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Private alert app and Physical security training for freedom advocates, crypto hodlers and their families and teams.
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Gart_io 4 days ago
Today, LIVE webinar about Gart app. Join to share your feature requests, ask questions and see what is upcoming in our development. 2pm UTC View quoted note →
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Gart_io 1 week ago
Attackers need your money to move right now. Two setups put a key, or a clock, in the way. We show you both tomorrow. Multisig means it takes more than one key to move your funds. One threatened person is not enough. A timelock means the money cannot leave until a set time passes. Nothing goes on the spot. Gart Webinar: Multi-signature Wallets & Timelocks. Tomorrow, Wednesday, 2 PM UTC. Hosted by @npub1klkk...x3vt Hillebrand from Sound Money Solutions. Free, one hour, live questions. View quoted note →
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Gart_io 2 weeks ago
Exposure comes from what you broadcast and what leaks about you. You control the first, but not the second. image In 2025, a French tax officer was caught selling crypto holders' home addresses and capital gains to criminal gangs. We don't know how long the data had been moving before she was caught, and crews can plan for days to months before acting. Over that same window, the France case reports we found went from roughly one a year between 2017 and 2024, to 21 in total for 2025. Comparing January to June only, France went from 10 cases in 2025 to 31 in 2026. A 210% jump. Assume you're already on a list and build the habits that make you harder to reach regardless. For more details, check the largest database of physical attacks involving cryptocurrency:
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Gart_io 2 weeks ago
A wrench attack runs on one assumption: that one person, under enough pressure, can move everything. Multisig takes that apart. No single signer can send the funds, so no single person can be forced to. A time-locked key cannot sign yet, so there is nothing in it to take today. None of this makes you less of a target, but it removes the single point they can break. On July 29, we walk through building custody with no single point of coercion. Gart Webinar: Multisig wallets and timelocks, Held by the Sound Money Solutions team, led by @npub1klkk...x3vt Hillebrand. July 29, 2:00 PM UTC. Limited seats. Register:
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Gart_io 2 weeks ago
If your safety app got breached tomorrow, what would the attacker walk away with? For most, a year of your movements, your contacts, your daily pattern. For Gart, nothing. No KYC, no central server, no location history. Nothing to seize and nothing to sell. On August 5 we'll tell you how that works, and why we built it that way. Webinar: the Gart app. Free session, live Q&A, with our founder and the team who built it. August 5, 2 PM UTC. Limited spots.
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Gart_io 3 weeks ago
If you couldn't be in the room, who could reach your coins, and how long would it take them? Tomorrow, 2 PM UTC. Registration closes soon. Limited spots. View quoted note →
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Gart_io 3 weeks ago
A Russian restaurant owner in Uluwatu, Bali was taken on the night of July 2 as he rode home from his own restaurant. Two masked men blocked his motorcycle, cuffed him with plastic restraints, covered his head, and drove him to a two-story building. He was punched and kicked for close to 30 hours until he gave up the password to his crypto account. The stop happened at a junction on that route, around 9:35 PM, on a deserted stretch with almost no camera coverage. image They took his Xiaomi phone at the roadside. His villa key was sitting on the motorcycle's dashboard, so they used it to walk into his villa and take a second phone, the one he used to reach his crypto funds. No arrests so far. An estimated $4.9M to $5M was taken. They let him out in front of Udayana University Hospital in Jimbaran at 4 AM on July 4. Full report: If you handed over everything you can reach right now, what would you still own tomorrow? Session 4 of our webinar series on digital security covers what makes backups durable, and who can reach your assets when you no longer can. Gart Webinar: Backup & Inheritance Strategies. Presented by @npub1klkk...x3vt Hillebrand from the Sound Money Solutions team. Wednesday, July 15. Limited seats.
