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Morning Edition · Sunday, September 13, 2026Published at 1:57 AM EDT · New York
The Paper Trail Behind a Hardware Wallet Undermines the Privacy the Device Promises
Buying a self-custody device requires giving a company a name and a delivery address, creating a record that links a person to the fact that they hold keys.
CryptoSlate has set out a problem that hardware wallet marketing does not address: to receive a device designed to put you in sole control of your money, you first hand a company your name and home address. The device protects the private k…
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Hardware-Wallet Trust Erodes
Recurring firmware and entropy defects in self-custody hardware, now surfaced faster by AI-assisted code analysis, will keep pushing risk-averse holders toward custodial and ETF products rather than personal key management.
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