Good news, everyone! The hardware wallet industry has finally found the solution to hardware wallet supply-chain attacks: BUY MORE HARDWARE WALLETS! The latest Ledger supply-chain scare is just another reminder of how absurd this entire industry has become. Today it's a reseller. Tomorrow it's a factory, a chip manufacturer, a component supplier, an assembly line, or some employee three layers deep in the supply chain. It doesn't matter which brand you worship. Every HWW shares the same fundamental problem: it's a purpose-built, easily identifiable honeypot specifically designed to hold Bitcoin private keys. A beautifully standardized, commercially advertised, high-value target. Attackers couldn't have asked for a more convenient arrangement. But don't panic! Before you rush to buy the next miracle device recommended by your favorite Bitcoin influencer, rest assured that every competing HWW manufacturer is already preparing a detailed explanation of why this could NEVER happen to them. And Coldcard has already delivered an absolute masterpiece. Their response? A transparent case! Yes, ladies and gentlemen. TRANSPARENT PLASTIC. Apparently, you're supposed to inspect your Coldcard for malicious implants by looking through its casing. Because, as everyone knows, sophisticated supply-chain attackers always install their malicious components in clearly visible locations, preferably with a little red arrow saying "BACKDOOR HERE." But wait! There's more! Tamper-evident bags! Anti-phishing words! TWO Secure Elements! Verified firmware! It's practically an entire security conference packed into a plastic box. I'm sure a sufficiently sophisticated adversary capable of compromising manufacturing processes will simply surrender upon discovering that the plastic is transparent. And if you somehow dodge the next supply-chain attack, congratulations! Don't worry. There's plenty more coming. AI-powered phishing campaigns spanning months or years. Perfectly orchestrated social engineering. Impersonation sophisticated enough to pass the Turing test. Attackers patiently building relationships, credibility and trust before striking. And whatever other creative attack vectors emerge when an entire industry has helpfully standardized exactly what attackers should target. But fear not! The Bitcoin security priesthood has another revelation: MULTIVENDOR MULTISIG! Of course! Why have one specialized honeypot when you can have THREE? Three manufacturers. Three supply chains. Three sets of proprietary components. Three opportunities to admire innovative packaging. And three affiliate links for your favorite influencer. Security engineering at its finest! We've managed to turn multisig into a cargo cult of redundancy. Buy three gadgets. Perform the sacred signing ritual. Feel sophisticated. Somewhere along the way, we completely forgot what makes multisig genuinely powerful: The ability to distribute spending authorization. WHO can spend? UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS? WHEN? Instead of exploring those questions, an entire industry has convinced people that the pinnacle of Bitcoin security is collecting electronic signing toys from competing manufacturers. And the funniest part? The sooner we get rid of hardware wallets, the sooner people will rediscover what Bitcoin can actually do. Multisig for distributing authorization among people. Taproot branches for alternative spending paths. Timelocks for delayed recovery. Miniscript for expressing sophisticated spending conditions. Family inheritance. Corporate treasuries. Shared ownership. Recovery arrangements. Spending policies designed around actual human needs rather than the number of gadgets in your drawer. Imagine that. Using Bitcoin's programmable spending capabilities to design actual security policies instead of building a miniature museum of branded USB devices. Multisig is not a hardware wallet shopping strategy. And vendor diversity is not a substitute for understanding your security model. The hardware wallet industry has spent years manufacturing specialized targets, marketing increasingly elaborate defenses against their own attack surfaces, and convincing people that buying more of their products is the solution. Brilliant business model, I'll give them that. The entire HWW industry belongs in the past. Back to sanity. Generic, dedicated hardware. Linux. Bitcoin Core exclusively. No specialized Bitcoin-branded gadgets. No proprietary signing appliances. No influencer-approved collections of expensive little honeypots. Stop buying the bullseye. Start designing actual security. Security built around who can spend your Bitcoin, under what conditions, and when. Not around which manufacturer's latest plastic box you're supposed to trust. But hey, at least Coldcard promised you could "sleep well at night." Turns out the nightmare comes in a tamper-evident bag.