Nostr notes by BlessedBovine

Quickest subscribe of my life.

2026-10-21T19:54:02Z

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Quickest subscribe of my life.

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2026-10-13T00:20:03Z

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Thanks, Bullish 🐮

T minus 2 days to #Bolt12 Deals from @nprofile…qnef. Are you ...

2026-10-10T15:53:42Z

T minus 2 days to #Bolt12 Deals from The Bullish ₿itcoiner (nprofile…qnef). Are you bullish enough Anon?

Of course. Stay bullish. 🐮

2026-09-12T21:18:48Z

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Of course. Stay bullish. 🐮

11 left. 🐂 #nevent1q…xg63

2026-09-12T18:03:21Z

11 left. 🐂

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⚡️ BOLT12 DEAL ⚡️

Happy September 12th! This month’s deal introduces a new distressed hat to the “Entropymaxxing” collection. To snag one, send 12K sats to the #BOLT12 offer below and reply/DM with proof-of-send (e.g. preimage). Offer is valid today only and limited to the first 12 senders.

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https://www.takemysats.com/bullish/collections/entropymaxxing

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2026-09-12T18:02:58Z

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11 left.

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I was beginning to expect this may be the case. Thanks for the ...

2026-09-12T05:13:50Z

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I was beginning to expect this may be the case. Thanks for the diagnosis.

@nprofile…2szn is @nprofile…jvzg confirmed.

2026-09-11T19:00:49Z

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Derek Ross (nprofile…2szn) is corndalorian (nprofile…jvzg) confirmed.

I'll have mine prettied up like that some day. Set some sats ...

2026-09-02T16:01:40Z

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I'll have mine prettied up like that some day. Set some sats aside for it, maybe in a few cycles. Missing exterior emblems, leaking fluids in a few spots, needs new floorpans, needs some minor bodywork, exterior paint could be freshened up, and a number of cosmetic things on the interior need work as well. I got her running though. It'll give my kids and I something fun to work on together as they grow up.

This is me as a car. ...

2026-09-02T06:06:53Z

This is me as a car.

quoting
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This is me as a car.

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That was my most recent order plus the orange tallow. Should ...

2026-08-27T01:53:33Z

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That was my most recent order plus the orange tallow. Should definitely give that one a shot, it's bomb.

What a handsome chap there.

2026-08-24T01:19:31Z

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What a handsome chap there.

I'm pretty sure my first purchase was a "Nostr or ...

2026-08-22T22:27:42Z

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I'm pretty sure my first purchase was a "Nostr or Nowhere" mug from The Bullish ₿itcoiner (nprofile…qnef). Then the Bitcoin Standard from you, and soap from SoapMiner (nprofile…d5tl). Several other purchases since then.

It certainly is. He's got two older brothers. We've had ...

2026-08-20T22:20:49Z

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It certainly is. He's got two older brothers. We've had quite the journey together, with many more adventures to come. 🐄

Thank you! 🐮

2026-08-20T22:19:41Z

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Thank you! 🐮

Thank you! 🐮

2026-08-20T22:18:45Z

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Thank you! 🐮

Thanks, Bullish! He was a surprise, to be sure, but a welcome ...

2026-08-20T22:18:28Z

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Thanks, Bullish! He was a surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one. 🐮

I was going to do a response to this, decided it wasn't worth ...

2026-08-18T19:30:27Z

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I was going to do a response to this, decided it wasn't worth my time. Then was curious about why you felt so inclined to continue to poke fun at a stranger on the internet. Thought something clearly isn't going well for you in your life, and maybe you're just taking it out on others.

I took a look through your past notes, and actually came away feeling like you'd be someone I would really enjoy getting to know. We've got quite a bit in common. Married, kids, pets, learning Viet, reading, quitting fiat jobs that were draining us, and a shared hope of the change Bitcoin can bring to the lives of our loved ones.

Congratulations on all the wonderful things from your Christmas note. It was beautiful and inspiring to read. I pray you, your wife, and your little one are all happy, healthy, and enjoying life. The time we have with our children is fleeting, appreciate every moment of it. I also hope that your dog is feeling better to the extent that he can be. Age comes for us all.

