The Future of Owning Bitcoin | Jonathan Pollock

Jonathan Pollock is Product Lead for Bitkey. In this episode, we get into wrench attacks, why physical coercion is a structural weakness of private key ownership, why seed phrases may be creating more risk than they solve, and why most self custody setups rely too heavily on users never making a mistake. We talk about the trade offs between security, privacy, recovery, inheritance, and ease of use, alongside BitKey’s new hardware update and the company’s plans to build time delayed vaults designed to protect users during violent attacks. We also get into collaborative custody, covenants, insurance, ETFs versus self custody and why permissionless money still matters. FOLLOW: Danny Knowles: https://x.com/_DannyKnowles or https://primal.net/danny Bitkey: https://x.com/Bitkey THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: LEDN: https://learn.ledn.io/wbd BITKEY: https://bitkey.world/ ANCHORWATCH: https://www.anchorwatch.com/ BLOCKWARE: https://mining.blockwaresolutions.com... SWAN: https://www.swan.com/wbd CLUB ORANGE: https://www.cluborange.org/ CAPE: https://www.cape.co/wbd SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST: FOUNTAIN: https://fountain.fm/show/gpascDml6iI0... SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/18Pixm6... APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... WEBSITE: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/ CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:02:13 – Why Self Custody Breaks Under Physical Threat 00:05:34 – Can Bitcoiners Actually Protect Themselves? 00:12:07 – Bitkey’s New Hardware Wallet 00:14:04 – Why Bitkey Has No Seed Phrase 00:17:23 – Security, Recovery, Privacy And Ease Of Use 00:23:00 – ETFs, Institutions And Self Custody 00:35:23 – Building Wrench Attack Protection 00:49:10 – Rethinking What A Hardware Wallet Is What Bitcoin Did with Danny Knowles #Bitcoin #Finance #Money #Economics