Bitcoin promised money that doesn't ask anyone's permission. That promise only works if you hold your own keys.
Two of the most common ways users lose funds: their own mistake, a seed written down wrong, a password forgotten. Or a flaw in the design of the tools they trusted, which they had no way to see. Either way, it is always the user who suffers the consequences.
Discipline cannot fix a flawed design. And good design removes the mistake instead of demanding a lifetime of perfect discipline. Making the setup more complex, or pushing more responsibility onto the user, is not security. It is security theatre. And this matters beyond any product. Holding your own keys is digital private property: owning something without anyone's permission. A right only experts can exercise is a right most people don't have. So safe and easy have to coexist. Digital private property cannot stay a niche.
Our industry has to build security design that scales to ordinary people. And no one's design should be taken on their word, ours included. Open what can be open, so anyone can check it. What must stay closed for security, hand to independent experts to test. And the proof is time: still standing years later, with real money inside.
Total safety does not exist. Anyone who promises it is selling something. Security is a direction: safer every year, easier every year, tested by people who try to break it. And the destination has never changed since the first nine pages: a billion people holding their own keys, and actually using them. Send, sign, transact, live with it. Money, and soon your identity too.
The only security is security by design. So here is the bar, for every wallet, ours included: no compromise. Not on security, to make it easy. Not on ease, to make it secure. Not on sovereignty, to make it safe. The moment we ask users to compromise, we have failed at the design. That is the bar. That is the whole fight, true to the original promise of those nine pages.