Funny to watch ...

Who could have thought of this resulting in a fork war???

fork-observer

View quoted note → Maybe @Peter Todd 's OTS could help them out?

Great episode linking Aaron Schwartz's prosecution and eventual death to Chelsea Manning, Jeffrey Epstein, MIT Media Lab ... with a cliff hanger for her next episode.

Has @Luke Dashjr completely lost the plot? Pardon my reading comprehension but to my understanding he decided to use a laughable oracle withing less than 6h to pick the next mining algorithm of what he believes to be Bitcoin? Why laughable? **He** picked a mapping from last digits of the block hash to PoW algorithm. He picked **Testnet4** of all chains - a chain with difficulty **1**. He did not show the mapping to anybody, so only **he** knows the mapping. A modern mining rig can produce many candidate Testnet4 blocks per second, so he can comfortably pick or if somebody else does the same, orphan them or if several engage in this mess ... why not just use the bitcoin chain??? Or at least Doge Coin??? "Nobody knows the new algorithm right now, and nobody will until we all know at the same moment" is just untrue for him. View quoted note →

Ok, the show has started! Now a core miner ... could he accidentally mine on top of bip110 chain?

This is all a big game of Mafia

If somebody stepped forward and offered you to return 50% of your hacked coldcard funds if you dropped charges, would you take it?

Are there prediction markets on the final size of the Coldcard "hack"? I'm glad it's still less than 2k BTC according to

Coldcard Hack Tracker

Coldcard Hack Tracker — live monitoring of Bitcoin held from seed-entropy sweeps since July 2026.

Also what are the odds of the thieves getting caught?

Oh, nice. Somebody found an old post of mine ...

PLEASE! Check your chat apps and search for friends and family that might use ColdCard. Not all are on X and nostr all day long. The only way to not suffer catastrophic losses is to be faster than hackers. I searched my chat history for "coldcard" and "cold card" and called people up I suspected might have switched to this product. There's no time to lose!

With enough tokens, every bug is shallow.

Shit take of the day ...

When picking a hardware wallet, be conservative. I find it so hard to recommend any and trust Trezor the most to do it right. That said, multi-vendor multi-signature in theory is the most secure.