Oh, these flew completely over my head back then. What a shame, yogg not hesitating to touch anything, even all the private/personal projects, Playtoshi, now this.


@tread93: Yeah, whichever it is, all keys kept or "just some", as soon as you keep ANY keys as a maker, you have already stepped on the stairs to scammer-hell imho.

Not fully familiar with coldcuck product palette - what's a Diwali edition?
Sorry to hear it, hope most people swiped their remaining cards already.

Yes, could be planned, but my guess is he "somehow" kept lots and lots of private keys on different devices and his business structure was a mess in that regard from the beginning. Now, that he decided he really doesn't give a shit anymore, whenever he stumbles upon some keys he just goes ahead and swipes whatever he can grab.
Whichever may be the case, just disgusting.

Thanks for the heads-up, PMICT.

A for awesome effort.
Paper and ink having some promised specs is one thing, but seeing these hold up in a real world test is still something else.

Not sure if it fits your setup, but a reference test with normal paper and/or normal ink would be cool, too.

Because, lets face it, there are way too many people that came from the idea to do some "investment" and even worse from a "get rich quick" mindset. And not from a "oh, what an incredible technology, let me explore this thing that will change the way our financial-world works" point-of-view.
I'd go as far and say 80%+ of people holding Bitcoin have no idea what it really is and what its core values/strengths are.

If you keep that in mind, it won't suprise you that still the majority doesn't care about using a centralized exchange service - to the contrary even: These folks may feel that with a company owning an exchange instead of a peice of software that allows p2p exchange (such as Bisq for example) there is someone that can be held accountable if things go wrong. Ofc that's wishful thinking but that's how things have been for ages and the only thing they know.

Please avoid these kind of dumb questions in the future.
"this pump is because of russia?"

-> Any complex thing, such as Bitcoin, something that is interconnected with hundrets of markets, influenced by millions of individuals, by thousands of news, hundrets of governments and instituations, tdoes not follow any simple A -> B causality.
It's always a mesh of factors, extremely rarely can a movement be broken down to a single cause, but surely not in this case.
The last such event was probably the FTX exchange scam, but even then the real causes of the market movements were connected to lots and lots of other factors.

tldr: Just avoid any black and white or A->B thinking in a complex market situation like Bitcoin.

You made a pretty accurate observation.
Many media outlets do unfortunatelly care less about a certain depth of the information they provide in comparison with the strength of the headline and its click-potential.
- It's a matter of simple psychology: When Bitcoin is mooning, reaching new highs never seen before, you can play into the FOMO and greed complex by portraying mistly positive news.
- Vis versa, as soon as there is a 70% drop, just go with the malice-sentiment, fueling the "I told you so, it's all a scam" narrative. Generally negative news sell better/generate more clicks, and just looking at the stats, since much less people are in any way involved in Bitcoin still, you can catch a wider audience with crypto-negative news compared to crypto-positive news.

Na, das klingt auf alle Fälle gut und ganz ehrlich, so erwarte ich das auch. Sowohl von Betnomi Seite wie auch von Ledger selbst, die letztendlich die Verantwortung tragen, dass auch custom-Versionen den Sicherheitsstandards genügen.
Ich meld mich dennoch sobald was eintrifft.

Oh, having the option to get a full set or some individual cards would be cool. Some of the designs really caught my attention.
Reminds me to check on updates regarding freeross.

And congrats on the win, Mopar!

I really like tiny precious metal bars in general and these do look particularly nice.

Damn, so pretty!


Is this also a bundle price similar to the brass coins you released or just for one bar? The latter would be too steep for me for just one 1oz of copper.

Take it from someone that spent years and years with probabilities and has seen it all: This was good karma, nothing to do with regular statistics. (it's a joke obv.)

What's a random coincidence btw? 

Incredible suite, can't remember the last time I saw a full set on offer.
Out of my league, but seems  very reasonable for this unique limited to 21 set.

Lucky me, hatte erst vor kurzem einen Ledger verschenkt der bei mir nur rumlag, ziemlich cool anstelle dessen jetzt so eine Special-Edition in die Sammlung legen zu können.
Bezüglich Zustellung: Klar, kann ich dann gerne berichten - ist das denn eine komplizierte Angelegenheit oder warum das Interesse?

