Podcasts: S4 E9: Lixin Liu on Cobo Vault & Cobo Tablet 🔗 4 years ago

Lixin Liu, creator of the Cobo Vault, talks about building a hardware wallet that serves the needs of the Chinese miners and then trying to branch out towards Western markets with a second generation of devices. Furthermore, he mentions why he thinks the design of the new Cobo Tablet is more intuitive and ergonomic than that of the Crypto Steel.

Time stamps:

04:01 – The problem with brain wallets

09:23 – Paper Wallets

12:15 – The Cobo Tablet

13:55 – The Cobo Vault

16:09 – Testing according to the American military standards

16:38 – Building a product for the miners

18:36 – The background story of Cobo

21:36 – Driving a car over the Cobo vault

22:07 – Cobo Tablet vs Crypto Steel and Billfodl

26:45 – Disposing unused metal plate letters with responsibility

28:23 – Cosmos Tablet vs Cobo Tablet

28:46 – Possibly releasing a co-branded Cobo Tablet with Coldcard

30:53 – Product positioning for the Cobo Tablet vs Cobo Vault

32:57 – 2nd gen Cobo Vault

34:01 – Cobo Vault vs Cobo Vault Gen 2

36:46 – Secure element of Cobo Vault Gen 2

46:32 – The definition of a secure element

50:43 – Cobo secure element vs Coldcard secure element

52:33 – Is the Cobo Vault source code open source?

56:39 – DIY Cobo Vault?

58:35 – Cobo vs Trezor

1:00:29 – Cobo vs Coldcard

1:02:40 – Cobo vs Ledger

1:03:48 – Cobo vs BitBox02

1:05:12 – Cobo vs KeepKey

1:08:08 – Does Cobo Vault connect to your own full node?

1:10:40 – Cobo Vault privacy

1:18:33 – Closing words on 2nd Generation Cobo Vault