S4 E9: Lixin Liu on Cobo Vault & Cobo Tablet

Published: Feb. 26, 2020, 11:57 a.m.

b'Lixin Liu, creator of the Cobo Vault, talks about building a hardware wallet that serves the needs of the Chinese miners and then trying to branch out towards Western markets with a second generation of devices. Furthermore, he mentions why he thinks the design of the new Cobo Tablet is more intuitive and ergonomic than that of the Crypto Steel. Time stamps: 04:01 \\u2013 The problem with brain wallets 09:23 \\u2013 Paper Wallets 12:15 \\u2013 The Cobo Tablet 13:55 \\u2013 The Cobo Vault 16:09 \\u2013 Testing according to the American military standards 16:38 \\u2013 Building a product for the miners 18:36 \\u2013 The background story of Cobo 21:36 \\u2013 Driving a car over the Cobo vault 22:07 \\u2013 Cobo Tablet vs Crypto Steel and Billfodl 26:45 \\u2013 Disposing unused metal plate letters with responsibility 28:23 \\u2013 Cosmos Tablet vs Cobo Tablet 28:46 \\u2013 Possibly releasing a co-branded Cobo Tablet with Coldcard 30:53 \\u2013 Product positioning for the Cobo Tablet vs Cobo Vault 32:57 \\u2013 2nd gen Cobo Vault 34:01 \\u2013 Cobo Vault vs Cobo Vault Gen 2 36:46 \\u2013 Secure element of Cobo Vault Gen 2 46:32 \\u2013 The definition of a secure element 50:43 \\u2013 Cobo secure element vs Coldcard secure element 52:33 \\u2013 Is the Cobo Vault source code open source? 56:39 \\u2013 DIY Cobo Vault? 58:35 \\u2013 Cobo vs Trezor 1:00:29 \\u2013 Cobo vs Coldcard 1:02:40 \\u2013 Cobo vs Ledger 1:03:48 \\u2013 Cobo vs BitBox02 1:05:12 \\u2013 Cobo vs KeepKey 1:08:08 \\u2013 Does Cobo Vault connect to your own full node? 1:10:40 \\u2013 Cobo Vault privacy 1:18:33 \\u2013 Closing words on 2nd Generation Cobo Vault'