The market has spoken!

Noooooooo you can not make your life better nooooooo!!!!11111111!!!! You have to mine the copper yourself and carve a rack out of stone with your bare hands and then drop a single droplet of water at the right time of the day so that it will concentrate the light of the sun at the exact coordinates and intensity so that it will carve a bit out of a solid ruby disk until you get the exact machine code in a single try and...

And are miserable enough for their emotional balance to rely solely on their childish pipe dreams.

The purists who downzapped me are butthurt because of being forced to face the truth.
It's unfeasible for every single bitcoin user to also be their own entire banking service. That's the exact reason why the banking service exists. And the exact same fundamental division of work will happen with bitcoin if it's ever to become common currency.

Why not rewrite it in Rust too?

It's all part of the same issue, and the same solution: The Titanic Sank.

I can't believe you are forcing us into this new wallet. This is worse than when you never explained what was going to happen to our funds.

I currently use ubuntu, but I will try omarchy next.

LOL no

Enjoyed all answers, hilarious. This mentality pervades open-source in general. Same kind of expressions are common among the Linux community, particularly from leaders of "the one true distro" projects.

It all depends on what's the objective.

• You want bitcoin to be widely adopted and become the de facto world-wide unit of account? Then it will only happen by having trusted third parties taking care of every and any technicism so that people can use it like a normal bank account.
• You want bitcoin to remain a highly specialized asset in the hands of a negligible few able to deal with the technicisms of self management? You are on the right track.

I insist: putting the responsibility on the user side for not having a PHD on thermodynamics in order to be able to buy bread at the store is the worst possible take on the incident, as it makes sure the exact same incident will repeat again in the exact same way.

This whole thing reminds me of linux neck-bearded nerds: they act like if not knowing how to use the computer by interacting directly with the kernel is a sin and assume everyone should know, and scoff on those who don't know. They assume their world must be everyone's. But 99.99% of people just want to send an email and buy that new appliance from amazon. The exact same scenario applies to bitcoin.

Exactly. Yet still you have here the hur-dur purists insisting on making the exact same mistake all over again...

Me too. You know what's funny? I never liked the idea of buying a HW because I always distrusted the idea. I have always been more a fan of making my own with an ESP32.

Exactly! You see? You can't escape that layer of abstraction if the solution is to be an actual product for the masses. This is just the principle of work division in action.

I agree 100%. I learned that a time ago the hard way.

My argument is that whatever the solution, if it's to be effective, it will unavoidably add a layer of abstraction between the user and bitcoin which many in the community strongly refuse, and actively advise against. My point is that they shouldn't.

For instance, the solution to this problem existed already: coldcard included in their instructions that for full safety a source of entropy external to the device should be used in order for the generated keys to be safe. That's something known from day one. Yet, most people is averse to that kind of complexity and if faced with it most will inevitably drift towards shortcuts. Thus, this was bound to happen.

I have had this rant since very long ago. The obsessive focus on highly technical approaches as "the one true way towards adoption" will get most people rekt simply because they will fuck up at some point without them ever realizing. Most if not all of the affected users have no clue what "entropy" even means.

I have said this before and I repeat it: the future of bitcoin is centralized. Not a currency, but digital gold managed by independent mints. People will use coins supported by bitcoin, not bitcoin itself. It's the only way.