Many blessings, Stranger. You're family is in my prayers.

What a great way to look at it! This does give me a new life. How ...

2026-08-18T18:23:20Z

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What a great way to look at it! This does give me a new life. How often is one able to provide oneself with a completely fresh start to an old game? I should be able to sink another thousand hours into my new adventures before the end of the year.

I bought a new micro SD for my Switch 2 yesterday morning and ...

2026-08-18T15:25:12Z

I bought a new micro SD for my Switch 2 yesterday morning and transferred a bunch of games over to it that afternoon. Last night, I saw that the transfer failed. Not only did the transfer fail though, but it corrupted my software data on both my Switch and the SD card. I tried reformatting the SD card from my PC hoping that would work, it didn't.

I couldn't even check storage anymore. It would either not launch at all, or it would launch and immediately crash back into the menu. The one time it did work it just showed the corrupted files without icons and "????" In place of their names.

Last ditch effort, I decided to factory reset my switch. After all, we've got a Nintendo plan so my games' saves should be backed up to the cloud.

Well, most my stuff is in tact, and it repaired the microsd card. I'm pretty devastated though, because my Animal Crossing Island wasn't backed up and apparently neither was a single one of my Pokémon games.

I just lost 240hrs of Animal Crossing, and 100s of more hours spread across my Pokémon games. Probably a bit more than a 1000 hours of total gameplay and progress lost...

Got the ball rolling. Are there even 1k Nostriches though?

2026-08-15T20:54:25Z

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Got the ball rolling. Are there even 1k Nostriches though?

I'm broadcasting notes on mobile too much xD

2026-08-14T21:00:13Z

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I'm broadcasting notes on mobile too much xD

Let's go!! Nip-05 inbound. 🐮 #nevent1q…vtva

2026-08-11T18:01:01Z

Let's go!! Nip-05 inbound. 🐮

quoting
nevent1q…vtva
Last call for early supporters! NIP-05s will be rolling out this week. Zap 2100 sats to the quoted note to get one. 😎

note1e4t…5mz3

Wonderful selection method!

2026-08-10T19:46:40Z

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Wonderful selection method!

Audio is missing for some reason. Playing fine on the device I ...

2026-08-09T00:50:49Z

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Audio is missing for some reason. Playing fine on the device I uploaded it from, but not in the nostr client. Luke (forward) makes a face when the other guy mentions changing the proof of work for the Bitcoin network. https://youtu.be/rHKXKR-jXPg?t=5061

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2026-08-09T00:41:42Z

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Have you talked to @nprofile…d5tl about your BullishMarket?

2026-08-07T19:10:55Z

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Have you talked to SoapMiner (nprofile…d5tl) about your BullishMarket?

Bullish 🐃 ...

2026-08-07T16:57:41Z

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Bullish 🐃

Thanks, @nprofile…2vnl , I had already moved it off though. I ...

2026-08-05T04:54:26Z

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Thanks, daniel (nprofile…2vnl) , I had already moved it off though. I wasn't sure what happens to Sats on layer twos during a chain split, so I figured it was best to just move it on chain to a hot wallet. If I understand aqua properly, it is a fediment of signers forming a multi-jurisdictional multi-sig. They run a side chain to Bitcoin, and issue liquid Bitcoin as a 1-1 peg per Bitcoin in their fediment. So not really my keys, not really my choice in a chain split. Right?

Is that a relay issue?

2026-08-03T14:40:47Z

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Is that a relay issue?

My heart is heavy for all those who lost any of their precious ...

2026-08-03T06:44:09Z

My heart is heavy for all those who lost any of their precious time and energy to the ColdCard entropy failure. It's devastating to see people talking about losing the entirety of their time and energy from the past X years - long before I found the Bitcoin space. So many pioneers that forged the path ahead and built amazing educational platforms and spaces. They provided me with all the tools necessary to enter into the Bitcoin space with such a strong conviction in the future of what Bitcoin could bring to society.

This is my first Bear Market. The falling USD price hasn't really bothered me. Thanks to the amazing Bitcoin Pioneers' tales of how bad things had been in the past Bear Markets combined with the lack of changes in the fundamentals of Bitcoin. I have stayed grounded in "∞/21M" and, to paraphrase @hodl, leverage won't magically make you an OG." This current ColdCard debacle is the first time I've been extremely uncomfortable to be a part of the Bitcoin community.

