4.8 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2020
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Join Marty as he sits down with Zach Herbert, Co-founder of Foundation Devices, to discuss:
- Zach's experience at Obelisk
- Nuance of hardware manufacturing in China v. US
- Tradeoffs made by the predominant hardware wallets
- Why airgapping is important
- The Passport
- QR code standards and statelessness
- How Bitcoin incentivizes open hardware
- The importance of making hardware locally
- Future products from Foundation Devices
- much more
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0:00.0 | Suffrakes, you boy, Marty, here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crypt. |
0:05.0 | The immense pleasure of sitting down with co-founder of Foundation Devices, Zach Herbert. |
0:10.1 | Deep dive into hardware wallets, the trade-offs that come with different hardware wallet designs, |
0:15.7 | the importance of open-source hardware in this space, particularly. |
0:20.7 | Also, we dive into Foundation Devices, Premier Product, the Passport. |
0:26.4 | I think you guys are really going to like this episode. |
0:28.7 | Very lengthy discussion on the tradeoffs that exist in this space |
0:32.5 | and the future of open hardware and why that's so important |
0:36.5 | and how Bitcoin incentivizes a better, more secure future. |
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