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More / Bitcoin Reddit - 7 hours ago

Can we finally agree?

Can we all finally come to a consensus that leaving your coin on an exchange or buying ETFs may not be a bad idea for like 90% of bitcoin holders? For years i was mocked for leaving my coins on an exchange, yet I haven't had issues with stolen or...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 9 hours ago

Coldcard is not "Open source"

The firmware source code is publicly available and can be inspected, However, Coinkite changed the license from a standard open source license to one that includes the Commons Clause, which means it's source available/verifiable rather than OSI a...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 9 hours ago

Let’s face it.

Let’s face it, bitcoin would never have the adoption we are speaking of as long as stuff like this keep happening(coldcard hack). How will ever a standard person own bitcoin if even the pro’s get hacked. People that know everything about bitcoin self...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 13 hours ago

My paranoia saved me!

When I bought a coldcard, I also bought these casino dices, and rolled my own entropy mostly for fun. This saved me from the yesterday hack, otherwise I would be in tears now, most of my net worth would be lost.. Asking myself if to switch devi...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 14 hours ago

Daily Discussion, August 01, 2026

Please utilize this sticky thread for all general Bitcoin discussions! If you see posts on the front page or /r/Bitcoin/new which are better suited for this daily discussion thread, please help out by directing the OP to this thread instead. Thank yo...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 17 hours ago

This is why crypto will never succeed

People are losing their minds over this Coldcard situation. The reality is that very few people truly understand how their crypto is kept safe and secure. Most have simply placed blind trust in a third party to generate a set of words for them and as...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 17 hours ago

(Coldcard) Lost 18.25 BTC

Any idea if there’s an organized central place to upload documentation of wallet / transaction id’s in the off-chance that the stolen BTC surfaces on a regulated exchange? Had all my BTC on 3 devices. All MK3’s. All got drained over 8 minutes on July...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 19 hours ago

SHOOT THESE

SHOOT THESE (and sleep like a baby). Thank me later. I genuinely hope Coinkit files for bankruptcy. They should have no business staying open after what they did. A few weeks ago, I thought about moving my funds to a Coldcard thinking it was sa...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 19 hours ago

Can hackers know you use a passphrase?

With this cold card complete disaster, I'm wondering how much security a passphrase adds? Can a hacker know that a hacked wallet has a passphrase associated? My understanding is that the passphrase wallet is completely new from the original walle...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 20 hours ago

Open source wallets question

The bit argument for open source wallets was always if there’s a bug the community will catch it. How come with the Coldcard bug no one was able to spot it before it happened?? submitted by /u/nick_c8_vegas [link] [comments]

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 20 hours ago

So this hack was via China's LLM apparently

From what I just heard on Natalie Brunell's podcast, this was caused by someone using China's brand new LLM that ripped off code from Anthropic. It has only been out a few days. Unlike Anthropic the China model dows not have any safeguards ag...