A feed of the latest blog posts from major bitcoin and crypto wallet companies and developers, direct from the source.  A quick way to stay on top of the latest potential security issues, new products and current deals.

Stephan Livera Podcast
Seed Phrases vs Key Sharding: Multisig's UX Trade-offs | Setzeus SLP781 Setzeus argues that 90% of people will never properly use seed phrases and hardware wallets, and that services like Privy and Turnkey, which split a key behind an email or phone login, are a good-enough floor for self-custody. Stephan pushes ...
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Stephan Livera Podcast
Smarter Web's Capital Structure and MORE Preferred | Andrew Webley SLP780 Andrew Webley walks through Smarter Web's capital structure—ordinary shares as growth equity, a repaid short convert, Coinbase credit, and MORE as the income preferred.Webley is CEO of The Smarter Web Company (LSE: SWC), the UK's largest publicly traded Bitcoin treasury. ...
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Stephan Livera Podcast
Lightning in x402 and Agent Payments | Ben Carman SLP779 Bitcoiners built L402 for a Lightning-native web. Crypto built x402 for agents — and early volume is mostly stables. Ben Carman helped get Lightning into the x402 standard, and argues the pragmatic move is to meet that stack in the ...
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Stephan Livera Podcast
Why Bitkey Ditched Seed Phrases | Clay Garrett SLP778 Bitkey ditched seed phrases for a recovery-focused 2-of-3 design: an app key, hardware key, and Block server key that use phones, hardware, and cloud access to help people retain control of their funds.Clay Garrett, Bitkey lead at Block, joins Stephan ...
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Casa Blog
Casa Blog
What is a multisig wallet? Multisig means multi-signature. A bitcoin wallet with several keys, where more than one must sign before coins move. A Casa 3-key vault needs two of three.
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COLDCARD Firmware 5.6.3 & 1.5.3Q: Codex32 and Shamir Backups
COINKITE Blog
COLDCARD Firmware 5.6.3 & 1.5.3Q: Codex32 and Shamir Backups COLDCARD firmware 5.6.3 for Mk4/Mk5 and 1.5.3Q for Q let you split the
wallet already on your device into Codex32 Shamir shares. No funds move, and
the wallet does not change.
Codex32 is the main feature. The release also adds optional Seed Vault ...
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Codex32 and Shamir Backups on COLDCARD
COINKITE Blog
Codex32 and Shamir Backups on COLDCARD Your seed backup has a problem that more copies cannot fix.
One copy is a single point of failure: lose it, lose the coins. Make a second
copy and that is fixed, at the cost of doubling the number of places somebody
can ...
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Stephan Livera Podcast
Bitcoin Savings vs Casino Exchanges | Julian Liniger SLP777 Most crypto exchanges are built like casinos: they chase the next hot token, prediction market, or trading product. Relai is building a different category—a savings brand for people who want to accumulate Bitcoin, hold it in self-custody, and build wealth ...
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Stephan Livera Podcast
Bitcoin PIPEs v2 | Misha Komarov SLP776 Bitcoin soft-fork debates around CTV, CSFS, OP_CAT, and OP_VAULT keep stalling — and Misha Komarov of Allocinit argues you can emulate much of that covenant behavior with cryptography instead of changing consensus.Misha joins Stephan to unpack Bitcoin PIPEs v2: a ...
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Casa Blog
Casa Blog
Hot wallets vs. cold wallets: Which is most secure for bitcoin and ethereum? Hot and cold, custodial and non-custodial. Here is what each wallet type protects against, where a single key runs out, and what changes when you move to a multi-key vault.
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COINKITE Blog
Build and Run Your Own COLDCARD Firmware COLDCARD will run firmware you build yourself. The source tree includes the
development signing private key (key zero), so you can change the code, test
it, build a DFU file, and install it without asking Coinkite to sign it.
The bootloader makes the ...
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ELLIPAL - News
ETH staking is live in the ELLIPAL App You can now stake ETH in the ELLIPAL App. Rewards compound automatically, and you sign with your ELLIPAL Titan 2.0 or ELLIPAL X Card, so your keys stay offline.More
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ELLIPAL - News
ELLIPAL App 5.0: the biggest change we have ever made This is the biggest update ELLIPAL App has ever had. Open it, and these five changes are the first you will feel.More
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Casa Blog
Casa Blog
21 tips for securing your bitcoin Holding bitcoin on your own requires some personal responsibility, but the good news is this is easily manageable with the right mindset and tools.
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Casa Blog
Casa Blog
Is one hardware wallet enough? A hardware wallet is a signing device for your digital assets. When we think about how many locks, checks, or keys have been used historically to protect our valuables, the more valuable something is, the more keys, checks, and redundancy ...
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COLDCARD Firmware Update 5.6.2 & 1.5.2Q: Verifiable Seed Mixing; Continued Security Review; and EDGE 6.6.1X/6.6.1QX
COINKITE Blog
COLDCARD Firmware Update 5.6.2 & 1.5.2Q: Verifiable Seed Mixing; Continued Security Review; and EDGE 6.6.1X/6.6.1QX COLDCARD firmware 5.6.2 for Mk4/Mk5 and 1.5.2Q for Q restore
visibility into the device-generated input used during seed creation and add a
standalone tool for independently checking dice-roll or coin-flip mixing.
The release also includes changes from our continuing review of transaction
validation, USB ...
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Casa Blog
Casa Blog
Doubled referral credits through September 30 After the recent Coldcard security news, a lot of people have been asking their more security-conscious friends and family for advice. If you've already got a solid setup, this is a good moment to help someone you care about get ...
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COINKITE Blog
COLDCARD + Sparrow: Air-Gapped from First Address to First Signature Sparrow and COLDCARD should have different jobs.
Sparrow runs on the computer, watches the blockchain, tracks wallet history, chooses coins, creates transactions, and broadcasts. In this workflow, COLDCARD holds the signing key, interprets the proposed transaction on its own screen, and ...
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ELLIPAL - News
What Happens If You Enter the Wrong PIN on a Hardware Wallet? Entering the wrong PIN does not delete your crypto. After 10 wrong Card-PIN attempts the ELLIPAL X Card resets to factory settings, and your seed phrase restores access.More
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Bitcoin Core
Bitcoin Core 29.4 released Bitcoin Core version 29.4 is now available for download. See the release notes for more information about the
bug fixes in this release.
If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom
(IRC, web) and we’ll do our best ...
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Bitcoin Core
Bitcoin Core 30.3 released Bitcoin Core version 30.3 is now available for download. See the release notes for more information about the
bug fixes in this release.
If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom
(IRC, web) and we’ll do our best ...
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Bitcoin Core
Bitcoin Core 31.1 released Bitcoin Core version 31.1 is now available for download. See the release notes for more information about the
bug fixes in this release.
If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom
(IRC, web) and we’ll do our best ...
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Blog - MEW
NEW SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT: COPENHAGEN We’re pleased to announce an intimate show in Copenhagen, at Rust on September 1st! Where we will be playing 'And The Glass Handed Kites…’ in its entirety.Tickets are on-sale NOW here: https://mew.ffm.to/copenhagen2021.owe
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HELSINKI AND OSLO
Blog - MEW
HELSINKI AND OSLO Due to local restrictions still in place we have rescheduled our headline shows in Helsinki and Oslo to January 2022. Tickets for the original dates will remain valid for the new dates: mew.ffm.to/live- January 27: The House of Culture, Helsinki.- ...
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