S8 E2: Charles Guillemet on Ledger

Published: March 4, 2021, 5:03 p.m.

Charles Guillemet is the CTO of Ledger, the market leader in the field of Bitcoin hardware wallets. In this episode we talk about Ledger's philosophy for security, innovation, and how the Ledger Nano X compares to Trezor, BitBox, Coldcard and others.\n\nThis episode is sponsored by Vaultoro and Wasabi Wallet.\n\n\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\nTime stamps:\n\n0:00 \u2013 3:01 \u2013 Intro\n\n03:02 \u2013 The journey of the Ledger Nano X\n\n05:00 \u2013 Bluetooth and mobile connectivity for Ledger Live\n\n05:55 \u2013 What makes Ledger devices unique and what\u2019s the difference between Nano S and Nano X?\n\n09:29 \u2013 Microcontroller differences between Nano S and Nano X\n\n11:15 \u2013 How expensive is it to break the security of a Nano S or Nano X when the hacker gains physical access?\n\n15:13 \u2013 Ledger Live\u2019s support for connecting a full Bitcoin node\n\n20:06 \u2013 How Coin Control (UTXO management) works\n\n21:34 \u2013 Tor routing on Ledger Live?\n\n22:35 \u2013 Ledger Live on desktop vs Ledger Live on mobile\n\n24:03 \u2013 Full node on smartphones \n\n25:40 \u2013 Ledger Nano X vs Trezor Model T\n\n27:45 \u2013 Ledger Nano X vs BitBox02\n\n29:02 \u2013 Ledger Nano X vs Coldcard \n\n31:15 \u2013 Ledger Nano X vs Cobo, Passport, Jade, SafePal & others\n\n34:09 \u2013 What is Ledger\u2019s DonJon? \n\n36:09 \u2013 Charles Guillemet\u2019s contributions to finding vulnerabilities in Trezor\n\n37:57 \u2013 PSBT, Airgap, QR codes & Shamir\n\n41:54 \u2013 What are the security advancements that get Charles Guillemet most excited? (Schnorr, Zero-knowledge proofs, cryptography)\n\n45:26 \u2013 Why should we still use hardware wallets, in spite of critics?\n\n47:06 \u2013 How can Ledger users protect their devices?\n\n48:55 \u2013 Never type the seed phrase on your keyboard\n\n50:23 \u2013 Is multisig the silver bullet for security? What about Shamir Secret Sharing?\n\n55:16 \u2013 Exclusive announcement about adding native multisigs to Ledger\n\n56:38 \u2013 What\u2019s next for Ledger?\n\n57:58 \u2013 Should Ledger users set up passphrases?\n\n59:00 \u2013 Closing statements