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...
THE ‘UNHACKABLE’ WALLET JUST MAILED YOUR HOME ADDRESS TO THE PHISHERS — TREZOR’S DATA BREACH GREW BY 67,000 AMERICANS
Trezor says 67,000 more U.S. customers were exposed in the ShipMonk shipping breach. Your keys are cold — your address just...
YOUR AI ASSISTANT JUST TRIED TO ROB A CRYPTO FOUNDER — THE POISONED FILE WAS HIDING IN HIS SKILLS
A Claude chat link nearly drained a crypto founder's wallet — then a poisoned SKILL.md tried again from his backup. AI...
THE MEDIA IS CALLING IT “MYSTERIOUS BITCOIN TEXTS” — A DEAD GRANDMOTHER’S PHONE IS BEGGING FOR BITCOIN AND NOBODY WANTS TO SAY THE QUIET PART
A 63-year-old grandmother vanished in Las Vegas, was found dead near the airport — and her family got texts from her...
The “Unhackable” Coldcard Just Lost $112 MILLION — the Paranoid’s Choice Was the Biggest Betrayal in Bitcoin History
The "unhackable" Coldcard was drained of $112M in the largest hardware wallet breach in history — a silent five-year firmware bug....
54,000 HARDWARE WALLET BUYERS JUST GOT DOXXED — TREZOR AND SAFEPAL HANDED THE PHISHERS YOUR HOME ADDRESS
Trezor and SafePal leaked the personal data of 54,000 hardware wallet buyers this week. Your keys are cold. Your identity was...
THE MULTISIG WAR: $130 MILLION GONE, AND NOW THEY’RE FIGHTING OVER YOUR KEYS
$130M gone. Strive says hand your coins to a custodian. ARK says self-custody is a disaster. Ledger says multisig is overkill....
THE WHITE HATS FOUND 85 CRITICAL FLAWS IN 390 BITCOIN PROJECTS — AND OPENAI JUST BLOCKED THEM FROM LOOKING FOR MORE
The biggest community-funded security audit in Bitcoin history just found 85 critical flaws across 390 open-source repos. The black hats who...
Hackers Just Drained Lightning Nodes Through BTCPay Server — And Your “Secure” Setup Is Next
BTCPay Server's critical LND macaroon exploit drained Lightning nodes in the wild — Foundation and Citadel21 got swept before the alert...
Miami IT Worker Stole $1.9M in Bitcoin — Seed Phrase Betrayal
A trusted IT worker stole $1.9M in Bitcoin from his boss. The theft went undetected for 5 years. The lesson? Never...
Quick Reads
THEY TOLD YOU BITCOIN IS PRIVATE. THEN THEY TAUGHT YOU TO SWEEP EVERY COIN INTO ONE TRANSACTION – AND YOUR WALLET JUST LINKED YOUR ENTIRE STACK TO YOUR REAL NAME
Cake Wallet's Seth for Privacy warned this week that spending one no-KYC coin alongside a KYC coin links your entire Bitcoin...
THE CELSIUS CEO WHO FROZE YOUR BITCOIN JUST GOT ‘PERMANENTLY BANNED’ AND A $35 MILLION PAYMENT PLAN HE MIGHT NEVER PAY
Alex Mashinsky promised 17% on your Bitcoin, pulled in $20 billion, then froze every withdrawal in June 2022. On Friday New...