The phishing scams are getting more sophisticated. Trezor is a big hardware wallet. If this had been a real compromise, it would be scary how much people wealth would be stolen.
People need to make sure they have a 13th/25th word set up, that they created themselves with max randomness. If you do it yourself make sure its done properly then you know this kind of attack can never affect you.
Thanks for another show Brian, and also thank for the emergncy bulletin, i picked it up early in the morning. 👍

Thats nice, the white hacker is trying to help. We need more hackers like this. Would have been good if the cold card hack tried to do something similar. I heard there were a few white hackers that tried, but getting the funds back to the rightful owners isnt a straightforward procedure, going through legal channels is riddled with so much beuracracy, the law literally would not facilitate a hacker to return funds to ths rightful owner. Probably because the law is set up to primarally make more money for the state rather than serve justice. Serving individuals, serving justice is a fantasy to get support from the masses. As long as the masses think the law is good, they uphold it, holding onto this fantasy in their minds, keeping it in place with their support.
Have you heard of the film Uprising. Its due to come out later this month. Its about the famous Peasants Revolt of 1381 fighting against the poll tax. The revolt was so powerfull and successful that the feudal system and slavery in England was shatterred and shook up establishment so much that they dared not re introduced the poll tax for another 600+ years, untill The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher tried again in the 90's which met with her demise and massive prrotests all over the country. I was a kid when this happened. You probably rememeber better Brian.
The 1381 Revolt technically failed, but also succeeded because ruling class realised that the Peasants uniting made them extremely powereful. The peasants biggest mistake was to not continue all the way, they would have completely overthrown the monarchy.
Normal every day people dont realise how powerful they are. We have been deluded to think that the power lies with a prime minister or president or king or queen. The reality is we, normal everyday people are the ones that hold the power. The problem with our society is normal every day people dont want to take respinsibility for themeselves, they dont want to stand up for what they believe. They would rather an authority tell them what to think, how to think, how to behave, and how to live. Its sad but untill normal every day people stop looking outwards at authrority as a magic bullet to save them, then nothing will change. Individual empowerement is the ultimate power, when a person realises their true potential, it removes the cloud of illusion instantly. Authority figures like government, and law are fake forms of authority that strip the individual of their own power and create a society that manipulates individuals for a few at the top.
Ultimately the responaibility lies with us, individaul normal every day people. We are the ones that give our power away and its the reason why this upside own world exists. ✊

Its the first time in history, any normal average every day person can hold onto their money, through bitcoin, and not worry about it being stolen, confiscated, seized or frozen. Thats powerful.
Another good show Brian 👍. Thanks.

Thats crazy how we need to keep our guard up from AI. Thanks for the 10 second strategy to test who you are talking to.
I wonder if we will need to get some sort of voice disguiser when speaking in the future on phone, to stop an ai stealing your voice. What a mad possibility.
Thanks for another show. 👍

Thanks for another show Brian.
Yes the lightning vulnerability went completely over my head too. Hopefully it gets sorted soon.
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I am very suspicious that this bullrun has really taken off. Seeing the price go up so quickly is great. But im still a little weary to get really optimistic. Im still in the camp that we revisit 50k, then we have hit rock bottom, before we really skyrocket. Lets see. Will be happy to be proven wrong.

Yeah the risk of setting up a convuluted mutlisig, is that its so clever that even you, the owner gets locked out. I still say, we have learned in our lives all kinds of convoluted things. And we dont screw them up. Multisig osnt half as hard as some of the most convoluted things we have kearned in our lives.

The other day my niece was learning pythagoras, and i was able to solve it just like that. If i can remember how to solve one side of a triangle in an equation after 20 odd years then surely I can learn how to set up 3 keys and get access to them and not screw it up.

I think we should all learn multisig. And after we have learned it, and made many transactions over and over again, untill we can do it in our sleep, and backwards and sideways and diagonally and while performing a handstand. And after all this if we still dont feel comfortable, then stick with a single seed phrase with a solid pass phrase.

If we are willing to put in hours and hours of work to learn convoluted stuff that we will never use in our life, and then we not willing to spend the time and effort to protect our wealth then i dont know what to say.

As for multiple locations for each of the seeds for our multisig, each person must decide how to set this up without making it so difficult to not be able to get access in an emergency.

Once you have set up whatever configiration you happy with, do a test run. And time yourself how long it took to secure your stack.

Remember the fire alarms tests we used to have at school when we kids and still have at work even now. Thats alot of effort we all put into something that is very unlikely to happen, but could save our life one day. Well if we put this much effort into this then we can put abit of effort into securing our wealth. Surely.

Fuckin Coldcard, why you have to be so bloody incompetent... 🖕🖕🖕
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Thanks Brian another good show mate. Cheers. 👍

Gosh Joe, sounds like you r going through hell. Hang in there. Rest up and get better for the big day. No doubt it will be an amazing day. And yeah, atleast you will have an excuse for all those funky dance moves. 🤣

Excellent show Brian. I agree, self custody is what makes Bitcoin so special.
We take the time and effort to learn all kinds of complicated things in our lives. The moment it comes to taking self responsibility for our own money, becoming independent and self sovereign, all of a sudden it too much. I wonder who implanted this in our heads. It took me 4 years to take self custody, because of this very fact.
Although multi sig sounds complex, if we just take the time to learn, go slow, dont rush and once completely confident then take that next step, then it will be absolutely fine. 💯

Thanks Brian for another good show. 👍

Yeah opsec is important. Its sad, a non bitcoiner, an outsider seeing how carefull bitcoiners need to be, Im sure they would be so put off. All of these attacks on bitcoin is having the desired effect, stopping normal every day people from learning about bitcoin. While the institutions / whales load up their bags. The bear market is when the wise set themselves up to get very rich.

Yes, running older core version will work for a while, but eventually will become too out of date to use. Hopefully core dont make it compulsory. Assuming that all knots nodes are eventualky forced to run a newer core node, I would think all of them will manually put op_return filter back on. Core will be be able to see this(when it happens). If they still make it complusory then they really are totally ignoring significant part of the community. 🤞

Thanks for another good show Brian 👍

I came across something recently that I overlooked. If knots node eventually becomes redundant, and we are forced to use core node, then aparantly we can add the op_return filter back in. I didnt realise this. Core changed the default setting as off. But we can chose to switch it back on. Not sure you aware of this. I thought this was important to share.

It seems like Luke Dashjr is going for this hard fork. It does seem like its gonna happen.
I think I will run a forked node to show my support.

But we have no choice, on the main chain we have to run a core node

Eventually knots node wont be updated. ☹