Vitalik Buterin: Hardware Wallet Security Can’t Rely on Trust Alone, and Chips Must Be Verifiable Too On November 3, 2026, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin @VitalikButerin…
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Vitalik Buterin: Hardware Wallet Security Can’t Rely on Trust Alone, and Chips Must Be Verifiable Too On November 3, 2026, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin @VitalikButerin said at the Devcon 8 o…
Vitalik Buterin: Hardware Wallet Security Can’t Rely on Trust Alone, and Chips Must Be Verifiable Too On November 3, 2026, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin @VitalikButerin said at the Devcon 8 opening ceremony in Mumbai that security cannot rely on trust alone and also requires open source and verifiability. Users should be able to verify that their devices are not spying on them and that their hardware wallets have not been fitted with SIM cards that leak private keys, underscoring the need for more open, verifiable chips. He emphasized that proving one's trustworthiness should not require disclosing all personal information, and that zero-knowledge proofs can help protect both privacy and security.
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