It looks like the hardware is not needed at all 🙈
If you lose your hardware, you can use your phone, together with the key on Bitkey’s server, to set up new hardware (after a Delay and Notify period expires, during which Bitkey pushes alerts to your app to alert you of a recovery attempt).
https://bitkey.build/what-do-you-mean-theres-no-seed-phrase/
Neo / Neo ⚡️
npub1ly…hhj2g
2026-01-23 13:10:23 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…wuja
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2026-01-23 13:10:23 UTCEvent JSON
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