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Gart_io 1 month ago
Picture the person you'd leave your coins to trying to reach them without you in the room. They don't know if the seed is on paper or steel, whether it's whole or split, or which drawer even holds the right device. Everything you did to keep it safe from a stranger now works against the one person you meant to have it. Session 4 of our free Digital Security Webinar Series works through it: Backup & Inheritance Strategies In partnership with and hosted by the Sound Money Solutions team, led by @npub1klkk...x3vt Hillebrand. What we'll cover: - Redundancy that adds copies without adding single points of failure - Where backups live, and who can reach them - An inheritance path that triggers without exposing keys early - Recovery that holds up July 15th. Limited seats. Register:
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Gart_io 1 month ago
The most planned attacks don't start with a break-in. They start with a relationship. Someone spends months as a real business partner, earns your trust, then uses it to move you somewhere they control. No public wallet, no leaked address. The trust is the way in. image On June 29, two women were lured to Pakistan by a business partner they'd worked with for eight months. Upon arrival they were kidnapped, held at gunpoint, assaulted, and asked to pay a $1.5 million ransom. One of them reached her father, who alerted police. They were rescued within about two hours. Full report available on our database:
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Gart_io 1 month ago
Most people pick a hardware signer like they pick a router. Brand, price, done. But the right signer depends on what you're defending against. A remote attacker, a border crossing, someone at your door, an heir who has to recover it without you. Different threats call for different tools, and most setups never make that choice on purpose. Join our free Cold Storage & Hardware Signers session, in partnership with and hosted by the Sound Money Solutions team, led by @npub1klkk...x3vt Hillebrand. Tomorrow, July 1st. Limited seats. Register:
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Gart_io 1 month ago
"Not your keys, not your coins." Every holder knows it. Almost everyone stops there. You hardened the wallet, air-gapped the signer, split the multisig into three. All of it protects the coins. None of it protects you. Under a real threat, the coins follow the person. The last layer of self-custody isn't a device or a seed. It's you, and the people you'd protect. Secure the keys. Then secure the one thing you can't restore from a backup. image Here's where to start: The Personal Opsec Checklist, a practical self-assessment of the gaps most people miss. It's a sample from our extended version, distributed exclusively at Gart Trainings. Download for free:
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Gart_io 1 month ago
June 11, Vitória, Brazil 🇧🇷 A 30-year-old crypto investor is dragged out of his Porsche in broad daylight. Eight men, three cars, under a minute. The first thing they demand is a crypto transfer. They already knew what he held, because his public profile told them: high-risk crypto and forex trader, 80,000+ followers. image They knew his asset class and his routine before they moved. The recon was his own profile. The ambush was just the last step. Full case in our database: Audit your own footprint: 1. Does any public profile name your asset class or signal liquid wealth? 2. Can someone rebuild your week from your posts: gym, office, school, run, the same coffee? 3. Does anything online tie you to your home, your car, or your family? You don't need an audience to get selected. You need a profile that names what you hold. #physicalsecurity #opsec #news #bitcoin
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Gart_io 1 month ago
A backup you've never restored from is a guess, not a backup. Most people who self-custody wrote the seed down once and never tested it. The same blind spot shows up in how the keys were generated, how signing stays off the internet, and whether the signer you picked fits the threat you're defending against. Session 3 of our free Digital Security Webinar Series works through it. In partnership with and hosted by the Sound Money Solutions team, led by npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt What we'll cover: - Choosing a signer for your threat model - Air-gapped signing and wallet separation - Initialization and entropy - Recovery that holds up When did you last restore from a backup instead of just rereading the words? July 1st. Limited seats.
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Gart_io 1 month ago
Gart for Android is live on Zapstore. It took longer than we estimated, but it does what we set out to achieve. Privacy-first emergency response for people who keep a low profile. Add your trusted contacts. Prepare your alert message in advance. One tap to send alert. Peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted, no tracking. The alert button is dormant until you trigger it. Only the people you chose receive the alert and your instructions. image Gart Beta Testers who join before Jun 15, lock in early-adopter perks for life. Download Gart: Poke at it, pick it apart, tell us what's broken. Read our User Manual to find the Hows and Whys of using the app: Why build another safety app? Because the popular ones watch you, sell you, or can be tricked into handing you over. One has 98 million users and sold their location to data brokers within 20 minutes of collecting it. Full story:
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Gart_io 2 months ago
Bitcoiners take sovereignty seriously. That means your keys, your coins, and your physical safety. That's why we're hosting a whole day Gart Training in Prague, June 9, 2 days before @BTC Prague We'll walk through digital opsec, physical opsec, and the protocols that tie them together. 20 seats available. One is yours if you want it.
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Gart_io 2 months ago
Free Gart webinar on June 3rd: Secure devices and OS In collaboration with @npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2teq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt and his SMS advisory team You will leave with a clear understanding of what a privacy-focused device setup looks like, why each layer matters, and what the implementation path looks like if you decide to take it further. This is an introduction to Gart's Digital Security Remote Training, a one-on-one service that walks you through the full setup at your own pace. What you will learn - Why hardware choice matters before you install anything, and what to look for in a privacy-focused device - How operating system selection affects what data leaves your phone and who can access it - What profile separation is, and how it creates an absolute wall between your Bitcoin activity and your daily apps - How routing Bitcoin traffic through Tor changes what your internet provider can see - What a sustainable maintenance routine looks like, so your setup does not decay over time Sign up now, we have limited seats to keep it nice and cozy.
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Gart_io 2 months ago
Tomorrow we run the VIP security briefing for @BTC Prague 2026. The briefing is one piece of our engagement. We're running the independent security audit for the conference, working with the organizers, the on-site security teams, and the speaker and VIP advisory tracks. If you're a VIP attending the conference, join us tomorrow. You should have an invitation link in your email. On the agenda: - The 2025-2026 crypto incident pattern - Pre-travel info discipline - Transport and crowd protocol in Prague's tourist zones - Daily check-ins, duress codes and information management - What to do if something goes wrong on the ground image