cdnhodlr 🇨🇦

Dad of 5 #Bitcoin

[cdnhodlr 🇨🇦 @cdnhodlr]

@itscoachgoodman I highly recommend you do not sell on amazon and self publish look at greenlamp @ScottScheper, you'll likely make it all back if you went that route. All the best, see you on the other side!

[FF2K..seed man🤞 @fartface2000]

IYKYK

[cdnhodlr 🇨🇦 @cdnhodlr]

@knutsvanholm Well said sir!

[cdnhodlr 🇨🇦 @cdnhodlr]

@hodlonaut @oomahq Same!

[Not that Elon. @Eggplant_Elon]

Orange pilled my mate down the pub last night.

Honestly, it’s so simple once you explain it properly.

I told him Bitcoin is just money you hold yourself.

He liked that. Then he asked how you hold it.

So I explained you buy a hardware wallet, but obviously not that one, and not that one either.

Then I said don’t trust its randomness, you’ll want to generate your own entropy with dice.

He said “like Monopoly dice?”

Bless him.

No, mate. Casino-grade precision dice, and verify they’re fair first, because a biased die is a biased seed.

Then I said roll it 99 times.

He asked why not fewer.

I explained that anything less than 99 rolls gives you less entropy, and while 50 rolls and 12 words is technically unbreakable by every computer that will ever exist, we don’t do technically round here. We do 256 bits.

He asked what a bit was. I told him not to worry about it.

Then I explained you do this in a room with no phone, no smart speaker, no camera, ideally soundproofed, because the acoustics of a dice roll and your keystrokes are a side channel.

He’d gone quiet by then, so I gave him a minute.

Then I said you’ll want 3 seeds, not 1, because single points of failure are what wiped out 500 people last week. So that’s 297 dice rolls.

Then multisig, 2-of-3, and you’ll need to back up the descriptor as well as the words, because 3 seeds alone won’t rebuild the wallet, and yes, that’s a fourth thing to lose.

Then I said store the 3 backups in 3 separate locations, because if a burglar or a house fire gets two, you’ve achieved nothing.

He asked where.

I said somewhere fireproof, ideally stamped in steel, definitely not the loft.

Then I mentioned the Faraday bag.

And the airgap.

And that you sign transactions by waving QR codes at a Raspberry Pi you built yourself.

And that you should rehearse the whole thing on a parallel test network with fake coins first, obviously.

He asked what happens if he gets it wrong.

I said you lose everything forever, and nobody is coming to help you.

Anyway, that’s another one onboarded. 💪

[Joyce Dawn @BitcoinWifey]

If you oppose the UASF but shirked your responsibility to enforce that rejection yourself, then celebrate miners for rejecting it, you’ve accepted a new constitutional order.

You’ve accepted that the rules of Bitcoin are whatever a small group of miners are willing to mine. You’ve turned miners from employees into your gatekeepers.

You handed the job of defending Bitcoin to the people Bitcoin was designed to keep accountable.

That is a much bigger change to Bitcoin than BIP-110 ever was

[Atlas Phoenix BTC @AtlasPhoenixBTC]

Re: Cold Card Hack

Hello fellow Bitcoiners,

It’s been nearly one week since my wallet was drained.

I lost my entire bitcoin stack, presumably the most in the entire attack - an amount I’m more than embarrassed and ashamed to even admit publicly. This was not only my life savings but my time, energy, hardcore conviction and identity after 13 years in this space.

I am posting pseudonymously as I’ve always preferred to stay out of the spotlight - and privacy (inspired by Satoshi) is something I value. I debated whether or not I should say anything at all, but after much deliberation I decided it may be beneficial for other victims who are struggling.

While this incident certainly forced upon me the darkest days of my life so far - I have now accepted it and will slowly put together my life again. I came from nothing and did everything right (except rolling the damn dice apparently 😅). I stayed away from trading, exchanges, shitcoins, ICOs, NFTs, false prophets, etc and quietly and consistently built up over the years through all the ups and downs - never spending frivolously on material goods but instead using bitcoin as my sense of freedom and security - with the hopes to pass it on to my future children.

Even though that peace, freedom and security is now gone - I am beyond grateful for the journey and life that bitcoin enabled me to have.

To all the other victims, as cliche as it is to say “it’s only money” - true wealth, as I’ve learned over and over again is in health, family, and friendships. I’d be lying if I told you I’m not afraid of the uncertainty ahead, but I know by taking one step at a time it will be possible to rebuild. Trust me if I can come to these realizations, you can too! The hardest challenges in life make us stronger and turn us into the best versions of ourselves - don’t give in to the hopelessness. By being in this community you are apart of something special that the majority of the world still hasn’t realized yet. It’s still early!

Thanks to all the wonderful people in the community I’ve been DMing over the past week - your kind words of support mean the world to me and helped me start to believe in myself again.

