waxwing on Nostr: i can only sympathize with anyone trying to run a bitcoin business (say, a technical ...
i can only sympathize with anyone trying to run a bitcoin business (say, a technical one, supporting wallets and similar). if you stick with open source, it seems, you will continue to be attacked directly with the new tooling. if you try to use closed source, your more sensible customers will treat it as it really is - custodial. all combinations are bad: like, custodial, but also open source: guess what you still get attacked. one of the biggest defenses is the simple one: don't be in a big crowd with a big pot of bitcoin under one type of control. the coldcard customers fell victim to that one (though tbh I think the coldcard case was the most extremely unfortunate scenario of everything we 've seen; the Liquid one was also super-unfortunate but not absolutely insanely so).
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