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> I would be surprised if "millions" actually handle their keys themselves. I think Ledger, the french company, sold millions and millions of hardware wallets.
by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> I would be surprised if "millions" actually handle their keys themselves.
I think Ledger, the french company, sold millions and millions of hardware wallets. And with these you absolutely have to handle the keys yourself (well, the keys are "hidden" behind a "seed", which is list of 12, 18 or usually 24 words chosen randomly, with a checksum in the last work, among a dictionary of 2048 words).
That's millions of people basically having a 256 bits integer on paper (or metal sheet etc.) that never ever made it to anything else but a HSM.
That's quite an achievement I think.
And Ledger ain't the only player in the space.
Now of course there are fuckups. Some people are losing their list of 24 words, for example.
But it's still quite something.