CryptoCockroach

Crypto trader / BTC Holder

[Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ @rstormsf]

Today I read this from @zachxbt: (from https://t.co/oMDHZgu8bi)

"All hardware wallets are complete garbage and I do not advise using them for important tasks like signing transactions or storing funds. Much better to have a separate iPhone with its only purpose being to use as your hardware wallet."

I'd agree - if there were actually a mobile app with BIP39 passphrase support.

Hardware wallets, all of them:
🟢 @Trezor
🟢 @Ledger
🟢 @COLDCARDwallet — most thorough implementation out there
🟢 @KeystoneWallet
🟢 @BitBoxSwiss

Mobile:
🔴 @MetaMask - people asked since 2021. Asked again this past December. Still nothing.
🔴 @TrustWallet
🔴 @Rabby_io - only has it on desktop. Not on mobile.
🟢 @AirGap_it Vault — small Swiss team. Underfunded.
That's the list.

That's the whole problem with the spare-iPhone plan. The thing that makes a hardware wallet actually worth carrying isn't the chip. It's the passphrase. And the moment you swap the hardware for a phone, you lose it.
Here's what everyone's missing.
Your seed phrase is 12 or 24 words. You wrote them down. They're in a safe, or a drawer, or taped behind a painting because you watched a movie once.
But the standard those words come from lets you add one more thing: any word or sentence you want. It's not a password on top of your wallet. It makes a different wallet. Same 24 words, different extra word, completely different money.

So if someone finds your paper, they get nothing. They type in your 24 words, they see an empty account, and they have no way to know there's another one behind it. Not "access denied." Not a locked vault they can lean on you to open. Just nothing there. Nothing to demand, because they can't tell there's anything to demand.

That's the whole point. Everyone worries about hackers. The thing that actually gets you is someone in your house.

You've made that spare phone invisible to the internet. You haven't made it invisible to a person standing in your bedroom. The Ledger you threw out was doing that part.

The code is already in these wallets. The field is right there. They just leave it blank.

Yes, if you forget your extra word your money is gone. That's real. So bury it in advanced settings and make people type it twice. That's an argument for a warning label, not for pretending the feature doesn't exist.

So - mobile wallet providers: please implement BIP39 passphrase support, so people can easily turn our old iPhones and Androids into real crypto wallets. Add air-gapped signing while you're at it, so we never have to connect them to a network at all.

@zachxbt's got the right idea. There's just nothing on mobile to actually do it with.

[Giacomo ShadowUNbanned Zucco @giacomozucco]

For anyone interested about the truth: Adam Back is absolutely, overtly and veritably lying about me *ever* supporting BIP110, or even being "a fence sitter" about it.

I have always strongly, clearly and unequivocally opposed any similar fork proposal since the very earliest suggestions.

I have always been, and remain, consistently opposed to:
- using consensus rules to tackle specific types of onchain spam,
- defensively addressing any kind of "illegal data" moral panic in any possible way (mempool policies included),
- enforcing any controversial consensus change (including the ones I agree with, unlike this one) without clear full-ecosystem agreement.

It's a bit unfortunate that a very influential voice in the industry is lying about me, since I have a smaller reach to debunk him. Maybe some of you can help me by spreading the correction. Thanks.

[Maple 🍁 @GhostofMapl]

@callebtc The fuck, indeed.
https://t.co/QEQlsEHjrj

[just jay @justh0dl]

@GhostofMapl Check this one out lol

https://t.co/wdB0lAg6sZ

[Maple 🍁 @GhostofMapl]

Well, now it's all starting to make sense.

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

@saylor It's going to be a nothingburger, though you can watch the fireworks at https://t.co/V8yTJTYnrK!

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

There are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam.

BIP 110 turns a spam dispute into a consensus change that would invalidate some currently valid, fee-paying transactions.

That precedent is the danger. We should save our energy for threats that really matter. $BTC

[Stephan Livera @stephanlivera]

I made an explainer page on Bitcoin spam and why it's impossible to stop.

Bitcoin is money, you can't stop spam.

https://t.co/qTD6iaeDsE

[Stephan Livera @stephanlivera]

BIP110 debate summed up

[Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. @RudyHavenstein]

I'm going to make this easy on you. #QE

[Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. @RudyHavenstein]

"The purpose of a system is what it does. There is, after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is what it consistently fails to do."

