You want privacy? You must be doing something wrong.
You want to control your own money? You must be a criminal.
You are Anti War? You must be soft
This is the world we live in now, unfortunately
When I first heard about this, I thought that ColdCard was a small Nostr based company, didn’t realize how big that is.
Feel so bad for anyone affected, I can not imagine waking up to all my savings gone like that.
This is the main wallet address tied to the hack, it was holding over 500 bitcoins two days ago, but now holds around 32BTC worth over $2M after sending out most of it to other wallets.
Please also be careful using any hot wallets you find in the app stores these days.
Wallets can look legit, but could be vibe coded and contain vulnerabilities as well.
This goes for any apps you trust with anything important as well.
@jack mallers is the man, imagine having a technical problem, and the CEO of the company hits you up and fixes it.
I support Strike, nicely done. 👍
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It’s not just the creators of ColdCard that will feel the effects of this.
Any podcast or “Bitcoin influencer” who has promoted them and is the indirect cause someone lost their money will be under fire too.
Being responsible for securing people’s money or livelihood is a business model I would never touch with a 12 foot pole.
Even if I was best in class with security and code, I still would not.
Just having that kinda responsibility I could not sleep at night.
This is not in relation to ColdCard at all, it just reminded me.
I wonder if some of these hardware wallet companies intentionally leak info or create “security vulnerabilities” intentionally and work with hacking groups, while hiding behind the mask of “a mistake”