The Future of Owning Bitcoin | Jonathan Pollock
By Danny Knowles
Aired May 11, 2026 · 57m · Last boosted May 21, 2026
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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 cust...
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Emergency exit to KYC Exchange doesn’t seem very sovereign. How about an emergency safety network of my own making with distributing my own Tapsigner keys? All I need is the minimal trust that the trusted network of people won’t lose the key card, and make it available upon request. While that one piece of key material is exposed it should be able to interact with the Bitkey system to make a multi-sig emergency vaul…
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How does a Fedimint, or multiple Fedimints, help to solve/complicate this scenario?