I'm hoping there will be some form of gift to those that paid early. Maybe a free or at least heavily discounted 2ng generation model, whenever that comes out.

It will have NFC built into it hopefully, so it can be used at the checkout, as well as in your mobile.

If you sell me ten bitcoins at the April 13 price I will buy your hardware wallet back from you for the current price.

Fair enough, right?  

If the BTC had dropped to $20 you would... ?  (I know the real world answer but y'all have a pretty different ethosphere here so I'm actually not sure).

Like watching the Weimar Republic in reverse. Pretty cool actually. Totally worth the education if you look at it that way. See: deflationary spiral...

cheers...

Unfortunately no. Bitcoins were exchanged to Euro to cover productions costs, not held to speculate on exchange rate.

You claim your device provides security, could you explain how does it provide security comparable to an airgapped computer?
What if malware intercepts wallet sign request and give out a forged request to the device when you legitimately ask it to sign something? The person with the device will have to read the small screen each time to be sure he isn't about to sign away all his bitcoins. How many will do so, especially if the malware is careful and does it only after it detects mass manual transactions when a user is less likely to pay attention for example?

You failed to respond to my earlier post, I wonder why.

They changed it to a pin? Shows only 2 buttons in their video.
And it's easy to say those problems were mentioned before, a source would help.

It's called social engineering, if you carefully listen for multiple transactions where the user has to sign each one it would be easy to interject your own and have a large fraction of users fall for it. Likewise if it lets you sign multiple transactions at once on that puny screen you just insert your own.

Why would people want a device like that? Get an old PC, airgap it, store wallet on it. Sign stuff and propagate signed messages from any online PC. Anything else is asking for malware to steal it, no encryption would help you since the computer at some point has to know your private key to sign a transaction - the moment it knows it malware can get it.

And the funny thing is if you are cheap you don't need a second PC even, put an encrypted *nix OS onto a USB with networking disabled, sign transaction, copy onto another usb without any encryption the signed transaction and propagate it from your insecure windows.

The more I think about the concept of this device the more it seems to be intended for idiots. All theater, no actual security.

It does, I was referring to when you just run a client and then encrypt your wallet in fancy ways. Most of that is useless.



And you think endorse equals use? I doubt those smart people would care to entrust private keys to a new device. Not to mention they are selling it for so much they all probably got a piece of the pie.

But then it's intended for people who know nothing of security. Google "security theater" maybe it will help you realize why you wasted your money.

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I don't know much about how they are planning to do it, but based on just the reading here, I would guess that ASLR is somewhat obviated through the ARM Invariant-timing packets and overflow handling, and FIFO overflow protection.
Careful implementation of stall processing can stall the processor until the FIFO buffer is empty.  This is a pretty safe defense even against the stack smashing ROP chains, but might still be exploitable through a environmental corner attack, if you can find enough edges.

It is possible that they have chosen an architecture that doesn't include FIFOFULL operations.  Maybe they will clarify.
Or maybe they will leave us guessing and let those that are going to try to break them predictably using this method to their own devices.  In that case I guess we will have to buy a few devices to find out.

    >30!  Jeez I feel old now.

current plan is to start delivering in January