Good news: the Bitcoin Wrench Attack archive just got a lot more accurate.
Bad news: we just doubled the total number of known attacks to over 700.
Kudos to pizzabitcoiner (nprofile…pfmn) for finding hundreds of new attack reports via agentic searches.
https://jlopp.github.io/physical-bitcoin-attacks/
Jameson Lopp
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2026-10-16 13:45:16 UTC
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