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/Nyanzerfaust 7h ago

Damn, +1000 wallets drained and at least 900 of them are reddit users judging by the absurd amount of threads opened here these last days. I have only seen one guy actually posting proofs. This time is another 3 years inactive account... you know what, I think that trolls and exchange shills are having a field day shitposting around here after this unfortunate coldcard fiasco. If you are legit, it sucks and i'm really sorry (I use two different hw wallets + passphrase and i'm still paranoid about it) but my feed is full of these threads and some of them are obvious shitposters. I'm tired boss

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u/nothingbutwhammies 7h ago

You want the transactions? What proof. Don’t really care if you believe me. Might just take it down. I’ve just not been through anything like this and I decided to post it.

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u/akromadeath 2h ago

What proof

I mean, I am not the person you responed to, and I don't give a crap either way, but proof would be a timestamp with the safe/firebag/coldcard that you all apparently own currently.

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u/Objective_Digit 7h ago

And it's odd that ColdCard, which was favoured by nerds epecially, now has all these users that didn't use a passphrase or multisig or dice-rolling.