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Dude. Calm down. I don't have the price always on my smartwatch's screen. I have to select it in the menu. Time, date, heart rate and battery charge are displayed, if i tap the display or turn my wrist. I don't want to expose my love for BTC to the public because of reasons.
But it's way more comfortable this way, compared to wrestling out my smartphone of my trousers pocket, unlocking it, opening the chart view app (and so on, i suppose you are familiar with that kind of process).
I have not considered viewing the price of bitcoin on my arm to have had been any major problem or even threat to my privacy in recent times.
Perhaps I am not paranoid enough?
Nonono, dude was thinking that my watch is constantly displaying (like) realtime BTC price in always-on-mode, so everybody could see it on my wrist, always. But it's not the case here.
Well, the app can only update the price if the watch is connected to my smartphone. No biggie.
I have not been using the "always on" feature, and it seems that my watch only shows what is on its face when I turn my wrist inward.
Of course, I have around 8 different things on my watch, including the bitcoin price and also the time, but also it does not always update right away, so sometimes, I have to manually click on the bitcoin display to cause it to update, so then that would be more privacy revealing, to the extent that anyone might be viewing my watch while I am viewing it., but they would have to be relatively close to me and kind of at a similar angle to me, to the extent that anyone cares or that they know the difference between bitcoin and some other market that I could be looking at.
Another thing might be who is your potential threat, and so if I might be around people who I might not want to know what I am looking at, then I might be more guarded, but even if I am out and about for many hours, I might want to get a quickie glance at the BTC price, especially if it might be in some kind of an active status. I recall sometimes being in a car, and then if I am in the front seat and I have my phone in some kind of a heads-up display, then anyone in the back could be looking at whatever screens I am looking at, yet maybe the passenger-side person in the front would not be able to see, unless they would be purposefully leaning over to the driver's side to be able to see.
Some people are more snoopy than others too. I have had some people around me who are not very respectful to privacy, so that can be more annoying and incentivize more guarded ways of looking at data, whether on the phone or on the watch. The phone tends to be a more detailed interface, and the watch tends to be easier to keep private if the "always on" display is not on.
Sometimes your "enemies" are closer than you think...
I usually mount my smartphone at convenient height besides the steering wheel in my car, and i always have to take care that i do not enter the unlock pin code but use the fingerprint reader, because kids are watching from the back seats, and they try to outsmart me all the time, to be able to unlock parental control features on their smartphones, which are managed on mine. Once, one of them was successful with face recognition unlock while i took a little nap on the couch.
Well, they don't know how deep i was in computer security when i was younger (i'm sure i told some of the stories here in the past), so they have a hard time hacking my electronic devices, for sure, but occasionally they are trying hard. If i'm lucky, they even tell me how their schoolmates hacked their parents' phones, so i can take precautions against those "hacks". My level of caution is about one step back from paranoia mode, with that autistic flavor. Hard to beat. I got used to wipe my phone screen regularly, not to leave traces from repeatedly typing in the unlock pin code. It became a habit from the time when unlock gestures were a thing. When i have to enter passwords or codes in public places, i always take a look behind me, check for cameras (and eyes) that could spy on me.
Not quite paranoid, but close, i guess.
Recently got another chunk before the latest spike. It's all limit buys so I don't get either swayed by feeling or screwed by bad guys on exchanges. I've got more buy orders waiting if she goes down. If she doesn't, I'm good as it is.
#metoo
4. Ireland's CAB Recovers Third Bitcoin Wallet from Cannabis DealerURL: https://news.bitcoin.com/irelands-cab-cracks-third-bitcoin-wallet-recovers-31-million-from-cannabis-growerPublished: 2026-07-03Summary: Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau accessed a third dormant Bitcoin wallet tied to convicted cannabis grower Clifton Collins, adding 500 BTC to its 2026 recovery total. The bureau now holds 1,500 BTC from the case, with the latest tranche valued at approximately $30.9 million at current prices near $61,749. Europol provided the technical support and decryption resources that enabled the breach of the decade-dormant wallet. About 4,500 BTC, worth roughly $275 million, remains locked in nine unaccessed wallets that authorities continue to pursue. The recovered coins have moved to institutional custody ahead of liquidation, dwarfing the bureau's previous decade of cryptocurrency sales.
1,500 coins,3 wallets cracked 4,500 Bitcoin Remain Locked
For traders watching from the sidelines, the case is a reminder that coins written off as permanently lost can still surface years later, particularly when a government agency has the wallet under legal control and the resources to keep trying.
quote from the linked article:
CAB has not disclosed the technical method behind the wallet access, standard practice during an active case. Officials credit Europol with hosting meetings in The Hague and supplying the decryption resources that made the breach possible.
Made me wonder which those resources might be???
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