In episode 41 of Separating Money and State, Matías Mathey returns to the program in emergency mode, days after the Coldcard incident, not as an analyst of the technical failure but as someone who was on the ground attending to scared people: calls, workshops, spaces, a free tutorial on setting up passphrases for eighteen wallets.
His framework for the crisis is urgent versus important: the urgent is not to lose funds ---even if that means temporarily going through an exchange, against the purist reflex of no-KYC--- and the important comes later, when there is time to think about hardware, multi-signature, inheritance. Regarding the underlying dilemma ---how much complexity is too much--- he brings the best material of the episode: the Argentine grandfather who hid dollars under the tiles and took the secret to the grave. The paranoia that destroys wealth was not invented by self-custody.
Matías proposes a concrete and difficult solution: cross-auditing among competitors ---Trezor reviewing Blockstream and vice versa--- with multiple approval processes like ISO standards, and admits in the same sentence why it doesn’t happen: egos and commercial interests.
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