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Douglas, welcome to the Freedom Footprint show.
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Thanks for joining us.
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Yeah.
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Thank you very much for having me.
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Happy to be here.
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Happy to have you here, Douglas.
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Um, yes, for our, our listeners who don't know you, can you give us a
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little introduction about yourself?
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What's the TLDR on Douglas Backham?
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Yeah.
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Uh, I guess I've had multiple lives.
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My, my current life is, with the, uh, Bitbox hardware wallet.
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So, um, I'm the original inventor of the, the Bitbox01, that's now retired.
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We're on the Bitbox02, a hardware wallet for storing Bitcoin.
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And, um, yeah, at the beginning I kind of did it all.
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I have a technical background, but now I'm, uh, maybe by
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default got stuck as the CEO.
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And so I'm doing mostly, uh, talking to people.
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And, um, yeah, before that, uh, I was actually, neuroscientist, uh, at the
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university here in, Switzerland, ETH.
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And, um, yeah, I have a PhD in, uh, neuroengineering actually.
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And before that, uh, mechanical engineering did robotics, AI.
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And so I kind of had the, Uh, from my mechanical engineering background,
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I guess I had some of the skills developed, like coding, hardware,
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embedded firmware stuff to kind of build a, build a hardware wallet.
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So somewhere in between rocket science and brain surgeon,
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Yeah, something.
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between rocket science and brain surgery, I should say.
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But yeah, so I'm curious, how does one invent a Bitcoin hardware wallet?
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Like where, where does one start?
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Like, do you start with imagining?
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the software or the hardware and like do you tinker like what what
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goes on there explain the process
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Yeah, so, um, I guess when I first heard about Bitcoin, it was 2013.
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then after playing around a little bit, I, I, uh, started tinkering with
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hardware wallets around 2014, early 2014.
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And the concept had existed at the time, but there was nothing on the market.
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And, also at the same time, there's a lot of scams going around in hardware,
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in particular with mining equipment.
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Uh, and so there's a lot of, um, like mining equipment.
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There's big pre orders you had to do, so you had to pool together
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a bunch of money, and then you could buy some mining equipment.
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but the problem was that some people started taking advantage of it and
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basically doing scams, so collecting big pre orders and then, uh, running
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off with the money, or even fake companies, um, just never delivering.
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And I didn't know if that would happen with hardware wallets also, uh, and
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so, I thought, okay, just make my own.
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And I know when I first bought Bitcoin, uh, given my technical
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background, I kind of had some ideas of the security issues involved.
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took me probably a good two weeks before I actually felt comfortable holding it.
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it myself, because I understood a lot of the risks involved with self custody.
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And at the time, the most secure way to do it was to, you know, put your tinfoil
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hat on and go grab some old computer, rip out the, know, the networking parts of it,
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install like a minimal Linux on it, and put Electrum on it, and then do all your
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transactions on this offline computer.
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I'm like, okay, you know, and this, this This Bitcoin stuff, or at least
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the technology behind it, uh, I thought was super special, super powerful, but,
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you know, it's never gonna get anywhere if people have to do this, of course.
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And so HardwareWallet's, you know, it's basically a way to make offline
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computers, air gap computers, air gap system, uh, simple.
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And so, yeah, I started building it.
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And, um, yeah, that was in my spare time.
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So my day job was still doing, um, yeah, neuroengineering,
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neuroscience experiments.
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Um, yeah, I was actually, I was a group leader at the time.
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So I had a little team, um, had a boss.
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Uh, he was pretty supportive of me also, uh, thankful to him.
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yeah, I was building some stuff and I guess the
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very first thing I did was,
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uh, try to understand cryptography.
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That's probably an important thing for, for this, this technology.
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Uh, and so I actually built my own, uh, cryptographic libraries to sign,
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uh, Bitcoin transactions, from scratch.
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It, it took a while, but it was, it was good for learning and they're
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very, very buggy, very, very slow.
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Probably full of vulnerabilities, but, uh, has a good learning experience.
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And then, uh, I think had that as a base and then started doing,
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uh, yeah, the hardware design.
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and yeah, people think hardware is kind of complicated, but,
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it's getting simpler and simpler.
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So, for example, for 10, you can get, at least at the time, you can get 10 PCBs,
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In 10 days, uh, for 10, uh, from China.
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And so you can do pretty rapid, prototyping cycles, uh, with that.
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And, yeah, and started, started doing some, uh, coding on Embedded
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Firmware, pick out some chips.
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you know, PCB design is kind of like, uh, connect the dots.
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I guess when you're a kid in grade school, you, you know, connect
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the dots between the numbers.
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It's kind of like that.
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You just have chips with pin numbers on it and you, uh, well, this one's for voltage.
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Okay, connect it to voltage.
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It's kind of a fun little thing.
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and lots of open source tools available.
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So, you know, anyone can really jump into it.
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And of course, you know, I'm, I'm simplifying it a lot.
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It takes a lot of work, a lot of, uh, uh, banging your head.
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There's probably a lot of times where I'm at night.
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I'm like, is this ever going to work?
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Um, but, you know, you keep fighting through it.
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I ended up getting a prototype and, um, yeah, I'm living in, um, uh, Basel
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at the time in Switzerland and, uh, went to some meetups in Zurich, Bitcoin
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meetups, really impressive, like a lot of big name, uh, people in the
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space were in the Switzerland area.
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I got to meet them at the meetups, um, and, uh, got really good feedback.
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And my co founder, who I started the business with originally.
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Um, Jonas Schnelly is one of the maybe most famous people in the Bitcoin space,
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one of the original core, maybe not original, but former core developer.
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Uh, we happen to live in the same city.
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And so then, yeah, we decided, uh, started meeting up every
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week and said, hey, let's try
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nice and did you did you ever consider viewing Making a Bitcoin
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hardware wallet to be neuroscience.
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So let me explain that question a bit.
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Like that's, that's sort of our, our thing here on, uh, on the Freedom Footprint
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show is we view Satoshis not just as mere data, but that's something else
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since, You need a human brain to keep a secret from all other human brains
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in order for Bitcoin to work, right?
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And if you think about it, every single aspect of the Bitcoin requires
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a human to do something deliberately.
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It's not just code, it's a guy running code.
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And the same goes for miners, and for node runners, and for users.
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It all requires, uh, human action and, uh, deliberate action.
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So, in a way, you could view, uh, keeping, uh, keeping the secret of where your
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hardware wallet is and, uh, the passphrase for it as Neuroscience, I guess,
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because it's a, it's a bridge between the human brain and, and the computer.
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Um, yeah, this is a bit hippie ish, I know, but yeah.
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I would say there's some, there's some theories in, um, computer science,
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cognitive science, um, that talk about, uh, the importance of embodied cognition,
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and this was actually kind of part of my research, um, part of my PhD.
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where the theory is that you can't really separate the brain from
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the body from the environment.
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It all works together.
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Uh, and so, like, uh, if you want to study intelligence, it has to be, uh,
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in situ, in, in, um, in its natural environment, uh, in order for it, because
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it's designed to operate from your senses, it's designed to
operate from,
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uh, the world around it, around it.
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And so, and in that sense, uh, I would say neuroscientists.
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of them, maybe many of them, think that everything is, uh, part of the brain.
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You're saying everything is part of Satoshi.
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Neuroscience say everything is part of the brain.
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So maybe, yeah, I guess it fits together.
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Yeah.
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I love that.
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There's a lot of that, that kind of stuff in the, in the
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book we're writing currently.
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And like, because there's no, no one knows to which extent the brain creates
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reality and the, the, the objective subjective dichotomy might be entirely.
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You know, um, what's the word?
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Um,
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Fictitious.
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fictitious.
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Yeah, exactly.
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think, yeah, Philosophy 101, they teach you about the mind in a vat.
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Uh, experiment, I think, where how can you tell if you're in the real
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world or if you're in a simulation?
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I think there's no answer.
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Yeah.
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Are you familiar with the concept called the Boltzmann brain?
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Not the name.
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I'm not sure.
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Uh, there's Ludwig Boltzmann from Boltzmann.
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I, I don't, I don't remember if there's a von there or not, but Boltzmann, uh,
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came up with the concept of, you know, since, um, quantum mechanics is a thing.
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A particle can just.
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theoretically pop up, uh, into being anywhere.
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And if the universe is truly infinite, then there would be a chance of, um,
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particles just popping up to, uh, by pure chance to form a brain somewhere in
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literal vacuum in outer space somewhere to exist for just a couple of nanoseconds.
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But those nanoseconds will be enough for that brain to come up
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with an entire universe of its own.
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And there is no way of knowing if we're living inside one of
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those imaginary Boltzmann brain universes or the real thing.
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So, yeah, it's a very
weird theory, but I love it because it's, it's so out there.
