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117: Coldcard Fallout

By Chris Fisher

Aired Aug 5, 2026 · 1h 29m · Last boosted Aug 13, 2026

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We unpack the widening Coldcard fallout, the uncomfortable lessons Bitcoiners need to face, and a major macro intervention that reveals just how trapped the financial system has become. Episode Links 🎉 Boost from the Web 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform 💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling ⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans. Show Notes COLDCARD M...

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Everyone who has boosted 117: Coldcard Fallout on Nostr, ranked by sats sent, all time.

  1. JCube 85k sats
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  3. Kiwi Bitcoin Guide 51k sats
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  2. OB 7k sats
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  5. bugeyedstormtrooper 4.1k sats
  6. Odie the GWJW 3.3k sats
  7. Atone 2.2k sats
  8. baduhai 2.2k sats
  9. Nicholas Bartlett 2.1k sats
  10. BitcoinSilverFox 2k sats
  11. Love Down Babylon 2k sats
  12. Chris Fisher 2k sats
  13. tobyy 750 sats
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Another question: as a member who also boosts, do you prefer having income from memberful or as boosts? Say for example I wanted to increase my financial contribution to JB. Is the membership or boosts more effective/easier for you guys to take in?
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You guys are making me want a Tesla… Also, I’m thinking of buying a Framework Desktop with the Ryzen AI Max 300 and the 128GB of Shared memory to use as a local AI server. What’s your take on that?
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(2001 space odisy clip) Dont hate the player hate the game, I boosted the most sats last week but got jipped on my Lobster and Im the best 🤪. Whats the minimum that a baller boost can be? (Sometimes JB brings shouts out boosts that arent listed on the Fountain episode so we cant see if an episode is light on sats 🤔)
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I really enjoyed this episode and would love even more in-depth coverage like it. I enjoy all of your AI coverage. I know it can’t be all AI, all the time; nor should it be… you guys do an excellent job. Keep it up.
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I enjoy the AI subject matter and the way you cover it. I’m fairly new to the Linux and FOSS world and now I have to weave AI into it all, so I appreciate the way you bring it into the Linux ecosystem, give examples of practical use cases and also potential hooks to be aware of. AI is here to stay and everyone needs to understand how to use it, so leep the content coming, that’s my vote.
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I think you guys are balancing AI and non-AI topics very well. I can definitely tell there is a lot of work put in each week to keep topics fresh and highlight the lesser hyped things. Keep it up
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Time traveller boost for Texas. I’m randomnly working through the back catalogue to learn things as they come up in my setup. Just learnt the difference between Snap and Flatpaks in eps 532, 501 and 499. It’s evergreen content, thanks for the work you put into creating these and the passion in the delivery.
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Regarding multikernels Maybe you have a specifically optimized for gaming kernel run on a few cores so that all the gaming tasks have better performance. Wait, if there's a different kernel running on each core does that mean that things like kernel anticheat won't be able to see other tasks running elsewhere? So do you negate the privacy implications of kernel level anti cheats that way? Hmmmm
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Name for us listeners: Jupiteers. We are pioneers in the FOSS space
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We went deep on this one. Let me know if we over did it?
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Episode Boosts

Every boost sent to this episode, as published to Nostr, newest first.

