1+ hour, 35+ min ago   (89+ words) Say you’ve backed up your seed phrase on a steel plate. How do you or is there anyway to back up a passphrase physically? A twenty four word passphrase on another steel plate. what if the passphrase has none alphabet…...

4+ hour, 33+ min ago   (72+ words) Can someone explain to SN why it's a good idea to broadcast to the entire world that Bitcoin projects are vulnerable? Why can't it just be done quietly and announced after the measures are in place? Can someone explain to…...

6+ hour, 28+ min ago   (298+ words) You may have seen Chris Guida's post a few days ago where he noted that he had prepared Luke Dashjr's older proof-of-work-change code for use "just in case miners decide to collude to betray bitcoin." #1540163 Although the move was quickly…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (275+ words) I'm hoping for an intuitive answer to why low entropy matters, in general. I get why predictability is bad and why high entropy yields low predictability. What I don't have good intuition for is why low entropy would always imply…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (119+ words) I have seen multiple people talk about rolling dice but adding the caveat that you can mess those up too. My question is how? Lets assume: You actually rolled a dice or dice at least 100 times You verified the seed…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (93+ words) Gitea team fucked up ( in my opinion ) disclosure for a 9.8 score vulnerability that allows remote code execution. The exploit is published in the disclosure itself: GHSA-rcr6-4jqh-j84m Many Gitea instances that didn't update after July 27, are currently under attack by an…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (501+ words) I’ve been looking into the Coldcard exploit for the past few days, and it’s raising a lot of questions. Beyond the entropy related vulnerability, what also worries me is all the possible fallout and what the long term consequences could…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (540+ words) This whole thing seems to be a reminder of the old phrase. "Do your own research". That said, most people will not and never will. Society does not work that way. Most people do no research and trust confident people....

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (152+ words) We review bitcoin community efforts to scan for security vulnerabilities and the need for harness engineering instead of naively pointing Kimi at codebases. We build a vulnerability scanner and forensics workbench into Omega and do a practice run on the…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (151+ words) Apologies for linking to /r/bitcoin lol Someone first showed that Claude Code easily found the exploit after 8 minutes of thinking. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1vddeuy/are\_you\_kidding\_me\_claude\_code\_found\_the/ After some discussion of whether Claude might have found the exploit from the recent news they tested this…...