As Wall Street Centralizes Bitcoin And Crypto, Prague Stays The Course
Trezor CEO Matěj Žák on stage at the Trustless by Design conference in Prague this week — opening his keynote not with technology, but with a reminder of why self-custody matters. “Czechs have learned to distrust authority,” he said. “It’s in our DNA.”
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Seventeen years after Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin whitepaper to eliminate financial middlemen, Wall Street has found a way to bring them back — with firms like BlackRock and Fidelity wrapping Bitcoin and Ethereum into ETFs and custodial products that make investors once again dependent on the very middlemen Bitcoin was meant to replace.
But in Prague, the birthplace of the first hardware wallet, a team of engineers is doubling down on Satoshi’s vision —…