I just cancelled my Kickstarter for the book I'm writing about getting $1.6 million stolen in the ColdCard hack.
This is a hard post to write.
A few things first:
1. Nobody has been charged and nobody will be.
2. I’m still writing the book.
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I think that I released the Kickstarter campaign more as a trauma response.
Don’t think I realized the trauma of what happened to. Instead, I defaulted to productivity. In a weird way, If I’m doing stuff, I don’t have to think or feel.
I started to write the book last weekend long-hand in a notebook and it made me realize that that needs to be my focus, not marketing a kickstarter.
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I’m still planning to release a book.
It's not about Bitcoin. Instead, the broader implications of invisible heists like this. The book will probably be called The Invisible Heist.
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What I've realized is that this isn't a story about me.
This is a much bigger story than a guy losing his kid's savings or a single heist.
Our money, our photos, and our identity all run on technology the average person cannot hope to understand.
This is a story that affects us all.
We have been forced to trust code we've never seen, written by people we'll never meet.
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My plan is to sell the book for $4.99 on Kindle and $9.99 in paperback. (Audio will be recorded in-studio too.)
I don't know when it will be done. But, when it does, I'm happy to send you a personal message.
If that's something you want, can you please enter your email on this quick interest form?
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Thanks,
-Jon
@odeiocadu Meu filho foi a melhor coisa que ocorreu na minha vida!
Me mudou para melhor, sou bem mais família, responsável, parei de beber (quase 2 anos).
Produzo 10x mais que antes trabalhando de casa, fora o amor incondicionalmente.
Mas realmente é cansativo rs.
59% de todos os Reais em circulação* foram criados depois da pandemia.
Não são as coisas que estão ficando mais caras.
É o seu dinheiro que vale cada vez menos.
@SidnelsonEu PIX desse coroa é CPF 052 535 274 00 - Vital Maria Costa o nome, banco Itáu. Que a minha credibilidade possa ajuda-lo e mostrar que não é AI, e eu enviei também.
The Wall Street Journal just asked me how I felt the moment that I discovered $1.6M in Bitcoin had been stolen from me."
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Surprisingly stoic. If anything, empowered. I never thought I’d be the victim of a robbery—let alone a million dollar robbery. Nobody does. But it happened. After telling my wife, I went for a walk. I thought I was going to feel horrible or hopeless. Instead, all I could think was that there wasn't anything I can do but to keep moving forward.
It was at that point that I found myself simultaneously sad for everybody else affected and grateful to be an entrepreneur. I'm confident in my skills to recover and, in a (very) weird and (admittedly) hardy way, immediately viewed this terrible thing that happened to me as a test to overcome––a part of my story.
Didn’t think I’d ever be the victim of a $1 million theft. Always knew there was a chance my Bitcoin would go to zero. Didn’t think it would happen like this.
Nothing to do now but keep moving forward. Recover. And enjoy the fire lit under my ass.
Look, shitty things happen. A number of years ago my wife got diagnosed with cancer. We've had 12 miscarriages. And others have had a much harder go than I.
The hard truth I've learned about life is that hard things harden people. Problems don’t stop. They morph.
I don't believe that you can control most of what happens to you. I do believe you can control your response to it.
Hindsight is 20/20. Of course I should have done the rolling-dice thing or multi-sig or whatever in order to create my seed phrase. I'm now aware that that would have prevented this. But I'm just a guy who was doing his best trying to store some wealth for his kids. I'm not a Bitcoin expert.
I guess what life keeps teaching me is that the point isn't to try to avoid problems. The point is to become someone strong enough to handle them. So that when they occur, you're resilient enough to take it on the fucking chin and keep pushing forward.
That's why we do these family workouts.
It's because you don't just lift heavy things. You become somebody who can. Strength is a product of strength. Fitness isn’t everything. But it does help with everything.