A CHAT PROMPT CAN NOW FIND A BITCOIN BUG IN ONE TRY. BITCOIN CORE JUST ADMITTED IT CANNOT KEEP THEM SECRET ANYMORE.
Bitcoin Core merged a new disclosure policy on October 22 because LLMs made some bugs trivial to find. Its own Red...
LEDGER KNEW FOR TEN MONTHS. ITS FIX COSTS $849 AND SHIPS IN 2027 — AND THE ONLY VICTIM WHO GOT JUSTICE WAS A SCAMMER
Chainalysis confirmed one of the biggest victims of the Ledger implant drain was a task-scammer who lost 60 BTC of stolen...
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...
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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.
COINBASE COULDN’T KEEP CUSTOMER MONEY IN THE RIGHT ACCOUNT FOR FIVE YEARS — IRELAND FINED IT $3.6 MILLION, AND WASHINGTON STILL CALLS IT CUSTODY
Ireland's central bank fined Coinbase EUR 3.25 million for leaving customer money in the wrong accounts for five years. Coinbase says...