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And in there.
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Yeah, there was no question there.
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Luke, do you have a question in mind?
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Well, okay.
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So, I mean, this, this neuroscience topic is, is fascinating.
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And so, I mean, I guess that's the origins of, of, uh, of Bitbox, right?
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But, I mean, now, nowadays, uh, Bitbox is is up there with, you know, it's
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frequently cited as one of the easiest to use and the open source ethos of it.
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I mean, I think that's what attracted us to it.
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It was really just all by reputation, basically.
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So how did you build?
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What was your philosophy, I guess, in building this company
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and Growing it into that.
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Now there's the, the bit box zero two and, um, I don't know, just
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the, the takeover, uh, so to say of this, uh, hardware wallet market.
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uh, first of all, a small tangent.
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So, So, it came out of a neuroengineering neuroscience lab, um, so it, we actually
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were a spinoff of the university, believe it or not, I think it was just
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marketing for the university, and you have to have some kind of what they call
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technology transfer from academia to, to the business, and that was basically
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the, um, so I say neuroengineering, so the lab I was in would build, um.
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New machines, new technology, including ASICs, uh, embedded
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stuff, uh, to study neurons, and I was using that to do experiments.
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And so the technology transfer was taking this, uh, like PCB design,
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embedded programming stuff, put it into a company and it completely different.
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Somehow that worked, so we got the label.
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then, um, besides that, I think there's probably no relation.
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I think with respect to, uh, this company, yeah, I guess, uh,
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I can't come from a small town, um, you know, modest upbringing,
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middle class family and in America.
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So I'm living in Switzerland, but from America originally.
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So I guess, uh, yeah, people say it's dying, but I think there's still some
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of this pioneer spirit left, uh, like independence, uh, things like that.
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Um, and so what really attracted me, one of the big things that attracted me
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to Bitcoin was kind of this concept of.
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Taking power away from central agencies and giving it to individuals,
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to people, such that they have an opportunity to improve their lives,
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build a better life for themselves.
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And I think anytime you take power away from the people or power to the people,
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if it's from centralized agencies or, you know, whatever it is, you know,
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fire, giving that to individuals.
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you can, you don't know what the future holds, but usually it's, uh, a better
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life for the whole world, in my opinion.
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and so I think Bitcoin, um, has this capability and I was really interested
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in contributing to it in some way.
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yeah, I didn't, with my neuroscience, um, uh, career,
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the next step would be academia.
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Um, didn't know if I wanted to do that.
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Um, didn't think anyone in Bitcoin would give me a job.
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Uh, so yeah, okay, can make a company, uh, give myself a job.
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That's, that's one aspect.
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And then particularly to this, um, like I mentioned before, it took me two
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weeks to get comfortable holding coins.
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And so I wanted to make it easy for people.
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Uh, and so equip people with the tools they need, um, empower them to
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participate in this, uh, ecosystem.
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give them the security they need and try to make it as easy as possible such
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that they can be comfortable as many people can, uh, if they want, um, jump
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in and, um, do something for themselves.
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how did you come up with the slick design of the, of the bitbox?
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Because those little touch buttons that aren't really buttons at
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all, you just Touch the thing.
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Like, uh, I really like that.
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Um, so how do you come up with that?
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Yeah, um,
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personal philosophy, I guess.
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Type of person.
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Um, it's like kind of like a, a zen minimalist kind of, um,
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aesthetic has always attracted me.
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And so when I was designing, um, the original bit box and also the bit
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Box O2, uh, one thing we had in mind was to, um, kind of keep it discreet.
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Keep it simple, keep it really smooth, slick.
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and I think people appreciate that, uh, because, you know, if, if you
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have your life savings on one of these, you don't want people to, hey,
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I know what that thing is, you know.
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Um, so try to keep it looking kind of like a USB stick, uh, basically.
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and that also means, um, kind of hiding the user interface, so the touch
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buttons, like the Bitbox01 also had, um, A single touch button with an LED,
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but buried beneath the plastic, you wouldn't see it unless you plugged it in.
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Um, the Bitbox02 has the, yeah, call it invisible touch sensors on the side.
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Uh, also the screen, you wouldn't even notice it has a screen until
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you plug it in and it lights up.
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and then, of course, we want it to look pretty.
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I can't say how that happened.
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It's luck, or if there's some kind of innate, uh, providence
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or, yeah, probably luck.
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No, but it's super cool.
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And I'm like, yeah, I see all the other hardware wallet companies,
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build these flashy things with, uh, big screens and color screens and
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tons of buttons and stuff, and like, I just want my, uh, hardware wallet
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to be as simple as possible, like I want it to be the bare minimum, I
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don't want it to do anything else.
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But then, then sign transactions.
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That's, that's all.
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Yeah, so, uh, I guess part of our core philosophy is to make
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things as simple as possible.
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Again, so, you know, anyone can join.
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And, um, you know, it has to do with the whole UX, um, how you deal with
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it, how our app We also try to make our app really simple and minimal.
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besides that, we also
think privacy is extremely important.
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and so a lot of things we do is with privacy in mind also.
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And so we don't have any labels of Bitbox on the hardware wallet itself.
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when we ship packages, we don't mention Bitcoin, um, don't mention
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hardware wallet, things like that.
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Um, and lots of other examples.
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And I guess you don't keep a database of all of your customers addresses
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for a hacker to hack, which allegedly happened to some other hardware
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wallets that we shall not mention.
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yeah, you can see our privacy policy on our website, but basically, um,
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yeah, we need to, like, we collect user information in the shop.
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Uh, we need to keep that until your order gets shipped out and maybe for,
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you know, a few weeks after, uh, in case you have any issues with shipping
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or you want to return it or whatever.
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Uh, but then we anonymize everything after about a month.
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And, uh, yeah, even we even talked to the Swiss government and they say, okay,
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yeah, you can anonymize your invoices too.
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That's, that's okay.
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That works.
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Um, and so, yeah, we try to minimize as much as possible.
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Yeah, we do have a newsletter.
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Um, so we have, uh, but we collect the minimal amount of information, just your
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email address and your, your name can be whatever you can use anonymous stuff.
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Uh, and I would say that, um, yeah, unfortunately with.
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Um, mailing newsletters, you kind of, kind of have to use
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a centralized entity to do it.
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Um, and so you, you should just expect with us or with anyone that if you put
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data on a newsletter, it's probably going to get hacked at some point.
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But we try to minimize the exposure.
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Good to hear.
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So speaking of privacy and things like that, like, what's your view
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on the current state of Bitcoin?
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Do you think we're in a healthy state or not at the moment?
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yeah, I, I don't really think of healthy or not.
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I think just early.
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I think it's early.
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I think there's still going to be bumps in the road.
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Um, There's still going to be bumps in the road that we don't foresee,
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you know, right now some bumps in the road that people do see is with
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government regulation, things like that.
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Maybe some use cases for Bitcoin, how people are using the protocol itself,
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putting extra data in it, whatever.
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To me, I don't really focus on it too much because I think the technology
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itself is so superior that it's going to win out in the end anyways.
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Of course, you know, it's good that people do pay attention to this.
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They do bring up awareness and they do fight for the cause
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in whatever field they're in.
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If it's legal or coders keeping things legitimate, things like that.
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So I'm I'm not too worried about it.
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I think in general, um, I would judge maybe the health of it more
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based off of adoption and knowledge.
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and I think even there, we're still pretty early.
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So now, compared to 2014, you know, when almost no one knew about it,
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I think a lot of people in the world have at least heard about it.
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Although I think most of the people in the world still don't understand it.
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And so it's baby steps, right?
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And I think it's an ongoing educational thing and I think it takes people a
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different amount of time to figure it out.
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But I'm pretty confident in the direction.
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Yeah, good to hear.
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Uh, yeah, there's one thing that there that I'm, I'm, Myself, I'm conflicted
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about, and that is, uh, if I prefer a pro Bitcoin politician or an anti
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Bitcoin politician, because there's, there's a dilemma there because if, if
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you need a politician to allow you to use Bitcoin, then, then what's the point?
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It doesn't really work in that case.
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So maybe an anti Bitcoin politician would even be preferable because it
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would push people into best practices.
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So do you have any views on that?
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No,
I think how you state it is
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nicely done.
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It's a debate I don't think I have an answer for.
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Maybe one thing I could say is another analogy to my academic career.
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is, um, oftentimes you see, like science is all, some people think
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science is like a fix, people know facts and stuff like that, but it's
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not at all, especially in the brain, people really don't know anything.
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They have theories and stuff like that, but they get proven
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wrong every, every decade.
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And so oftentimes, not only in neuroscience, but in any field,
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when someone comes with a new idea that challenges the existing
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dogma, There's always pushback.
