Freedom Tech Friday 8 August 2026

Used A Coldcard? Move Your Funds

Tracking the Coldcard Exploit with Orange Surf
Tracking the Coldcard Exploit with Orange Surf
Freedom Tech Friday · 8 Aug 2026 · 01:04:39

when you were generating that seed. Unless you've done those two things, you should probably just assume that that device is compromised and that you, you should treat it as exposed. And then in terms of, you know, multisig, we can get onto that maybe, in a little bit, and I can share some, further details on what to be careful of when it comes to multisig because that's the only situation in which you shouldn't just drop everything and and move the funds out in a in a, like, conventional way where you just broadcast publicly in the mempool. Would it be fair to say if you've generated a seed on cold cards, even if you have used dice rolls, even if you have got a passphrase, that maybe it would be wise to consider moving anyway because you're sort of playing with fire here and with everything going down the way it has and things being missed for five years, etcetera, etcetera. If it's any significant amount of money, the pain of moving it to something potentially more secure and taking an afternoon to do it is much less than the potential pain of loss. And if that trust is gone in that company, and, I mean, really, should be, would that not be something that should be suggested? Not

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