Retirement attack reframed as state seizure
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- @w_s_bitcoin
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- independent
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- Posted
- 6 Aug 2026, 20:25 UTC
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- capture held
Argues that the real retirement attack will not come through code but by force, when governments begin seizing bitcoin held on exchanges as their fiat regimes fail, and that this should always have been the primary concern of anyone saving in self custody. It quotes and replies to nothing and engages none of the incident's technical facts. Its connection to the record is the term: retirement attack is the vendor's own marketing phrase, and COLDCARD's 2021 claim that its devices made such attacks impossible is held at coldcard-retirement-attack-claim. Held as a reaction that redirects that phrase away from the vendor rather than as evidence about the incident. The prediction is the poster's own and is not verified here.
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