Such a great niche you have found in the diy space! These are the types of videos that will have a long tail, as people over the coming years come to appreciate / need them.
It's just like the Trezor One in that the release bootloader locks the system down the first time it runs, so has the same type of tamper resistance and trust model in terms of running official firmware, etc. (Same as Trezor, Coldcard, basically anything running an STM32 MCU) It's less secure than Jade in the sense that the encrypted private keys still live on the device and are decrypted using only your PIN, whereas with Jade, your device needs some data from the blind oracle (Which needs your PIN) to be able to decrypt the keystore.
Took a few hours to work it all out, then took a few weeks for all the hardware to arrive from AliExpress and a few hours test that it actually worked :)
@@CryptoGuide wow, that's quicker than I expected, it was very nice to see how you got the pinout from the source code, I really enjoy the electronic haking videos:) I'd love you to do some kind of benchmark of all the diy wallets, of which you have many by now
Most of the heavy lifting for this one was done in the prep for the Trezor One video ;) I'll certainly need to put together a feature comparison for DIY options in the coming months are I have certainly got quite a selection now :)
@@CryptoGuide great idea. Other ideas I would be interested on a video on your recover activities with some stats, what are the wallet people struggle the most, what is the top issues etc...
Yea I will probably do that in the next little while. The short summary is that *many* folk screw up BIP39 passphrase, particularly with Trezor as it is on by default and folk don't understand what it means when they enter a password into the hidden wallet prompt in Trezor Suite. The main issue with folk who intentionally use a passphrase is when people have just memorized it, rather than write it down. I do also get a bunch of folk who have typos in 12 word seeds. Then there are folk who have got funds stuck in either crap/new/nonstandard wallets or apps.
The amount of effort put into a project like this is enormous. Thank you
Thanks :)
Such a great niche you have found in the diy space! These are the types of videos that will have a long tail, as people over the coming years come to appreciate / need them.
Good job! There is no safe boot here like the jade diy? So it is less safe than the jade diy?
It's just like the Trezor One in that the release bootloader locks the system down the first time it runs, so has the same type of tamper resistance and trust model in terms of running official firmware, etc. (Same as Trezor, Coldcard, basically anything running an STM32 MCU)
It's less secure than Jade in the sense that the encrypted private keys still live on the device and are decrypted using only your PIN, whereas with Jade, your device needs some data from the blind oracle (Which needs your PIN) to be able to decrypt the keystore.
Oooo smile on my face :)
Glad you linked it :)
I enjoyed this diy project. May I ask how long did it take to figure out the hw and the fw parts?
Took a few hours to work it all out, then took a few weeks for all the hardware to arrive from AliExpress and a few hours test that it actually worked :)
@@CryptoGuide wow, that's quicker than I expected, it was very nice to see how you got the pinout from the source code, I really enjoy the electronic haking videos:) I'd love you to do some kind of benchmark of all the diy wallets, of which you have many by now
Most of the heavy lifting for this one was done in the prep for the Trezor One video ;)
I'll certainly need to put together a feature comparison for DIY options in the coming months are I have certainly got quite a selection now :)
@@CryptoGuide great idea. Other ideas I would be interested on a video on your recover activities with some stats, what are the wallet people struggle the most, what is the top issues etc...
Yea I will probably do that in the next little while. The short summary is that *many* folk screw up BIP39 passphrase, particularly with Trezor as it is on by default and folk don't understand what it means when they enter a password into the hidden wallet prompt in Trezor Suite. The main issue with folk who intentionally use a passphrase is when people have just memorized it, rather than write it down. I do also get a bunch of folk who have typos in 12 word seeds. Then there are folk who have got funds stuck in either crap/new/nonstandard wallets or apps.
Huge work cheers
Thanks :)