I don't care about NFTs. I care about capital-B Bitcoin.
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This tells you a lot about this community tbh. Just larping all around.
You have to now roll a casino dice and do the math? If you are a cryptographer yes you can.
As a human we all work on trust based society. Imagine your doctor said “don’t trust verify” “you should have known about the disease, diagnosis and treatment” after they fuck up.
You pay a hardware provider and they have just one job. To generate random seed. Just like you pay a doctor or a lawyer.
No other hardware provider has been affected. Sure they aren’t just “bitcoin only” but they have done their work.
Imho you need to call out the circle jerking happening in our community rather than pointing out to people that they need to do more. People have already done their best and still got rugged.
Computers can't generate random numbers without external help.
Dice and coins might be one source of entropy, but they aren't the only one. Cameras are a good source of entropy too.
Hardware wallets are great and will remain important.
I remember early full-disk encryption software that forced the users to move their mouse for a minute or two and type a lot on their keyboard (to generate additional entropy).
Most of our products don't do stuff like this right now. They should.