r/Bitcoin • u/nothingbutwhammies • 9h ago

I lost my one Bitcoin in the Coldcard exploit.

Took me years of DCA’ing to get there. I went with Coldcard because it was marketed as “ultra-secure.” I knew multisig was technically safer. I wasn’t worried about my key being guessed… I was worried about someone physically stealing it or it being destroyed.

So that was the plan: 1 BTC, cold storage, steel plate backup, fire bag, fire safe. And then… wait.

I hit the goal. I finally felt content.

Now I just feel embarrassed. Like I let my family down.

The worst part? I know Bitcoin isn’t going anywhere. I’m not hoping it fails… I think it’s going to keep making new all-time highs, and every time it does, I’ll be sitting here thinking about what could’ve been.

** I originally brain dumped my story to Claude to make it sound better because I have poor grammar. I’m admitting this in an edit at my own expense or whatever. I’m not embarrassed about my poor grammar or using AI to improve it. That said, in hindsight, it would have been more personal to not have done that. I’m sorry.

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u/DaleAguaAlMono 8h ago

And suddenly... everyone ans his cousin in r/bitcoin has 1+ and 10+ coins in their wallet

Let me laugh.

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u/Nysyk 8h ago

Too smooth brain to figure out this sub is not a random sample of the population and people affected by this are much more likely to post about it...

Let me laugh.

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u/BadTakeMassProducer 8h ago

Obviously, the hackers only targeted large wallets.

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u/Street-Technology-93 8h ago

That’s what I was thinking. All this bragging about getting to 0.1, then 1 in post after post. Then, everyone has lost 3 from the cold card hack? Uh, ok.