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Threat Modeling and Security Concerns

Episode Summary

Steve Lee is lead at Spiral, Block's open source initiative, and has recently helped launch Presidio Bitcoin, a bitcoin community space in San Francisco. Craig Raw is the creator and maintainer of Sparrow Wallet, one of the best bitcoin desktop wallets available. We discuss the tradeoffs of Block's new Bitkey hardware wallet and potential improvements. Then we briefly jump into discussion on soft fork proposals for bitcoin vault functionality.Steve on Nostr:  https://primal.net/moneyball Craig on Nostr:  https://primal.net/craigraw EPISODE: 151BLOCK: 888348PRICE: 1222 sats per dollarsupport dispatch: https://citadeldispatch.com/donatenostr live chat: https://citadeldispatch.com/streamodell nostr account: https://primal.net/odelldispatch nostr account: https://primal.net/citadelyoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@CitadelDispatchpodcast: https://serve.podhome.fm/CitadelDispatchstream sats to the show: https://www.fountain.fm/join the chat: https://citadeldispatch.com/chatlearn more about me: https://odell.xyz(00:02:55) Introduction(00:04:32) Presidio Bitcoin Launch and Community Spaces(00:08:16) Challenges and Opportunities in South Africa(00:14:31) Bitkey: Making Bitcoin Self Custody Easier(00:33:08) Threat Modeling and Security Concerns(00:42:00) Future Scenarios for Bitkey and Sparrow Integration(00:54:02) Recovery Scenarios and User Experience(01:17:02) The Potential of Bitcoin Vaults(01:30:25) Final Thoughts and Future of Bitcoin SecurityFriend of the show Orange Surf wrote up some notes on Craig's proposed FROST improvement to Bitkey here: https://orange.surf/bitkey-notes/
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