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Jose Sammut · 4w
The Coldcard hack compromises the buyers of last resort. Coldcard consumers are the more sophisticated Bitcoin investors. Selfishly, this may be the worst thing to ever happen to Bitcoin. But maybe ...
Micha profile picture
It is also the best thing to happen to bitcoin. Nothing can be built on a foundation of sand. And in hindsight it has become clear, that simply using a hardware wallet that you got from some podcaster shilling his referral code is not a safe way to hold your coins.
The industry will need to evolve and provide simple to follow best practices. I don't know what they should look like, but without this incident no progress would have been made.

harpocrates · 4w
Maybe. But coinkite is dead to me now.
Dav Bow · 5w
Have you crossed the border? The checks are often miles inside the country, not at the literal actual border.
Micha profile picture
Fair point, but it seems like they just Interpret border however it fits them best:

"The motion said that the border agents claimed they did not need a warrant to search Tunick’s phone because he had not yet crossed the U.S. border. The U.S. government has long claimed it can search and seize people’s devices without a search warrant or court order until they are permitted entry to the United States."

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Sjors · 5w
But this was a citizen, right? They pay taxes globally, so why not have constitutional protections? Can the US drone their own citizens abroad without a trial? I feel like these things have been debated before...
marjfri · 5w
Good question. I was wondering the same thing. From my understanding, the answer depends on the athlete, the training goal and the context rather than there being one universal rule.