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.

A Technically-Fluent Bitcoiner’s Inheritance Story TLDR;A deeply technical early Bitcoiner realized that self-custody is only as strong as its worst-case inheritance plan. He needed a system that could survive incapacity, family catastrophe, and coercion without sacrificing sovereignty. With Casa, he built a collaborative 3-of-5 family ...
The Bitcoin Inheritance Gap: What Most Bitcoiners Miss Bitcoiners who have moved off exchanges, set up hardware wallets, and upgraded to multi-key wallets have done the work to ensure their bitcoin is secure.Most have not addressed inheritance yet.A traditional will covers real estate, bank accounts, and investment portfolios. ...
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Drift Protocol Hacked for $285M — Why DEXs Aren't Safe and What Is The Drift Protocol exploit proved "decentralized" doesn't mean safe. Here's why self-custody with an air-gapped hardware wallet is the only real protection.More
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North Korean Hackers Just Poisoned a Library Used by 83 Million Apps — Here's Why... North Korean hackers compromised Axios, an npm library downloaded 83 million times per week, injecting malware that targets crypto assets. Meanwhile, two teens drove 600 miles to physically rob a Bitcoin holder of $66M. Software attacks and physical attacks are ...
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The Best Mobile-First Cold Wallets in 2026: How to Choose Between Air-Gapped, NFC, Bluetooth, and... There is no single "best" hardware wallet — the right choice depends on what you're protecting and how often you access it. This guide compares USB, Bluetooth, NFC, and air-gapped QR connections, explains which scenarios each serves best, and shows ...
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The Market Fear Index Hit 8/100 — Here's What Smart Crypto Holders Are Doing With... Bitcoin's Fear & Greed Index hit 8/100 — the longest extreme fear streak since FTX. With CoinDCX founders arrested, Coinbase Commerce shutting down, and the EU cloud breached, smart holders are moving assets to air-gapped cold storage. This guide covers ...
The security review every serious bitcoiner should do in 2026 Most bitcoiners with meaningful positions have done something about security: a hardware wallet, a seed phrase backup, enough research to feel covered.Bitcoin security is a system, not a purchase. A setup built for the position you had in 2021 or ...
Bitcoin Core 28.4 released Bitcoin Core version 28.4 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 ...
Introducing the COLDCARD Mk5
Introducing the COLDCARD Mk5 The Mk4 is a proven workhorse. It’s secure, it’s air-gapped, and it gets the job done. But engineering is about moving forward. Today, we’re introducing the next step in that evolution: the COLDCARD Mk5.
The Mk5 builds on the trusted, battle-tested ...
BIP-322 Support, WIF Keys, and more!
BIP-322 Support, WIF Keys, and more! New COLDCARD Feature Release: BIP-322 and WIF Support
Today we are releasing a new firmware version for COLDCARD. Tons of new features for both product families: Mk and Q!
New Features
BIP-322 Signing
COLDCARD can now sign BIP-322 “Proof of Reserve”
PSBT files.
This requires a ...
Bitcoin Core 29.3 released Bitcoin Core version 29.3 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 ...
Bitcoin Core 30.2 released Bitcoin Core version 30.2 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 ...
Wallet Migration Failure May Delete Unrelated Wallet Files In Bitcoin Core 30.0 and 30.1 We have become aware of a wallet migration bug introduced in Bitcoin Core 30.0 and 30.1. Under rare circumstances, when the migration of a wallet.dat file fails, all files in the wallet directory may be deleted in the process, potentially ...
Announcing SOC 2 Type II Compliance Casa's internal security controls have now been verified by independent auditors over a 6 month period.
COLDCARD Bitcoin Spending Policy Released New COLDCARD Feature Release: Spending Policies!
Spending Policy for Single Signers
You can now take your existing single-signer COLDCARD and reconfigure it
so that the COLDCARD will refuse to sign transactions that are “too big” /
“too fast”, or send to an address not ...
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
HELSINKI AND OSLO
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.- ...
Bitcoin Supercycle or nah? Date of writing: 27/05/2021 & Bitcoin price: $39,600 USD/BTC or 1 sat = $0.0004 USD Every now and again I […]
SLP Bitcoin Custody Series Welcome to the Bitcoin Custody Interview Series. Hopefully you will enjoy this as a follow on from my prior Hardware […]