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And usually what happens with scientific revolutions is actually the pushback
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ends after, you know, a generation or two of scientists retire.
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And then the new scientists who come up have a more open mind,
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they read the research, like, oh, this makes a lot of sense.
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Oh, this makes a lot of sense.
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And so you get new people coming, they understand it.
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And then within a few generations, then you have a new scientific theory
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that's established and accepted.
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And probably it's going to be the same for, for Bitcoin.
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And so I think, yeah, you know, right now around the world, especially in America,
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there's a lot of, um, politicians who are maybe should be retired, but they're not.
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Transcribed And I think, you know, in a matter of time as, um, new
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generations come and they understand the technology better, they understand
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the impacts better, that's probably how the change is going to happen.
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Yeah, they're, they're regarded rather than retired anyways.
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So, uh, yeah, that's, uh, that's your explanation there that to me, that's
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the difference between science and the science, which is, uh, what most people
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think is science, but it really isn't.
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If, uh, if you can't question it, it's not science.
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Like nothing is ever, never, ever, uh, fully established
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okay, so go.
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Going back to going back back to the bit box itself a little bit,
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um, what is the, uh, uh, the.
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Uh, the, the, the privacy, the privacy aspect is, is great.
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I'm glad you touched on that.
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Uh, what are the other things that sort of set Bitbox apart
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from the other options out there?
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Because there, there are plenty of hardware waltz to choose from.
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Why, why would someone pick the Bitbox?
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yeah, thank you for asking.
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I guess when it comes to hardware wallets, there's two main concepts.
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One is, um, Security, of course, another is usability.
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I think privacy kind of fits into security.
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and I, in my opinion, of course, I'm biased.
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I think the Bitbox outshines the competition in both aspects.
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Although I would say security now, um, you probably can't go
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wrong with any major hard rule.
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Right now, um, they're all, they're all pretty secure, so it's more kind of
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nitpicky in the details, although I think we have some, more advanced concepts
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that kind of, kind of do put us ahead, such as, um, anti klepto, um, stuff for,
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Some really, really tangential security on how you do signatures, encrypted
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RAM, um, yeah, some things like that.
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But I think where we really shine, is in usability.
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so one thing we're really proud about is oftentimes we hear people say, Hey!
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The bid box is the hard role that I will give to my, my partner or my family.
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and I, I think, you know, that really makes me feel, feel nice because
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that was kind of the goal, you know, to get more people involved.
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And if bid box is the, the harder role, the choice that they make
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to, uh, get other people involved that they think should be involved,
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uh, yeah, that, that feels good.
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And so.
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Um, yeah, we have the, the touch sensors, um, which, uh, allows for, um, you know,
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I think, unique, fun experience, but also functionally allows for faster input.
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it's very, very new, very novel, so it takes a little while to get used to,
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but once you're used to it, you know, a couple of tries, then you'll Um, I
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think it's a pretty nice experience.
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one thing that we did from the very beginning was, um, adding a
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micro, onboard micro SD card slot.
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I think we're still the only one who does this, uh, in
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terms of backups and recovery.
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Uh, and so one thing, um, if you're used to software wallets or hardware
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wallets, you, when you make a backup, when you first create the wallet, You
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have to write down this word list.
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It's 12 or 24 words called a mnemonic seed, and we call it mnemonic anxiety,
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where, you know, it can take 20 minutes, 30 minutes to do this on a
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hard wallet, because then after you write it down, you have to reenter it to
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make sure you didn't make any mistakes.
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It's quite stressful because if you make one typo, you could be locked out of
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your funds if you ever try to recover.
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and what we do is, uh, try to eliminate that.
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So, uh, we use a onboard microSD card such that when you set up the wallet,
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um, all this stuff happens instantly.
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uh, as a backup onto the micro SD card.
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So instead of spending 20 to 30 minutes in a very stressful way, you can just
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take, you know, a few instances, uh, in a stress free way, in a way people
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understand also, that's important.
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People don't really understand why they're doing this, uh, where this, what the
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meaning is, what I need to do with it.
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Uh, and I, I think, um, that, that's another nice example.
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And I, of course, mentioned the app again.
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Uh, we do a lot to, you know, keep it clean, uh, basic and functional.
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Yeah, the app is great.
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I mean, the whole functionality of the thing is very slick
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and very, very nice to use.
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So what's, what's on the, for lack of a better word, roadmap?
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What's in the future for Bitbox?
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Bitbox.
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yeah.
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So.
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I always hesitate to to, to give timelines or deadlines or things like that because
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it always takes longer than expected.
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But I guess in general, uh, one thing we're really interested in, yeah,
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we're doing a lot of development both at hardware and software.
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One thing we're really interested in is user feedback.
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Uh, and so yeah, just maybe quickly, first I'd say anyone listening out there.
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We used a Bitbox.
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If you have any feedback, we're really, really happy to accept
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that feedback, to take it when we're trying to build new products.
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And so, yeah, we're working on new hardware versions.
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The Bitbox02 is not going to go away.
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We're planning that to continue, but we're working on complementary versions.
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Hardware wallet versions, too early to go into details, uh, but then also, uh,
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continuously spending a lot of time on the app itself, trying to make it more
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and more user friendly, uh, try to add in functions that people, uh, request.
458
00:26:44,266 --> 00:26:48,146
Uh, so I think one really nice thing about the Bitbox, uh, we have a
459
00:26:48,146 --> 00:26:51,526
partnership with another Swiss company called Pocket, uh, which allows,
460
00:26:51,546 --> 00:26:55,256
um, buying Bitcoin, like dollar cost averaging, uh, things like that.
461
00:26:55,895 --> 00:26:59,705
Really nice thing is that based in Switzerland, uh, there's a law where
462
00:26:59,705 --> 00:27:04,295
there's no extra KYC, so they need to know your bank account, of course,
463
00:27:04,405 --> 00:27:05,615
when you send in money, but that's it.
464
00:27:06,300 --> 00:27:10,470
And there's no extra KYC, and you can buy a Bitcoin for a thousand
465
00:27:10,510 --> 00:27:15,270
euro, about a thousand francs a day, uh, without any extra KYC.
466
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:21,063
And I think, really nice thing is if you're getting into, um, the Bitcoin
467
00:27:21,063 --> 00:27:22,823
space, you don't know where to start.
468
00:27:23,343 --> 00:27:26,153
Uh, one thing you can do is just simply buy a Bitbox.
469
00:27:26,893 --> 00:27:30,143
Uh, you don't need any crypto to begin with, any Bitcoin to begin with.
470
00:27:30,733 --> 00:27:32,203
And, um, just.
471
00:27:32,698 --> 00:27:35,988
Set up your wallet, and then inside the app itself, we have an integration
472
00:27:35,988 --> 00:27:39,198
with Pocket, where it's like really, really simple just to get started
473
00:27:39,198 --> 00:27:40,588
and buy some, buy some Bitcoin.
474
00:27:41,218 --> 00:27:43,598
and we're going to implement, uh, Cell soon.
475
00:27:43,748 --> 00:27:44,298
That's coming.
476
00:27:45,048 --> 00:27:49,076
Um, we've been working on, um, some Lightning stuff.
477
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,715
still kind of experimental, but hopefully that will happen.
478
00:27:52,035 --> 00:27:56,200
That will come out sometime later, working on, yeah, just, you know,
479
00:27:56,550 --> 00:27:58,290
small bug fixes, things like that.
480
00:27:58,410 --> 00:28:02,928
I recently came out with a watch only wallet, thinking about, um, you know,
481
00:28:03,768 --> 00:28:07,088
easier ways to import, export notes, uh, you know, a bunch of small things
482
00:28:07,148 --> 00:28:11,668
that, uh, basically, You know, we try to listen to our users and try
483
00:28:11,668 --> 00:28:15,948
to implement their feedback and then make a better and better product.
484
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:17,090
Nice.
485
00:28:17,130 --> 00:28:20,050
And, and yeah, there's a lot going on in Switzerland.
486
00:28:20,050 --> 00:28:24,700
I was in Switzerland two weeks ago, uh, in Lugano on the other side.
487
00:28:25,050 --> 00:28:29,610
Uh, so do you have any collaborations there with, with the Plan B
488
00:28:29,610 --> 00:28:30,900
or, or anything like that?
489
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,170
I'd say no, no close collaborations, but we, we talk to them all the time.
490
00:28:35,230 --> 00:28:39,560
Um, so we're, we've always been, um, uh, part of their conferences
491
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:43,440
that happen in the fall, which are excellent, excellent conferences.
492
00:28:44,055 --> 00:28:49,354
and yeah, go there, help with, um, the agenda, give talks, give
493
00:28:49,354 --> 00:28:51,844
workshops, um, sponsor, have a booth.
494
00:28:51,994 --> 00:28:55,564
Um, it's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful city.
