About this episode

In this episode, Jonathan Pollock discusses the challenges and innovations in Bitcoin ownership and security.

Jonathan Pollock is Product Lead for Bitkey. In this episode, we get into wrench attacks, why physical coercion is a structural weakness of private key ownership, why seed phrases may be creating more risk than they solve, and why most self custody setups rely too heavily on users never making a mistake. We talk about the trade offs between security, privacy, recovery, inheritance, and ease of use, alongside BitKey’s new hardware update and the company’s plans to build time delayed vaults designed to protect users during violent attacks. We also get into collaborative custody, covenants, insurance, ETFs versus self custody and why permissionless money still matters. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: ANCHORWATCH BLOCKWARE LEDN BITKEY SWAN CAPE FOLLOW: Danny Knowles: https://x.com/\_DannyKnowles or https://primal.net/danny Bitkey: https://x.com/Bitkey

People in this episode

Host: Danny Knowles

Guest: Jonathan Pollock

Topics covered

• Bitcoin ownership
• security
• self custody
• physical coercion
• collaborative custody
• insurance
• ETFs

Keywords

• wrench attacks
• seed phrases
• private key ownership
• time delayed vaults
• permissionless money
• self custody setups
• security trade offs

Sponsors

ANCHORWATCH, BLOCKWARE, LEDN, BITKEY, SWAN, CAPE

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bitkey

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