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?

Contributor @ /walletbeat.

Censorship resistance requires privacy.

Not a wallet insider but IIUC what's happened is Ledger made a standard for making stuff legible, but their plan is that they will curate everything themselves with their own github repo, so we're wedged where
1) There's no other standard because they made one
2) Nobody else is adopting it because WTF

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I guess Ledger want it to work that way more than anyone else so it's not really worth it for the other hardware wallet makers to do it, and if you fork it and Ledger doesn't want to use what you made then you probably wasted your time