495
00:28:56,874 --> 00:28:57,884
It's really nice.
496
00:28:58,364 --> 00:28:58,784
Um,
497
00:28:58,809 --> 00:29:03,769
I, like my experience there is that everything is five star.
498
00:29:03,839 --> 00:29:07,519
It's a five star town in a five star, uh, country.
499
00:29:07,879 --> 00:29:09,569
And it's a five star conference.
500
00:29:09,569 --> 00:29:11,329
I mean, Lugano Plan B is great.
501
00:29:11,819 --> 00:29:16,009
Uh, yeah, uh, all aspects of it is just phenomenal.
502
00:29:16,622 --> 00:29:16,772
Yeah.
503
00:29:16,772 --> 00:29:20,402
So in speaking of conferences, uh, we, we actually, we all met for the first
504
00:29:20,402 --> 00:29:25,142
time on, on Madera, and that's where we, where, where we first, uh, I guess
505
00:29:25,142 --> 00:29:29,702
we, we heard the, the a, a bit of the roadmap from the, the bit box side.
506
00:29:29,707 --> 00:29:33,122
And we ended up spending, uh, uh, some time in the, the line
507
00:29:33,122 --> 00:29:34,442
waiting for the, the plane.
508
00:29:34,532 --> 00:29:34,922
Uh.
509
00:29:35,417 --> 00:29:39,747
Uh, off of, off of Madeira, I think to our, to our first, uh, layover back home.
510
00:29:39,747 --> 00:29:43,657
But, uh, um, so
it's just great to, to catch up to, uh,
511
00:29:43,717 --> 00:29:45,527
with Bitcoiners in person.
512
00:29:45,777 --> 00:29:48,757
I guess one question is what did you think of the, uh, the Madeira
513
00:29:48,757 --> 00:29:49,957
conference, Bitcoin Atlantis?
514
00:29:50,540 --> 00:29:51,480
yeah, Madeira was great.
515
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:56,160
Uh, yeah, I didn't really have any expectations going in.
516
00:29:56,210 --> 00:29:57,370
It was their first conference.
517
00:29:57,430 --> 00:30:01,755
Um, But it got there a really beautiful location also, really
518
00:30:01,755 --> 00:30:05,944
amazing location, really fun conference, uh, in a, in a football
519
00:30:05,944 --> 00:30:10,824
stadium, which is really interesting and, um, great, great speakers.
520
00:30:10,934 --> 00:30:15,074
They attracted, like, really nice speakers, not in, in Europe.
521
00:30:15,074 --> 00:30:20,059
Sometimes you don't get all of the, um, I guess North American speakers to come.
522
00:30:20,439 --> 00:30:23,989
Uh, but they're all there, so a really nice mix of both, uh, the European
523
00:30:23,989 --> 00:30:25,539
and the North American communities.
524
00:30:26,039 --> 00:30:27,529
Um, really great vibes.
525
00:30:27,959 --> 00:30:30,139
Uh, yeah, quite, quite loved it.
526
00:30:30,959 --> 00:30:35,389
I'm very happy to hear that, and yeah, we'll see when the next one will be,
527
00:30:35,469 --> 00:30:41,659
uh, But, uh, yeah, it's a great, we have some great conferences in Europe, uh,
528
00:30:41,789 --> 00:30:47,549
Madeira and, and, uh, Logano and, uh, Prague and Riga come to mind, uh, the,
529
00:30:47,639 --> 00:30:50,589
all, all, uh, super high signal events.
530
00:30:51,364 --> 00:30:51,894
Exactly.
531
00:30:52,094 --> 00:30:52,244
Yeah.
532
00:30:52,927 --> 00:30:54,067
That's how we want it.
533
00:30:54,832 --> 00:30:58,052
Yeah, we're going to be going to Prague just around the corner here.
534
00:30:58,052 --> 00:31:00,592
This episode will be out just after Prague.
535
00:31:00,632 --> 00:31:04,172
But yeah, any anything special planned there?
536
00:31:04,771 --> 00:31:08,721
yeah, so we'll have a booth, um, yeah, it'll come out after the conference,
537
00:31:08,761 --> 00:31:11,561
but otherwise I'd invite you to come, come hang out and meet us.
538
00:31:12,874 --> 00:31:18,694
but I'm actually gonna have a talk on the main stage, um, about customer support.
539
00:31:18,974 --> 00:31:19,034
Thank you.
540
00:31:20,304 --> 00:31:23,574
And how interesting stories from customer support and how that
541
00:31:23,954 --> 00:31:25,264
shapes our product development.
542
00:31:26,619 --> 00:31:26,939
Yeah.
543
00:31:26,969 --> 00:31:31,469
Um, well, uh, you can, you're going to Riga too, right?
544
00:31:32,297 --> 00:31:33,237
very likely, yes.
545
00:31:33,237 --> 00:31:33,627
Obi and
546
00:31:34,232 --> 00:31:34,652
Yeah.
547
00:31:34,742 --> 00:31:39,012
So, so, so well, everything we say about Prague now, uh, applies
to
548
00:31:39,012 --> 00:31:41,152
Riga too, I guess, or most of it.
549
00:31:41,202 --> 00:31:41,432
Yeah.
550
00:31:42,507 --> 00:31:44,117
Riga, very, very likely.
551
00:31:44,167 --> 00:31:48,027
And then also, uh, Lugano, very, very likely in the fall.
552
00:31:48,502 --> 00:31:53,672
Yeah, our promo code works for Riga too, by the way, uh, the code Freedom,
553
00:31:53,702 --> 00:31:55,642
and maybe it works for Lugano too.
554
00:31:55,642 --> 00:31:59,802
I haven't spoken to those yet, but like, we'll see.
555
00:32:00,672 --> 00:32:06,537
Can you give us a little bit of a preview of your, your, your talk and, uh, Yeah,
556
00:32:06,537 --> 00:32:10,857
maybe a little behind the scenes for those who don't manage to make it to Prague.
557
00:32:12,062 --> 00:32:17,590
yeah, I mean, it's still in progress, but, uh, the general concept is, um, you're in
558
00:32:17,590 --> 00:32:22,910
the space for a while, oftentimes you have trouble seeing the forest for the trees.
559
00:32:24,220 --> 00:32:24,990
Um, so,
560
00:32:25,570 --> 00:32:26,550
For the Merkle trees,
561
00:32:27,390 --> 00:32:35,060
yeah, yeah, or yeah, if you're that deep, yeah, um, and so, you know,
562
00:32:35,060 --> 00:32:39,160
as oftentimes what comes into us in support, uh, can surprise us.
563
00:32:39,779 --> 00:32:42,889
like, oh, we had no idea that this was an issue, that this
564
00:32:42,889 --> 00:32:44,139
was coming, things like that.
565
00:32:44,619 --> 00:32:47,449
And so, maybe go through some interesting stories there.
566
00:32:47,829 --> 00:32:52,029
Also, um, you know, maybe remove a little bit of the stigma, because we're
567
00:32:52,029 --> 00:32:55,539
not aware of anyone actually talking about their own customer support.
568
00:32:55,999 --> 00:33:01,839
Because, you know, people maybe want to hide, um, supports all, like, bad
569
00:33:01,839 --> 00:33:03,369
things and problems and things like that.
570
00:33:03,369 --> 00:33:06,614
So maybe people want to kind of it away, don't know.
571
00:33:07,044 --> 00:33:10,284
And so we thought it would be interesting to kind of put this front and center,
572
00:33:10,354 --> 00:33:14,434
also highlight or emphasize, you know, like, we really care about support.
573
00:33:15,074 --> 00:33:16,484
We have a really great support team.
574
00:33:16,544 --> 00:33:19,914
They get, like, five star reviews, like on Trustpilot and so on.
575
00:33:20,834 --> 00:33:21,844
And so we're proud of that.
576
00:33:22,234 --> 00:33:23,334
And, um, yeah.
577
00:33:24,574 --> 00:33:29,344
I guess, uh, kind of, kind of bring, bring to people's attention that, you
578
00:33:29,344 --> 00:33:34,224
know, customer support's, uh, important, something we take very seriously, and
579
00:33:34,224 --> 00:33:38,344
it can also, uh, help improve your, your product design if you use it as a,
580
00:33:38,854 --> 00:33:40,304
uh, part of your product development.
581
00:33:40,943 --> 00:33:41,823
Yeah, sounds great.
582
00:33:41,823 --> 00:33:45,633
And I mean, again, this is another one of those things that I think, yeah, shows
583
00:33:45,633 --> 00:33:48,323
off why Bitbox is a bit, a bit different.
