We order pieces from China via Ali express. It takes ages - about three months to receive - and single orders do not feel anywhere near “reasonable” cost wise. E.g. if a single individual wants to order a couple of sets he’ll be looking at a cost exceeding a price of a basic Trezor. It goes without saying what the choice of a newbie will be… even though we’ve had a number of straight out crazy cases of people loosing everything they’ve put into their Trezor bought from an official reseller cause the device was corrupted.
However me and my friend are huge fans of ‘don’t trust, verify’ and ‘build your own’ concepts and enjoy educating people, so we’re buying components in bulk and doing some Bitcoin sessions explaining all the dangers and sharing our view on the ways of avoiding those. We’re recommending SeedSigner and offering the components for people to assemble themselves.
Doesn’t pay the bills, but surely brings excitement with every new comer digging the concept of free tech.
We’re actually just starting - tried this concept out on a small batch and it kinda worked - there turned out to be a few people who listened and didn’t turn out to be too lazy or ignorant. We’re now awaiting another 100 sets.
The biggest issue now is the cases. These are hard to find and quite expensive to produce unless we decide to go deep into 3d printing. I feel like we might.
Again .. super cool project!!!
Tony
npub10a…45ys7
2023-08-09 23:22:49
in reply to nevent1q…l63r
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2023-08-09 23:22:49Event JSON
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