Is this a good looking Maxi water bottle or what? Great merch @stacked_bitcoin, well done👏🧡

Next up at BOSS Summit: @veronika_dorson on Self-Custody UX Trade-offs Self-custody gives you control over your bitcoin. But how do we make it easier to use without compromising on security or control? Veronika is exploring the decisions that go into designing @ZeusLN, a self-custody experience, and the trade-offs developers need to think about when building better Bitcoin wallets.

BREAKING: Popular payment app Blink Wallet introduced an inactivity fee to force Bitcoin users into self-custody. ⠀ Unlike traditional banks that profit from holding idle cash, the developers are penalizing users who leave Bitcoin on custodial servers. ⠀ The firm is pushing everyday savers to hold their own private keys instead of trusting a middleman. ⠀ Even wallet apps are reminding you: not your keys, not your coins.

How to set up your first bitcoin wallet safely ✅ 6 steps, in plain English. The example is a hardware wallet, but the principles apply to any self-custody wallet 🧵

The Bitcoin industry is paid to recommend certain ways to secure your Bitcoin that are not necessarily the safest. I ran a Bitcoin exchange for nearly a decade. Now I run Fedi. I have incentives too. Here’s what nobody gets paid to recommend.

Some great POW happened as part of the Bitcoin Weekend in Wellington including: ⚡ Bitcoin workshops: From zero to self-custody in a few hours! 🎤 @Bitkiwi1 XVII: Great presentations by the @bitcoinpolicynz , Paul, Dan and ACT MP Nicole McKee, the only party in NZ proposing a tax exemption to small purchases with Bitcoin (which would be massive for merchants adoption) and for Bitcoin held for 12 months or more…. Gradually then Suddenly! A very fun Bitcoin quiz by @stacked_bitcoin with some awesome prizes! LFG NZ!

Where are you at with self-custody? No judgement, just curious. Reply A, B, C or D 👇

🔐 Rough month for wallet security news: tampered devices sold through resellers, and fake “recall” emails asking for seed phrases. The basics still hold: buy from a seller you trust, check the seals, make your own seed phrase, and never type it into a website. #Bitcoin

I got this message from one of our local meet-up attendees tonight: [text:] Hi Drew. I got a call earlier from someone pretending to be the police. Supposedly they made an arrest and recovered some personal information off a device. Interestingly they mentioned the Bitcoin Shop. Have you had any cyber incidents? [end quote] It’s clearly concerning that people are calling pretending to be the New Zealand police. The person hung up on my friend once he questioned a few anomalies in the details. Be warned that somebody calling about Bitcoin & cryptocurrency pretending to be the police may well be a fraud. Ask them to validate their details &/or communicate with you via email or in person rather by phone. We’ve not had any security breaches of our thebitcoinshop order information & our customer’s contact details are wiped after 30 days, such that we cannot retrieve it. My friend and I have today speculated where the fraudulent caller may have gotten my friends contact details from? We thought probably by the dark web, possibly by a breach from one of the exchanges used to purchase his Bitcoin from. At the end of the day, be careful out there people. Never be forced to make a quick decision out of fear or FOMO to give up your personal details or seed phrase, etc, even if it’s to a supposed authority. Stop, breathe, think & talk to other trusted parties before doing anything. Don’t trust, verify. Drew thebitcoinshop.nz

A Bitcoin treasury company (@Datavault_ai $DVLT) just crashed because they informed investors that they haven't been able to withdraw BTC from the exchange (@BiconomyCom) that is holding all their treasury funds after 4 months of transfer requests.

“Just self-custody your Bitcoin, bro.” Self-custody in 2026: • Coldcard: weak entropy, ~$116M stolen • Ledger: customer data leak + hardware implants, $86M+ stolen • Trezor: 80,689 customer records leaked • Trezor again: 347,149 emails exposed • Keystone: authentication key stolen, 18,835 wallets being destroyed • Keystone again: USB exploit capable of seed extraction • SafePal: 39,798 customer records exposed • Foundation Passport: 23,000+ phishing attempts • BitBox: email list stolen + phishing campaign • BitBox again: multiple critical firmware bugs • Tangem: physical password-reset exploit Self-custody is still the answer. But damn, HWW companies have had a YEAR.