No notes, no Zoom, bitcoin accepted. Gart goes off the record. We are ending public workshops. From now on every engagement is private: one client, or the circle they choose, and us. The open format worked. It also put strangers in one room to discuss where they live, how they travel, and what is at stake. Most people held back. Sensibly. What replaces it: executive, family, and private group training, in person, plus remote advisory on a call server we host ourselves. No notes kept, no recording, no file on you. Invoice only, bitcoin or wire. Read more:

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Gart Drops Public Workshops to Go Fully One-on-One

Privacy-first thinking brings us to adjust our advisory offering. Doubling down on private advisory and training.

In January this year, a streamer in Sweden was beaten and doused in gasoline by attackers who were sure he was rich in crypto. He had none. Months after, he came out to tell the story. They picked him for one reason: he was visible, and visible looks rich. Your balance can stay private. Your public profile usually can't. What would a stranger reading yours guess you're worth?

Attackers don't act on what you hold. They act on their guess at it, built from leaked databases, breach dumps, and whatever you show in public. On 24 August, 2026, in Jouy-en-Josas, France, three men broke into a 47-year-old's home at dawn, tied and gagged him, and beat him for about two hours for his crypto codes. They were sure he held close to EUR 6 million. His wallets held about EUR 3,000. The men at the door were working from bad data. What in your public footprint is feeding someone else's guess? Full report:

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Database of physical attacks involving cryptocurrency - Gart

Gart tracks documented cases of physical violence and the use of cryptocurrency to extract wealth from principals, traders, and businesses worldwide.

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 @Max Hillebrand from Sound Money Solutions. Free, one hour, live questions. View quoted note →

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 @Max Hillebrand. July 29, 2:00 PM UTC. Limited seats. Register:

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Gart Webinar: Multi-signature Wallets & Timelocks

Digital Security Series, Session 5. An Introduction to Gart's Remote Training.

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. 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:

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Database of physical attacks involving cryptocurrency - Gart

Gart tracks documented cases of physical violence and the use of cryptocurrency to extract wealth from principals, traders, and businesses worldwide.

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 @Max Hillebrand from the Sound Money Solutions team. Wednesday, July 15. Limited seats.

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Gart Webinar: Backup & Inheritance Strategies

Digital Security Series, Session 4. An Introduction to Gart's Remote Training.

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 @Max 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 Webinar: Backup & Inheritance Strategies

Digital Security Series, Session 4. An Introduction to Gart's Remote Training.

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 @Max Hillebrand. Tomorrow, July 1st. Limited seats. Register:

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Gart Webinar: Cold Storage & Hardware Signers

Digital Security Series, Session 3. An Introduction to Gart's Remote Training.

The highest-value security move costs nothing: an honest look at the gaps you already have. Our free Personal Opsec Checklist is a structured self-assessment across six areas: public records, digital footprint, personal space, routines, self-defense, and situational readiness. You rate your own risk in each, then prioritize what to work on first. A sample from our extended version, distributed exclusively at Gart Training sessions. Link:

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Gart | Personal Opsec Checklist

A sample from our extended version of Personal Opsec Checklist, distributed exclusively at Gart Training sessions.

What does the safety app on your phone know about you? Gart's answer: nothing. By design. 1. No background tracking. The alert button stays silent until you trigger it. No background location. 2. End-to-end encrypted. Alert content and chat use NIP-44. We can't read them, and neither can the relays. 3. Nothing to hand over. No identity, contacts, or location stored. You can't leak what was never collected. 4. Publicly verifiable. The live alert stream is public. We'd rather you check than trust us. We wrote exactly how it works. Full blog:

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A Safety App That Can't Track You

Every other safety app keeps you safe by watching you. Gart keeps you safe by knowing nothing about you.

A password keeps people out. Access control decides who you let back in. Join us this Wednesday for a free Gart webinar with @Max Hillebrand and the Sound Money Solutions team: Password Management & Access Control. Live session with a Q&A. Last week, at @BTC Prague we only scratched the surface of personal security. This is where we go deeper. Besides your password, what else stands between someone and your accounts? 10 seats left. Link:

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Gart Webinar: Password Management & Access Control

Digital Security Series, Session 2. An Introduction to Gart's Remote Training.

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. Gart Beta Testers who join before Jun 15, lock in early-adopter perks for life. Download Gart:

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Gart App - Private Alert System

STEALTH. READY. SMART. Reliable and resilient way to alert your trusted circle and execute your response protocols when seconds matter. Zero tracking.

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:

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User Manual | Gart

Everything you need to set up and use Gart during the beta release.