To preface the next part: I have zero, zip, zilch, prior experience in cryptography, coding, or other software skills.

I, like many others, spent a significant time trying to educate myself on different hardware wallets before we took our Sats off an exchange. To be honest though, much of the technical jargon was lost on me. One thing did stand out to me though, ColdCard seemed to have the best (anecdotal) hardware wallet. I particularly liked the Q for it's QR scanner and full QWER keyboard. Knowing that most Sats are lost due to user error, I felt the Q provided ample tools to help verify, send, and receive Bitcoin transactions while minimizing user error.

We're all told, "Don't trust. Verify." I did the best I felt I could, short of learning how to code myself to review CoinKite's code. I reviewed as much as I could on the reputation of the devices and feedback from people that had used them. For all intensive purposes, the Q felt like it would provide the best user experience for my wife or heirs if something happened to me, and give them the highest chance of success.

I did not expect that I'd see ColdCard have a failure so catastrophic as to screw up the single most important part of the security, generating a secure 128bit private key. When I saw the warning go out from some of my fellow Nostriches that there was a vulnerability in the MK3 series my heart started racing. Did it go beyond the MK3? Were my wife and I affected? I started reading as much information as I could. Keeping up with every detail as more and more UTXOs were drained and more info was breaking. Then I saw it, MK4, MK5, and Q were all sub 128bits of entropy. I had accidentally exposed my wife and I, and all our future generations, to the vulnerability. To say my heart dropped into my stomach would be an understatement. I didn't know how long it would be before the hostile attackers were finished with all the MK3 wallets and started on the MK4/5/Q. I did know that I needed to update things quickly but smoothly. A problem quickly arose as I realized our security setup was so difficult to access in the event of a true emergency, like this, that I may not be able to move a single sat in time. The amount of time from the initial incident to when I was first able to even look at the public addresses of our sats took far too long. I felt more and more sick the more time passed without knowing if we'd already been rugged. When I was finally able to check our UTXOs, there was not a Sat out of place. Not yet anyways. I knew we weren't out the woods yet. Even though I'd accessed our Xpubs for the Sats, it would still take quite some time before I could gain access to our keys. The only things keeping me calm was that we had used a passphrase (that I later learned was too weak), and my wife. As soon as I had access to our private keys, I wrote out a checklist. The checklist provided myself a step-by-step guide to make sure that I did things as cleanly and orderly as possible, to minimize potential missteps in a complete migration to new keys. I rolled 100 independent dice to generate our new wallet. It took me 32hrs from the time I learned of the vulnerability to the time I was actually capable of accessing my cold storage and generating the new seeds to sweep our sats to. The only reason I managed to do it in 32hrs was that my emergency contact was able to meet me half way. Without the emergency contact, our sats would've been exposed for at least another 12hrs.

I'm incredibly humbled and grateful that our sats are safe. I understand how incredibly fortunate we are to have been able to keep what small amount of Sats we've been able to stack, because it may not be a lot to most people, but it is a lot to us. I feel like I'd prepared for all the attack vectors, but I never expected that the entropy of a non-tampered with hww would be the one that got closest to compromising our sat stack. What a sobering and panick inducing experience.

As a pleb without a background in cryptography or technology, I really took the generation of seed phases for granted. Never again. Rolling my own entropy, and diversifying our hww from now on. Which will be difficult, because the Q was a big purchase, one I thought would be worth the investment. Oh how wrong I was.

This is where I'm at. I've lost any faith in the honesty ...

2026-08-03T03:35:19Z

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This is where I'm at. I've lost any faith in the honesty of HWWs'. I am going to be multi-vendor, air gapped, generating my own entropy via dice, and cross checking/validating the dice entropy using each device against eachother before I put a seed into use. The last place I expected an attack vector to be was a reputable HWW's entropy generation. The entropy for seed generation is the most important aspect of an air gapped HWW. I figured that at the least, I could rely on a HWW to manage seed creation.

So it would be unwise to use the device even as a signer?

2026-08-03T02:47:57Z

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So it would be unwise to use the device even as a signer?

