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101 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby OP 29 Apr \ parent \ on: Users are not dumb - Nunchuk bitcoin devs

That was a reference to Bitkey's design choice to not allow users to access their key/seed material.

I don't think it is safer.

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2 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 29 Apr

That post says 3 words "not your keys" in 300 words. But it doesn't even say how it solves it.

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181 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scoresby OP 29 Apr

Yes it made me so grumpy I got into it with Steve Lee

#1009501

Also I made a song about it:

I didn't like the idea that "no vendor lock in" was redefined as "you can send your coins to a new address" rather than "you can import your seed into another wallet software."

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104 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 29 Apr

You: "You have to send a tx from their app to recover"
Steve: "That is not lock-in"

Steve is right though: this is not lock-in...

... it's slavery disguised as bulshytt.

(I really enjoyed re-reading Anathem, lol)

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2 sats \ 0 replies \ @nitter 29 Apr
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