Wealth Security Protocol
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  • 🗺️Overview
  • 💜Casa vs. Alternatives
    • Introduction
    • Option #1: Do-it-yourself
    • Option #2: Custodial Storage
    • Option #3: Commercial Systems
  • 🔑System Design Principles
    • Introduction
    • Minimal Knowledge
    • High Security
    • Usability is Security
    • Expert Support
    • Redundancy
    • Sovereignty
    • Incentive Alignment
  • 🚨Threat Overview
    • Introduction
    • Data and Credential Loss
    • Phishing
    • SIM Hijacking
    • Network Attacks
    • Malware
    • Supply Chain Attack
    • Physical Coercion
    • Child/Pet Attack
    • Internal Service Provider Attack
    • Platform / Hosting Provider Attack
    • Code Dependency Attack
    • Official Seizure
    • Inheritance Failure
  • 🔐Chosen Features
    • Introduction
    • Hardware Wallet Signing
    • Multi-signature
    • Multi-location
    • Heterogeneous Hardware and Software
    • Seedless Hardware Wallets
    • Emergency Recovery Key
    • PIN or Biometrics for Mobile Key only
    • PIN for every device
    • Sovereign Recovery Instructions
    • Emergency Lockdown Button
    • Health Check
    • Identity Verification for Account Recovery
    • Inheritance
  • ✅Chosen Key Schemes
    • 5-Key Vault
    • 3-Key Vault
    • Pay Wallet
  • ❌Rejected Key Schemes
    • Shamir's Secret Sharing
    • 2-of-2
    • 1-of-2
  • ❌Rejected Features
    • Biometrics General Usage
    • Brain Wallet -- Memory Based Solutions
  • 🔧Remaining Attack Vectors
    • Address Spoofing
    • Malicious Insider Key Theft
    • Extreme disaster scenarios
    • Extortion
  • 👨‍🚀Future Improvements
    • Taproot/MAST
    • Schnorr Signatures
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  1. 🔑System Design Principles

Incentive Alignment

Casa as a company is incentivized to help our clients store their funds securely, both by keeping them safe from thieves and by preventing user error. Our users' success is directly related to our commercial success or failure as a company. Open-source storage systems don't have this incentive. They are usually created on a volunteer basis and have no personal stake in the success of their users.

We want it to be clear how we make money, and we want our incentives to be aligned with the best interest of our customers. We believe it's important that we build a sustainable business that is tightly aligned with keeping our members secure.

There is a saying in the software industry that if you aren't paying for a product, then the product is you. Free products must eventually generate revenue to stay alive, and that often happens by showing their users advertisements and selling their data. This goes against our principles at Casa and is why we charge up-front for our products to generate revenue.

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