The Device Layer

Corrections

Every material correction or change to a published essay is logged here, newest first. Silent rewrites are not practiced.

DateEssayChange
2026-08-05 Edition 1 Restored the market-share and regional figures as schematic recreations of the Coherent Market Insights charts, and identified that report as the source of the $431M / 39.4% figures in the Trust Ledger.
2026-08-05 Edition 7 Updated to the author's final manuscript: adds a passage on AI agents acting for users, revises the standards-history paragraph, and replaces the closing with the hardware-wallet-authority framing. Primary-source links added to the Trust Ledger.
2026-08-05 Edition 8 Updated to the author's final manuscript: the draft's working-notes appendix and ColdCard passage were removed. WIRED source link added to the Trust Ledger.
2026-08-05 Editions 1–8 Original hero artwork and embedded source links restored from the author's manuscripts.
2026-08-05 Editions 1–8 Archive launched on this site. Publication dates for Editions 4–8 are provisional (reconstructed from the weekly cadence) and will be corrected against the original post timestamps; each essay's Trust Ledger marks its date accordingly.

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