#42 - The Death of Seed Phrases & The Future of Crypto Wallets - Louise Ivan

About this episode

Louise Ivan discusses the innovative Ryder Wallet and the obsolescence of seed phrases in crypto.

Louise Ivan is the co-founder and CEO of Ryder Wallet, a unique new crypto wallet that utilizes recovery tags instead of seed phrases to back up your crypto. In this episode Louise and I spoke about the reasons why he decided to launch a crypto wallet startup in a hyper-competitive market, the story behind Ryder, why seed phrases are completely antiquated and should be done away with, the fundamental lack of consumer excitement for new hardware products in crypto, the changing landscape of Bitcoin L2s, why Bitcoin DeFi hasn’t taken off and a whole lot more. LINKS Louise Ivan: https://x.com/louiseivanvp Ryder: https://ryder.id/ Tom Mitchelhill: https://x.com/thecryptojourno NGMI: https://x.com/ngmi_xyz NGMI Newsletter: https://ngminewsletter.substack.com/

People in this episode

Host: Tom Mitchelhill

Guest: Louise Ivan

Topics covered

• crypto wallets
• seed phrases
• Bitcoin
• DeFi
• hardware products
• Ryder Wallet

Keywords

• crypto
• wallets
• seed phrases
• Ryder Wallet
• Bitcoin
• DeFi
• hardware
• recovery tags

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ryder Wallet, Bitcoin, Bitcoin DeFi, NGMI

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