$1.6 million dollars in Bitcoin was drained from my account on July 29th in the Cold Card wallet hack.
My Bitcoin was in cold storage. My keys were on a ColdCard device kept in a safety deposit box that had never been connected to the internet.
This part's nerdy, but here's what happened:
Hackers discovered a vulnerability in the part of the hardware wallet code used to create seed phrases.
This allowed them to use AI to brute force guessing seed phrases.
I was at our cottage and heard about the hack today.
"No way this affects me." I thought.
I logged into Wasabi––software that lets me view my bitcoin wallets online.
Right away I saw lines of red transaction–withdrawals–and I knew.
From 9:36pm - 9:43pm on July 29th, every wallet I had had been emptied.
18.25245043 btc gone. That's just over $1.6 million dollars CAD.
Perhaps the hardest part about this is that I did everything right.
I never shared my seed phrase with anybody. My devices never touched the internet. Everything was kept in multiple safes and safety deposit boxes.
None of it mattered. All because the hardware that created the seed phrase originally had one line in their code from 2021 that had a vulnerability.
I'm filing a police report and a report with the Ontario Securities Commission. But I don't expect to recoup anything.
A part of me is trying to make sense of what just happened. Or try to figure out a lesson in it. I'm struggling. $1.6 million is a staggering amount of money to have stolen.
I guess all that I can think about right now is that I'm so damn happy that I'm an entrepreneur and that my earning potential is under my control. Mark my damn words. I'll recover.
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
He doesn't care anymore. It's just non-stop, in-your-face corruption.
The latest? If you pay Trump $100,000 a month, he will give you advance White House announcements on economic and trade policy.
An insider trading subscription service.
People will go to jail for this.
BREAKING: Trump Media has officially launched its new paid data service, providing faster access to Truth Social posts from President Trump.
The new service is called "Truth API" which gives firms "a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform’s most market-moving Truths," the company's CEO said in a press release.
The service reportedly costs as much as $100,000/month.
The strategy of the media is to say the word MEASLES every hour of every day to smear RFK.
They don’t note:
(1) this is an international outbreak Dr. Fauci admits is his own fault due to the lockdowns.
(2) the U.S. is handling the Fauci outbreak better than any other country.
This is the 800 lb gorilla in the room.
Is it a coincidence that since Trump cut off funding to Ukraine, USAID, and NGOs, the Democrat Party is suddenly broke?
Weren't they swimming in cash in 2022?
Didn't Kamala Harris supposedly raise $2 billion in 2024?
Where did all the donors go?
Hint: They never existed.
All of that big Democrat money in the past was just laundered foreign funds. Or even worse, U.S. taxpayer funds laundered back to them.
We can draw one of two conclusions here:
Either the Democrat base is so broke they can't afford to donate money to their party, or all that support you see in the polls for Democrats doesn't really exist.
Scene as WestJet flight attendants strike outside Edmonton International Airport.
About 4,400 WestJet flight attendants officially went on strike just after midnight Sunday after contract talks failed. WestJet had already cancelled 309 flights ahead of the walkout, which centres on pay for work performed on the ground, including boarding.
Passengers travelling between July 30 and Aug. 4 can change or cancel bookings without a fee.
Doctor refused to treat a transgender woman, sparking major backlash. The gynecologist declined to examine the 26-year-old patient, saying he only treats “real women.” He later added that “a cavity is not a vagina” and claimed he was neither trained nor qualified to treat transgender women. The patient was turned away, and the doctor later doubled down on his comments online. His remarks triggered national outrage and reignited the debate over medical ethics, patient rights, and discrimination. Good for that doctor.
Did you know that North Dakota doesn’t have voter registration?
Did you also know that North Dakota does NOT require proof of citizenship to vote?
You show up on Election Day with an ID — that includes a Driver’s License— & you get to vote.
Senator Kevin Cramer won’t stay in DC to pass the SAVE America Act.