584
00:33:48,723 --> 00:33:53,823
Now, I've got another, I've got another, um, sort of angle on this, um, that, that
585
00:33:53,853 --> 00:33:58,448
everything we're talking about, we're, we're all Europe, And I think the, the
586
00:33:58,638 --> 00:34:02,998
Bitbox, uh, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think, I think has a, has a bit of a
587
00:34:03,048 --> 00:34:06,518
more European, um, customer base as well.
588
00:34:07,084 --> 00:34:10,354
what do you, what do you think is sort of the, the difference between kind of the,
589
00:34:10,364 --> 00:34:16,694
the European community and market versus North America, Asia Pacific, uh, all that?
590
00:34:17,244 --> 00:34:18,354
well, we're trying to figure it out.
591
00:34:19,394 --> 00:34:21,744
So yeah, we're, we're, we're doing pretty well in Europe.
592
00:34:22,153 --> 00:34:23,503
quite, quite comfortable in Europe.
593
00:34:23,995 --> 00:34:26,775
trying to figure out ways to, you know, get a little bit awareness
594
00:34:26,815 --> 00:34:30,505
in America, but I think probably one of the big things is distance.
595
00:34:30,575 --> 00:34:34,055
Um, and so it's always, it's harder for us to get to America.
596
00:34:34,215 --> 00:34:37,925
It's farther away, costs more money, budgeting, things like that.
597
00:34:38,580 --> 00:34:43,407
there's a wider, probably a wider, or a lower signal to noise ratio.
598
00:34:43,407 --> 00:34:47,427
Um, and, Um, then a lot of, uh, European content, especially
599
00:34:47,427 --> 00:34:48,947
local language, European content.
600
00:34:49,437 --> 00:34:51,797
So it might be harder to break through that, that noise.
601
00:34:52,857 --> 00:34:56,977
Uh, and I, I think, you know, really to, to really get moving there probably
602
00:34:57,017 --> 00:35:00,877
needs some feet on the ground in America, um, to go and, you know,
603
00:35:00,927 --> 00:35:04,687
talk to people and maybe like a little grassroots campaign, things like that.
604
00:35:05,267 --> 00:35:11,337
Um, I think, you know, from, from the Bitcoiners I see, um, I think
605
00:35:11,337 --> 00:35:12,627
we're kind of all on the same page.
606
00:35:12,989 --> 00:35:15,589
But then it's a question of what is the, the broader market.
607
00:35:15,659 --> 00:35:19,059
So we hear some rumors that in America, you know, maybe there's a bit more
608
00:35:19,119 --> 00:35:21,559
crypto, uh, rather than Bitcoin only.
609
00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:26,009
Uh, I think Europe, uh, especially, uh, what we're aware of, like the
610
00:35:26,019 --> 00:35:30,139
German speaking regions, um, there's a, a bit more understanding of, like,
611
00:35:30,169 --> 00:35:34,359
why, uh, Bitcoin is unique, why it can distinguish itself from other coins.
612
00:35:34,409 --> 00:35:36,809
And I think that spreads through most of
Europe.
613
00:35:37,659 --> 00:35:40,499
Um, and also thanks to the, these wonderful conferences
614
00:35:40,509 --> 00:35:43,219
that you had mentioned before, I think this is a big part too.
615
00:35:43,854 --> 00:35:48,995
And, you know, podcasts like, like you guys also, I think, yeah, some
616
00:35:48,995 --> 00:35:54,623
things in, um, Asia Pacific, yeah, I've visited, uh, a few times, uh, talked
617
00:35:54,623 --> 00:35:59,683
to some local people there, and from what I hear, uh, from them is that,
618
00:36:00,168 --> 00:36:03,138
crypto altcoins really kind of a thing.
619
00:36:03,138 --> 00:36:03,268
Yeah.
620
00:36:04,173 --> 00:36:09,813
Uh, have more of a, more of a dominance over there, and a big reason for that
621
00:36:09,823 --> 00:36:15,513
is, um, uh, from, from what I hear, from what they tell me is that Bitcoin
622
00:36:15,533 --> 00:36:17,283
doesn't have a marketing department.
623
00:36:18,073 --> 00:36:22,803
There's no marketing budget, whereas every other altcoin, including Ethereum,
624
00:36:23,293 --> 00:36:25,903
um, they have marketing, uh, budgets.
625
00:36:26,253 --> 00:36:32,173
Uh, and what happens is a lot of the, the content does get
626
00:36:32,183 --> 00:36:34,453
translated into Asian languages.
627
00:36:34,890 --> 00:36:38,010
thanks to these marketing budgets, but, uh, with Bitcoin,
628
00:36:38,090 --> 00:36:39,810
um, that kind of fell behind.
629
00:36:39,810 --> 00:36:42,440
There's no one pushing it, no money there to do that, so it really
630
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:43,840
has to be individuals doing it.
631
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:49,850
And because of that, you get, um, yeah, an oversaturation of information,
632
00:36:50,010 --> 00:36:52,485
uh, leaning more towards altcoins.
633
00:36:53,205 --> 00:36:54,245
it makes sense to me.
634
00:36:54,645 --> 00:36:58,965
Uh, and so again, it's going to be an education, uh, kind of issue, uh, just
635
00:36:59,105 --> 00:37:00,905
learning experience kind of issue.
636
00:37:01,265 --> 00:37:02,265
People will learn in time.
637
00:37:03,109 --> 00:37:07,992
you know, I think myself included, I think most people in the space, maybe
638
00:37:07,992 --> 00:37:11,592
not you guys, but most people in the space, when they first get started, uh,
639
00:37:11,592 --> 00:37:13,622
they are tempted to try to find, oh.
640
00:37:14,007 --> 00:37:14,747
Bitcoin's been around.
641
00:37:14,747 --> 00:37:16,297
What's the next best Bitcoin?
642
00:37:16,327 --> 00:37:19,687
What, what's the, Bitcoin must be MySpace, right?
643
00:37:20,187 --> 00:37:23,897
And, uh, this new shiny coin is, uh, Facebook, right?
644
00:37:24,517 --> 00:37:27,027
but you know, it's, it's, it's not a good analogy.
645
00:37:27,307 --> 00:37:29,417
Um, the better analogy is like, uh,
646
00:37:30,168 --> 00:37:37,028
the wheel, the wheel, or the circular shape as being the optimal shape
647
00:37:37,038 --> 00:37:38,738
for constructing a wheel with.
648
00:37:39,058 --> 00:37:43,428
Like, there are triangular shapes and hexagonal wheels, but yeah,
649
00:37:43,488 --> 00:37:45,298
Bitcoin is the circular shape.
650
00:37:45,888 --> 00:37:46,928
Yeah, that's a good one too.
651
00:37:47,608 --> 00:37:50,788
I was thinking like, I think Andres Antonopoulos was talking about
652
00:37:50,788 --> 00:37:55,808
it, how Bitcoin is more like, like internet, base layer of internet.
653
00:37:56,188 --> 00:37:58,168
It's a foundational thing.
654
00:37:58,608 --> 00:38:01,718
That base layer hasn't really changed so much, but things have been built
655
00:38:01,718 --> 00:38:06,628
on top of it to give us this, uh, Yeah, to allow us to do these, um,
656
00:38:07,228 --> 00:38:08,488
podcasts over the internet right now.
657
00:38:09,148 --> 00:38:13,858
and so, uh, yeah, it'll take people some time to figure that out.
658
00:38:14,477 --> 00:38:19,507
Yeah, I love that you keep your cool so much in all of this and just, I just want
659
00:38:19,507 --> 00:38:23,227
to tinker with my little invention here and like, don't worry about the noise.
660
00:38:23,297 --> 00:38:25,507
It will sort itself out sooner or later.
661
00:38:25,507 --> 00:38:29,487
We're more like on the barricades here and trying to like, because like,
662
00:38:29,487 --> 00:38:35,402
don't get me started about this, you know, both in, in And so Asia, both
663
00:38:35,402 --> 00:38:39,602
in Asia and in North America with the, the shit coiners and the shit
664
00:38:39,622 --> 00:38:43,232
coinery and marketing being the thing.
665
00:38:43,412 --> 00:38:48,332
And it's, it's all, you know, you can't have a nothing burger without word salad.
666
00:38:48,462 --> 00:38:55,297
Um, that's basically the, uh, All, all there is, and it annoys me so much, uh,
667
00:38:55,327 --> 00:39:00,817
and it makes me proud to be European because like, this is a more, a higher
668
00:39:00,817 --> 00:39:05,617
signal to noise ratio continent in, in, in terms of Bitcoin adoption, we might
669
00:39:05,617 --> 00:39:13,017
not have favorable politicians and the EU is a, is a bureaucratic cancer that
670
00:39:13,017 --> 00:39:19,062
is, you know, annoying us all, but, uh, But still, the German community, the
671
00:39:19,062 --> 00:39:23,482
Dutch community, the Swiss community, the Czech community, it's all great.
