Can You Trust Your Hardware Wallet? | Bitcoin Banter

— Hardware wallet vulnerabilities in BitBox and BitKey, plus Trezor customer data leaked by shipping provider; experts recommend redundancy and not shipping to home addresses.

— Exchange breaches at Bits of Gold (Israel) and Binance's willingness to share customer data with authorities in countries where it doesn't operate, demonstrating KYC risks.

— French Tax Authority data breach exposing 670,000 records; history of insider threats and attacks on crypto holders in France.

— Michael Saylor's response to MSTR shareholder dilution concerns; MSTR is leveraged corporate exposure, not equivalent to direct Bitcoin ownership.

— U.S. Treasury doubled bond buyback program (from $2 billion to $4 billion), driving long-term yields down and triggering ~10% Bitcoin price rally.

— Use PO boxes or alternative delivery addresses when ordering hardware wallets; never provide home addresses to manufacturers or retailers, as shipping data is frequently breached by third parties.

— Consolidate exchange usage to a single Bitcoin-only, non-custodial platform if you must use exchanges; avoid signing up with multiple exchanges to minimize KYC data exposure across honeypots.

— Buy and hold Bitcoin in self-custody rather than corporate proxies like MSTR; diversification into single equities can result in severe losses and creates false expectations of corporate responsibility.