ColdCard Hack & Seedsigner with Seed

I’m just not on board with anyone that recommends the Seedsigner over other hardened hardware wallets, as it has no secure elements or engineering to harden the physical device you construct from off the shelf components. And since it doesn’t…

What Could Happen This Saturday (BIP-110)

A good overview of what is coming Saturday in the battle for Bitcoin. I’d just sit back and watch, and get your Bitcoin stored safely and close any Lightning channels… If the BIP-110 side decides to hard fork because miners…

Deanonymizing Monero Transactions in Tor Network

An interesting analysis of a paper covering an earlier version of Monero that was a bit too chatty between nodes on Tor, though already corrected in the latest version. And worth noting, compile your own node. I download the source…

Was Coldcard An Inside Job?

Some good conspiracy theory material to ponder, and would I be wrong in thinking that NVK just might have signaled the retirement attack by those tweets? Going along those lines, was the change from Trezor’s code to new code with…

Is The Coldcard Disaster A State-Level Attack?

I was thinking of doing a blog post about the Coldcard Q debacle possibly being a state level attack on Bitcoin because the timing and damage is just too perfect for undermining Bitcoin and people employing self-custody, all right about…

Saudi Arabia, Jordan And Syria Threaten Iraq

This could be the foundation for things to escalate into a massive Middle East war. Or is it just a plan to eliminate as much of the Iranian hardliners as possible to put in a new puppet government in Iran?…