Bitkey

👋 I think this ultimately comes down to the question, "why not just allow seed export for the people who want it and know what they're doing?" I think this is very reasonable, and ethos-aligned with self custody. We fundamentally believe hardware devices should protect the key, not just sign with it. So our hardware is designed to never export its secret; the APIs simply don’t exist. That gives us a very powerful security posture: there is only one copy of the HW key in the world, and access to it is gated by a physical device with biometrics. I would hesitate to erode that property. But it’s clear that some customers, like yourself, would prefer to give up that property in exchange for having a direct copy of your key. One way to support that, without weakening Bitkey’s non-exportability posture, would be to let customers set a seed phrase into Bitkey instead of having the hardware generate its own. That would preserve the principle that Bitkey-generated hardware keys are never exported, while still giving power users a way to use the wallet with keys they have access to outside the wallet. Would something like that get at what you’re trying to achieve?