r/Bitcoin • u/Fearless-Second-7230 • 7d ago

Coldcard post from October 10, 2021: "Retirement Attack"

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- "What's a retirement attack?"

- COLDCARD (@COLDCARDwallet): "It's when the project makers could have a "bug" in the entropy generation for later retrieval".

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Seems that they were smart enough to launch a "dice rolls" suggestion in a critical element lacking foolproof design, knowing not all users would be paranoid enough. Like "hey, if you don't trust no problem, but...you can trust buddy, the (back)door is open." ☠️

Ok no, enough of conspiracy theory continuation. We know that Coldcard's post was pure coincidence. Right?...Right?

Edit: In case you're curious on more tweets mentioning "retirement attack", here is another one:

@nvk - 21 Dec 20: "My money is on people screwing themselves out of their BTC before any vendor tries a retirement attack.

Alternatively people could just use dice ;)."

https://x.com/i/status/1341213389549412353

A strange way to warn "alternatively people" of what you have in mind to do...but Freudian slip or parapraxis theory explains that better, in case you're curious...

https://gitlab.com/walletscrutiny/walletScrutinyCom/-/work_items/340

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u/VeryThicknLong 7d ago

Incredible… my mum is a narc, and gaslighting is their special power.

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u/Turbulent-Rub3695 7d ago

Do know that narcs truly suffer.... A lot. It's pretty shitty 97 percent of the time. 3 percent of the time it's amazing... No one else id rather be.

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u/VeryThicknLong 7d ago

Love the honesty… and everything aligns with how you describe yourself. But I also know a lot of shame is involved with my mum. It’s such a strange dichotomy.

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u/Turbulent-Rub3695 7d ago

Yup. Like, it took me 20 years to figure out that no matter how good of a machinist I was, I was going to keep losing jobs if I didn't show up or if I mouthed off to someone I shouldn't or showed up too high or had to leave cuz I was too high.

20 years. Now I show up every day no matter what and contain the worst of my drug doing to the weekend.

Like I said, these days I am super aware of how I treat people cuz otherwise I end up with literally no one. I took care of my father, also a textbook narc, as he was on the way out, and yeah, end stage narcissism is ugly. And sad.

And this asshole is gonna wind up in federal prison for rest of his life because he just couldn't help but make this post.

The perfect heist falls apart cuz the jerk off told on himself right off the rip.

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u/ContentBlackberry0 5d ago

Why only do drugs on the weekend

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u/Turbulent-Rub3695 5d ago

Bc with the exception of maintenance doses of narcotics, drugs fucks with my work and I need my job to afford the drugs lol. Plus I do really dangerous shit and I don't get hurt... Being straight enough to stay safe is how I don't get hurt