walletbeat

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I don't understand why we are still here when literally billions got stolen due to this.
Are competitive pressures on hardware wallets insufficient?
Is it an industry consensus-forming slowness problem for transaction legibility?
Is hardware just Harder™ in ways that are difficult to grasp for software people?

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Tagging @niard who knows about this problem better than me.

It's a combination of what you mention : 
- The Hardware market is high barrier to entry so the competitive pressure is really low
- incentives are wrong and as a business if you are short sighted you only do things when you can associate a direct benefit to it (i.e do I win money if I improve UX ?)

> Is hardware just Harder™

Also this hardware wallets are very different and require specialized knowledge. 

You'll never see all the crazy good work they do to protect you from complex attack. So not everything is to throw away ! But things need to change