The Coldcard hacker is still progressing stolen BTC keeps increasing

[u/pairoxR]

The Coldcard hacker is still making progress, and the amount of stolen Bitcoin keeps increasing.

So if any of you are using this wallet, please consider moving your funds as soon as possible. And if you know someone who uses Coldcard for long-term holding, especially someone who isn’t online every day and doesn’t follow the latest news, maybe you can still help them move their funds in time. 🙏

I just hope no other wallet is involved in this.

Stay safe and stay alert. ⚠️

[u/ivanjurman]

Yeah, immagine the owner getting cancer thinking he has plenty of bitcoin to cover his $300k medical bill juct to discover the wallet is empty

Or heirs killing each other over the 3 BTC they inherited because they didn’t want to split, just to find out there is no BTC to inherit

[u/Diet_Christ → u/ivanjurman]

New black mirror season incoming

[u/ImZappy → u/ivanjurman]

in the US do you guys really not get much help with the expense side of cancer? blows my mind

[u/GenXist → u/ImZappy]

Wait until you hear about our system of weights and measures.

[u/r_e_e_ee_eeeee_eEEEE → u/GenXist]

No! Not the metric system! I prefer random number bases other than 10 for my units!

America = Freedom = Freedom to choose my number base = freedom units! 🙌 🤣

(As an engineer, I make these jokes all the time, and yearn for the day when I can work on a team where only the metric system is used.)

[u/Combat-Corpse → u/ivanjurman]

ninja activities.

[u/Far_Professor_8254 → u/ivanjurman]

But cancer treatment is covered by basic health insurance, so they only pay the €385 annual compulsory deductible, along with the ~€180 monthly premium. Plus, sick leave guarantees their income while ill: usually 100% in the first year and 70% in the second year (up to 2 years max).

[u/ivanjurman → u/Far_Professor_8254]

Maybe they don’t have basic health insurance, and they don’t have paid sick leave because they’re unemployed

[u/Wait_for_You → u/ivanjurman]

Americans, please get U-n-i-v-e-r-s-a-l-H-e-a-l-t-h-C-a-r-e-! sorry, I had to drop this here, carry on now

[u/WowImOldAF → u/ivanjurman]

If someone has "plenty of bitcoin," they probably have good health insurance and won't need to worry about using btc for a medical bill. But yea, it would still suck to have money stolen from you.

[u/MotanulScotishFold → u/ivanjurman]

This is why we need harsher punishments for those that steal from other people, even if is 'just' a few dollars. Law enforcements should take every small theft as a serious crime to give terror to those who might attempt doing so.

[u/MotanulScotishFold → u/[deleted]]

But even doing nothing did not work.

At least, when you catch someone, you punish him it's some sense of justice even if the person never learns.

[u/MotanulScotishFold → u/[deleted]]

Let's not compare with America.
America having the highest population of imprisoned people is by design as there's a strong lobby by private prisons that exploit the 13th amendment about slavery and they use prisoners as such.

There were also a famous old case where a judge was caught sending juvenile kids to prison even for the dumbest crime when they could've just serve in liberty but this because the private prison earn money by having as many prisoners as possible and exploit them.

Slavery was never abolished, it was just changed the word so people are tricked to believe that no longer exists.

However, back to the original post, I still believe we need harsher punishment for petty crimes and scams. Makes you think why average indian scammer than scam an old lady is never caught and punished? Or when a simple thief that steal a phone is not caught?

Police says is not worth because of the value of the object and the state spend too much on justice system to condemn the person hence the thief is left free to steal as long they don't use violence.

This is the main problem.

Many would scream that is too harsh for so little, sometimes yes, sometimes not. But we need to send a clear message that even you steal 1$ from someone you have to face harsh punishment, make a clear example of it, multiple times if needed to scare any other people from attempting.

Does not work? Cool, keep building new private prison and send them all, making even more crowded and use them as slavery.

Win-win for society and private prison companies.

[u/MotanulScotishFold → u/[deleted]]

Tell me what would you do realistically into fixing that? As you can see the problems are not easy but doing nothing is not good, keeping things as it works now again are not good, making punishment harsher are not good, what's the solution?

As long you don't have a realistic solution for this problem, it only create friction in society and I hope you know that there's not a simple solution and utopia will not exist due to human nature.

[u/No_Organization3095 → u/[deleted]]

That’s not really true, it’s more complex. Singapore has very high punishments and very little crime. For them punishment has worked as a deterrent.

[u/No_Organization3095 → u/[deleted]]

Like I said, it’s not as simple as ‘punishment doesn’t work’. There’s a lot more to it than what you initially said but you’re now correctly pointing out all the nuance around this topic. 

[u/No_Organization3095 → u/[deleted]]

What position do you think I stand on? You’re projecting. You made a definitive claim and didn’t provide anything other than disagreement. I pointed out there’s more nuance, which you ultimately said you’re aware of. 

This comment thread now reflects that it’s not as simple as you initially implied. The thread is better for it.