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Let's crowdsource a very short guide for people who used Coldcards

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https://stacker.news/items/1536996

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2026-07-31
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Scoresby crowdsourcing a short migration guide for COLDCARD owners, with the author warning he would delete it if stackers found serious flaws. Community guidance drafted in public on day one; individual steps are contested in the replies and not endorsed here. Captured through the site's public GraphQL API: the rendered pages crash the capture tab, and the API answers POST from this host. The query fixes the captured surface to the item's title, text and two levels of comments, each with author and absolute timestamp.

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      "data": {
        "item": {
          "comments": {
            "comments": [
              {
                "createdAt": "2026-08-03T06:38:55.644Z",
                "text": "https://stacker.news/items/1538946/r/deSign_r",
                "user": {
                  "name": "deSign_r"
                }
              },
              {
                "createdAt": "2026-07-31T16:42:40.062Z",
                "text": "**Dice Rolls:**\n\nTo clarify:\n\nMost common question i'm seeing is people want to know if they're OK if they used dice rolls with the Coldcard. Yes, dice rolls side-stepped the issue. Don't panik.\n\n> learn how to create a multisig\n\nNot sure this is good advice yet for most. It moves the balance away from theft, but moves it toward loss, because storage is an unsolved problem for most. Paper and volatile disk storage are weak links, plates are high friction.\n\nPeople need to understand the trade-offs of multisig before listening to people that are just bleating it out. Those same people often bleated Coldcard too.",
                "user": {
                  "name": "justin_shocknet"
                }
              },
              {
                "createdAt": "2026-07-31T17:52:19.941Z",
                "text": "Why this step \" * send wallet balance back to an address from your old wallet\"?",
                "user": {
                  "name": "Bitcoiner1"
                }
              },
              {
                "createdAt": "2026-07-31T15:19:30.879Z",
                "text": "> learn how to create a multisig.\n\nIs there a better maintained tutorial than [this](https://stacker.news/items/1536863/r/billytheked)?",
                "user": {
                  "name": "billytheked"
                }
              },
              {
                "createdAt": "2026-07-31T15:22:33.382Z",
                "text": "Thank you for this, I think it is valuable. It's basically what I did last night, but had to piece the steps together while remaining calm",
                "user": {
                  "name": "WeAreAllSatoshi"
                }
              },

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