By Isaac • July 17, 2026 7:10 pm •
A hardware wallet can keep private keys off an everyday computer. It can also be dead, updating or refusing to connect at the exact moment its owner needs to sign.
That collision between security theory and operational reality is behind an unusually blunt fight over crypto self-custody.
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Onchain investigator ZachXBT called current hardware wallets “complete garbage” and recommended a separate iPhone used only as a wallet. Danny Sanders, Trezor’s chief commercial officer, answered that a stripped-down iPhone is still a networked, general-purpose device.
No new exploit started this argument. Both sides are attacking the other setup’s failure modes.
ZachXBT’s complaint is about the transaction that cannot wait.
In his original Telegram post, ZachXBT said he would
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