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 to 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…
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…
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…
(Video below) Bitcoin Mechanic has some interesting details on NVK buying up domains to fight Seedsigner adoption as he must of really determined it a threat to his company. And the history of how this bug came about from Coinkite…
Uh-oh, emdashes, a favorite tell with AI generated content. The whole point of Bitcoin is self-custody and actually using Bitcoin as a means of exchange, with a monetary system that is deflationary and not inflationary. There will only ever be…
(Headline blog post below) Basically, if you created a seed with Coldcard hardware wallets from 2021 to present, you need to update the firmware and generate a new seed like now. They incorrectly programmed the firmware to use a code…
This is how the major software bug is being reported on, and since the BTC price has dropped to $62k. It’s not really a problem with Bitcoin, but just a hardware implementation with how a random seed phrase is generated.…