#nevent1q…yxza

2026-08-03T02:41:10Z

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quoting nevent1q…yxza
Disclosure: I'm a pleb with no technical background (software nor hardware), and I am not a cryptographer.

As far as I can tell, using dice input to generate a seed phrase on a ColdCard Q bypasses the coding failure that causes the low entropy seed phrase generation.

I tested this by rolling dice 100x independently, then inputing the results into the CCQ, the python script provided by CoinKite for the independent verification (I didn't trust this one as much), and https://iancoleman.io/bip39.

The CCQ produced the same HexString as the python script. The CCQ also produced the same seed phrase as iancoleman. I performed this test three times.

Am I correct in my understanding that the provided cross-verification means that if you use the CCQ to process 100 dice rolls then you have a seedphrase generated from the appropriate amount of entropy?

I believe semisol (nprofile…42km) already confirmed dice generated keys were safe, but I thought it best to verify myself. I also wanted to provide other plebs a way they could check their own devices.

#ColdCard #MK3 #MK4 #MK5 #CCQ
daniel (nprofile…w55v) utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻🍁 (nprofile…tkue) HODL (nprofile…tpxn)

I'm more curious about the technical side at the moment. This ...

2026-08-03T02:05:32Z

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I'm more curious about the technical side at the moment. This is not a long term solution for myself. I'm already working on moving away from it. My only other option was hot wallet or exchange, and neither of those seemed great either. It's a damn shame because I really appreciated the full keyboard and qr capabilities for verifying address ownership, sending, etc. It was a very user friendly HWW.

Anyhow, I'm going to be doing a separate note with my thoughts about all this. However, I wanted to keep this one focused on the technical end for plebs like me. I can at least compartmentalize and understand the attack vector comes from the entropy failure, and not from any other angle that has been revealed. An attack vector has not yet been revealed for the device as a temporary seed manager/signer.

I got the impression you were a software developer, so you would ...

2026-08-03T01:43:59Z

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I got the impression you were a software developer, so you would probably have a better idea than me. Thanks for the feedback. 🐮

Disclosure: I'm a pleb with no technical background (software ...

2026-08-03T01:11:17Z

Disclosure: I'm a pleb with no technical background (software nor hardware), and I am not a cryptographer.

As far as I can tell, using dice input to generate a seed phrase on a ColdCard Q bypasses the coding failure that causes the low entropy seed phrase generation.

I tested this by rolling dice 100x independently, then inputing the results into the CCQ, the python script provided by CoinKite for the independent verification (I didn't trust this one as much), and https://iancoleman.io/bip39.

The CCQ produced the same HexString as the python script. The CCQ also produced the same seed phrase as iancoleman. I performed this test three times.

Am I correct in my understanding that the provided cross-verification means that if you use the CCQ to process 100 dice rolls then you have a seedphrase generated from the appropriate amount of entropy?

I believe semisol (nprofile…42km) already confirmed dice generated keys were safe, but I thought it best to verify myself. I also wanted to provide other plebs a way they could check their own devices.

#ColdCard #MK3 #MK4 #MK5 #CCQ
daniel (nprofile…w55v) utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻🍁 (nprofile…tkue) HODL (nprofile…tpxn)

Admist all that is going on in the world, a baby was born. My ...

2026-08-02T03:26:12Z

Admist all that is going on in the world, a baby was born. My wife is amazing, and recovering wonderfully from giving birth to our son. Hug your loved ones, and remember why we're here. I love you Anna Le-Henn (nprofile…fsej)

Fixed this for a few years from now. ...

2026-07-29T22:43:34Z

Fixed this for a few years from now.

Did you make an apk for it?

2026-07-29T21:45:48Z

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Did you make an apk for it?

Zap is failing, but I think it is on my end.

2026-07-29T21:43:18Z

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Zap is failing, but I think it is on my end.

Bullish. 🦬

2026-07-28T18:36:57Z

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Bullish. 🦬

Very excited for this! Plan on rolling out NIP-05s? I'd ...

2026-07-28T16:42:55Z

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Very excited for this! Plan on rolling out NIP-05s? I'd consider grabbing a new one. 🐮