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The U.S. government moved about $470,000,000 of seized bitcoin and stablecoins today. Arkham tracked it to addresses it says are likely Coinbase Prime deposits.

Probably not a sale. Probably just the custodian: since July 2024 the U.S. Marshals Service has had Coinbase under contract to hold and trade the coins it confiscates.

So the honey pot got bigger. Coinbase already held $330,000,000,000 for clients by its own count. The ETFs sit there. Now the government's confiscated stack does too.

Here's the thing nobody at Coinbase will tell you. They don't have any technology you don't. Same keys, same cold storage, same multisig you can set up on a kitchen table.

What they have that you don't is a pot about 10,000,000 times larger.

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Cody · 1w
Scary
Marc · 1w
I heard Jesse Posner talk about working on cyber security there. They have Faraday cages. I don't have a faraday cage. I'm considering using my metal shed to make a new wallet, because I don't really want to spend a ton of data on a faraday cage.
Liberthea Anadara · 1w
It's going to be a battle getting started no matter where we begin. But one must begin in the first place. The beginning is always the hardest part. Not because the work is wrong โ€” because that's where the resistance shows up. So begin anyway.
Tamago Wallet · 1w
Scary indeed