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Just unboxed the Tangem Wallet β€” card-sized cold storage that actually fits in your pocket. Here’s the full breakdown, plus how to grab 10% off with code BITCOINZAT. πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡
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πŸ•΅οΈ Case Board, week of Nov 9. Last week's call: a weekly close above $79k. Wrong again. BTC closed Sunday near $74.7k, after a dip to about $73.4k. Two misses in a row, both on the record. New evidence: Wednesday's push past $80k got sold within a day. My call: this Sunday's close stays under $77k. What's yours? πŸ‘‡
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Your first solo miner could cost you nothing. We’re giving away a BitForge Nano with @DigMinSolutions. Open source, standalone web control, designed with @wantclue. Ends Nov 12. Tag someone who’d run it, and repost so more miners see it πŸ™Œ
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πŸ•΅οΈ Next Wednesday: Case File #4. 2020. A hardware wallet company. Not one seed phrase cracked. Not one device hacked. And still, hundreds of thousands of buyers ended up with their name and home address posted online for free. Then the scam emails, texts and fake packages started. The case: Ledger. Would you open that package? πŸ”Ž
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πŸ•΅οΈ From the Detective's Desk. I run a Bitcoin node here in Tirana. Not because it's faster. A light wallet asks someone else's server which addresses you care about. My node keeps that question in my house. Do you check the chain yourself, or borrow a copy? πŸ‘‡
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πŸ•΅οΈ POV: your "non-custodial" wallet logged you in with Google. No seed phrase to lose. No hardware to buy. Just one tap. Then the app paused those logins after unauthorized transfers. If someone else can rebuild the key, it was never yours.
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πŸ•΅οΈ Suspect of the Week: Google/Apple wallet login. The charge: you made a "non-custodial" wallet with one tap of your Google or Apple account. Convenience felt like self-custody. This week Keplr paused those logins after unauthorized transfers hit some social-login accounts. Seed-phrase and hardware wallets on the same app: not affected, per Keplr's first check. The path ran through Web3Auth's embedded wallets, which they paused too. Official loss total: still unpublished. The defense: if a third party can reconstruct the key, it isn't really yours. Size you care about belongs on a hardware card you alone control. Guilty as charged, or am I being too harsh? πŸ‘‡
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πŸ•΅οΈ What would you have done? It's days after the Bitfinex hack. You never held a single Bitcoin there. Still, your dollar balance is cut 36.067% to cover the missing BTC. You get BFX IOUs that trade around 50 cents. Would you have: A) Accepted the haircut and stayed B) Sold the IOU and walked away C) Pulled everything into a wallet you control that day What's your pick, and why?
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πŸ•΅οΈ Case Closed: Bitfinex 2016. 119,756 BTC stolen. Then every customer paid a 36.067% haircut, even people who never held Bitcoin. Hold your own. Tangem keeps the key on an EAL6+ chip: tap to sign over NFC, backup cards, no seed phrase, no battery. Use code BITCOINZAT for 10% off, link in bio.
πŸ•΅οΈ Case File #3: Bitfinex. August 2, 2016. One of the world's biggest Bitcoin exchanges loses 119,756 BTC in a single hack. About $72M back then. The thief stayed hidden for almost six years. The customers got the bill within a week. 🧡
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πŸ•΅οΈ Verdict time: Case File #3, Bitfinex 2016. 119,756 BTC stolen. Then every customer's balance was cut 36.067%, even people who never held Bitcoin. Was Bitfinex guilty, negligent, or just unlucky? Vote, then make your case below πŸ‘‡
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πŸ•΅οΈ The detail from today's case that still gets me: Bitfinex customers who never held a single Bitcoin still woke up to a 36.067% cut on their balance. Their dollars and altcoins paid for someone else's stolen BTC. That's what pooled custody really means.
πŸ•΅οΈ Case File #3: Bitfinex. August 2, 2016. One of the world's biggest Bitcoin exchanges loses 119,756 BTC in a single hack. About $72M back then. The thief stayed hidden for almost six years. The customers got the bill within a week. 🧡
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πŸ•΅οΈ Case File #3: Bitfinex. August 2, 2016. One of the world's biggest Bitcoin exchanges loses 119,756 BTC in a single hack. About $72M back then. The thief stayed hidden for almost six years. The customers got the bill within a week. 🧡
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Detective's take. He pleaded guilty to laundering the coins and got 5 years. But the hack isn't the real lesson. The 36% is. Customers who did nothing wrong lost a third of their balance because their coins sat in one pool. On an exchange, someone else's breach is your breach.
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The lesson: Bitfinex did pay the IOUs back by April 2017. Plenty of exchanges never do. Not your keys, not your coins. They held the keys. With a Tangem card, you hold them. Would you have held your BFX IOU, or sold it at 50 cents? πŸ‘‡
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πŸ•΅οΈ Red flag or green flag? Your exchange account is protected by SMS codes only. No authenticator app, no security key. One convincing call to your carrier and a SIM swapper can take over your number, and every code that comes with it. Your verdict? One word in the replies.
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πŸ•΅οΈ Investigator Recap: the $133M theft with no victim. On-chain sleuth ZachXBT traced it. On Nov 1, several exchange accounts tied to an unnamed EU entity were emptied. First $106M, then another $27M, some of it withdrawn after his public alert. The victim still hasn't said a word. Detective's take: that silence has a price. Zach says $30M+ got laundered that could have been frozen. Would you trust a custodian that hides its own breach?
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Case file: my Tangem unboxing. Cards, a pay shirt and a very green box. The real evidence is in my pocket though: keys that never touch an exchange server. #WhyTangem @Tangem
Tangem's $10,000 Giveaway is back πŸš€ Moving your crypto? Tell the world why you chose to keep your keys: 1. Post with #WhyTangem & tag @Tangem. Show your Tangem Wallet or App, and share why you chose self-custody and Tangem 2. Fill out the form & QRT this post 3. Get rewarded in BTC: πŸ“ΉVideo: $30 🧡Thread with photos: $20 πŸ“ΈPhoto post: $10 72 hours onlyπŸ”₯
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