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Man, what a shitty day. I got a Coldcard because everyone recommended it so heavily @ODELL @NVK 🌞⚡️ 🌞⚡️ @MartyBent . I trusted it and recommended it to others. I almost had my life ruined... My passphrase saved me, and I was okay, but my best friend also had his funds on an Mk3. He isn’t as technical; it was straight panic yesterday trying to help him out, but he is safe too. He also used a passphrase and did dice rolls. If I had lost, I could have lived with it, but if my recommendation ruined someone else’s life, that would have been much tougher. Blessed to be okay, but I will learn from this and never put myself in a similar situation again. @coldcard @NVK 🌞⚡️, you will never be trusted again. I will also diversify—multisig and some IBIT. Clearly, in this new age of AI, finding vulnerabilities, can you really trust any hardware‑wallet single‑sig anymore? One hundred percent, always use a solid passphrase, but do not over‑complicate it either, because that could lead to a loss of funds. Love you all; this is one of the darkest days I’ve had in the last ten years. All the people who did it the right way still got destroyed. It hurts seeing these posts. I pray they catch whoever is responsible and that the funds somehow get returned. Honestly, though, Coldcard @NVK 🌞⚡️, you had one fucking job. How can a screw‑up so big like this happen? Fucking amateur hour. A lot of faith I had in certain people is dead. Don't trust anyone, and don't leave all your eggs in one basket anymore. Have some sats, multisig, some IBIT shares, use dice rolls, passphrases. I was very dumb to put myself in a position to lose it all. Never again. This will happen again make preparations now.
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Vyram Kraven · 1d
Well in all retrospect you get what you get when you put your faith in others. Truth is it was never a good solution & you trusted it only because you didn't understand anything about it. You should never do what other people are doing or take their word for it. The first step is in any of this as a...
Chiefwhite · 1d
As soon as I saw posts about this yesterday, I stopped the work chat on Teams with my best friend and said "did you migrate your coin to your Q with a new seed when you got it?" he went quiet, and said "I have to drive home right fucking now, I gotta call my wife and tell her I won't be meeting her ...
Undisciplined · 1d
Close calls can be the best teachers
bitcoinpoorguy 比特幣傢伙 · 1d
Hope we could survive this 🥹
nostrich · 1d
It's the hubris that came from maximalism. Let me rephrase it for you: HFSP
BitLo · 1d
A lot of people shaken up by this. Hopefully some good will come from it. Glad you made out ok with your stack.
Chris · 1d
Bitcoin is truly too complicated for the for 97% of the world. Trust comes in somewhere. Are you going to whittle your own wallet? All we can do is the best we can do. I told my wife yesterday, Bitcoin is the greatest technical innovation in human history, but human nature is wicked and Will likely...
MattA · 1d
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🍊💊⚡️🌽 · 1d
Anyone paid to say something, I’m careful of and unfortunately lot of folks have sponsors here. Quite a lesson for all of us. I’m so glad you made it out of this Ivan. Some folks on here saying, what a tragedy, here’s my link for a new HWW are literally monetizing pain/fear.
Benking · 1d
I actually found out yesterday that one of my coworkers, someone I had no idea was a Bitcoiner, had been using a Coldcard, and he lost his entire savings from several years because of this vulnerability. He and his wife are really not doing well right now. It’s absolutely heartbreaking.
John ₿ Wick · 22h
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