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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The Price of Being Findable

Hundreds of millions of people carry a safety or location app. Almost all of them watch you, sell you, or can be tricked into handing you over.

You've secured your keys. What about the person holding them? On Saturday at @BTCsessions, our founder @alenasatoshi keynotes: Own Your Safety To Own Your Keys. The physical risks that come with Bitcoin ownership, and what you can do about them. Not your keys, not your coins, and the same goes for your safety. Saturday, 15:10, Gart Stage. Program link:

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Program BTC Prague 2026 - BTC Prague

Your password manager is one breach away from being a map of everything you hold. Free Gart session on June 17 with @Max Hillebrand and the Sound Money Solutions team: the sovereign alternatives to mainstream managers. Encrypted local vaults, sync that keeps your data off third-party servers, and recovery you've tested. When did you last check you could actually recover yours? Registration required, limited seats. Link:

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Gart Webinar: Password Management & Access Control

Digital Security Series, Session 2. An Introduction to Gart's Remote Training.

How private is the app you'd reach for in an emergency? Most location and alert apps watch you, then sell your movements and contacts to marketers and hand them to law enforcement. Our founder @alenasatoshi takes the stage at @BTC Prague to launch Gart: the first truly private physical safety app for your circle of trust. Friday, 15:30, Gart Stage. Earlier the same day, she's on a fireside chat with Max Hillebrand and a secret guest: Security for Speakers and Publicly Exposed Bitcoiners. Friday, 13:10, VIP Stage. Program below.

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Program BTC Prague 2026 - BTC Prague

When you send a safety alert, who else gets to know you sent it? Tomorrow at @FreedomTechSummit , Francesco introduces NIP-GART (Group Alert & Response Transmission). A Nostr event kind for safety-critical alerts that hides both the content and the metadata from relay operators. June 10, 11:50 to 12:20. Prague.

Private group alerts over Nostr: NIP-GART :: Freedom Tech Summit :: pretalx

#privacy #security #safety #bitcoin #freedomtech

Around 9 in 10 people attacked for their crypto come back home. Our training teaches the choices that put you in that number. Session 4 of the Gart Training, Survive & Thrive, covers the first 60 seconds and the hours after: when to comply and when not to, staying composed enough to think, and the prepared moves that buy you time. If it happened, would your next move be a decision or a guess? This is the final session of the June 9 training in Prague, 2 days before @BTC Prague . Signups close tonight. 5 seats left. Registration:

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Gart Training: BTC Prague 2026

A whole-day personal security training as a side-event, 2 days before the conference. Individual signups to Open Group.

Every protocol is a decision you make once, now, while you're calm, so you or your safe contacts don't have to make it later, under pressure, with the clock ticking. Session 3 of the Gart Training, Protocol Design, is where we help you build yours. Who gets contacted, in what order, what they do, and the codes that signal you're in trouble without tipping anyone off. June 9 in Prague, 2 days before @BTC Prague 15 seats available. One is yours if you want it.

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Gart Training: BTC Prague 2026

A whole-day personal security training as a side-event, 2 days before the conference. Individual signups to Open Group.

#btcprague #opsec #security #bitcoin

Good security works in layers. Avoidance, deterrence, detection, delay, response. Each layer an attacker has to get through costs them time and risk, and most look for someone easier first. Session 2 of the Gart Training, Get Hard to Get, is on building those layers, plus the 30-day opsec plan to put them in place. June 9 in Prague, 2 days before @BTC Prague 15 seats available.

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Gart Training: BTC Prague 2026

A whole-day personal security training as a side-event, 2 days before the conference. Individual signups to Open Group.

Ukrainian police kidnapping and torturing their victims to extract value via cryptocurrency. Link below. Classic example of Authority misuse - a category of crypto-related physical crime that we defined in our

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Database of physical attacks involving cryptocurrency - Gart

Gart tracks documented cases of physical violence and the use of cryptocurrency to extract wealth from principals, traders, and businesses worldwide.

It is one of the most violent types of scenarios. We go through these scenarios in our whole-day Gart Training, designed to improve safety of bitcoiners and their families. Gart Training is organized either as a completely private session, or alongside other events where individuals can sign up. Book a private session, or join the next "open group training" on June 9th in Prague

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Gart Training: BTC Prague 2026

A whole-day personal security training as a side-event, 2 days before the conference. Individual signups to Open Group.

Read more about the case:

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Ukrainian Police Officers Allegedly Kidnapped Crypto Entrepreneurs to Extort Millions - Decrypt

Prosecutors say two police colonels organized an extortion ring that allegedly tracked, abducted, and held crypto entrepreneurs at gunpoint.