Tangem Co-Founder Cites Ledger Incident in Defense of Minimalist Card Design

Lazutkin's argument is less a technical claim than a positioning move: he is using a competitor's security failure to reframe a hardware limitation as a deliberate design philosophy. The tension is that attack surface and usability are traded off, not eliminated — a card with no screen or buttons shifts trust toward the companion app and the chip itself, which are also surfaces. Whether minimalism genuinely reduces risk, or merely relocates it, is the open question worth watching as the incident's details become clearer.