PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: A phishing email impersonating "support-liana" (we don't have such emails) is circulating. It seems to target people very broadly, even outside of Bitcoin. Be aware of phishing, do not enter mnemonics on the internet (nor on the real liana, for that matter).

I put together a major partnership with Arculus to become the official cold storage device of Bitcoin 2022, including a cold storage card for every attendee. I was excited but @brian_trollz strongly opposed the partnership, wrote an article criticizing it, and we published it on @BitcoinMagazine anyway. He always made my life difficult, but I still trust his technical opinion most.

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When the dust settles, we'll have to talk about the fact that not a single vulnerability was found by a US frontier model. Instead, we're spending $10k a day on open weights models like Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 to find vulnerabilities in Bitcoin infrastructure. It's a disaster.

Re: Cold Card Hack Hello fellow Bitcoiners, It’s been nearly one week since my wallet was drained. I lost my entire bitcoin stack, presumably the most in the entire attack - an amount I’m more than embarrassed and ashamed to even admit publicly. This was not only my life savings but my time, energy, hardcore conviction and identity after 13 years in this space. I am posting pseudonymously as I’ve always preferred to stay out of the spotlight - and privacy (inspired by Satoshi) is something I value. I debated whether or not I should say anything at all, but after much deliberation I decided it may be beneficial for other victims who are struggling. While this incident certainly forced upon me the darkest days of my life so far - I have now accepted it and will slowly put together my life again. I came from nothing and did everything right (except rolling the damn dice apparently 😅). I stayed away from trading, exchanges, shitcoins, ICOs, NFTs, false prophets, etc and quietly and consistently built up over the years through all the ups and downs - never spending frivolously on material goods but instead using bitcoin as my sense of freedom and security - with the hopes to pass it on to my future children. Even though that peace, freedom and security is now gone - I am beyond grateful for the journey and life that bitcoin enabled me to have. To all the other victims, as cliche as it is to say “it’s only money” - true wealth, as I’ve learned over and over again is in health, family, and friendships. I’d be lying if I told you I’m not afraid of the uncertainty ahead, but I know by taking one step at a time it will be possible to rebuild. Trust me if I can come to these realizations, you can too! The hardest challenges in life make us stronger and turn us into the best versions of ourselves - don’t give in to the hopelessness. By being in this community you are apart of something special that the majority of the world still hasn’t realized yet. It’s still early! Thanks to all the wonderful people in the community I’ve been DMing over the past week - your kind words of support mean the world to me and helped me start to believe in myself again. To the hacker: you still can do the right thing here and come clean - you have prompted a serious wake-up call that has brought the community together which will bring more resilience for the future. Doing the noble thing now will prevent a lifelong hunt. To all the amazing bitcoiners who have jumped to action from the very beginning to support each other and mitigate further damage - it’s been a beautiful thing to watch. To the @blocks team and especially @intangiblecoins, your efforts are inspiring and provide me with hope. Believe me when I say that IF I ever get my coins back you will all be taken care of very well, along with massive donations to the open source community. For now I will withhold any judgement towards @nvk and the @Coinkite team - while I’m still processing this loss and dealing with the gravity of building my life up from the ruins - I have 0 anger or resentment. Bitcoin security is a tough job, mistakes are made, and lessons are learned by all. I made mistakes by trusting and not verifying as well as not having a more robust security solution so the responsibility must be shared, hindsight is 20/20 and even though it’s tough: I’m okay admitting that. Bitcoin humbles all. Having said all that… I’M NOT FUCKING LEAVING!!! I will start building a new stack from the ground up like all the other plebs as my conviction in Bitcoin is even stronger today then when I got my first coins in 2013. This was never about the money - it was always about the revolution, and that can’t be stopped. We will win. Let’s keep our heads high. The march continues. It’s time to rebuild. PS: Thanks for everything Satoshi ❤️ -M

Please treat this as urgent. Migrate your funds. Follow the advisory for your model, upgrade your device, generate a new seed, and carefully move your funds. Help spread the word, especially to people who are less online and may not see this update. The threat is still ongoing.

I wasn’t in the right state of mind when I posted this morning. I’m feeling better now and not nearly as paranoid...that being said, I’ll still be migrating away from Coldcard and putting their products in a Faraday box out in my shed. I’m just not in some panicked fervor to move everything into a different wallet ASAP anymore. I’m going to take my time and be extremely safe and methodical so I don’t lose any bitcoin in the process.

Bitcoin Red Team update: we've grown to 16 globally distributed people working 24/7 We're running a large-scale ecosystem security audit across bitcoin code bases. 27.5 hours in, we've filed 4,962 findings across 390 projects. 85 critical and 635 high severity issues. We're at 2.31 h+c findings per person per hour

ZEUS infrastructure is temporarily offline following a cybersecurity incident. The attack has been mitigated. We are keeping services offline while we conduct a comprehensive audit of all systems before restoring operations. **Customer funds were neither lost or at risk.**

In case you missed it yesterday: @KLoaec who helped raise the alarm on the COLDCARD issue: @premai_io announces additional Kimi-K3 support, partially due to Bitcoin researcher demand: Bitcoin researchers using LLMs to pound on Bitcoin open source codebases (many others!) @callebtc : @Rob1Ham : Tokens sponsored by @OpenSats : @ProjectLoupe doing similar AI scanning calling for projects to join: @MARAFoundation_ announces permissionless access of Slipstream for more-private transaction broadcast: @lianabitcoin announcing Slipstream usage: and @unchained using Slipsteam as well: @jamesob puts up honeypots to track hacker sophistication and progress: @HodlDee committing to continue to help support COLDCARD users in migrating:

Many kind people in my DMs asking how they can donate. Thank you for being generous and offering your help. The best thing you can do to help us is to donate to @OpenSats. They stepped up to pay our massive AI bill. Whatever you donate there, converts directly into AI tokens hunting for bugs in Bitcoin. The rest becomes a donation to the broadest open source fund in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Plus, they're a 501c3. <-- it takes 30s

Instead of shitting on NVK and co, please make sure your fellow bitcoiners are OK. Contact the ones are your local meetup, those you know are physically around you, etc. They may have lost EVERYTHING, and they need human support, from people who understand. They won't manage to get help from non-bitcoiners, who just see it as monopoly money, or "was being lucky, now unlucky". This situation is so fucking sad. Thousands have lost everything. You might save a life today.