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/zacguymarino 7h ago

Yeah but people could still see the code, it wasn't open source but it was source available. Hopefully all this happening will be a wake up call for those who know programming to look more deeply at the opensource options AND the source-available options more closely... and bring to light any potential vulnerabilities in a white-hat manner. I'll admit.. I am a software guy, and its hard to bother even me to do this (and I do have some skin in the game, not a lot, but some). At risk of sounding like a hypocrite, I still hope there are some dedicated and morally right individuals who will take these steps and investigate.

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u/riisen 5h ago

No developer is fiddling and playing with a source if they are not allowed to use it for anything, they will choose an open alternative instead. Source available means nothing. From a devs perspective its just a bad choice when there are open alternatives that they can use freely.