When you onboard a friend to Bitcoin, they think you’re paranoid for checking every file hash, firmware hash, fingerprint, and signature. What they don’t realize is that almost everything we’ve been paranoid about has already happened.

Birthday steak!🥩

To be fair, he was right: “If we have community support, no fork is necessary. If we don't, no fork is possible.”

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@BitcoinMonk21 @wilkins_jo52699 @snapolino If we have community support, no fork is necessary. If we don't, no fork is possible.

Recommend me some Bitcoin-only Polish podcasts, friends. 🇵🇱

Any recommendations for Polish podcast channels about AI and Software Engineering? 🇵🇱

They just released an episode about the ColdCard hack. Listening to it now!

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Rob Hamilton, PortlandHODL, Chandra Pratap, and fabohax to discuss�...

The wife has exhausted the entire true crime catalogue of murders and serial killers. She’s now listening to trials for misdemeanors and petty crimes.

BYCPayServer has a critical vulnerability. But is anyone bashing them? No. Because they weren’t dicks like nvk was.

We should start a campaign to send our devices back to CoinKite and demand a full refund.

Is SeedSigner the right choice for you? Hear @SeedSigner‘s creator explain its trust model, trade-offs, and strengths. This excerpt is from an interview Ziya and I did with Seed over a year ago.

ColdCard’s bug doesn’t have to be an inside job to be a colossal failure. It’s already bad enough on its own and I don’t find the claims accusing Odell of being in on it convincing. The podcast clip that’s been circulating doesn’t incriminate Odell. He’s discussing a self-discovered vulnerability in firmware 4.0.0 (one release before the catastrophic 4.0.1), which only affected users who upgraded to that version. 4.0.1 was a patch of whatever vulnerability that existed in 4.0.0. He’s talking about a different vulnerability that could have been exploited. Nothing in that clip suggests he knew 4.0.1 would introduce an entirely new bug. Arguably, NVK didn’t know either. But his decision to move away from GPL-licensed code and adopt a source-available license just because he childishly hated competition is what ultimately set the stage for this catastrophe. It doesn’t make nvk any less responsible.

This little guy here, running on a general-purpose computer, had been outperforming ColdCard the entire time while NVK was busy buying domains to take cheap shots at SeedSigner.

I remember NVK shitting on Andreas Antonopoulos over the seed-generation method described in Mastering Bitcoin. I remember him saying that if Andreas had spent less time shitcoining and more time updating his book, those wallets that used this algorithm wouldn't have lost coins. Someone should have told NVK that if he'd spent less time shitting on other wallets and childishly changing his license because he didn't like a competitor using his code, this colossal mess might never have happened. Shitcoiners are better than toxic people.