While I want to congratulate fillippone for this incredible article and for all the (physical) work he did for being possible to write it, this topic reminded me of something and I wanted to post these thoughts for a while now, but I keep forgetting to do it...
Seeing fillippone's enthusiams (and also the ones' mentioned in OP), this reminded me of
modders. Do you remember the modders? Those enthusiasts which started, many years ago, to modify PC cases, to make exotic cable management, add lights and so on...? Those which did physical work to cut the cases in various shapes as their imagination drove them...?
Well, no matter how well designed a case was, modders' "credo" was this: "
why not modify it if we can?" -- this being, of course, in contradiction to PC cases designers, which would say "
why would you change such a beautiful case, since it's just perfect?"
Similar to the two credos mentioned above, nowadays we have many types of wallets, each competing with the others for attracting as many users as possible. But still, there are some enthusiasts, such as fillippone, which are willing to try new ideas, ideas also involving physical work, same as modders do. And also, most likely, having same question in mind: "
why not change it (n.b. the "old-school" method of storing coins inside a wallet) if we can?".
And, as you see, from this mindset beautiful ideas may arise, including to actually use an anvil (!!!) for storing BTC / private keys...
Thank you, @gazetabitcoin, for helping me sort out that monstrosity and making my posts even better.
Hihi, anytime! (Although I don't remember anymore what the
monstrosity was
)