That's fine, no one is going to force you to. But some people will find it useful.
This is a design discussion, we're trying to evaluate what would work best for the average user, it's not about what I want to use. My question is why would people find this useful if they can get the same functionality from a device they'd need anyway?
Any chance you could find that reference? I would love to see it, but searching for "hackable mp3 player" doesn't turn up the sorts of things I'm looking for.
Sure:
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17919.msg227691#msg227691By the way, I am actively working on the hardware device route. I know what capabilities it is going to need, and what the communication protocol is going to look like, but I haven't yet found a hardware platform that is both simple to develop on and capable of doing the crypto.
What about the cryptocards like this?
http://www.gemalto.com/products/top_javacard/download/TOP_DL_v2_Sept10.pdfNot sure it has the exact curve bitcoin uses, but it's getting pretty close.