Sam tries to break every wallet he reviews — not the cryptography, but the human parts: the backup step, the restore flow, the instructions in the box. Every device on this site has been set up from scratch, wiped, and restored from its own seed backup before it gets a score.
A former application security engineer, he spent nine years on incident response before covering bitcoin custody full-time. He writes our wallet reviews, the self-custody guide, and the inheritance-planning material most review sites leave out — because the failure mode that actually loses people their coins is rarely a hack.