More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 day ago
I just wanted to take the time to share: After the COLDcard fiasco, the phishing scams are heating up! Per Trezor, They are seeing an increase in phishing scams and warn users to stay diligent. NEVER SHARE YOUR SEED PHRASE WITH ANYONE!! Always verify...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 day ago
Since the Coldcard failure I have seen some people arguing self-custody is "dead" and that all bitcoin holdings should be through a custodian. I think this is completely wrong. A failed hardware wallet does not prove that self-custody is t...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 day ago
I had around 0.08 BTC / $5,000 stored on my Coldcard and that wasn’t even spare cash, it took me months to save. then I checked my wallet and saw "amount lost" gone fck! my seed was never online, the device stayed locked away, and I thought...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
Please utilize this sticky thread for all general Bitcoin discussions! If you see posts on the front page or /r/Bitcoin/new which are better suited for this daily discussion thread, please help out by directing the OP to this thread instead. Thank yo...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
kept saying "i'll do it eventually" forever, mostly just laziness and being scared i'd mess it up somehow. finally sat down and did it last month after reading one too many horror stories about exchanges getting hacked or freezing w...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
- "What's a retirement attack?" - COLDCARD (@COLDCARDwallet): "It's when the project makers could have a "bug" in the entropy generation for later retrieval". _____ Seems that they were smart enough to laun...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
Insane week of bad news for BTC. CC hacks, now up to 60% chance of a rate hike in September, Strategy sells more BTC... and yet, we're pretty much flat. Dare I start to hope that this is what bottoming looks like? submitted by /u/x...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
.7 bitcoin gone. Years of DCAing with money that could have been invested in other ventures gone because of a stupid exploit from a company that was touted as being "the best" to keep coins safe. My .7 bitcoin could have been spent on...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
To be in the bitcoin space to begin with I would think requires a level of critical thinking maybe not the average Joe carries (at least when it comes to money). But somehow bitcoin plebs tend to turn their brain off when they are in the presence of...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
The space is riddled with low lifes submitted by /u/newtonreddits [link] [comments]
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
The Coldcard RNG/low entropy issue has been known about by the stealer since a few weeks to months after the code was released in Nov 2021. They waited years so that as many people as possible would generate seeds on that faulty firmware and s...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
I am surprised it took them so long to send emails to their users. "Important: Trezor is not affected by the Coldcard hardware wallet vulnerability. Trezor users: your funds are safe. Hi, On July 30, Coinkite disclosed an issue affecting wallet...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
WHITE HAT DRAINS OF COLDCARD WALLETS BEGIN The white hat wallet drains of exploitable COLDCARD wallets are now underway, according to @coinjoined If your COLDCARD was compromised, do not destroy the device. It could be needed if a recovery process i...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
Just wrote a post, got messages from a couple of weird basic scammers... reddit is a pretty mean place submitted by /u/TheDuhbb [link] [comments]
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
I was orange pilled back in 2021 and I was stacking hard ever since. I had managed to accumulate 5,13 BTC, something I was very proud of. Not so much for myself, but for the future of my daughter. And that's the only thought that brings me to tea...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
If hackers were able to find these addresses rather easily, and the randomness wasn’t all that random after all, how come there weren’t “random” addresses made for users that were already in use? submitted by /u/bellydisguised [link]...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
Link: https://www.ledger.com/blog-coldcard-incident TL;DR Ledger explains that the recent Coldcard incident was caused by a firmware bug that weakened the randomness used to generate recovery seeds, making some seed phrases predictable to attackers....
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
Bitcoin.org still recommends coldcard. "Very secure environment" = GOOD "Control over your money" = GOOD Sauce: https://bitcoin.org/en/wallets/hardware/coldcard/?platform=hardware&step=5 submitted by /u/H...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
https://preview.redd.it/a38ylnfzp6hh1.png?width=1789&format=png&auto=webp&s=70406b55bd6c2049608753830456ebe98b45feae people who stored their btc on coldcard got drained because of entropy. the seed generation was reproducible, anyo...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
Hello, I was thinking about the Coldcard incident and what an attacker who now controls hundreds of stolen BTC could realistically do. The interesting part is not moving the coins. The blockchain is public, the addresses are known, and every transact...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
In the early 70s, Ford rushed the Pinto to market under intense competition they were facing from cheap foreign imports. The Pinto's design cycle was hurried and unfortunately shipped containing a design defect where the fuel tank was positioned...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
Sorry for the noob question, i have been using blue wallet for last year or so. I knew going to cold wallet was the next step so i had ordered cold card a month ago but it was stuck in customs so i just got it last week. I Understand its not safe if...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 days ago
This is the wild west. Crypto isnt mainstream and we are still in the pioneering days of crypto. Its not easy and there isnt many rules or regulations. Disasters like the coldcard incident is to be expected and the risks are what you sign up for. Whe...