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Joined December 2022
Got an email from [email protected] (their real domain) saying my 2-year-old wallet I got from them is compromised. It has my full name and address. @FoundationHQ is this legit? @zherbert @sethforprivacy @btcqna
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Someone tried to hit our @Core_LN node last night with a keysend and a private channel, from this node: amboss.space/node/03552f2cde… They got nothing. We always updated the node, thanks to @umbrel app store, @madelinevibes and the Discord crew. Funds are SAFU. Stay safe out there.
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blockdyor retweeted
Even if elliptic-curve signatures break (big if), Bitcoin still works fine in a Minicrypt world (one-way functions exist, public-key encryption does not). Mining and addresses already rely only on hash functions, and spending can switch to hash-based signatures: same seed-phrase wallets, just larger transactions and somewhat higher fees. So don’t worry, keep stacking sats.
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Bassin 2.1.4 is out! Improved UI reliability for the solo Bitcoin mining pool. Update via the official @Umbrel App Store: apps.umbrel.com/app/bassin Next major release: in development in the community app store, with @ckpooldev 1.2.0 and optimized for @bitcoincoreorg 31.1.0.
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.@COLDCARDwallet I genuinely don't get why, as of today (August 4th), firmwares before 5.6.0 are still up for download on your website coldcard(dot)com/download. Those are the ones with the entropy bug exploit. For fuck's sake, take them down already!
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It's insane when you realize how the world has changed in the past few months. And most people did not notice. This exponential is different. I've been riding a few of them before, but this one... I don't even know what to say. I've been riding it past few months and then I look back at the world, and people still pretend business as usual. Denial? Ignorance? Nostalgia?
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blockdyor retweeted
it's a @blockstream originated tech, but i believe @BitBoxSwiss added it (and wrote about it at the time). the others no, i believe they have not implemented it.
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blockdyor retweeted
I haven't told the full story yet, but I came to the same conclusion back in May 2025 when I started doing an audit of `coldcard/firmware`. I wanted to figure out conclusively where the CC RNG was getting sourced from, and found that it backed up to some shady library called libngu (github.com/switck/libngu) that had literally 6 stars on github and was maintained solely by a pseudoanon tranny. I knew from past experience that linking to libsecp256k1 from Python was pretty easy, which seemed to be the stated purpose of the library use, and so I was confused about why it was there. I sent a report to the CC team that I had doubts about whether the true RNG was actually in use, and pointed out that the hardcoded yasmarang constants in libngu were sloppy. I advised they rip the whole thing out and link against libsecp256k1 directly. I was told that if something was wrong "we'd already know about it by now" and that everything was properly configured for the real boards. I didn't follow up rigorously, which was a horrible mistake on my part.
Someone in telegram group literally pointed about coldcard random function back in 2021. Of course it gets ignore.
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blockdyor retweeted
If you're moving your coins to a new setup, it's worth spreading them across signing device brands, so no single vendor can lose your coins for you. Liana lets you combine several signing devices in one multisig wallet, with a timelocked recovery path if a key ever goes missing. Lower risk of theft, lower risk of loss. Full guide in the first reply ⬇️
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blockdyor retweeted
Unless you're discussing coming off an existing custody solution because of the Coldcard exploit, remember the same logic as always should prevail. This is no time to be smugly advertising your custody and how you weren't affected.
No one should be discussing their custody solution in public.
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blockdyor retweeted
BTW please add a SECURITY.md to your repo. A lot of the repo's I've scanned have no way to report besides me dming maintainers
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Coldcard Disaster: What To Do Now (Disable RBF)
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I disabled Replace By Fee (RBF) on my node because it is almost exclusively used by attackers to steal funds. Particularly from people trying to rescue coins from compromised Coldcard multisig addresses. This setting is only available on @BitcoinKnots, not Bitcoin Core.
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Replying to @blockdyor
Because you have yet to see the error of your ways.
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blockdyor retweeted
If you are rethinking where your Bitcoin sits this week, you are not the only one. You can move it into a Multi-Institution Custody Vault today. No setup fee, 60 days free, no obligation, cancel anytime.
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We’ve got your back at Foundation
All Passport devices ship directly from our American manufacturer. The team works 10 hrs a day for 4 days per week. Yesterday we paid for folks to come in and work overtime to ship orders. We will resume shipping on Monday and are ramping production to keep up with demand. 🫡
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Imagine these two bozos had their way. Someone drains your wallet with some garbage script, you manage to build an RBF transaction to save your funds, and your rescue transaction gets dropped from the mempool for purity reasons. Get a grip.
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NVK is currently deleting old posts from 2020 to try to clean up the history. Screenshot them while you can. They will all be gone soon.
Replying to @zherbert
Wow, he deleted it. Yikes.
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