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Comment by keymone | Hacker News Reader

how does schneier write blog posts? he can't trust the keyboard or the screen or any hardware or software involved in the process.

how do you even know it's schneier's post? how could you trust any digital signature schneier might use to prove authenticity of that post?

etc, etc.

this is the kind of garbage that post can be reduced to.

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If I trust that Schneier actually wrote that post, and I'm wrong, no big deal.

If I trust that my choice of cryptocurrency software (or hardware wallet) is legit, and I'm wrong, I lose all the savings I put into crypto, with zero chance of recovery.

if you put your savings into something you don't know how to operate safely, maybe you deserve to lose it?

ultimately all the services you rely on to keep your savings safe can be built by other companies on top of bitcoin for a fee (already happening btw). it's just an option in addition to the rest of financial world. eggs, basket, yadda, yadda.

Sounds like you are planning to trust those companies to build services that operate safely on your behalf. Hope that works out for you.

we're all doing it already. with bitcoin you can at least choose how much in control you want to be.

You seem to think digital authenticity is not important. I'm on the fence but I think its too early to conclude. I didn't grow up in a virtual world but maybe to those who did the idea of digital authenticity is all that matters.

no, my point is that you can apply this argument to anything: "how could X be safe if X is software that could be backdoored, delivered to you via internet tubes that can be mitm'ed, compiled by another software that can inject backdoors and runs on hardware that could contain backdoors"

I understand. Maybe the space will only truly realize its potential after the hype dies down. With coins so volatile probably wont happen anytime soon.

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