- attributed to Stafford Beer

cc @federalreserve @jeromehpowell
https://t.co/KshYO9YZF0

[Cassandra Unchained @michaeljburry]

#kalshi as with all #PredictionMarkets is In a regulatory loophole within an extremely heavily taxed and excessively regulated industry that is gambling no matter what anyone calls it. It is as old as humanity and has driven people to enslave their families and descendents in long ago times. Worse, there is nothing preventing cheating in prediction markets. Cheating, the only activity as old as gambling, with the same power to drive humans to extremes. So Kalshi presents the ability to gamble and cheat, and the loophole allows all of it in every state. So of course it is number 1 by a mile and will keep growing as long as society steps aside and lets these horrific base human weaknesses run roughshod over all and any logical, moral and decent challenge.

[BitcoinBuddha @THBitcoinBuddha]

Bitcoin Knots. Luke example 1/1000. Should make a series. I'll do 1 update per day.

There will come a day when this guy decides Bitcoin goes against God and just decides to push a Knots update that wipes out everyones funds.

[The Humanoid Hub @TheHumanoidHub]

A stunning piece of engineering!!

1X unveils the new humanoid hand for NEO

- 25 degrees of freedom: 22 fully actuated in the fingers and palm, plus 3 at the wrist.
- The DoF are distributed anatomically rather than evenly, deliberately biased toward a thumb that genuinely opposes the fingers.
- In-house tendon-driven, quasi-direct-drive running low gear ratios of ~5:1 to 15:1 vs the typical 100:1–200:1.
- Motors live in the forearm and pull tendons through the wrist. This keeps the hand light and its inertia low while producing high forces.

Sensing

- All 25 DoF are natively force-controlled and fully backdrivable. Every joint doubles as a force sensor.
- Very important, closed-loop proprioception: it always knows its own pose and effort without looking.
- Tactile skin across the fingertips and surfaces measuring contact and shear. This helps with adaptive gripping in real time.

Safety and durability

- IP68 waterproof and food-safe, so it can wash its own hands.
- Compliant by construction: the low gear ratios, tendon drive, and low distal inertia let external impacts safely backdrive the fingers. It yields when hit by a hammer or caught in a drawer.
- Full finger assemblies validated to millions of cycles.

Manufacturing

- Deep vertical integration: in-house motors, custom electronics, and tendon systems.
- Hundreds built already, with capacity to produce 10,000 hands this year.

"An API to the Physical World"

[Mr.Hodldamus @MrHodl]

You can't preach "decentralization" out one side of your mouth and flip the default on your main pool endpoint to signal BIP 110 without asking. You spent years bragging about how Ocean gives miners "sovereign" blocks through DATUM. You said you're only a miner if you're building your own templates. But now the default on the regular Stratum pool is switching to signal the soft fork on July 15th? Lol.. That's you setting policy for everyone.

This is also exactly what I've been telling everyone for years. Ocean spent all that time larping about "sovereign" miners building their own templates, acting like they were the decentralization kings. I kept saying there's nothing technical stopping them from changing their policy whenever they feel like it.... And here we are today..

When you log into Ocean, by default you're now signaling for BIP 110. They are constructing the block for you. You have to actively opt out if you don't want to signal. That's their right, it's their business, it's their pool. But let's not pretend this is the same story they were selling.

Ocean needs new leadership

[LayerTwo Labs @LayerTwoLabs]

Thread: @Lukedashjr Liarposting By The Numbers

Account-wide since July 2012:
- 159,875 total posts
- 0.95% (1526) of all posts contain “liar”
- first “liar” tweet: February 4, 2017
- highest LPM (liars per month): 97 times in April 2026
- 2025: 381 “liar” posts
- 2026 YTD: 339 “liar” posts
- latest 6-month rolling share: 3.09% of posts contain “liar”

Charts below 👇

[ɐʞsǝs @akses_0x00]

@NotNordgaren @vxunderground Legit miss this

[Locke @WendigoWear]

@NotNordgaren @vxunderground The shit those guys could fit in a small number of bytes or even a kb or two was wild. The demo scene was awesome

[The Bingus Man @NotNordgaren]

@vxunderground Ah man. A relic of the past. Keygens blasting the weirdest chiptunes music you've ever heard.

Some of it was unironically good, too.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

> get dm
> "smelly, my dads old pc has a keygen on it. it plays really loud annoying music. was our old home pc infected with malware for many years?"
> download key gen
> look inside
> not malware

unfathomably based dad knew how to get legit warez