New Here.... My Coldcard got caught in the mess.

[Pakistani Shaheen]

I am new here, I have been using crypto for a few years already. I understand how wallets work like private keys, seed phrases, onchain transactions and many other things like that, but I am still a human and can make mistakes sometimes.

I have a big loss in Coldcard situation because it actually affected me directly. I have read many articles about that and some topics here too. I have seen some discussions here about it already and I am glad people are talking about it seriously. I just signup yesterday and now posting here and when I signed up I saw that news on top and I am impressed because that was quick update. I lost much in that incident and I can't express in my words. But I have some questions like if I will move on so which wallet I should use?

I also wanted to ask, is there any local language section on this forum? For Urdu or South Asian users maybe? I will ask questions frequently maybe they will answer well, and I understand well.

[FinneysTrueVision]

There is a thread for Pakistan pinned at the top of the Other languages/locations section.

There are several good hardware wallet options like Trezor, BitBox, SeedSigner, Blockstream Jade, Foundation Passport and a few others. You can also use wallets from multiple vendors if you prefer multisig over single signature. You might want to do research on different air-gapped setups also.

[Myleschetty]

Welcome on board. I sincerely apologize for your loss.
All of the wallets mentioned above, in my opinion, are good, but you must make sure to use the official website whenever you want to purchase one. If you don't want to spend money on a hardware wallet because of your experience, you can use an Electrum wallet, download and verify it, create it using Air Gap, and backup the wallet seeds in a different secure location (don't use paper for long-term storage though).

[BlackBoss_]

I am new here, I have been using crypto for a few years already. I understand how wallets work like private keys, seed phrases, onchain transactions and many other things like that, but I am still a human and can make mistakes sometimes.

I have a big loss in Coldcard situation because it actually affected me directly. I have read many articles about that and some topics here too. I have seen some discussions here about it already and I am glad people are talking about it seriously. I just signup yesterday and now posting here and when I signed up I saw that news on top and I am impressed because that was quick update. I lost much in that incident and I can't express in my words.

Hopefully your story is a true one, not a fabricated story.
If your story and loss are true, it's bad to know that and wish you strong mentality during these days as well as ability to recover.

There was a user with a fake story.
Coldcardvictim.
The fake story that was deleted.
 

But I have some questions like if I will move on so which wallet I should use?

Bitcoin Core if you want to run a node (either full node or prune node).
Electrum if you have little disk space for storage.
Trezor if you want to use a hardware wallet.

Consider to use a passphrase (custom words) for better wallet security.

[Pakistani Shaheen]

There is a thread for Pakistan pinned at the top of the Other languages/locations section.

Thank you very much I found that.

Hopefully your story is a true one, not a fabricated story.
If your story and loss are true, it's bad to know that and wish you strong mentality during these days as well as ability to recover.

There was a user with a fake story.
Coldcardvictim.
The fake story that was deleted.

🤔🤔🤔

Fake story. I don't know if his/her story is fake or fabricated. By the way, I have a question again, why did he/she make a fake story? Do people give compensation here, or funding, or something else?

​I did not make a big story like that. I know that was my bad luck, so why should I cry to everyone? I expressed it in few words and asked questions to move on.

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​Thank you very much to all who suggested. I think I should wait for more suggestions.

[Filicius]

Fake story. I don't know if his/her story is fake or fabricated. By the way, I have a question again, why did he/she make a fake story? Do people give compensation here, or funding, or something else?

No, there isn't, but some users must think that if they give enough grief with a made-up story, some charitable soul will take pity on their situation and compensate them financially for the alleged losses.

It is not the philosophy of this forum, as far as I know, that instead of direct help it is rather a means for learning and self-growth. Self-custody carries risk, reward, and responsibility. Whoever does not develop the latter will have problems, so it is for their own good.

[348Judah]

This is not even about fake story or not on this regard, we are mostly concerned about those that are seriously affected by the incidence of coldcards hack I lost their fortune to this kind of attack, now OP,  if you are more interested in getting to a local board that align with the language you speak well, there is a localized section you will see if you are on the homepage and you scroll down towards other languages, you will discover a number of them and choose between which you belong.

[nc50lc]

There was a user with a fake story.

Fake story. I don't know if his/her story is fake or fabricated. By the way, I have a question again, why did he/she make a fake story? Do people give compensation here, or funding, or something else?

His post contains a bitcoin address, but that's the attacker's consolidation address so it can't be an trick to earn bitcoins through donations.
At least not in the original post.

Rather, I'm thinking that he may be aiming to earn "merits" instead.
Users need that to upgrade their account's rank and the 119 merit that he earned in that post was already enough to reach Full Member rank with enough activity.

There's also a possibility that it's just AI-assisted translation or grammar fix which can be detected as AI-generated.
But the owner didn't bother defending himself.