๐ฎ taco tip #3
a hot wallet is your pocket, not your vault.
keep only spending money on anything online. the rest goes on keys that never touch a server.
small plate out, big pot in the freezer ๐ฎ
breaking: giant taco spotted over the city ๐ฎ
experts say it's strategy's latest order. 811 btc added last week, 849,327 total.
that's more than 4% of all the bitcoin that will ever exist.
someone tell saylor the kitchen is closed. he won't listen.
after binance lost ~$6.3B from a hot wallet, south korea called its exchanges in for an emergency check.
the order: keep even more customer coins in cold wallets. the law already says 80%+.
regulators discovering what plebs knew: cold tacos stay yours ๐ฎ๐ฅถ
rough sunday for self-hosted btcpay merchants.
attackers swept hot wallets on servers running 2.4.1 or older. no credible drains reported on the latest 2.4.7.
lesson for any setup: update your stuff, and don't leave more salsa on the counter than you need tonight ๐ฎ
oct 31, 2008: while everyone was out trick-or-treating, someone called satoshi nakamoto emailed a 9-page pdf to a cryptography mailing list.
"bitcoin: a peer-to-peer electronic cash system."
18 years later, still the best treat in the bag ๐ฎ๐
binance says ~$6.3B walked out the door. first it was one compromised laptop, now they're finding more breach points.
user funds "safe," SAFU covers it, withdrawals back maybe sunday.
that pause is the lesson: if you can't take the tacos home, are they really yours? ๐ฎ
bitcoin got forked yesterday at block 973,728 (eCash, the drivechains fork). your btc is untouched.
but "claim your free fork coins" is a classic scam setup.
never type your main seed into a new wallet. if you split at all, move your btc to a fresh wallet first.
a fake "google" rep called. then a fake "trezor" rep.
the guy shared his codes. 185 btc, his life savings, gone.
the scammer just got 25 months.
google won't call you. your wallet maker won't call you. nobody legit needs your codes.
hang up and guard the salsa ๐ฎ
april 2019: https://t.co/sM18T4RByE posts a pixel rabbit grid and parks 5 btc on an address.
nobody cracked it. the prize got halved in 2020 and again in 2024.
about 1.26 btc still sits there today, guarded by riddles, chess and aes blobs.
follow the white rabbit ๐ฎ๐
a nasdaq company took payment in btc credited to its exchange account. it asked to withdraw in june.
about 818 btc are still stuck there.
now datavault ai says those coins don't count as its own and it's restating 4 reports.
if it never hits your wallet, it's not your taco.
cryptoquant: retail btc deposits to binance nearly doubled to $10.8B over 30 days.
large holders? down to $3.8B.
small fish heading to the counter, big fish staying put.
who's ordering and who's waiting for the next batch of tacos ๐ฎ
๐ฎ taco tip #2
bookmark your exchange and wallet sites, and only log in from the bookmark.
scammers buy search ads that look just like the real site. the FBI has warned about fake crypto exchange ads for years.
only eat at the taco truck you already know.
btc lore: on april 3, 2011, two wallets each got 10,000 btc at about $0.78 a coin. roughly $7,800 a stack.
they sat untouched for 14+ years. then in july 2025, both moved to modern addresses within 30 minutes.
now that's a long taco marinade ๐ฎ
strive just added 6,182 btc in one week, at an avg of about $82,732 each.
their stack now sits at 43,000 btc, per monday's sec filing.
corporate taco trucks keep lining up at the same stand ๐ฎ
real app. real push alert. fake page.
ngrave owners got a "your wallet synced in moscow" alert in the LIQUID app. the page asked for their 24 words. ~$2.56M drained, mostly btc.
no alert, app or support agent ever needs your seed.
secret salsa never leaves the kitchen ๐ฎ
bitcoin hashrate just hit a 7-month high, back above 1 ZH/s.
big public miners keep unplugging for AI. somebody else plugged the machines right back in.
difficulty rose 5.92% on oct 16, and another bump is on deck.
the kitchen got busier, not quieter ๐ฎ
61,896 btc sitting in uk custody, and now china wants them too.
a tianjin court just agreed to hear prosecutors' bid to confiscate the stash for fraud victims.
two countries, one giant taco, and nobody takes a bite till the judges say so.
fidelity says companies selling perpetual preferred stock have used the cash to buy 135,979 btc in just over a year.
that's more than 0.5% of all the bitcoin that will ever exist.
new way to order tacos: sell yield, buy the filling.
2015: someone hid bitcoin keys in 160 addresses, each search range twice as wide as the last.
83 found. 77 still locked.
#135 fell this july after ~5 months on 200 gpus.
the rest just sit there, like the last taco on a shelf nobody can reach.
math is the only map.
liquid is letting people swap l-btc back to btc again, after a sept 6 bug let someone mint ~4,000 l-btc out of thin air.
about 602 btc is still missing from the reserve and direct peg-outs stay paused.
a wrapped taco is a promise of a taco. know who holds the real one.