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Nobody wants to hold their own Bitcoin anymore.
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01 THE MACHINE READ
WHY IT MATTERS.
Hardware-wallet compromise and losses push users away from self-custody toward custodial venues.
Self-custody trust erodes after hardware breach
CATALYST TO WATCH
Further wallet exploits or exchange inflows
MAIN RISK
Loss figures are analyst estimates, unverified
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Ledger confirmed that one customer device contained an unauthorized hardware implant. The wallets came from an approved reseller in Southeast Asia, and analysts trace somewhere between $72 million and $93 million in losses. So people are leaving self-custody. Scott Melker walks through where the mo
02 THE STORY SO FAR
THE RECORD, IN ORDER.
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03 WHO'S INVOLVED
ENTITIES ON FILE.
04 RECEIPTS
THE SOURCE RECORD.
1 SOURCES CONFIRMED05 PROPAGATION
WHAT THIS TOUCHES.
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