3 entries tagged bitkey. All writing.
SEPTEMBER 23, 2026 Binance Rebuilt My Bitkey, Minus the Metal An email landed today announcing Binance.US's new self-custody wallet — no seed phrase, keys split three ways, "no single point of failure." I already own the product that pitch describes; it's called a Bitkey, and Block shipped it two years ago. Here's what's actually the same, what's genuinely different, and why one detail — what's doing the signing, not the math behind it — is the whole ballgame. SEPTEMBER 10, 2026 The Phishing Email Really Was From Trezor On September 9th roughly 347,000 people got an email from help@trezor.io warning them about a chip flaw in their wallet and pointing them somewhere to check it. It was a phishing attack — and it came from Trezor's real domain, passed every authentication check a mail server performs, and borrowed its cover story from two vulnerabilities that are genuinely real. This is Trezor's second breach in a month and its third this year, and not one of them touched the device. AUGUST 4, 2026 A Twenty-Five-Minute Window, and Why I Split the Key A firmware bug sat undetected for five years, then drained over a hundred million dollars from Coldcard wallets in one week. Why I have never trusted a single device with all of mine, and what my Bitkey actually does.