO was. For some background, a “stablecoin” is a digital token…

Written in response to the following question: In the bitcoin white paper, it sounds like Satoshi is talking about a transactional currency. And yet, it seems like the better application is bitcoin as a store of value. So why didn’t he argue it more that way. It sounds more like…