672
00:39:24,752 --> 00:39:29,132
So many people and so many high signal people, it's fantastic.
673
00:39:29,537 --> 00:39:33,657
So I guess you notice it also in North America and Asia, um,
674
00:39:33,937 --> 00:39:35,287
a lower signal to noise ratio.
675
00:39:36,135 --> 00:39:38,255
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely I do.
676
00:39:38,255 --> 00:39:41,395
Especially Uh, yeah, I should name names here.
677
00:39:41,545 --> 00:39:48,165
Uh, . But, uh, but, but that definitely is because I think in, I mean, in Asia
678
00:39:48,170 --> 00:39:49,935
there's a gambling culture, right?
679
00:39:50,115 --> 00:39:53,345
Uh, and in North America there's a
marketing culture.
680
00:39:53,345 --> 00:39:54,485
Like everything is marketing.
681
00:39:55,045 --> 00:39:55,420
Uh, so.
682
00:39:56,470 --> 00:40:00,470
Uh, and I think here we're maybe more grounded, uh, maybe
683
00:40:00,470 --> 00:40:01,890
I'm biased here, but yeah.
684
00:40:02,180 --> 00:40:05,810
Luke, what's your, what's your, uh, general feeling there?
685
00:40:06,066 --> 00:40:10,016
Yeah, I mean, coming from Canada, I think the Canadian community is a
686
00:40:10,016 --> 00:40:12,356
little different from the American one.
687
00:40:12,651 --> 00:40:13,101
a little.
688
00:40:13,331 --> 00:40:17,261
It's, it's super based, uh, in the comparison to the U.
689
00:40:17,261 --> 00:40:17,421
S.
690
00:40:17,551 --> 00:40:20,041
Uh, like, Canadian community is one of the best in the world.
691
00:40:20,216 --> 00:40:20,926
Yeah, totally.
692
00:40:20,926 --> 00:40:24,856
But the thing is, I left Canada before I got connected with the Bitcoin community.
693
00:40:24,856 --> 00:40:28,546
And so it's really been the the American one that that I've had exposure to.
694
00:40:28,546 --> 00:40:32,266
And I think it's the same that That there's, there's just so many,
695
00:40:32,286 --> 00:40:36,296
there's so many things, uh, people are trying to, to find the, the thing
696
00:40:36,296 --> 00:40:41,916
that's going to hit and, um, see, see an opportunity to, to make money.
697
00:40:41,916 --> 00:40:46,486
And, uh, yeah, I mean, comparing it to sort of say that, that one
698
00:40:46,496 --> 00:40:50,126
region of the world has the, the, the situation better or, or not.
699
00:40:50,156 --> 00:40:51,346
I mean, maybe that's unfair.
700
00:40:51,576 --> 00:40:54,286
There's, there's fantastic Bitcoiners all over the world.
701
00:40:54,656 --> 00:41:00,126
And I think it's sort of a case where maybe the local culture influences
702
00:41:00,186 --> 00:41:05,206
the community, the community growth, and local regulations I think
703
00:41:05,206 --> 00:41:10,156
also play a part certainly, right, because that if a country is I
704
00:41:10,871 --> 00:41:15,591
Really unfriendly to, to Bitcoin and really aggressively attacking it.
705
00:41:16,041 --> 00:41:20,641
I mean, I think American Bitcoin culture is extremely political right now.
706
00:41:20,641 --> 00:41:25,411
They're, they're really invested in, in their election, uh, coming up here.
707
00:41:25,411 --> 00:41:29,291
And, uh, maybe that noise just isn't quite so loud, uh, over
708
00:41:29,291 --> 00:41:31,041
here on, on this side of the pond.
709
00:41:31,478 --> 00:41:34,558
no, but this is a, this is a good discussion, I think, uh, uh, kind
710
00:41:34,558 --> 00:41:39,078
of the, the nature of building a, a Bitcoin company, right?
711
00:41:39,338 --> 00:41:42,148
Because, I mean, I think, I think one thing that we've been getting into a
712
00:41:42,148 --> 00:41:45,848
little bit on, on this show is that, is that maybe the, maybe the Bitcoin protocol
713
00:41:45,848 --> 00:41:47,853
itself be really, really, really cool.
714
00:41:48,103 --> 00:41:49,043
cautious with that.
715
00:41:50,253 --> 00:41:54,353
There's a lot of room to build on top of Bitcoin and build things that
716
00:41:54,353 --> 00:41:56,453
make the Bitcoin process easier.
717
00:41:56,453 --> 00:42:01,433
And I mean, my experience with using the Bitbox the first time, I tried to plug it
718
00:42:01,433 --> 00:42:03,803
into basically all of my own workflows.
719
00:42:04,383 --> 00:42:10,513
I'd been using the Sparrow app a lot, just for my own management, creating different
720
00:42:10,513 --> 00:42:12,943
wallets, multisigs and things like that.
721
00:42:13,548 --> 00:42:16,078
Bitbox worked perfectly right out of the box.
722
00:42:16,128 --> 00:42:16,768
I loved it.
723
00:42:16,958 --> 00:42:21,336
I tried the app as well, and I mean, I'm leery personally of kind
724
00:42:21,336 --> 00:42:25,036
of, um, the hardware wallet that has its own app coming from the,
725
00:42:25,036 --> 00:42:30,016
um, uh, well, the aforementioned, uh, company that, that got hacked.
726
00:42:30,036 --> 00:42:32,516
They've, they've, they've got all of their, uh, they send
727
00:42:32,516 --> 00:42:34,386
all your data, uh, back to that
728
00:42:34,721 --> 00:42:36,551
They had it on a ledger, I think.
729
00:42:36,991 --> 00:42:37,801
Yes, exactly.
730
00:42:37,801 --> 00:42:38,621
I have it on a ledger.
731
00:42:38,881 --> 00:42:43,851
Uh, but, but the, uh, the, um, uh, the Bitbox app, it's, it's
732
00:42:43,861 --> 00:42:45,661
also fully open source, right?
733
00:42:45,661 --> 00:42:50,261
And, and it's, it's, uh, uh, you can know exactly what's, what's going on with that.
734
00:42:50,261 --> 00:42:51,541
So that put me at ease.
735
00:42:52,041 --> 00:42:56,681
Um, and, and, so, I mean, I really get the feeling that it's, it's, uh,
736
00:42:57,101 --> 00:43:02,096
um, It's, it's made to be easy to use, but also have the features and
737
00:43:02,096 --> 00:43:05,546
functionality for the So-called Power users who really know what they're doing
738
00:43:05,546 --> 00:43:07,016
and wanna do something a specific way.
739
00:43:07,021 --> 00:43:12,386
So was was that part of the, uh, the idea or like, uh, like, I'm, I'm impressed
740
00:43:12,391 --> 00:43:14,276
by the, the, the flexibility of it.
741
00:43:14,276 --> 00:43:18,296
Like the, the ability that the, the platform that you, you have to be able to
742
00:43:18,296 --> 00:43:20,936
add the things that people are requesting.
743
00:43:21,631 --> 00:43:25,131
There was, there was some, um, script functionality I think we were
744
00:43:25,131 --> 00:43:28,861
talking about on, on Madera that had just been requested by someone
745
00:43:28,861 --> 00:43:29,951
and then it's added like that.
746
00:43:29,981 --> 00:43:30,611
That's impressive.
747
00:43:30,611 --> 00:43:35,241
So yeah, how did, how did that kind of, uh, uh, get developed in
748
00:43:35,241 --> 00:43:36,941
your, your
development philosophy?
749
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:42,400
yeah, I guess one of the ideas is, um, yeah, we want to want to be
750
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:46,425
the place for, I guess, We call it the Crypto Curious, um, to kind
751
00:43:46,425 --> 00:43:48,505
of, uh, come and be comfortable.
752
00:43:49,335 --> 00:43:52,365
And part of that is, you know, hiding all these details.
753
00:43:52,425 --> 00:43:54,045
Uh, but they're still there.
754
00:43:54,255 --> 00:43:54,435
Yeah.
755
00:43:54,435 --> 00:43:55,545
We have expert settings.
756
00:43:55,545 --> 00:43:57,555
And so all the expert settings are there.
757
00:43:58,065 --> 00:44:00,405
Coin control can connect your own node.
758
00:44:00,905 --> 00:44:02,615
Um, you're talking about mini script?
759
00:44:02,765 --> 00:44:03,695
Uh, probably.
760
00:44:04,265 --> 00:44:08,435
Uh, and so yeah, we, we have some engineers who've, um, yeah, contributed
761
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,505
to Bitcoin core and so they kind of.
762
00:44:11,851 --> 00:44:15,251
their weekend hobbies will be to implement it because they want it.
