Hardware wallets are an unnecessary expense ($300 +) pushed by marketing, when free options provide similar or better protection:

• Paper wallets, air-gapped computers, or open-source software like Electrum can achieve true offline signing without hardware costs or trust issues.

• The seed phrase is the real key to your Bitcoin—if stored securely offline, a hardware device adds little value beyond convenience, yet introduces physical risks like loss, damage, or theft.

• In criminal contexts (e.g., cartels or illicit funds), recovery seeds can be shared to invisibly transfer assets post-seizure, bypassing blockchain traces and making hardware wallets a tool for evasion rather than pure security.

No matter how secure the device, human factors make them vulnerable:

• Phishing, fake updates, or scam letters (e.g., “urgent replacement” mails) trick users into revealing seeds or connecting to malicious apps.

• If a device fails or locks up (reported in some cases), users are stuck relying on the seed anyway, rendering the hardware redundant.

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A Reddit user has come forward to claim the recently mined, self-hosted Public-Pool block, and announced that it was mined with a NerdQaxe++ Revision 6. 🥳

Can we FINALLY say that we sold the winning ticket?!

"Hey guys, it's me again. I recently posted about a px build I made with 6 nerdqaxe++. I recently got a Avalon Q as well and my total has is 120-130 TH.

I manage to do it. I fucking manage to do the god damn impossible. I got a mother fucking block. Everyone says its hard. Your wasting money. You’ll never find one. You have to get at least a few PT to have any chance. Well fuck those guys. I did it and we got proof now. A tiny nerdQaxe found a block against all odds, against the world.

And I solo mined. It was $342,564.17. Tax will eat up $158,000 leaving me with 200k ish. I am so damn psyched and hyped.

The max difficulty i hit was 2.08 P. I had 212 G. You guys can do it. We all can do it. These small miners are so damn amazing. Also, I will delete all private DM. Don't even bother scammers. And I also already “verified” and “sync” my wallet ok".

Picture is a few days old

The pixel 9 pro fold is growing on me. It’s the ideal form factor for a pocket gaming device. Too bad android gaming kinda sucks, but at least there’s osrs.

bonds

time is the most valuable resource

i have been leveling at gotr. just hit 80 runecraft. just bank standing 99 crafting atm. necklace is just a fast bank chest teleport so I use gotr chest a lot on mobile

Hey nostr:nprofile1qqswx0lxtu0au3xxmst7avu0mtg0e6h3et58ygyyxvhdrceyjc536sspr9mhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet59uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj730phezqd

What's happening here with the difficulty adjustment?

On my own node it shows:

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The US government just seized 127,000 BTC from a guy who operated forced labor crypto scam compounds in Cambodia.

This marks the largest seizure of any kind in history.

As a bitcoin maxi, life is simple. You simply always are all in. And of course looking at “price” it’s not always wise.

So a beautiful example of conviction as I’m going through some historical buys with the print screens and the actual numbers.

At the end of 2021 I sold my bike rental, bikelimburg.

My last bit of fiat came in and as always, I directly converted it into bitcoin.

I just started nostr:nprofile1qqsqx8xlj3slw6yt3nx208fal6vm598tetl8nkzgdtwnqmyw83g7u0cpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejqzyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn9ksq35g and knew I needed the money later. It would take years to create a profitable company.

But I bought bitcoin at this top anyway.

I spend €5000,- (which was basically $5000,- back then). To see it be (1/4) €1250,- a year later.

In November 2022, we had basically no new clients, not a single business case made sense for mining on that fiat level.

And basically nobody believed in it anymore at that time.

I was earning some fiat through BitcoinBrabant still and some side jobs at that moment.

I always bought bitcoin.

Proof of it below 👇

Running a poll on x, which I would prefer to run here.

First poll:

I run

1 Core

2 Knots

3 Librerelay

4 Core & Knots

Second poll:

I run

1 Core 30

2 Core 29

3 Core 28

4 Core 27

Third poll:

Datacarriersize

1 100.000

2 80

3 42-40

4 0

I am confused? SUI dropped 25% not 99%? What did he do?

Now I’m really wondering how many degens got liquidated borrowing against shitcoins 😂

Had an epic conversation yesterday evening before going to bed.

Woke up around 4.15 first answered my emails and DMs of BitcoinBrabant and did some workouts.

Than found out bitcoin was a a bit lower. Emptied all the bank accounts. Bought bitcoin.

Don’t do leverage. Work your ass off. Don’t leave bitcoin on an exchange. (All major US exchanges went offline during the trough).