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Morning Edition · Wednesday, September 16, 2026Published at 1:44 AM EDT · New York
BitBox Adds a Lightning Wallet That Reuses the Existing Hardware Backup
The self-custodial hot wallet derives from the user's existing recovery phrase, separating spending balances from cold storage without adding a second set of keys to protect.
Hardware wallet maker BitBox added a self-custodial Lightning wallet to the BitBoxApp, letting users make fast bitcoin payments through their existing backup without recording a second recovery phrase. Bitcoin Magazine describes the result…
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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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