Austin Campbell: Self-Custody Users Should ‘Over-Solve for Simplicity’ After Ledger Reseller Hack

The exchange cuts to a tension the self-custody pitch rarely addresses: hardware wallets still depend on a supply chain of resellers and vendors that users cannot audit, so the breach was less a failure of cold storage than of the trust assumptions around it. Perkins' counterpoint is the more consequential one for the market, since it frames intermediaries as a deliberate preference rather than a flaw to engineer around. Whether that view gains ground as reseller risk keeps surfacing is the open question.