I don’t know what was worse: scrambling to sweep funds immediately with no margin for error,  in a computing mega-session, on no sleep, while I’m supposed to be at work, with family commitments unrelenting, while rendering a couple thousand dollars of signers and steel backups useless,

or

having to wait a couple weeks before this shakes out and a person can fully commit to a new redundant distributed model, and all the accessories to support it.

I feel like it’s the early days of my self custody journey. Feeling like I had to check my addresses every day to make sure the corn is still there until I gained trust in the math.

I mean, how long before even stopgap measures, updated firmware and adding entropy by other means are even proven safe?

I’m already reading at least one report about cold cards bricking themselves upon attempted entry of passphrases.

I should be stacking like a maniac at these prices but what the fuck? 

This is the bitcoin equivalent of doing 1000 skydives with your trusty rig, only to find out that your reserve container was packed with dirty underwear instead of a working parachute.