I used Nitter to look at X this morning, and it looked like Coinkite was destroying all their unsold Coldcard hardware wallets for new packaged ones with the updated firmware. The serialized bags they’re put in are part of their…
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…
The Windows 10 that was supposed to last forever debacle pushed many people to Linux. Throw in the complete tracking of people on Windows 11 with their GDID along with Apple and their ID system, and people concerned with privacy…
The changing face of warfare, as cheaper munitions produced in bulk take over from the more expensive systems of decades past. And as the drones evolve, so do the countermeasures. Unmanned systems of all types have firmly taken center…
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?…
Given this is Bill Gates, a Satanic instrument in the world who loves killing people and pushing population control, was this the desired outcome? Because of the wars, interruptions to shipping, incoming financial collapse, inflation… many parts of the world…
If you’re running your own Bitcoin node, you can turn off Replace By Fee, RBF, temporarily to prevent those with multisig wallets getting robbed by RBF transactions once they post transactions to the mempool to clear out their Coldcard hardware…
My one complaint with Manjaro Linux is there is no repo support for the Linux-Zen kernel. I’m running Manjaro on my old Chromebook laptop which has limited hardware, and the Linux-Zen kernel is smoother and more responsive. And this simple…
It’s looking like this latest wave is another party iterating through the 4 billion key possibilities as they’re sending coins to unique addresses. The first person might have outed themselves by using a paid blockchain service to check addresses instead…
Some new interesting details like the funds taken have hit $70 million. I have a post where Bitcoin Mechanic said this was a result of Coinkite’s anti-competitive behavior in rewriting code to change the opensource licensing and making it commercially…
This is overly dramatic, as I don’t have a problem with inmates getting paid less to do jobs as it gives them something to do and there are of course security expenses. The problem is when corrupt police and judges…
I think these are primarily people adding new packages, but best to continue due diligence and check the PKGBUILD files diffs for packages you use from the AUR. And for some things you can just get the AppImage from the…
