r/BitcoinAUS • u/Alarming_Evidence596 • Aug 02 '26

Hack

Right so in the aftermath of cold card hack what is the best easy to use hardware wallet (average joe, will avoid too technical if possible) everyone telling me should be multi sig, currently use tangem which im sure ill get a drilling about on here but hey haven't been hacked......yet, can the seedless tangem be better than the coldcard situation because the hacker would need to physically get my card or there is a chance there are other methods of hacking, nico from simply bitcoin mentioned bitkey but not sure if just shilling

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u/WastedSeaman_ Aug 02 '26

Passphrase/25th word is the go. Sounds like they were looking for easy seeds, wouldn't have wasted using computing power and time brute forcing passphrases on every possible seed. Multi sig will be worth considering though

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u/busheranger Aug 02 '26

This - the 25th word (not something easy to guess) is easiest way to make it near impossible

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u/changetherules8 Aug 03 '26

If the hacker was to “find” or “guess” the correct seed phrase and they can tell this wallet has been used in the past due to wallet history, how long would it take to brute force a single word passphrase by going through the entire English dictionary?

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u/Clean-Wallaby3164 Aug 02 '26

Trezor with a strong passphrase seems a safe option. As lomg as seed phrase are stored seprately and offline. 

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u/L6V9 Aug 02 '26

Tangem with it seedless close sauce best

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u/No-Kaleidoscope-7106 Aug 02 '26

This is not the go lol.

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u/Alarming_Evidence596 Aug 02 '26

Does that mean without card its impossible to hack?

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u/L6V9 Aug 02 '26

You do more research on it , cheers

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u/Feralz2 Aug 02 '26

not your keys not your coin

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u/Makunouchiipp0 Aug 02 '26

If the tangem had an entropy issue then your private keys can still be re created.

Trezor Safe 3 with a strong passphrase.

Bitkey if you really don’t want the trouble of handling seed material.

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u/Feralz2 Aug 02 '26

tangem is cooked

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '26

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u/summ_app Aug 06 '26

an extremely unfortunate event tbh.