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. 🟧

A few German savings banks started selling bitcoin in the Sparkasse app today for €0.99 an order. The coins sit in DekaBank's pooled wallet, and you can only send them to approved crypto companies, not your own hardware wallet. That's a bank IOU. 🟧

Canadians who come back average 10.5 orders each. Americans, 8.6. That's not people trying bitcoin once. That's people living on it. 🟧

Open Coincards in Brave and watch the Shields counter sit at zero. No third-party trackers, no Google scripts, no ad pixels in your browser. Use TOR for even more privacy. Meanwhile, our competition is leaking your clicks to five tracking companies before you even hit accept. 🟧 https://coincards.com

Keonne Rodriguez (@keonne) is serving five years in federal prison. William Hill is serving four. They helped build Samourai, a Bitcoin privacy tool. #FreeSamourai Building privacy technology shouldn't mean developers and their families have to live in fear for innovating. We haven't forgotten Keonne, Bill, or their families, including Lauren (@leamuirleyn), who continues to advocate for Keonne. Read Keonne's story and learn more about the clemency campaign:

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We did the math. Most crypto gift card sites upcharge on

 

cards, usually 5 to 10%, quite often "hidden" Ours are face value: a $20 card for $20 in sats with Bitcoin or Lightning. No wonder we sell out constantly. 🟧 https://coincards.com/ca/product/amazon-ca-gift-card/

82% of our Canadian orders come from repeat customers. Ottawa can freeze bank accounts all it wants. Canadians keep spending sats. 🟧

Cool side effect, you can deliver gift cards to any other user on Nostr too with this. Buy the card and enter their npub. Boom! Gift Sent! Tag someone you would send a gift card too! 💜 View quoted note →

Email is basically becoming a surveillance product with a send button. So we added Signal and Nostr DM delivery for gift card codes. Pay in sats, get your codes in a DM, and let Google wonder where you went. Both are in beta. 🟧 https://coincards.com/frequently-asked-questions/#cc-faq-signal-nostr

Building open-source privacy tools shouldn't mean having to hide from the consequences of how someone else might use them. Developers need room to build. Innovation depends on it.

Happy Thanksgiving Canada! 🍁 Your uncle will explain at dinner why Bitcoin is a scam while his savings melt in a chequing account like gravy on a hot plate. Smile, pass the potatoes, stack sats. 🟧

Spend Bitcoin like cash. ⚡ Coincards turns sats into gift cards for the stores you already shop at. • Pay on-chain or over Lightning. Lightning payments land in seconds. • No bank required. • No hidden fees. Face Value for Cards. • Turning Bitcoin into everyday spending since 2014. Shop your region: Canada, USA, UK, Australia and Europe. https://coincards.com #Bitcoin #Lightning #Monero #GiftCards

COLDCARD's year so far: July: firmware bug turned seeds into scratch tickets for thieves October: their own X account is telling people to "migrate" straight into a phishing site. Someone put them out of their misery already lol. 🟧

Cointelegraph

Coldcard probing phishing link on X account

Coldcard probing phishing link on X account that used 2FA

Update on our ads situation: Microsoft has manually approved "Bitcoin". Maybe the world is healing?

Carrefour and Kruidvat in Belgium are selling bitcoin gift cards now. You pay €25 and end up with about €21 in BTC, and you still have to upload your passport to redeem it. If you'd rather not give a supermarket your ID, buy peer to peer like a normal degenerate. 🟧

RetailDetail EU

Carrefour and Kruidvat offer cryptocurrencies on their shelves - RetailDetail EU

At Carrefour and Kruidvat, customers can now buy cryptocurrencies. These retailers are adding cryptocurrency gift cards to their lineup of gift car...

Ledger confirmed today a drained customer's Nano X had a hardware implant. A tiny board with its own SIM reads your 24 words off the screen at setup and sends them out. The genuine check still passes. Bought from a reseller? New device, new seed. 🟧 https://news.bitcoin.com/security/ledger-confirms-hidden-hardware-implant-in-affected-users-wallet/