S4 E8: Slush on Trezor Hardware Wallets and Security Innovation

Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 2:31 p.m.

b"Slush, inventor of both the world's first mining pool and hardware wallet, talks about his work on the Trezor products and why good and transparent software is more important than physical security. Time Stamps: 4:03 \\u2013 Introduction 5:00 \\u2013 How did Slush come up with the idea of creating a hardware wallet? 6:30 \\u2013 Meeting Satoshi Labs & Trezor Co-Founder Stick 8:50 \\u2013 Why the Trezor was designed in line with the Bitcoin philosophy so you can build your own and verify its code 10:30 \\u2013 Peter Todd and Lazy Ninja liked the Trezor the most 12:25 \\u2013 Why should bitcoiners use a hardware wallet? 13:00 \\u2013 Satoshi Labs advised Crypto Steel 14:00 \\u2013 When you need to do cryptographic operations that are enabled by hardware wallets 15:39 \\u2013 Why should newcomers buy Trezor hardware wallets? 21:15 \\u2013 Hardware is broken and lagging behind software 27:10 \\u2013 The pros of Ledger 27:40 \\u2013 The issues of Ledger 28:37 \\u2013 The pros and cons of KeepKey 29:25 \\u2013 The Coldcard wallet design & why it\\u2019s selling snake oil 30:40 \\u2013 What can\\u2019t be verified about the Coldcard? 33:23 \\u2013 Is physical security a marketing trap? 35:56 \\u2013 What\\u2019s to like about the BitBox? 37:30 \\u2013 What are the tradeoffs of the Trezor? 38:23 \\u2013 Shamir Backup 45:10 \\u2013 SLIP doesn\\u2019t stand for Stephan Livera Podcast 46:48 \\u2013 Software before hardware 48:01 \\u2013 Why is the Trezor so expensive if it\\u2019s so basic? 48:55 \\u2013 Other companies taking Trezor\\u2019s open source software to create cheaper hardware wallet clones 54:12 \\u2013 Is there demand for the BTC-only firmware? 55:33 \\u2013 Multisig on the Trezor 1:00:39 \\u2013 Who should use a multisig setup? 1:02:30 \\u2013 When should you get a hardware wallet? 1:09:10 \\u2013 Local software application for Trezor 1:12:00 \\u2013 Running your Trezor with Electrum or Wasabi 1:13:05 \\u2013 Does Trezor collect any user data? 1:16:30 \\u2013 Trezor doesn\\u2019t know who you are 1:18:23 \\u2013 What are Trezor\\u2019s future plans?"