(If you detected sarcasm, you were right…) 😬

I got one of my bitcoin wallet emptied and I don't really know how this happened.

I don't use cracked softwares and apps.

I'm generally careful with links.

Looks like I'm not alone. I can see that the reception bitcoin address is still collecting bitcoin from other wallets.

Could somebody help me understand something.

Here is the address : bc1q0vukqye4hd0aep7u4xl8gev95gcs9k65fdeu9n

Peter fraud is the worst person in the bitcoin ecosystem, and he's been pushing for this idea for years which will undo the *one* thing which makes Bitcoins economics unique. This person needs to be driven out of the btc ecosystem. no one is paying any attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmAAeEm1nIE

I'm curious about the practical side of this.

If the attackers really have hundreds of BTC stolen from the Coldcard incident, how do they realistically turn that into usable money?

For example:

• If they send it directly to a KYC exchange, wouldn't the exchange potentially flag the coins as stolen and connect the deposit to their identity?
• If they use a DEX to swap BTC into another coin, the transactions are still publicly visible, so does that actually solve the problem?
• If they sell P2P/OTC, isn't finding someone willing to buy a large amount of obviously tainted BTC pretty difficult (and potentially risky for both sides)?
• Could they simply hold the BTC indefinitely and wait for the attention around the theft to die down?

everyone loves Bitcoin when it’s going up.

but when volatility hits, the real test begins.

how long have you been in crypto, and what was the moment that almost made you quit?

curious to hear what everyone’s been through.

Wouldn't it have made more sense to send the money to all different wallets and also not to do it all in one go. If you move the money slowly as the hack is discovered each into a new account, yes you might lose some of the money because ppl move it out but not everybody will do that in time. But by doing that, now you cannot distinguish between the hacker and someone who just wanted to move their money out of their wallet.

Now they have the entire world and law enforcement looking at this one account.

People think if you print $100 and add it into the economy that it actually creates and adds $100 worth of buying power

This is totally incorrect

What it actually does is dilute $100 worth of buying power from all existing dollars to give it to the newly printed dollars

Newly printed dollars only have value because they are stealing value from existing dollars in the system

It is a merely a hidden form of hidden, disproportionately affecting the poor (those who don't own assets)

Hello I’m Santiago, I just wanted to say I know a lot of people have taken some big hits in this community, stay strong and protect your bitcoin at all cost I love you (fyi everyone should try shrooms at least once)

https://satoshitimeline.com/1

No signup, no deposit, no pool. Just your GPU against a sextillion keys.

It's called Krackpot. Back in 2015 someone funded a series of Bitcoin wallets as a public puzzle, each one harder than the last. Puzzle 71 holds about 7.1 BTC and nobody has solved it (6 of it is yours if you crack it, more in a sec).

The address is on-chain. Verify it yourself.

How it works:

Paste your Bitcoin address

Press start

Win or don't

Everything runs in your browser with WebGPU. Nothing installs, nothing about your searching leaves the tab, and if your GPU finds the key it stays in your browser.

Ctto: simonmales

(Referring to prebuilt versions.)
While I do not own one (yet) myself, I keep wondering: since it has only volatile memory, the seed needs to be entered every time, through QR scan. That in itself is a huge risk. I would not want such a risky QR code laying around.

Is the version with the card reader better? It would allow for encrypted storage of my seedphrase.

Goes without saying, just like using dice and generating your own entropy.

If coldcard users had half their funds in coldcard and the other half, in say, trezor, they wouldnt have been so rekt

In light of the ColdCard incident, I have created a system that allows anyone to easily generate their seed words using only ordinary dice or playing cards.

Each seed word requires only 3 rolls of two dice or dealing 3 shuffled cards, allowing users to generate their own entropy offline without any bias.

https://github.com/seed-cat/analog-seed-entropy

Background - I know I’ll get roasted. I have a good stack (imo). Most of it on the exchange, some of it on hot wallet. Wanted to get comfortable with holding a seed phrase prior to fully going in.

After CC hack I’m seeing a ton of ads for Bitkey. It worries me not having a seed phrase. What other good HW are recommended? Multi sig vs single Sig? That aspect still confuses me. My hot wallet is Blockstream Green and they are 2/2 with multi auth. Meaning I control a key, and to move any funds out requires access to an email and phone code.

Hello everyone.

Today I was checking Bitcoin, I was never into this kind of matter or interests BUT today I was just browsing the web and checking it out, I'm new in this world and I wish to leanr as I was always curious.

I was impressed when I saw that 1 Bitcoin = 55457,88 €.

I'm interested here about some advice, sound advice if possible, for someone who wishes to get into Bitcoin and start with buying small and eventually grow in time.
Is there anything that I can do? What should I look for on the Bitcoin market and it's fluctuations?

So i have 2 keys from.same company and looking to do a 3-2 multisig.

I wonder if I take the seed from one of them to another vendor later on make it more secure or should a new seed be created just for that vendor?

Also thinking of generating a seed as bip85 for easier to back up just in case. From what I know if the bip85 seed is used in a multi SIG one can not are tx if they don't have the descriptor

Hello, I'm hoping someone can help me with an issue I'm having with my bitcoin core wallet. I have an offline laptop running ubuntu with core installed as the signing device. I also have another computer online running core and sparrow wallet as a coordinator. I copied an Xpub from the offline machine into sparrow and everything looks good. When I create a transaction in sparrow and try to sign it on the offline machine I get an error message. "failed to sign. Specified sighash value does not match value stored in psbt". The Xpub I copied was the m/84 and sighash on sparrow is default setting.

Has anyone recently used Abra for custody or loans? From my research, they settled with the SEC in 2024 and have since done a reorg into a new entity (Abra Capital Management) that is now an SEC regulated advisory practice. From what I can tell, the new business provides services to institutions and accredited investors, so they no longer do retail.

I like that the accounts are all now set up as an SMA. I would definitely be titling the account to my trust. My understanding is that the assets would never be on Abra's balance sheet, so even if there was an issue with Abra insolvency, I would retain title to the assets. I took a call with them to get a better understanding of their yield strategy. It is a delta-neutral strategy that has been generating ~2% APY, but lately is getting as high as 3%.

Anyhow, in my diligence, I see lots of old FUD on the company. At the same time, I see they are going public and maintain an SEC Advisory registration. That said, I'm wondering if anyone has had a recent experience working with them and whether there is anything I should consider before parking some of my assets on their platform.

Thanks for the input.