18 years ago today, Satoshi published the Bitcoin White Paper.
Nine pages introduced an idea that people around the world would go on to build, test, challenge, and improve.
Bitcoin didn't stop at the White Paper. Neither did the people behind it.
Coincards.com
coincards@btcpay.coincards.com
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Live on Bitcoin. Buy gift cards with BTC and Lightning. Private by default, no account needed. Canadian, since 2014. Tor: http://6v6ffrjiqp7rywcbtgx5mq4hrc3x5ejeoxgnoq5ejrx464cbqdrfkkyd.onion/
Bitcoin and Gift card services are a target. We've seen that firsthand.
Keeping things running securely takes ongoing work, especially when systems are being tested.
We're on it, and we're taking it seriously.
Thanks for sticking with us. 🟧
Phishing warning: someone looks to be building a fake Coincards.
https://Coincards.com only. Check the URL before you buy, and if you spot a copycat, send it our way. 🟧
Westpac is deciding how much of your own money
is allowed near Bitcoin.
From December 1, it caps
payments to exchanges at $10,000 AUD a month,
no exemptions.
Once you hold sats, you can spend
them at Coincards without asking a bank. 🟧
https://coincards.com/au/
Reminder brought to you by today's Binance
hot wallet drain: an exchange balance is an IOU.
If you can't move your coins without permission,
they aren't really yours.
Not your keys, not your coins. 🟧
X (formerly Twitter)
Binance Confirms $6.3 Billion Crypto Hack from Compromised Laptop
Binance revealed a security breach where hackers accessed a service container via the engineer's device, leading to outflows of about $1.45 billion...
Contact data for a small subset of Coinbase customers was exposed through an analytics vendor. Funds weren't touched, but phishers only need contact info.
Expect fake "support" messages.
Nobody legit will ask for your seed. 🟧
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/10/28/coinbase-says-customer-funds-are-safe-after-third-party-vendor-exposes-customer-contact-info
Halloween is almost here. 🎃
Hopefully everyone’s getting creative with the costumes, and the parents are prepped to hand out the good stuff. 😉
The scariest thing this Halloween?
Paying $53.20 for a $50 gift card.
Face value at Coincards. Bitcoin and Lightning. 🟧
https://coincards.com
We're dealing with an ongoing attack on Coincards.
If something looks slow or off, that's why. Let us know and we'll look into it. 🟧
https://coincards.com
Electrum disclosed that some servers hide your transaction and show a fake one. Users on their own or a trusted server weren't affected. That's "don't trust, verify" in practice. Update to 4.8.3. 🟧
GitHub
Malicious server can replace a just-broadcast tx and try to trick user into RBF-ing it
### Summary
The main Electrum server the client connects to is trusted with mempool ("unconfirmed") transactions. This is documented [design](ht...
Eth, Base, Arb, Optimism, Polygon, BNB, Avalance, Solana, and Tron...
All through BTCpay, all swapped instantly to BTC. 👀
Coming soon to Coincards...
Half the gift card world is on fire this week. A lot of providers and distributors are having issues right now.
Our store's reaction: quietly set anything that can't deliver to our of stock and keep selling the rest for sats.
We keep building! 🟧
https://coincards.com
Bitchat hit No. 1 on France's App Store social chart after a ten-hour Orange outage and talk of social media blocks.
People want tools nobody can switch off. 🟧
Gizmodo
Jack Dorsey's Bitchat Becomes France's Top Social App Amid Riots and Mobile Network Outage
The French spike in Bitchat interest follows a recent ban in India.
Halloween is creeping closer. 🎃
We all have our own “when we were kids” version of it.
Homemade costumes. Racing around with friends trying to squeeze in one more house.
Dumping the night’s haul all over the floor afterward to see what you got, what you were keeping and what was up for trade.
However you remember Halloween, get ready to have some fun with it this year. 🧡
The UK has spent three years designing a digital pound.
This week it told every household to keep cash at home in case electronic payments go down.
Even they don't fully trust the rails they're building. 🟧
the Guardian
Every Briton should stockpile water and food supplies, government advises
Be Ready campaign aims to prepare UK for impact of climate crisis, technological dependency and threats by hostile state
Some crypto apps want to be your bank, your broker and your life coach.
We just want to sell you a gift card for sats.
Sats in, card out, no balance to babysit, nobody holding your money hostage. Just a shop. 🟧
https://coincards.com
Patched and back online.
We'd rather go dark for a few hours than take chances with your orders, so that's what we did.
Gift cards for bitcoin and Lightning are open again. Thanks for hanging in there. 🟧
https://coincards.com
Heads up: we've taken Coincards offline for now as a precaution while a major PHP vulnerability makes the rounds.
Nothing to panic about, just being careful.
We'll be back once we're confident everything's patched and safe. 🟧
YouTube pulled two Bitcoin channels in one day. Simply Bitcoin was back within about an hour, and The Bitcoin Conference is still gone.
If your audience only lives on someone else's server, they decide when you get to talk.
Run your own stuff. 🟧
Ask us something on X or Nostr and a real person reads it.
We try to answer every reply and mention, and if you spot something broken, tell us.
We'll look into it and let you know what's going on. 🟧