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“Self-custody wallets are completely, totally, utterly broken” - Armani Ferrante Billions are lost yearly to seed phrase failures—more than all CEX hacks combined. The Backpack 🎒 founder explains more problems to BTCTN’s David, and what Backpack is doing to fix them.

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