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Coldcard Derangement Syndrome jibe

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https://x.com/btcqna/status/2085363250716184739

Captured screenshot of the post by @btcqna, posted 6 Aug 2026, 13:51 UTC
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A two-line joke defining "Coldcard Derangement Syndrome" as the belief that a product is more secure simply because it is ugly and cumbersome to use. It makes no factual claim and offers no evidence. It is held because the austerity-as-security argument it mocks recurs across the record, at length in the Bitcoin Well essay captured the same day, and this is the compressed form in which the counter-argument spread. Opinion, attributed to the poster.

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