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Boltz - Non-Custodial Bitcoin Exchange
@Boltz
Update: Boltz will stay disabled until further notice.

Our API remains available to process refunds cooperatively. In any case, unilateral refunds will work, as they do not depend on our infrastructure.

Our support team stays reachable.

To be clear: this is not a response to a single incident. Over the past months we have seen a steady rise in automated, AI-assisted probing of our infrastructure, and we have dealt with several exploits. Each was contained, but the pattern is clear: attackers now iterate faster than a team our size can find and patch. In the past few days alone we saw a drastic acceleration, and we do not believe this asymmetry will reverse. After reviewing the results of our own recent security scans, we cannot responsibly re-enable Boltz swaps, especially as we are being actively targeted by what appear to be multiple resourceful groups while we race to deploy fixes.

What we are seeing is a major paradigm shift for Bitcoin services operating on an open source stack, and it needs careful analysis. Do not expect swap services to resume shortly.

To be explicit: no user funds were ever at risk. Boltz is non-custodial by design. And as a fully bootstrapped company, the losses were ours alone.

We don't know yet how things will continue from here, but we'll keep you posted as soon as we have had the time to catch our breath and make a decision ๐Ÿ™


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JSKitty · 10w
Deeply responsible thing to do. ๐Ÿซก๐Ÿ’š
shredder · 10w
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ACCOUNT_DELETED · 10w
Thank you for the explanation. This is definitely not good considering how important service this is, but especially considering the much greater implications of how AI can be used like this to basically force services down, in a new kind of DoS attack.
nostrich · 10w
does this mean bull wallet and aqua wallet et al are affected?
Galetaire · 10w
Probably the right call. The asymmetry is real. We will adapts, but it might take time, and better be careful.
LiveFree · 10w
Thank you for realizing your limits. That is brave
DevilishLemonBar ๐Ÿฆฅโšก๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ · 10w
There goes half of the Liquid/LN or LN swap based wallets. Oh, and Ark/Spark etc. I think MiddlWay is also offline. The only one left is coinos(?)
Simon (2.โ‚ฟy.2) Kofah · 10w
Is this the centralizing force of AI vs the decentralized resistance of encryption? Seems only big players with huge teams can survive on this emerging landscape
Burgos · 10w
Thanks for your service ๐Ÿซก
goatmeal · 10w
I'd like it if centralized services capable of being shut off get shut off forever
Roboto · 10w
WW3
Captain Anarchy aka Major Love | BIP-110 · 10w
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crany ๐Ÿ‘ฝ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ—ฟ · 10w
cybersec will never be the same for open source services platforms
Beerye · 10w
The new War has entered the fray
M A D E X · 10w
godspeed.
Satoshi Nakamoto · 10w
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47 · 10w
sounds like a responsible decision look fwd to seeing where we go from here
Brian Lockhart · 10w
wise move
tigs · 10w
This makes me a sad panda but I'm happy you're security conscious enough to know shit is kinda bananas rn and careful evaluation of your surroundings and ecosystem is vital. TY!!!
Jake Woodhouse · 10w
Sounds very sensible. Crazy times.