As you evaluate bitcoin security solutions, be wary of MPC custodians selling their solution as equivalent to multisig. MPC is not native to bitcoin, and is often implemented at an operational abstraction on top of a single signature. IE: funds are secured by a single private key, but that private key is essentially sharded in a way that requires multiple people/signatures to create the bitcoin private key signature to move funds. It SOUNDS like multisig but it’s not. If there were an entropy mistake like Coldcard’s in how that single seed was created, MPC is not helping. There are perfectly reasonable ways a custodian would use MPC with multisig, but it is not a replacement. The goal is to eliminate single points of failure.

If you’re still in single sig world, Cold Card or otherwise, please consider the upgrade to multisig. I worked on and recommend Unchained. Bitkey and Casa are also great options. Multisig with multiple hardware vendors is phenomenal security and easy to set up. These companies will hold your hand to make it easy for you. If you don’t want a corporate coordinator, BTC sessions has done excellent guides on Multisig setups with sparrow. Go to his YouTube channel. If you need time to consider all this and are on an affected cold card device, consider River and Stike as temporary custodial options. You’re not stupid for using single sig. You’d be shocked by the number OG’s affected by this. Every few years we get a reminder to harden our security posture. So take a deep breath and do the work!

These guys are nuts.

Bitcoin is the great definacialization. Good time to re-read!

Bitcoin is the Great Definancialization - Unchained

But it’s so hard to pay with bitcoin…

It’s hard to truly decentralize anything other than money.

It’s time to invade New Mexico and reclaim our Texian birthright of Taos and Santa Fe.

It’s been this way for a couple of months. X is completely useless. One of the best products ever built. Before it was censorship of right wing voices that threatened it. Musk really did save it. But now the censorship is way worse - anything that is not about Minneapolis is buried. The network effect has been gutted. The worst product team fuckup I’ve seen in a long time.

The storm was not fake news. None of this is snow. All ice in Texas.

In December of 1835, Texans actually take control of Texas. Skirmishes from October and November turn into wins with full blow sieges like the one in San Antonio that breaks December 6th. But the Texans are beating frontier troops while Santa Anna raises an obscenely large army in Mexico City to deal with the rebellion.

Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends. You’re all survivors of risky inside 2020 gatherings of over 2 hours.

The bear market can’t catch you if you have a freezer full of of steaks. This is financial advice.

I miss Mutiny wallet.

It is a sweet mercy for your favorite college football team to be eliminated from contention early in the season.

While we’ve had the integration for a while, fun to see Coinkite showing off earning bitcoin directly to cold storage.

COINKITE Blog

Earn Sats Straight to Cold Storage with Zaprite and COLDCARD

Earn Sats Straight to Cold Storage with Zaprite and COLDCARD

Charging/paying for events, meetups etc… with bitcoin is pretty bad. So we took our Zaprite checkout and applied it to a simple and powerful new ticketing platform native to Zaprite.

Zaprite

Introducing Zaprite Event Tickets - Zaprite

Zaprite's Event Ticket product offers a fully end-to-end integrated ticketing option, from ticket issuance to payments, attendee check-ins and...

If you are planning a paid gathering of any kind, give it a try!

Happy Independence Day. The Cole’s are celebrating freedom in the mountains.

On April 3rd, 1836, the most consequential naval battle between the Texians and Mexicans occurred in the Gulf of America. Texians had to date been ineffectual in stopping Mexican supply lines, and it was critical to stop them as Houston drew Santa Anna further east. The Texas ship “The Invincible” - was anything but - pummeled the Mexican “Montezuma” after The Invincible maneuvered to run the Montezuma ashore before unleashing hell on the ship. Later the same day, the Invincible intercepted and American ship supplying Mexicans with weapons. These weapons were critical once rerouted to Houston’s army.

Elizabeth Warren (aka Pocohantas) has been running a protection racket for big banks in return for politically motivated hit jobs on individuals and businesses which she and the Biden administration disapprove. She kills their competition, they kill her political opponents.

Since at least 4chan, every uncensored public forum sheds leftist arguments within a year, or when the forum grows past low 100’s of thousands of users. Without severe moderation, socialist ideas collapse under the slightest scrutiny and retreat to heavily censored spaces.