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More / Bitcoin Reddit - 15 hours ago

Daily Discussion, August 01, 2026

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More / Bitcoin Reddit - 18 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 - 18 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 21 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...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 day ago

Yes, it is actually difficult to secure your seed.

Really sorry to hear what happened to many Coldcard Mk3 users. You did nothing wrong. To get the obvious out of the way, the hate Coinkite is getting right now is deserved. Firstly, there should have had a more thorough review process that would have...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 day ago

They stole the BTC- now what?

The ColdCard hack has seriously shaken the BTC community in less than 24hrs. Very disturbing and disappointing. I went on a block explorer and checked out the thief's addresses (now there are 2). The whole world is now focused there- are coinjoin...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 day ago

Laziness Helped Me Dodge a Bullet?

Owner of a Coldcard MK3. I've always hated updating devices, my coldcard included. My MK3's firmware is still 3.1.9 . Coinkites reponse says 'the issue relates to Coldcard Mk3 firmware versions 4.0.1 through 5.0.3' 1) Does this mean...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 day ago

Coldcard, fuck yourself.

That is so unbelievably stupid: https://preview.redd.it/fvg49i64mlgh1.png?width=617&format=png&auto=webp&s=10910218d099199dcce3972df1bee5826db902c5 https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsxt6lahxeq8h69ne78w6ls394ez5pqycguwrsp89tacwteh7878ccm...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 day ago

I did my part - did you?

Buying the dippity dipping dip for the dippiest time this year. ???????? Never going to stop. ☝???? submitted by /u/quintavious_danilo [link] [comments]