I really like hardware wallets and I’ve been using Trezor for over a year now.
I expect a SAFE hardware wallet will come quite quickly tbh. When the value shoots up the demand for security will be higher and the market will satisfy that demand soon enough.
In the meantime I’m just going to buy a cheap dedicated machine for farming and using SAFE on, and I’ll never use this machine to visit anything on clearnet, so hopefully there won’t be much risk in using it.
I should imagine most people with a decent amount of coin will be quite cautious and sensible.
SAFE can’t solve endpoint security if we’re browsing clearnet on our machines, so I agree that a hardware wallet would be gtreat and will be used when it arrives.
The nature of SAFEcoin as a utility and the decentralisation of farming make this bit less of a priority than it might have been for a simple, non-consumable asset like BTC. The expectation is that most users don’t buy SAFEcoin or use it as a store of value, but rather most farm a couple of bucks worth for fee and use them. These folks won’t be wasting $100 on hardware protection for their $10 account value imo. So a hardware wallet is really more for investors than to help network adoption as I see it. SAFE won’t suffer at all for not having one as we can still do things safely without it (although it is annoying) and SAFE does not intend to be used in the way BTC is used (investment/asset/store of value). It’s just a cheap, burnable utility that you can get for free. Or at least it should be when the network has launched. 