  • 54,321 via Fountain
    I'm also rethinking my cold storage situation. I wrote a little rust program to roll a virtual dice using the rand crate, then used that running on my desktop which at that time had been online and doing a bunch of things in the background for a while to get some random dice rolls. Going to check out Bitkey and also maybe an ESP32 based seedsigner
  • 4,096 via Fountain
    Regarding fed reserve... All our govt does is jibber jabber unless it affects their own wealth or life or agenda. They don't care about the middle class and as long as there isn't a revolution, which they're confident there won't be, they can continue just jibber jabbering
  • 2,117 via Fountain
    2117 for the 117th episode plus 2000. Heard the Cold Card issue first from TWIB but also diversify and dont trust Canadian companies (que Team America Theme song). Is litigation against Kite in the works?
  • 10,000 via Fountain
    Thank you Chris for your level headedness. What a crazy week. Yes - Value for Value all the way. Screw product sponsored podcasts actually, screw the celebrity hierarchy cult that’s crept in to the space, VIP areas, egos and hero worship. None of this has a place in this new world. Massive wake up resulting in a good new direction I think. We all just have to keep on asking questions!
  • 10,000 via Fountain
    Thank you Chris for your level headedness. What a crazy week. Yes - Value for Value all the way. Screw product sponsored podcasts actually, screw the celebrity hierarchy cult that’s crept in to the space, VIP areas, egos and hero worship. None of this has a place in this new world. Massive wake up resulting in a good new direction I think. We all just have to keep on asking questions!
  • 21,000 via Fountain
    V4V AT IT'S ABSOLUTE PEAK.
  • 85,000 via Fountain
    What a week that was. I had 2 Coldcard Mk4s; moved my personal stack to River until my Jade, BitBox02 and Trezor come in - That is taking longer than hoped. I also have an IRA with Unchained - they really stepped up. Thank you for your coverage on this - it was needed and appreciated!
  • 750 via Fountain
  • 3,333 via Fountain
    TFW you're casually chilling with TWIB and you hear your handle get a shout-out after a forgotten boost... Talk about #v4v!
  • 2,222 via Fountain
    I was a Coldcard proponent and I have been humbled. Fortunately, dice rolls saved my bacon. I still moved off the device until the dust settles, as I'm not sure I can even trust it just as a signing device after this. But I think my big takeaway is that I'm a dice roll maxi now.
  • 2,042 via Fountain
    And thank you for sticking your neck out doing the V4V.
  • 2,042 via Fountain
    Never played with alt coins, got into bitcoin because of Linux Unplugged talking podcasting 2.0, got the cold card after you mentioned it on one of your shows, but never took the time to setup and use it. Sometimes procrastination pays.
  • 5,000 via Fountain
    Woke up for an early run and, about halfway through, turned on the TWIB Cold Card episode with absolutely no idea what was going on. I immediately turned around and sprinted home at the fastest pace I’ve ever run. Thanks for keeping me up to date… and for the unexpected interval workout.
  • 12,345 via Fountain
    I'm glad you're getting offers for sponsorship. This podcast is valuable and the players see it. My definition of toxic maxi is a paranoid DIYer that knows what money is. Along those lines, it's relatively easy to DIY your own air-gapped hardware wallet using a spare 64bit laptop/netbook plus any flavor of Linux, 1 or 2 BIP39 entropy programs to generate your secret (the 2nd to validate), and Sparrow for your wallet. This would functionally work like a ColdCard Q with a real keyboard (passphrase support!). Just remember to disable wifi/Bluetooth (airgap) and verify hashes for everything you install BEFORE you generate secrets.
  • 2,222 via Fountain
    At one point in time I really considered getting myself a coldcard. Then I realised they dropped their use of a real FOSS license, and that really put me off. Can't help but feel vindicated. I'm really sorry to everyone affected.
  • 2,000 via Fountain
    I was totally surprised. I thought that multisig was so overdue, but from now I have all in multisig with different vendors. And the big thing is. It isn't difficult.
  • 46,000 via Fountain
    Add this to the previous boost. Got fat fingered in my rage! And while I’m at it, did Bitcoin maxi culture fail? 100%, yes. It failed. NVK and his mates personified it and look what happened.
  • 4,567 via Fountain
    If I think back to all the BS “podcasters” spouted about “don’t trust, verify” and all that crap, without doing it themselves, it makes me feel sick. V4V pods with zero paid ads is the only way we’ll get reliable information. As they say “show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcome”. Turns out they were right. Keep it up Chris. Thanks.
  • 2,000 via Fountain
    Sad for those who lost funds. Bitcoiners are resilient and take the lessons forward. I thought of multusig for inheritance or businesses and charities. Now I see why multisig multimethod multivendor and multiple wallets to mitigate any one loss matters. Multi all the things... Got it! Soverignty over money is personal power and comes with personal responsibility. NO shame for those who learned with their stacked sats. But we all take the wisdom from the pain. Wisdom cuts. When it cuts Bitcoin, it reveals the diamond.
  • 6,962 via Fountain
    I can't swap in Bull. Bolts problem? Bessent: honest respectful question. What's he supposed to say. "If we don't bail Japan out, they will sell our Ponzi paper."? Bitcoin Well was first to my inbox about cold card.
  • 5,000 via Fountain
    As Fred Rogers said, “look for the helpers.” There were so many people that wanted to get the word out and help folks save their hard earned bitcoin. I feel terrible for those that lost Bitcoin in this attack. Coinkite’s negligence will only make us more resilient. I understand why some people may keep part of their stack on an exchange, or with an ETF, or have self custody spread over multi vendors or multi sig. Seeing hard working people coming together to help others, though, gives me hope.
  • 1,999 via Fountain
    A new TWiB is out. I guess I’m at the anger phase over this Coldcard situation. But there’s a lot of other important stuff in this episode too. Enjoy! 🍻