Coldcard Fallout: Crypto Elite Can’t Be Their Own Banks Forever

Building a personal fortress for cryptographic keys was always hard work, but there was a time when becoming one’s own bank was cool. No longer. It’s been nearly two decades since backlash against Big Banks during the Global Financial Crisis gave birth to Bitcoin, in a spirit of distrust only deepened by Occupy Wall Street. Yet maintaining the purity of the techno-anarchist vision is becoming a costly drag for investors. The final straw has been the recent attack on Coldcard, a Bitcoin-only hard