The Future of Self Custody with Ian Rogers of Ledger

All of these usability pains—and there are so many of them—in web3 today, of course they're going to get worked out. It'll take 10 years, but they will ultimately get worked out, and your identity will be in your wallet, of course; your passport will be a digital document, of course.

I can absolutely imagine a bankless life for myself where my paycheck goes directly into my Ledger, gets split into spending and savings—spending is a stable coin, savings is crypto—and I have my Ledger Card, which pays me cash back in crypto.

I just feel the same way over and over and over today when people can't get head around digital assets, generally. It's like, you know, was the Internet in 1998 both overhyped and unquestionably inevitably the future? Yes. Same, same today.

I put tattoos on my fingers when I was 21-years-old expressly so I would never I have a real job. Like, that was my reasoning for doing it—to protect my future self from that fate.

If the value on your wallet is worth more than $80, which is what a Nano S Plus costs, then you should invest in a Nano S Plus. That's a pretty simple move.

Tell Jeff Bezos or Khashoggi that Apple's iPhone is a privacy device. Sorry to be morbid, but seriously. If somebody wants into your phone, they're going to get into your phone, period.

There are tons of things that you have in self-custody today that will be digitized—whether that's your art or your passport and your driver's license or your collectibles, your vinyl record, your photos.

There are tons of things in your life that you have self-custody of today that you'll have self-custody of tomorrow digitally before we even think about money.

Your Ledger is not valuable to anyone if you're dead. If you put the passcode into a Ledger wrong three times, it'll brick. So, it's not that hard to, kind of, make the device effectively disappear.