Coincards.com 1 week ago

3 a.m. in Paraguay. One switch. About 3 million Ueno Bank customers woke up to dead cards, dead ATMs and no transfers. Funds frozen for up to 15 days. Bitcoin doesn't have a 3 a.m. switch. Live on Bitcoin. 🟧 Source: https://apnews.com/article/paraguay-ueno-digital-bank-seizure-santiago-pena-9d7521ddee45a185d2618c7e09a243a3

Coincards.com 1 week ago

Bitcoin doesn't maintain itself. Developers write and review code. People run nodes. Businesses build services. Individuals choose to use them. Freedom isn't something we achieve once and forget about. It takes participation to keep it alive.

Coincards.com 1 week ago

Paying with something other than Bitcoin? Some coins now go through a third-party swap service that converts them to BTC. The swap fee is already included in the amount shown, and the rate is fixed while your invoice is open. FAQ + updated Terms: https://coincards.com/frequently-asked-questions/

Coincards.com 1 week ago

Chainalysis confirms an attacker took customer names and emails this month. Nobody deserves that. But remember: their tracing software helped send Roman Sterlingov to prison, and it was never independently validated. Scrutiny should go both ways. 🟧 https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/security-incident-october-30/

Coincards.com 1 week ago

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 1 week ago

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. 🟧

Coincards.com 1 week ago

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. 🟧

Coincards.com 1 week ago

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/

Coincards.com 1 week ago

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...

Coincards.com 1 week ago

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

Coincards.com 1 week ago

Halloween is almost here. 🎃 Hopefully everyone’s getting creative with the costumes, and the parents are prepped to hand out the good stuff. 😉

Coincards.com 2 weeks ago

The scariest thing this Halloween? Paying $53.20 for a $50 gift card. Face value at Coincards. Bitcoin and Lightning. 🟧 https://coincards.com

Coincards.com 2 weeks ago

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

Coincards.com 2 weeks ago

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...

Coincards.com 2 weeks ago

Eth, Base, Arb, Optimism, Polygon, BNB, Avalance, Solana, and Tron... All through BTCpay, all swapped instantly to BTC. 👀 Coming soon to Coincards...

Coincards.com 2 weeks ago

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

Coincards.com 2 weeks ago

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.

Coincards.com 2 weeks ago

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. 🧡

Coincards.com 2 weeks ago

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

Coincards.com 2 weeks ago

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