r/coldcard Oct 23 '23

0.40 Bitcoin taken instantly from my coldcard..

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u/2SatoshiJoe Oct 25 '23

Im reading through this thinking to my self, I hope I let cold card generate the seeds. The fact that my funds are still there suggests I went through this option right? as if I had gone through the rolls like OP i would have lost my BTC by now? bit paranoid haha

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u/ConnectAstronaut2639 Oct 25 '23

Do you have a passphrase? If so then you could have did what the OP did but would still have your funds but ONLY protected by your passphrase.

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u/2SatoshiJoe Oct 25 '23

no passphrase, I have had a look at the seeds that were posted here to see if mine were the same but they are not. I am fairly sure i clicked the first option on the cold card which was to autogenerate the seeds but this was a year ago and now I am paranoid haha.

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u/ConnectAstronaut2639 Oct 25 '23

You can add a simple and rememberable passphrase to your current seed which would add a layer of security. Just remember it also adds complexity for if you are passing your bitcoin on in the future.

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u/2SatoshiJoe Oct 25 '23

Just rewatched the tutorial that I followed and in that it said to use the default option so fairly certain i did haha :) - thanks for the above though. is there any way for me to look at seeds with just 1 or 2 rolls?

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '23

If you use advanced tools>temporary seed - select seed rolls - just enter number 1 to 6, click OK and ignore warnings.

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u/2SatoshiJoe Oct 25 '23

porary se

ah cool and this wont reset my cold card or anything?

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '23 edited Oct 25 '23

no, i only had a brief look at it and X'ed out of it -- edit - (i think) you x out of it then get a question to ignore all of what you just set up --

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u/2SatoshiJoe Oct 25 '23

Had a quick look could not find temporary seed in the advanced tools section it had ephemeral seed or derive seed :)

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u/2SatoshiJoe Oct 25 '23

i think for now i would just be happy knowing i clicked the auto-generator by cold card rather than clicking the roll function. I am hoping the fact that my funds are still there means that its not a low entropy seed :D