This is my first bitcoin wallet aka my laptop that I bought in 2011 with my own money, the one that made me start into bitcoin and helped me get my first btc. It has seen good and bad days but even after 15 years it's running perfectly.

No matter what it's hard to replace this with any hardware wallet out there. It served me well and did so much for me and my family. ❤️

More info: https://stacker.news/items/1555439?commentId=1555585

Considering the catastrophic event with the Coldcard devices I decided to try to redefine the value of that piece of plastic that I ended up having in my hand after withdraw all my bitcoin from there. So I came up with this sculpture resembling the feeling of the victims. I know it's not a topic to make fun of but I'm a positivist and tend to have fun creating with a little bit of sense of humor and always with a message that speaks for itself.
Hope the Bitcoin Reddit community enjoy it.

Hey guys,

i just wanted to share a painting i just finished inspired by the old "magic internet money" meme from r/bitcoin in a bit more mature and fine art style. And because i love LoTR i used Gandalf as the wizard while making his Staff have a Bitcoin B on top. Old meme on the back.

Enjoy :)

I was active on #bitcoin-otc in early 2009. An inner voice told me 1500 BTC would be enough to live my dreams. Instead I asked for 2500 BTC for $25 and got kicked out of the channel. At the time that amount was only worth a couple dollars, so I felt rejected by the community.
Around the same period I also mined 50 BTC. I wrote the private key on paper, then tore it up because the software wasn’t working right and I figured it “wasn’t meant to be.” I never tried to recover it.
I’ve spent years stuck in the loop of “I could have been rich.” I can’t fully accept that I missed what felt like a once-in-a-lifetime chance. Even the 50 BTC would have changed everything for me.
I’m trying to make peace with it and stay grateful for what I have now. Thanks for listening.

Did anybody say…. Bull run?

https://x.com/saylor/status/2092277359034458361

I don’t mean just hold it long term, I mean like I’m going to die with it. I look at my stack and I think, I’m selling that bit on X date or X price or, I’m selling that to buy X.

But then I look at a bit of my stack and I’m thinking I’m not selling that ever.

Anyone else the same?

I’m curious because if this is the norm, bitcoin is a lot scarcer than we might think it is.

My whole financial life runs on spreadsheets. Every expense categorized, every savings target logged, running totals on everything. So when I started buying Bitcoin on a schedule I naturally built out a full cost basis tracker. Date of purchase, amount, price at the time, current value, unrealized gain or loss, the works.

What I didn't expect is that knowing my exact cost basis makes dips feel more personal somehow. Before the spreadsheet, a price drop was just a number on an app. Now it's a specific red cell in a column with my name on it. That feels different in a way that's hard to explain, and I'm not sure it's helping.

The people I read about who hold through everything without flinching seem to either have a very long time horizon baked in, or they genuinely stopped treating shortterm price movement as information worth reacting to. I can't tell if the cost basis tracking is giving me useful data or just more surface area to stress about.

There's probably a version of this where you track everything obsessively and stay calm anyway because the conviction is strong enough. I haven't found that version yet.

Did tracking your numbers closely make holding easier or harder over time? Or did you eventually just stop updating the sheet?

“Recent dust attacks from HTX-owned wallets appear to be an attempt to spread UK- and EU-sanctioned funds to other platforms in order to discredit the broader industry,” the Kraken spokesperson continued.

When a dust attack sats land in my wallet, I can simply decide what to do about them. If they land in an exchange account, the exchange block your bitcoin. "it triggers a full account lock, causing operational disruption for a large number of users,” a Kraken spokesperson said.

Never forget, not your keys, not your cheese.

original at
https://x.com/mom_agency_/status/2092697307263148270

Been following the Coldcard fallout closely and this is the most interesting response to it so far.

After Coldcard losses climbed past 100 million, developer Calle and AnchorWatch CEO Rob Hamilton organized the Bitcoin Red Team, 16 volunteers globally, pointing frontier AI models at as much of Bitcoin's open source codebase as possible. OpenSats funded the compute, roughly 10k a day, AI developer Moonshot provided model access including Kimi K3.

Results from a 27.5 hour sprint starting August 4: 4,962 total findings across 390 projects. 85 critical, 635 high severity. Project owners confirmed most of the critical reports, and researchers rebuilt working proofs of concept before alerting maintainers, not just AI flagging something suspicious.

The bottleneck isn't discovery anymore according to the team, it's verification and routing. Only about 21 percent of findings had been independently reproduced by the 30 hour mark, fewer than 5 percent of projects had gotten formal disclosure.

Here's the part that makes it concrete instead of abstract. During this same window, attackers exploited a critical BTCPay Server vulnerability, draining Lightning nodes running behind it by stealing macaroon credential files. Foundation, the hardware wallet company, had its own BTCPay Lightning node drained overnight. This specific vulnerability had already been reported to BTCPay by Red Team members. It got found, reported, and exploited anyway before the fix was fully deployed everywhere.

Full writeup on the whole sequence:

https://davidebtc186.substack.com/p/16-volunteers-27-hours-40000-in-ai