collectors collect
For a market to be really healthy and growing we don’t need 1-2 people with massive fame and 87 million followers to do a “quick move” like change their pfp to a #nft
We need to onboard normal people with 87 followers and educate them so they take their cynical pov of #nfts and start to consider them for the collectibility or utility they provide
On board 100 regular people who have a actual collectible dna 🧬 and watch the overall genre of #nfts grow substantially
My greatest pride is how many “normies” we onboarded here at @veefriends during the winter ❄️
facts
NFT’s are a collectible - this isn’t a debate this is a fact
In a time when 99% of regular people on earth 🌎 react with “scam or fad” when they hear the term NFT .. we have …
10,000’s of people collecting them ..
Now .. they can do much more and are a functional collectible which we have never seen before .. so .. they will continue to innovate …
Man this a fun era ❤️‼️
thank god someone is finally doing the hard infrastructure work web3 desperately needs: getting justin bieber to put the ape back 😂
At wedding in California. Got sat next to @garyvee. Spoke NFTs the whole night 😂 Learned SO much. Guy is next level crazy smart. I see Justin Bieber here. Need to get him to put his Ape PFP back up !!! 🙏🙏🙏
I’m working extra hard for Web3 tonight ….
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We have some difficult news to share. Unfortunately, one of our shipping providers has experienced a data breach that exposed sensitive order data. This affects new customers in the US, UK, Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, and Portugal who received an order within the 90 days prior to August 8th, 2026.
The data exposed:
- Full names
- Shipping addresses
- Phone numbers
- Email addresses
The incident affects 11,742 customers with full exposure (name, email, phone number, shipping address) and 1,947 customers with partial exposure (name, city, email). The breach is limited due to Trezor’s strict 90-day data storage policy (we were also able to negotiate the same terms with fulfillment partners, who follow the same policy).
All affected customers have been contacted separately by email.
Our systems and devices remain secure, but affected customers could experience an increase in phishing attempts.
NEVER enter your wallet backup on a website or share it with anyone, and only check for updates on official Trezor channels.
We are deeply sorry to the community and those affected.
We are investigating this situation and will post updates on our blog:
trezor.io/blog/news/recent-c…
can devs do something?
The Coldcard bug explained in simple terms:
Normally, a hardware wallet generates your 12 word seed phrase using true randomness.
Think of it like a lottery with roughly 340 undecillion possible tickets (that’s a 340 followed by 36 zeros). Every ticket has an equal chance of being picked, making the odds of guessing your seed essentially zero.
The bug didn’t shorten the 2,048-word BIP-39 word list. It changed how the wallet picked the words.
Instead of choosing from the entire lottery, the wallet kept picking from the same tiny corner because the “random” numbers were partially predictable from things like the device’s ID and timing.
Imagine that instead of 340 undecillion possible combinations, your wallet accidentally chose from only a few billion. That’s still a huge number, but astronomically smaller than what Bitcoin’s security is designed to provide.
Your seed phrase still looked completely normal. The words came from the same 2,048-word list. Nothing looked suspicious.
But for an attacker, the search space became millions of trillions of trillions of times smaller.
some of the highest conviction holders took on the most operational complexity and still got clipped
sad to see
$1.6 million dollars in Bitcoin was drained from my account on July 29th in the Cold Card wallet hack.
My Bitcoin was in cold storage. My keys were on a ColdCard device kept in a safety deposit box that had never been connected to the internet.
This part's nerdy, but here's what happened:
Hackers discovered a vulnerability in the part of the hardware wallet code used to create seed phrases.
This allowed them to use AI to brute force guessing seed phrases.
I was at our cottage and heard about the hack today.
"No way this affects me." I thought.
I logged into Wasabi––software that lets me view my bitcoin wallets online.
Right away I saw lines of red transaction–withdrawals–and I knew.
From 9:36pm - 9:43pm on July 29th, every wallet I had had been emptied.
18.25245043 btc gone. That's just over $1.6 million dollars CAD.
Perhaps the hardest part about this is that I did everything right.
I never shared my seed phrase with anybody. My devices never touched the internet. Everything was kept in multiple safes and safety deposit boxes.
None of it mattered. All because the hardware that created the seed phrase originally had one line in their code from 2021 that had a vulnerability.
I'm filing a police report and a report with the Ontario Securities Commission. But I don't expect to recoup anything.
A part of me is trying to make sense of what just happened. Or try to figure out a lesson in it. I'm struggling. $1.6 million is a staggering amount of money to have stolen.
I guess all that I can think about right now is that I'm so damn happy that I'm an entrepreneur and that my earning potential is under my control. Mark my damn words. I'll recover.