To the hacker: you still can do the right thing here and come clean - you have prompted a serious wake-up call that has brought the community together which will bring more resilience for the future. Doing the noble thing now will prevent a lifelong hunt.

To all the amazing bitcoiners who have jumped to action from the very beginning to support each other and mitigate further damage - it’s been a beautiful thing to watch.

To the @blocks team and especially @intangiblecoins, your efforts are inspiring and provide me with hope. Believe me when I say that IF I ever get my coins back you will all be taken care of very well, along with massive donations to the open source community.

For now I will withhold any judgement towards @nvk and the @Coinkite team - while I’m still processing this loss and dealing with the gravity of building my life up from the ruins - I have 0 anger or resentment. Bitcoin security is a tough job, mistakes are made, and lessons are learned by all. I made mistakes by trusting and not verifying as well as not having a more robust security solution so the responsibility must be shared, hindsight is 20/20 and even though it’s tough: I’m okay admitting that. Bitcoin humbles all.

Having said all that… I’M NOT FUCKING LEAVING!!! I will start building a new stack from the ground up like all the other plebs as my conviction in Bitcoin is even stronger today then when I got my first coins in 2013.

This was never about the money - it was always about the revolution, and that can’t be stopped. We will win.

Let’s keep our heads high.
The march continues.
It’s time to rebuild.

PS: Thanks for everything Satoshi ❤️

-M

[⏳ Michael Dunworth⌛️ @MichaelDunwort1]

✅ Chains full of rubbish
✅ Experts are fraudsters
✅ Wallets drained
✅ Lightning nodes bukkaked

Yeah, I’d say Bitcoin needs to sharpen up quick smart.

You are in the most literal hostile environment imaginable.

Start acting like it.

Bitcoin is getting absolutely pummeled, and blows my mind people don’t take it seriously until after the fact.

It’s a bearer asset, the ONLY bearer asset.

Heavy lay the crown, so be mature and long term with your thinking. Not narrative orientated, not nuthugging some dude some other guy says is “legit”.

CRITICAL THINKING. IMMEDIATELY.

[cdnhodlr 🇨🇦 @cdnhodlr]

@hodlonaut Letters S-W-I-T-C-K, it's worth noting:
"Switch" is the closest real word - it's just one letter off (h → k). Given that the vulnerable commit was literally switching the entropy library from the hardware TRNG to libngu (commit message: "First pass w/ libNgU"), darkly ironic nod

[cdnhodlr 🇨🇦 @cdnhodlr]

The Canary in the Bitcoin Mine.

After the sad events with ColdCard that has cost so many so much, what we have is the dead Canary giving us an early warning for what is to come. A bug that existed for 5+ years that hurt so many. What is going to happen to the Banks and to Govt?

[cdnhodlr 🇨🇦 @cdnhodlr]

@444allianc3 @mattkratter @GrassFedBitcoin @DrJackKruse @knutsvanholm @TomerStrolight @LukeDashjr Thanks for sharing your walk with us brother!

[Start9 @start9labs]

@bendthekne3 We've sold $800+ computers to thousands of real, passionate Bitcoiners wanting to run Knots and BIP-110.

Anyone who thinks this movement is faked or fleeting is either lying or uninformed.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...

...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY

He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."

His name is Rishi Sharma.

He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.

He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.

He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...

...FOR FREE

So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.

Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.

He does it out of pure gratitude.

In his words:

"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."

As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:

"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."

THAT is America.

250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...

God bless our veterans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[cdnhodlr 🇨🇦 @cdnhodlr]

@The_BTC_Patriot @RustinPeace_SB @mattkratter @hodlonaut @RustinPeace_SB Thank you for covering what @hodlonaut exposed. @mattkratter you may want to cover this shift in view by this group.

[cdnhodlr 🇨🇦 @cdnhodlr]

@mattkratter sadly it appears your friends datum target just got banned at braiins

[cdnhodlr 🇨🇦 @cdnhodlr]

Schools get centralized, because the state needs that to occur to impose a political agenda that in turn seeks to reinforce political support for official institutions. -- Murray Rothbard

[cdnhodlr 🇨🇦 @cdnhodlr]

@CdnBitcoinConf @PierrePoilievre I disagree, he's not playing a game, he has no intention of using bitcoin for our country. If he was interested in that he wouldn't have gone silent on bitcoin after winning the leadership race. He's still silent on bitcoin. One of the many things that cost him the election.

[cdnhodlr 🇨🇦 @cdnhodlr]

@hollyanndoan @TimHortons Meanwhile in the real world.... https://t.co/urivfIvmNT

[cdnhodlr 🇨🇦 @cdnhodlr]

@Ilovenostalgia Love you dad. I have 5 kids of my own now. Miss you forever.

[Albertan Beech 🌾 @albertanbeech]

I have literally never in my life heard a woman wish that on another woman, no matter how much she hates her. And as a woman, I��m unfortunately around them all the time.

You have to be broken in the brain to wish something so heinous on a woman.