If you don't know who Bitcoin Pirate is then you have not studied the history of Bitcoin enough. I'm not saying that his story in particular will shed light on recent events with the MK3, I'm just saying that this shit is not new, its just that every wave seems gets sucked into a security failure or an affinity scam or an accidental ponzi scheme that we've seen a thousand times before, and yet they couldn't possibly have known.
Retirement hacks and the potential for an error in seed generation were fully known about and internalised by the pre-Saylor/pre-Covid wave, even if not all of that wave knew of the names of those particular vulnerabilities. People had a healthy dose of paranoia. They didn't trust fucking brands. To anyone that has been in this for a while it was clear that the bees knees and pigs pyjamas is just another vulnerability, and if you take from this that Trezor is better than Cold Card you are learning the wrong lesson.
You were born alone, you will die alone, and you are responsible for your own fucking bitcoin.
And by the way, studying the history of scams and exploits in Bitcoin is a good way of learning about all of the ways that people can fuck you in all walks of life, so its worth it even if you think this will "end Bitcoin". The history of Bitcoin should be taught in universities as a group of insane people trying to speed run the history of finance and group consensus.
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