About this episode
The episode discusses the importance of Bitcoin custody and security with guest Seed, creator of the SeedSigner project, exploring real-world threats and the need for decentralization.
"If you think of River or Gemini or Coinbase or whatever, think of all of those as silos and how people custody Bitcoin. If some sort of compromise were to come into the Bitcoin ecosystem at the private key generation level, that could create an incident that could set Bitcoin back by 10 or more years because it would be almost indistinguishable from a protocol compromise and that we would be talking about Bitcoin being hacked again and not individual custodians being hacked. So I think we need to decentralise how people do Bitcoin custody as much as possible and what better way by leveraging private freedom preserving open source software." ~ Seed In today’s chat, I sat down with Seed, the creator of the SeedSigner project, and his backstory is completely wild. He told the story of how he got pulled into Bitcoin through a forensic case tied to a local Silk Road user, why he panic sold in 2017, and how that path eventually led him back to the basics and into building one of the most respected DIY signers in the space. But the real tension in this episode is the part most people skip over: what actually keeps your coins safe when things get messy in the real world. We talk about…
People in this episode
Host: Guy Swann
Guest: Seed
Topics covered
- Bitcoin custody
- private key generation
- decentralization
- security threats
- DIY signers
- forensics in Bitcoin
Keywords
- Bitcoin
- custody
- private keys
- security
- SeedSigner
- wrench attacks
- forensics
- DIY wallets
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: River, Gemini, Coinbase, SeedSigner, Silk Road
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