Paper Is Not a Backup. Here Is What Your Seed Phrase Looks Like After a Fire.
Paper ignites at 230 C. A room fire hits 600 C. Your recovery phrase was designed to survive everything except the...
Start9 Built a Router. It Runs Your Whole House and Answers to Nobody.
Start9 shipped a home router on open RISC-V hardware running StartWRT, its MIT licensed fork of OpenWrt. Eight RISC-V cores, Wi-Fi...
Self-Custody Needs a Node: Umbrel + Hardware Wallet
A hardware wallet holds your keys, but your node checks the rules. Pair it with Umbrel for real self-custody.
A MAN WAS BEATEN WITH HAMMERS FOR 45 MINUTES UNTIL HE SENT HIS BITCOIN — AND THE ‘EXPERTS’ ARE BLAMING HIS SELF-CUSTODY WALLET
Three masked men, a fourth on FaceTime, 45 minutes of hammers, and a threat to stab a seven-months-pregnant woman. Chainalysis says...
THEY PUT A BITCOIN DEV IN A CELL WITH A MURDERER FOR WRITING CODE — THE MEN WHO STOLE $388 MILLION ARE STILL SWAPPING IT IN THE OPEN
Keonne Rodriguez is serving five years for writing privacy software — he slept on half a mattress next to a man...
THE SEC THAT CALLED YOU A TERRORIST IS NOW BEGGING TO BE YOUR BEST FRIEND — $75 MILLION SAFE HARBORS AND ALL
The SEC that spent four years calling you a criminal just proposed its first-ever crypto rules with $75 million safe harbors...
You Trusted a Hardware Wallet With Your Bitcoin. It Just Got You Robbed for $112 Million.
You did everything right. You bought a hardware wallet. You took your coins off the exchange. You tattooed the mantra on...
Zonda Exchange Says ~4,500 BTC Cold Wallet Is Inaccessible: A Brutal Reminder About Keys
Reporting: Zonda disclosed a large BTC wallet is inaccessible amid withdrawal pressure—keys allegedly never handed over in a leadership transition. Not...
Choosing a Bitcoin Wallet Without Getting Rekt: A 2026 Framework for Plebs
Search demand for “how to choose a bitcoin wallet” keeps growing—but most people still optimize for the wrong thing. Here’s a...
Are You Doing These 3 Important Things To Secure the Bitcoin Network?
The Full-Blown Bitcoin Stack: Your Keys, Your Node, Your Hashrate “There is no second best. If you want to remain free,...
Quick Reads
The One Bitcoin Purchase That Never Needs an Upgrade
No subscription, no firmware, no account, nothing to renew. The Stamp Seed Deluxe Kit is $127.60 down from $220.00 for Black...
Your AI Should Live at Home, Not in Big Tech’s Cloud
Cloud AI reads your files to serve ads. Run your AI on Umbrel at home instead, right next to your data.