763
00:44:17,978 --> 00:44:22,268
that's kind of how, how all the, all these things get stuck in there.
764
00:44:22,368 --> 00:44:23,818
Of course, we do listen to users.
765
00:44:23,818 --> 00:44:27,410
And so, we do want the Bitbox to be not only like your, your
766
00:44:27,410 --> 00:44:28,860
starter, but it can grow with you.
767
00:44:28,860 --> 00:44:29,790
It can educate you.
768
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,900
We have like in app, in our app itself, we have in app guide.
769
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:36,000
contextual guides to kind of show you about different
770
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:37,300
functions and teach you things.
771
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,480
Uh, we spend a lot of time with blogs and our knowledge base to educate people.
772
00:44:42,003 --> 00:44:46,133
and so we're, we're happy to also kind of, you know, grow, grow
773
00:44:46,133 --> 00:44:49,343
together, grow with you, help you, help you on your, your path.
774
00:44:49,443 --> 00:44:53,403
And that means, uh, being exposed to some of these more advanced, uh,
775
00:44:53,973 --> 00:44:57,433
uh, features that, you know, can be, can be important in different times.
776
00:44:58,448 --> 00:45:00,708
And how does that relate to also the security?
777
00:45:00,708 --> 00:45:06,028
Because none of these features on top of that compromise the core
778
00:45:06,028 --> 00:45:08,008
security of the wallet, right?
779
00:45:08,603 --> 00:45:08,873
Yeah.
780
00:45:09,173 --> 00:45:13,873
So, um, when it comes to security, we try to, we try to implement it.
781
00:45:14,513 --> 00:45:19,713
Uh, under the hood, I would say, and so I had mentioned this, um, uh, anticlepto,
782
00:45:19,823 --> 00:45:25,106
uh, thing before, um, and so that's really all under the hood and it's, um, it's
783
00:45:25,106 --> 00:45:30,176
basically, yeah, we also kind of have, um, yeah, security in depth kind of field,
784
00:45:30,656 --> 00:45:35,696
uh, where part of our philosophy is, um, try to minimize the amount of trust you
785
00:45:35,696 --> 00:45:42,756
need to be, you need to put into any one aspect of Of course, if you buy hardware,
786
00:45:42,966 --> 00:45:46,476
there's always gonna be some level of trust, but, you know, open source, uh,
787
00:45:46,556 --> 00:45:48,266
so we can have some accountability.
788
00:45:48,396 --> 00:45:51,586
So if something does happen, you can trace it back to where it did happen.
789
00:45:52,204 --> 00:45:56,194
and, uh, you know, community, uh, we have a bug bounty program, so
790
00:45:56,194 --> 00:45:59,244
people are welcome to go and hack the code and try to find, uh,
791
00:45:59,294 --> 00:46:01,144
issues, which we very much welcome.
792
00:46:01,807 --> 00:46:06,777
yeah, the anti klepto part is actually, um, if you don't trust
793
00:46:06,777 --> 00:46:07,987
the hardware wallet itself.
794
00:46:08,264 --> 00:46:14,234
and so, uh, for example, So, uh, when you do cryptographic signatures, like really,
795
00:46:14,234 --> 00:46:16,604
really important aspect is randomness.
796
00:46:16,954 --> 00:46:17,744
It's called entropy.
797
00:46:17,984 --> 00:46:21,634
Um, and so it's not only when you first create your wallet,
798
00:46:21,634 --> 00:46:23,304
it's also when you do signatures.
799
00:46:24,274 --> 00:46:28,512
And so, um, there's a way to do it deterministically that works really well.
800
00:46:28,772 --> 00:46:32,002
Um, but if you don't trust that that's happening in the hardware wallet,
801
00:46:32,032 --> 00:46:35,762
you can supply external entropy, external randomness, in addition,
802
00:46:36,222 --> 00:46:39,392
in a really clever way that's provable that it was actually used.
803
00:46:39,867 --> 00:46:46,177
Um, in the signature, and so, um, we have the, our app itself,
804
00:46:46,367 --> 00:46:50,597
um, also does some sanity checks on the hardware wallet itself.
805
00:46:51,097 --> 00:46:55,667
Uh, so in this aspect with respect to signatures, in another aspect where we
806
00:46:55,667 --> 00:47:00,097
have, um, what we call an attestation key, which is basically, um, a secret loaded in
807
00:47:00,097 --> 00:47:06,277
the secure element that, um, can detect if there's a counterfeit device, and so the
808
00:47:06,287 --> 00:47:11,477
app will send a challenge, It should get the right, um, response back using this,
809
00:47:11,507 --> 00:47:15,757
uh, private key in the secure element, uh, in order to detect counterfeit devices.
810
00:47:15,757 --> 00:47:17,807
And so, yeah, we do a lot of these things.
811
00:47:17,997 --> 00:47:21,107
Um, if you're a user, you don't have to worry about all of it.
812
00:47:21,227 --> 00:47:24,977
Just, you know, if a warning pops up, read it, um, basically.
813
00:47:25,613 --> 00:47:29,693
and then a lot of the, like, the optional features, the expert features,
814
00:47:29,723 --> 00:47:34,313
I would say those are probably more related to privacy, uh, than security.
815
00:47:34,923 --> 00:47:39,053
Um, and so coin control, for example, you can choose which coins to, uh,
816
00:47:39,133 --> 00:47:44,303
spend from so that you don't mix coins together for, uh, tracking on
817
00:47:44,303 --> 00:47:45,833
chain analysis, things like that.
818
00:47:46,883 --> 00:47:49,253
You can connect your own full nodes, so you can be confident that
819
00:47:49,903 --> 00:47:54,873
no one else is peeping in on your transactions, and so on and so on.
820
00:47:55,003 --> 00:47:55,043
I
821
00:47:56,078 --> 00:47:56,618
that's great.
822
00:47:56,688 --> 00:48:00,868
I remember back in the day when, when paper wallets was sort of still a thing.
823
00:48:01,058 --> 00:48:05,048
I, I don't, I don't hear anyone using paper wallets anymore, but there
824
00:48:05,048 --> 00:48:09,298
were these websites where you could create your own, um, paper wallets.
825
00:48:09,318 --> 00:48:14,638
And the thing you did was you went offline and then just moved your mouse and that
826
00:48:14,698 --> 00:48:17,660
added the entropy, Uh, it's pretty cool.
827
00:48:17,660 --> 00:48:19,690
Uh, yeah.
828
00:48:19,710 --> 00:48:22,850
I wonder if those are ever coming back as a, as a thing.
829
00:48:24,134 --> 00:48:28,752
don't think so, basically because with a paper wallet, you think it's on a piece
830
00:48:28,752 --> 00:48:32,852
of paper, so it's offline, but the problem comes when you want to spend your coins.
831
00:48:34,672 --> 00:48:38,862
So there's, as far as I understand, there's really no way to manually
832
00:48:39,262 --> 00:48:42,852
sign a transaction because it's so complicated, so computationally intensive.
833
00:48:43,432 --> 00:48:45,602
Uh, and so you need some kind of tool to do that.
834
00:48:45,912 --> 00:48:48,382
And so if you have a paper wallet and you want to spend those coins, you
835
00:48:48,382 --> 00:48:53,182
need to load up your secret into some type of device in order to spend it.
836
00:48:53,752 --> 00:48:55,002
You need to swipe it.
837
00:48:55,072 --> 00:48:56,342
It's the terminology,
838
00:48:56,432 --> 00:48:57,192
you need to swipe it.
839
00:48:57,192 --> 00:49:00,142
And so if you're using a computer or a phone, it's going to be on your computer
840
00:49:00,142 --> 00:49:01,922
and phone, uh, after you swipe it.
841
00:49:02,042 --> 00:49:04,262
So, that kind of defeats the whole purpose.
842
00:49:05,327 --> 00:49:08,707
Of course, you minimize the time it's exposed, but, you know, malware is
843
00:49:08,707 --> 00:49:11,807
getting smarter and smarter if it detects it, it's going to take it.
844
00:49:13,197 --> 00:49:16,247
And so you still, you need a harder wallet to spend it.
845
00:49:16,652 --> 00:49:22,492
I'll, I'll have to see if there I have any paper wallets left in a drawer somewhere.
846
00:49:23,282 --> 00:49:26,582
Yeah, so the security discussion is fantastic.
847
00:49:26,582 --> 00:49:31,712
I mean, device security is such a
difficult area these days.
848
00:49:31,732 --> 00:49:35,382
As you say, the adversaries are getting more and more sophisticated.
849
00:49:35,382 --> 00:49:37,082
And when we're talking about money, Bitcoin.
850
00:49:37,862 --> 00:49:41,682
Uh, yeah, it's just an incentive to just take whatever is possible.