Wow, that's quite amazing! Just a few days ago I gave a ledger as a gift to a friend who had some coins on an exchange - felt it was time to step up her game.
I take it as good karma - thanks a lot for your raffle!

Wow awesome. Haven't watched, will come back when I was able to do so (hopefully tomorrow) but just wanted to quickly chime in and say it's amazing you keep this going.
Sticking to creating high quality content for such a niche thing does require true passion.

However, you are among the first movers in this field and could become the #1 reference channel for crypto collectibles. I do truely believe you will slowly increase in followers and the cool thing is, this may also be interesting for non-crypto coin-collectors or other bitcoin-geeks that don't own any collectibles.
So I think the possible audience is huge.
Keep it up.

That's a lovely article. Wish LN got more of the attention it deserves.
Something I haven't given much thought yet, but this must be truely scary for the big players, MasterCard, Visa, Paypal and all similar payment-apps mainly used in asian countries.
-> Why would any merchant want to continue using them, draining fees over fees each day, when there is a decentralized solution with a TRUELY negligible fee. The only thing holding anyone back is adoption and legislation.

Großartig. Hätte mir zwar mehr Daten und Quellen im Artikel gewünscht, aber dennoch, das ist doch genau das, was Bitcoin braucht. Und auch sehr nah an der Vision Satoshi Nakamotos dran (auch wenn man dafür argumentieren kann, dass es eben den Status Quo von Bitcoin gibt und es irrelevent ist, was SN sich ursprünglich erhofft hat).
Auf alle Fälle würde ich mir sehr wünschen, dass es mehr solcher Projekte gibt. Idealerweise Initiativen von kleineren, mutigen Staaten, die für Bildung und vor allem die richtige Rechtsgrundlage Sorgen um die Verbreitung und tatsächliche Verwendung von Bitcoin vorantreiben.

Aww, that would be most generous, ChiBi. If you ever have something going to MJ, maybe you can include it in that parcel.
Feel you on the lost coins there. Better not to think too much about it.
Side question regarding the alibaba-fakes: Ist it still possible to distinguish them for an expert? Maybe weight ora closer look with a lense or even microsope?

If that's the case, glad to take you up on your offer @Fortify and get 2 or 3 of these.

Think about it as any other "reasonable" investment. Stocks, real estate, gold... Unless that's your main source of income, people usually don't buy to resell when it increases in value.
It is actually a way to diversify your wealth against several risk factors, creating a solid portfolio and maybe a retirement plan.
What usually happens with these portfolios: They change, maybe swapping one asset to another, cashing out some, or adding on some.

I personally believe, if you understand the foundations of Bitcoin, you would never want to sell all/most of your holdings, unless you are really in a financial crises that doesn't leave you any other choice.

While I agree with the fundamental sentiment of your worries, a few points to consider:
- the current age of around 14 years for Bitcoin may seem long, however it's not compared to any other payment method or store of value. Adoption for completely new technologies tends to take longer than one may thing. Mainly because the original structures are strong and working and people tend to be very inflexible when it comes to completely new things they are not familiar with or that are kind of hard to grasp in the beginning
- The general sentiment of Bitcoin in mainstream media may still be slightly negatively biased, however more and more you can hear and read reasonable voices on the topic of Bitcoin - usally coming from those that did indeed spend some time for real research about it.
- Bitcoin does not have a massive marketing department - every little bit of adoption comes either from a real need for a new payment and/or store-of-value-soluton or because a company or individual is convinced that Bitcoin does indeed provide something, that is not achiveable with fiat etc.
- I believe the stigma of Bitcoin as a scam is slowly but surely disappearing. Yes, it still exists but there are a lot of resources now clearly showing it is the opposite of a scam - a true revolution in digital trust that is.

What the actual f... Recovering funds: Great, I am happy for the people affected, hopefully they get some of their coins back.
Regarding reopening FTX: Are they serious? A name as shit-stained as FTX is... and now they want to come back. Cannot believe it.

Btw, if you were like me and wondered if this may be fake news - seems like it's real: https://www.reuters.com/technology/bankrupt-crypto-exchange-ftx-has-recovered-73-bln-assets-attorney-2023-04-12/

I truely wonder f they at least consider a re-branding. The big scam-whales in the background and the scam-tech (software) maybe even with the original backdoors for private profit may stay the same.
But at least they have to change the front-fassade to get any chance at a comeback with lots and lots of clueless new customers.