So, going back to the original threads discussion point, and deviating ever so slightly. Are we ever going to see truly open source hardware in personal computers, since not everyone using Bitcoin is going to be purchasing a hardware wallet, so while hardware wallets likely will need to be implementing open source chips in order to compete with each other, the issue is that the hardware that we use every day, is the real issue.

If we achieve mass adoption, then that's the problem for me. Since, technically most computer users are either using intel or AMD, that's effectively decentralising Bitcoin, if the hardware is compromised, since everyone who has generated a private key on that machine could be compromised, which lets face it is probably the majority.

Do we think there's a big enough market, and enough demand to make it profitable to create open source hardware? It seems to me we are going down the path of making things more obscured. Take phones for example, the charging ports changing every couple of years, specialised ports being made to make it difficult for cheaper brands to replicate, removable batteries now a thing of the past, all to make sure that you continue buying new hardware, but not just that buying hardware from those that are putting these restrictions in their products in the first place.

My fear is, that even if this question is a little bit paranoid right now, is it going to be paranoid to be worried about such things down the line? After all, it seems manufacturers have a tactic in hand to keep you buying from only them, and for the large part don't care about longevity of their devices any more, and instead want to keep you buying new products, which I think could be argued to being unethical already. While compromising private keys or the way entropy is generated then, on their devices might not be the target vector of choice, collecting data is a huge one. We see it baked into every piece of software out there these days, and I imagine it's only a matter of time that the hardware itself collects data on you.