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Jose Sammut · 11w
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 · 11w
Maybe. But coinkite is dead to me now.
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Micha profile picture
If the claim was "miraculous birth" I would agree. And I'm sure there are some parallels to be drawn. But the Table is clearly overstating the similarities. But I'm glad you now recognize that most of it is BS. I hope this allows you to take a less biased look at the resurrection of Jesus.

Dav Bow · 12w
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 Provoost · 12w
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...