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ANNOUNCEMENT: SPAM EMAILS HAVE BEEN SENT THAT APPEAR TO HAVE COME FROM OFFICIAL FOUNDATION DOMAINS.
We have traced this back to one or more compromised API keys on Cloudflare, and have already revoked all API keys.
The malicious domain in the spam email has been taken down.
Funds stored on Passport are safe and Passport hardware is not compromised.
We are working nonstop to discover exactly what happened and will put out a report ASAP.
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Let's Go! 🇺🇸 🌀 💪🏼
#Florida Man spotted yesterday at Fort Walton Beach as #hurricane #Isaias approaches.
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NVK got a pass on his poor behaviour and policies (i.e. open-source vs. verifiable code) because his company seemed to produce a top-tier product in the space
Now that its clear they didn’t get the fundamentals right in a catastrophic way he deserves to be absolutely crucified
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I'm a software engineer with an MSc in Computer Science and 25+ years in the industry. Here's why Coinkite's Coldcard bug isn't an oopsy, it's disqualifying.
Coldcard's seed generation silently fell back to a non-cryptographic "random" number generator for 5 years. Not because crypto is hard, but because Coinkite violated the most basic rule of secure system design: fail closed, never open. When a security-critical path can't be verified, the system refuses to run and throws an error.
It does not quietly substitute something weaker and carry on. This code should have refused to produce a seed. Instead it produced a predictable one and continue silently. ☠️
A company that lets its most critical code path go unverified for half a decade cannot be trusted with your keys.
Throw away your Coldcards. Never buy one again.
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BREAKING: ADM Paparo, 4-star Admiral and Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, just testified before the Senate that “Bitcoin shows incredible potential” as a tool for U.S. national security. Watch the full exchange:
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Always add books outside your “normal”
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Bitcoin is above $106,000 and neither Ethereum or Solana is above their all time high
This bull market hits different
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Ok guys and gals I’m asking for help. Please share.
Insurance will not cover this so we are going to pay out of pocket, but I’ve been enrolled into a cutting-edge personalized vaccine program in Germany. The cost is over $100k, but the results are promising, and I’m an excellent candidate. Please consider donating or sharing to help me in this fight. 🙏 Go Fund me link below
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Most non-Bitcoiners think price pumping means lambos and vacations in Ibiza.
In reality, a bunch of young parents with toddlers are buying their time back, choosing career paths they love deeply, and investing more in their local communities.
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Thank you, Satoshi Nakamoto.
Thank you, Hal Finney.
Thank you, Adam Back.
Thank you, Laszlo.
Thank you, Ross Ulbricht.
Thank you, Cypherpunks.
Thank you, hodlers.
Thank you, miners.
Thank you, developers.
Thank you, node runners.
Thank you all.
Thank you to everyone who made bitcoin go from a dream to a global economic juggernaut.
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At Coinkite, we've been working to secure our bags, family bags, friends' bags and customer bags since the VERY beginning of the bitcoin experiment.
There is no amount of money in the world that would change that. We are not here building a startup—It's a way of life. A VC once told me, we don't invest in lifestyle companies. I thanked him. He was right.
Coinkite's mission never changed. It's a bag security company. For us and the people we love. We do it, because we don't want to do anything else. Until we find some other security solution better than COLDCARD for ourselves and our families, we will keep on doing it. And keep calling out the things that could REKT ppls HODL.
Haters come and go, countless competitors come and go, presidents come and go, bitcoin financial products come and go, BUT WE ARE STILL HERE. Because we want to be here.
🦧We are bitcoin apes. We keep the bitcoin safe, we watch the bitcoin go up. 🦍
Do things because they need to be done, learn to love the things that need to be done.
I'm still processing this wild journey, and we haven't even started. ┗(°0◜)┛..○ ₿
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The purpose of Bitcoin isn't to delete institutional trust. In a high functioning society we can trust institutions. The purpose is to give people the OPTION to not trust institutions, which actually makes institutions more trustworthy.
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JUST IN: Mayor of Vancouver, Canada proposes motion for the city to hold #Bitcoin as a reserve asset 🇨🇦
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Privacy won.
Smart contracts won.
Tornado Cash won.
And OFAC lost.
Here’s the decision.
ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pu…
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I’m starting to get used to the reality that I could be home in a couple of months!
