I’ve had all my bitcoin stolen while away on holiday. It was on a Coldcard MK3.
I was led to believe this was really secure. It was recommended by experts including @saifedean. I also had the seed on a metal plate, hidden away.
When I got news of the hack on Friday I didn’t know what to do, whether to fly home and leave the family holiday or not.
Not until Saturday evening did I get the idea to ask my neighbour with the house key to find the seed for me.
Sunday morning I led the neighbour on an expedition around the house, restored the wallet, and it said zero bitcoin. I asked another friend to check on my software in the house. Zero.
It was all drained Saturday afternoon before I’d had the idea to get someone to find the seed.
This 2 bitcoin was supposed to be to give to my 2 children to give them a good start in life. Makes me tear up to think of it.
This comes as a terrible blow. The timing was so unlucky with being away, or I would have moved it in time.
@Coinkite, if there was any fairness, you would have to pay us our money back.
I just hope the US authorities find the culprits and the stolen bitcoin and return it to us.
@americanhodl8@ZynxBTC
I have reported bugs in:
- bitcoin-core
- joinmarket-ng
- whirlpool
- wasabi
- bark
- btcd
- bitkey
- drivechain
List goes on. I don't remember. I don't even keep a list because everyday is a new day to find bugs.
Note: I remember people who disrespect me and will respond
Woke up feeling absolutely sick to my stomach this morning.
The full weight of what happened is starting to hit.
This might be the worst thing to happen in Bitcoin. It hits differently than an exchange hack or phishing email.
My DMs are open if you need to talk. 🧡
Self custody is the only thing that matters. Do not lose hope.
I feel self custody will become even better after this disaster and hopefully people will start working together to make this happen.
In the end, we're Bitcoiners, toss your pretty differences aside.
Would it be a genius move for a whale like @saylor or @jack to take over the claims to the BTC in the ColdCard theft and SPEND 1300 BTC to save the victims from this disaster?
Our Noderunners fren @AVB_21 is warning for weak/bad entropy in hhw for a very long time. You can listen to him on our conference too! (Shameless plug, still feel bad for the affected except for nvk)
https://t.co/NQK8ugOH8D
I’ll be selling camp fire starter bundles at @LakSatoshi this weekend
The cost is whatever you want to donate to help @SamouraiWallet and @SamouraiDev and signing the petition at https://t.co/1cxayj4GFX
People can also write a note to @keonne that I will mail to him in prison