Weekly Brief

The Week That Was

A weekly editorial from the Bithues desk on the custody, market structure, and threat stories worth your attention. No trading signals, no price calls — just the news, parsed for holders and operators.

5 developments

Coldcard's Forced Migration Met the AI Wallet Arms Race

Three threads converged on ordinary crypto holders this week, and each carried a different operational deadline. The first was the Coldcard migration window: Co…

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5 developments

The Week the Vendor Ecosystem Became the Attack Surface

Last week the story was a $116M seed-phrase generation bug inside one device. This week the story is what happens after: the same hardware-wallet customers whos…

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5 developments

The Week Custody Stopped Being a Device Problem

The week opened with a single $116M loss tied to a seven-day bug in Coldcard's seed-phrase generation routine, and ended with three more supply-chain attacks on…

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