physical-bitcoin-attacks
A list of known attacks against Bitcoin / crypto asset owning entities that occurred in meatspace. (by jlopp)
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| 121 | 338 | |
| 528 | 50 | |
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| 22 days ago | almost 2 years ago | |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
physical-bitcoin-attacks
Posts with mentions or reviews of physical-bitcoin-attacks.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-12-20.
- The privacy that coins like Monero give far outweighs all the illegal uses of it, everyone has a right to privacy that shouldn't be taken away
- One of the advantages of blockchain is that we can roughly calculate how much money went into scams involving cryptocurrencies, because everything is on the public blockchain. Can the same be said for taxe evasion, bribery, corruption, drug trafficking, and other stuff that don't involve crypto?
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Kaspersky: Case study: fake hardware cryptowallet (Trezor)
Obligatory $5 wrench xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/
Still, physically threatening/kidnapping somebody is an entirely different threat model, although it's very common in the Bitcoin world: https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks
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Has there ever been a recorded case of someone being physically robbed of crypto?
This isn't only a comedy topic, there is a list on Github with all known physical Bitcoin attacks.
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Dubai Crypto Manager Abducted for €1M Ransom Has Been Rescued in Spain
This one can be added to the list of known crypto attacks. It will be #188.
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How will Bitcoin coercion evolve in the near-to-mid future?
We don't have the answer, but can share the concern. jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks holds a list of such "$5 wrench attacks" where people torture others in hopes of stealing their crypto.
- Hide Ledger
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$5 Wrench Attacks: Why Crypto Will Not Widespread
There have only 130 wrench attacks reported in the history of Bitcoin.
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LPT: If you have a hardware wallet and also own a gun, keep them in the same place
You act like this doesn't already happen to people: https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks
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Friendly reminder: never keep your seed together with your device, it makes it useless
Prob talked about it unfortunately. She knew enough to go looking for the hardware wallet + seed. Everything else she took was just extras. Physical altercations almost always involve prior knowledge of the victim's possessions..
Bitcoin Treasuries
Posts with mentions or reviews of Bitcoin Treasuries.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-30.
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Germany: Police seize bitcoins worth €2B
> The seizure came after the "accused voluntarily transferred" the bitcoins to an official wallet of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), police added in a statement.
Seizure is a technical word here, not what laypeople expect when they hear the word.
But yes, governments are already very big holders. https://bitcointreasuries.net/?maximized=treemap
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LM Funding $LMFA NASDAQ 84 BTC held in Corporate Treasury - The smallest Bitcoin Mining company no one has ever heard of
Just added to https://bitcointreasuries.net/
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Who are the biggest known Decred whales?
Looking to build a public repo that can house something like https://bitcointreasuries.net. We don’t need the balances, but just a social list that can be shared. Thanx!
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Coinbase does not list securities
Take a look at Bitcoin and DOGE while you're at it, Ethereum too. https://bitcointreasuries.net/ Dash is no worse.
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Saylor and MicroStrategy - Ultimate Bitcoin Bulls Explained
On Monday, MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) revealed that it purchased 6,455 bitcoins For $150M. The firm's treasury now holds 138,955 bitcoins, purchased at an average price of ~$29,817 per coin.
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7.5 billion people, 200 million companies globally and 192 sovereign nations will have to share between the last 2 million bitcoin left to be mined.
It's many more than a couple.
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Daily Discussion, January 25, 2023
hm if accurate, barely anyone did sell. https://bitcointreasuries.net/
- How do we know a rich person or organisation doesn't already own more than half of all the Bitcoin?
- How many coins are available to the public right now, and how many left to mine?
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Time for an grown up conversation
Institutions have been regularly investing in Bitcoin. https://bitcointreasuries.net/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing physical-bitcoin-attacks and Bitcoin Treasuries you can also consider the following projects:
P2P-Trading-Exchanges - Person-to-Person bitcoin Trading Exchanges
crypto-yank - crypto-yank matches and replaces crypto-currency addresses found in the clipboard.
kycnot - Don't get KYC'ed
siad - The Sia daemon
Bitcoin.org - Bitcoin.org Website
mempool - Explore the full Bitcoin ecosystem with mempool.space, or self-host your own instance with one-click installation on popular Raspberry Pi fullnode distros including Umbrel, Raspiblitz, Start9, and more!
bip39 - A web tool for converting BIP39 mnemonic codes
haveno - Decentralized P2P exchange built on Monero and Tor
mynode - The easiest way to run Bitcoin and Lightning!
bisq - A decentralized bitcoin exchange network
gemini-python - A python client for the Gemini API and Websocket
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Bitcoin Treasuries vs siad
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Bitcoin Treasuries vs mempool
physical-bitcoin-attacks vs bip39
Bitcoin Treasuries vs Bitcoin.org
physical-bitcoin-attacks vs haveno
Bitcoin Treasuries vs mynode
physical-bitcoin-attacks vs bisq
Bitcoin Treasuries vs gemini-python