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The security incident happened on January 17, 2024, Trezor disclosed in a blog post published on January 20.

It involved a third-party support ticketing portal that Trezor uses.

Contact details included names and email addresses for up to 66,000 users were compromised.

A story about Sarah Meiklejohn, and how she started to analyze the blockchain back in 2013.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/8623167

Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable.

Luke-jr has always seen Ordinals as a threat to #Bitcoin. He intends to offer a solution that will prevent the creation of new ordinals.

Hi all! Does anybody know if bitcoin core (bitcoin-qt) is also vulnerable to keybleed / randstorm? Thank you

A new type of vulnerability has been found, affecting the routing nodes, allowing the attacker to steal the amount locked in HTLC you're forwarding for them. Several scenarios and possible mitigations are suggested in the article.

For more details, see the original paper: https://github.com/ariard/mempool-research/blob/2023-10-replacement-paper/replacement-cycling.pdf

Discussion on stacker.news: https://stacker.news/items/288995

There's a new Trezor HW wallet available. It's a long awaited refresh of the original Trezor One. Two buttons, one screen, USB-C, and a new chip that makes it tick. Now with 100% more secure element!

They also offer a new cold storage solution - https://trezor.io/trezor-keep-metal . The form factor is similar to cryptosteel, but the mechanism of entering the seed phrase is different. You punch a bunch of holes in the metal plates. Depending on what material is used, I'd say it's much more fool proof compared to cryptosteel. If an unsuspecting nocoiner opens it, there is no risk of them just spilling all the letters out and financially ruining the whole family in the process.

I'm sick of coming here and not having somewhere to talk so here's a thread for everyone.

I like Bitcoin, and u?

He has invested many years ago, he doesn't remember how much and he has never been able to figure it out himself so now im trying to help him on the first page it says "bitcoin" his mail and then some letters and numbers in a string, and then some random notes and a few shopping lists, but on many pages is the exact same shopping list consisting of 7 items so i think that might be the code but idk i have not yet found anthing that could be the code can anyone help me getting his bitcoins back

Not sure how serious, anyone know more?

Is there any online service/tool/website which provides a way to show badges (little SVG images like are commonly seen in Github readmes) which show the balance of a BTC address? Bonus if it shows the USD value as well. I found a project on github called balancebadge but seems to be dead.

This is so we can show the current total amount of donations made to an open-source project.

Example of badges I’m talking about:

TL;DR- Be optimistic, but not fatalistic. Success still requires action. The article is worth reading in full, though.

Even if we accept the argument that the success of bitcoin as an asset due to its fixed supply and network effect is of high certainty, that does not guarantee the success of Bitcoin as a platform for a “full stack,” peer-to-peer financial ecosystem.

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Failing to correct for this will result in the wider Bitcoin ecosystem suffering from choke points and resilience shortcomings which can and will be easily leveraged by adversarial actors to attack the network and its participants.

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However, some will argue that ossification sooner rather than later is actually desirable as a defense against malicious changes to the Bitcoin core protocol, a la SegWit2x. This attitude entirely ignores and greatly increases another exploitable attack vector: stalling and preventing beneficial changes to the protocol which can enable more robust peer-to-peer and self-custodial solutions on subsequent layers. Indeed, after the spectacular failure of SegWit2x, any adversary would likely conclude the stalling strategy to be far more viable.

EDIT: Didn't propagate because lemmy.world was down

That'd make them the largest company to do so, as far as I'm aware.

Title mostly says it all. I have a hardware wallet but the battery is toast and it only works when plugged in, and the buttons are a little sketchy at times, sometimes they work sometimes they don't.

gensler is one of us! confirmed btc maxi