851
00:49:41,682 --> 00:49:47,112
So yeah, keeping, keeping the, uh, so called keys separate from
852
00:49:47,112 --> 00:49:50,472
the, the, um, from the computer.
853
00:49:50,512 --> 00:49:51,832
Very, very important.
854
00:49:52,162 --> 00:49:55,732
And maybe this is sort of a philosophical question, sort of in
855
00:49:55,732 --> 00:49:58,812
the hardware wallet space or idea.
856
00:49:59,252 --> 00:50:01,132
What do you think of the term hardware wallet?
857
00:50:01,612 --> 00:50:05,632
Should we be using a different term, such as signing device or
858
00:50:05,652 --> 00:50:07,262
keychain or something like that?
859
00:50:07,775 --> 00:50:09,705
yeah, semantic question.
860
00:50:10,975 --> 00:50:11,475
Harder wallet.
861
00:50:11,505 --> 00:50:15,725
I know a lot of people are calling it cold wallet now as opposed to hot wallet,
862
00:50:15,725 --> 00:50:18,045
which I think kind of makes sense.
863
00:50:19,375 --> 00:50:22,445
But yeah, the term wallet itself.
864
00:50:23,390 --> 00:50:28,400
Yeah, it's a misnomer, of course, um, you know, talking about
865
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:29,870
customer support questions.
866
00:50:29,930 --> 00:50:34,300
Um, a lot of it comes around this, the, the term wallet, where
867
00:50:34,300 --> 00:50:37,620
people are saying, oh, they assume their bitcoins are in the wallet.
868
00:50:38,030 --> 00:50:40,550
You know, we have this micro SD card for backups.
869
00:50:40,590 --> 00:50:43,050
They think every time they make a transaction, they need to stick the
870
00:50:43,060 --> 00:50:46,140
micro SD card in in order to backup the transaction, but you don't.
871
00:50:46,929 --> 00:50:51,584
and they think, yeah, for example, If they're receiving coins, they need to
872
00:50:51,584 --> 00:50:55,274
keep the hardware wallet plugged in until the coin, the transaction is confirmed
873
00:50:55,274 --> 00:50:58,974
because otherwise it's not going to get into the hardware wallet, into their
874
00:50:58,974 --> 00:51:01,874
wallet, and so that's not true also.
875
00:51:02,174 --> 00:51:07,204
So there's all these misconceptions around it that probably could be solved with a
876
00:51:08,324 --> 00:51:13,854
different name like, yeah, a keychain, because it's basically a chain of keys
877
00:51:13,854 --> 00:51:15,314
that give you access to the coins.
878
00:51:15,849 --> 00:51:20,279
Whereas the coins themselves are stored publicly on the blockchain,
879
00:51:20,339 --> 00:51:23,369
and your wallet, if it's a hardware wallet or software wallet, is
880
00:51:23,369 --> 00:51:25,639
just there to access those coins.
881
00:51:26,109 --> 00:51:29,539
Use the private key, so on your keychain,
and unlock it so you
882
00:51:29,539 --> 00:51:30,549
can send it somewhere else.
883
00:51:31,019 --> 00:51:34,429
So yeah, maybe that would save our support staff some time.
884
00:51:36,174 --> 00:51:36,474
Yeah.
885
00:51:36,774 --> 00:51:40,434
Speaking of support, like, uh, yeah, I just remembered where I put all my
886
00:51:40,484 --> 00:51:45,364
paper wallets and they, they were on the boat that sank, uh, fortunately,
887
00:51:45,604 --> 00:51:51,144
but, but say if you had a paper wallet and you wanted to swipe it, uh, using
888
00:51:51,144 --> 00:51:53,494
the bit box, how would you go about it?
889
00:51:53,554 --> 00:51:54,854
Would you use Electrum?
890
00:51:54,854 --> 00:51:58,794
Would you use like the, your app or how would you do that?
891
00:51:58,854 --> 00:51:59,374
Like this is a.
892
00:52:01,009 --> 00:52:05,269
Pretend I'm a customer support customer here.
893
00:52:06,039 --> 00:52:10,339
Yeah, um, I used to do customer support, I don't do it anymore.
894
00:52:11,919 --> 00:52:15,290
But, um, the Bitbox app does not support sweeping.
895
00:52:16,225 --> 00:52:17,635
I'm at the moment, at least.
896
00:52:18,485 --> 00:52:22,185
So you'd have to use some third party app if it's Electrum or Sparrow or whatever.
897
00:52:22,625 --> 00:52:27,105
Um, and then what we would always recommend is, uh, once you sweep into
898
00:52:27,105 --> 00:52:32,855
that wallet, always to immediately send those coins to a hardware wallet because
899
00:52:32,885 --> 00:52:36,220
the The private key you swept is now hot.
900
00:52:36,770 --> 00:52:39,210
Consider it radioactive.
901
00:52:40,106 --> 00:52:42,296
Well, that sounds easy enough.
902
00:52:43,826 --> 00:52:48,436
Is there anything else we haven't talked about, Douglas or Luke?
903
00:52:48,506 --> 00:52:50,486
Like, is there anything else you want to bring up?
904
00:52:52,091 --> 00:52:57,701
I think we've covered quite a bit here, uh, so, uh, yeah, uh, Douglas, where,
905
00:52:57,951 --> 00:53:00,021
where can we direct our listeners to?
906
00:53:00,021 --> 00:53:04,881
I guess to the, to Bitbox, of course, and, uh, uh, everything
907
00:53:04,881 --> 00:53:08,211
there, but, uh, is there anywhere else you want to send our listeners?
908
00:53:08,769 --> 00:53:11,839
yeah, so, I mean, if you're interested in hearing more, um,
909
00:53:11,939 --> 00:53:12,899
we're happy to hear from you.
910
00:53:12,899 --> 00:53:15,199
If you have any feedback, if you want to read more, you can
911
00:53:15,199 --> 00:53:16,369
come to our website, bitbox.
912
00:53:16,899 --> 00:53:17,519
swiss.
913
00:53:18,001 --> 00:53:20,101
and you can find a bunch of links to our social media.
914
00:53:20,171 --> 00:53:24,071
So, we're on Twitter, we're on LinkedIn, Telegram channel.
915
00:53:24,642 --> 00:53:26,242
and we're happy, happy to hear from you.
916
00:53:27,162 --> 00:53:28,802
And of course, use bitbox.
917
00:53:28,802 --> 00:53:32,872
swiss slash freedom or use code freedom for a 5 percent discount.
918
00:53:33,022 --> 00:53:34,082
Absolutely.
919
00:53:35,132 --> 00:53:39,652
Well, yeah, Douglas, uh, any, any last, anything else you want, want to mention,
920
00:53:39,652 --> 00:53:41,582
I'll just reiterate that, um, from Knut.
921
00:53:42,093 --> 00:53:44,863
no, I think, um, it's been fun talking to you guys.
922
00:53:44,883 --> 00:53:48,313
So, really appreciate, um, You're having me on.
923
00:53:48,423 --> 00:53:50,683
I appreciate the hard work you guys are doing.
924
00:53:50,703 --> 00:53:56,666
Keep it up and best wishes for everyone's financial sovereignty, I guess.
925
00:53:57,514 --> 00:53:58,234
Fantastic.
926
00:53:58,254 --> 00:54:03,514
Well, thank you so much for, for joining us, uh, for making this fantastic
927
00:54:03,514 --> 00:54:08,094
product, uh, yeah, making people's lives easier in securing their Bitcoin.
928
00:54:08,144 --> 00:54:09,784
So that's fantastic.
929
00:54:09,784 --> 00:54:12,824
So looking forward to seeing you again, it's after this episode is out, but
930
00:54:12,824 --> 00:54:16,624
looking forward to seeing you and, uh, Uh, not even really, I guess a couple of
931
00:54:16,624 --> 00:54:18,754
weeks here in, or a week, a week even in
932
00:54:19,144 --> 00:54:19,604
A week.
933
00:54:19,604 --> 00:54:19,984
Yeah.
934
00:54:20,234 --> 00:54:20,864
Fantastic.
935
00:54:21,164 --> 00:54:21,874
time flies.
936
00:54:22,114 --> 00:54:22,654
Time flies.
937
00:54:23,044 --> 00:54:23,994
Or time fries.
938
00:54:24,284 --> 00:54:24,524
Yeah.
939
00:54:24,834 --> 00:54:25,754
Any last words, Knut?
940
00:54:26,874 --> 00:54:27,804
Any last words?
941
00:54:28,004 --> 00:54:28,334
Yes.
942
00:54:28,554 --> 00:54:29,424
Spadoinkle.
943
00:54:30,564 --> 00:54:31,904
This has been the Freedom Footprint Show.
944
00:54:31,914 --> 00:54:32,814
Thanks for listening.