I'm not yet sold on this technology, I purchased it to learn about it.
which is great
also GreenAddress is probably the most complex integration example since it's already pretty secure when configured in paranoid mode (i.e. with an external second factor on a dumb phone), so here HW.1 adds a little bit of security by preventing a malware owning the computer or Chrome to get access to the seed when HW.1 is not connected, and that's pretty much it. It just reduces the attack surface a little bit more, and makes using the service more convenient when logging in and transacting, since you don't have to remember anything but your PIN and nothing is stored anywhere but on the dongle.
you'll see the full HW.1 second factor mode with Electrum, and on upcoming integrations with less sophisticated wallets.
To convince me (and I am a pretty tech savvy consumer) that there is a benefit to using HW.1 there needs to be way more work done to educate the consumer as to the workings of this product.
~JD
~JD
work in progress indeed, but I think there'll be many opportunities to get convinced in the coming weeks/months as different scenarios get deployed. Also we'll have more marketing/communication resources in the team soon, which might help a bit
