What if your cold wallet isn’t as “untouchable” as you thought? 🔐
Faulty Cat is now for sale, a device capable of causing physical malfunctions in chips using electromagnetic pulses.
That doesn’t mean it can empty any hardware wallet.
But it breaks a dangerous idea:
“offline = invulnerable”.
Self-custody eliminates some risks and creates others. Institutional custody does the exact same.
So here’s the uncomfortable question:
If you had $1 million in $BTC, would you leave everything in a hardware wallet… or spread the risk?
Faulty Cat is now for sale, a device capable of causing physical malfunctions in chips using electromagnetic pulses.
That doesn’t mean it can empty any hardware wallet.
But it breaks a dangerous idea:
“offline = invulnerable”.
Self-custody eliminates some risks and creates others. Institutional custody does the exact same.
So here’s the uncomfortable question:
If you had $1 million in $BTC, would you leave everything in a hardware wallet… or spread the risk?