We want to clear up a bit of confusion. @CoinCards and Coldcard/Coinkite are separate companies. We have used the name Coincards longer than the coldcard has been around. When coldcard was created, we asked NVK to reconsider the name. He laughed it off "it's not even close". With all that's going on, the name is often being used interchangeably on social media. We are also getting support requests to our site for Coinkite products. To everyone affected by the situation, we're genuinely sorry you're having to deal with it. As fellow Bitcoiners, we know how stressful anything involving your savings or self-custody can be, and we hope everyone is able to get everything sorted safely. Wishing everyone the best. ❤️

Some crypto apps want to be your bank, your broker and your life coach. We just want to sell you a gift card for sats. Sats in, card out, no balance to babysit, nobody holding your money hostage. Just a shop. 🟧 coincards.com

Patched and back online. We'd rather go dark for a few hours than take chances with your orders, so that's what we did. Gift cards for bitcoin and Lightning are open again. Thanks for hanging in there. 🟧 coincards.com

YouTube pulled two Bitcoin channels in one day. Simply Bitcoin was back within about an hour, and The Bitcoin Conference is still gone. If your audience only lives on someone else's server, they decide when you get to talk. Run your own stuff. 🟧

Ask us something on X or Nostr and a real person reads it. We try to answer every reply and mention, and if you spot something broken, tell us. We'll look into it and let you know what's going on. 🟧

A few German savings banks started selling bitcoin in the Sparkasse app today for €0.99 an order. The coins sit in DekaBank's pooled wallet, and you can only send them to approved crypto companies, not your own hardware wallet. That's a bank IOU. 🟧

Canadians who come back average 10.5 orders each. Americans, 8.6. That's not people trying bitcoin once. That's people living on it. 🟧

Open Coincards in Brave and watch the Shields counter sit at zero. No third-party trackers, no Google scripts, no ad pixels in your browser. Use TOR for even more privacy. Meanwhile, our competition is leaking your clicks to five tracking companies before you even hit accept. 🟧 coincards.com

Keonne Rodriguez (@keonne) is serving five years in federal prison. William Hill is serving four. They helped build Samourai, a Bitcoin privacy tool. #FreeSamourai Building privacy technology shouldn't mean developers and their families have to live in fear for innovating. We haven't forgotten Keonne, Bill, or their families, including Lauren (@leamuirleyn), who continues to advocate for Keonne. Read Keonne's story and learn more about the clemency campaign: change.org/p/stand-up-for-fr…

We did the math. Most crypto gift card sites upcharge on Amazon.ca cards, usually 5 to 10%, quite often "hidden" Ours are face value: a $20 card for $20 in sats with Bitcoin or Lightning. No wonder we sell out constantly. 🟧 coincards.com/ca/product/ama…

82% of our Canadian orders come from repeat customers. Ottawa can freeze bank accounts all it wants. Canadians keep spending sats. 🟧

Email is basically becoming a surveillance product with a send button. So we added Signal and Nostr DM delivery for gift card codes. Pay in sats, get your codes in a DM, and let Google wonder where you went. Both are in beta. 🟧 coincards.com/frequently-ask…

Building open-source privacy tools shouldn't mean having to hide from the consequences of how someone else might use them. Developers need room to build. Innovation depends on it.

Happy Thanksgiving Canada! 🍁 Your uncle will explain at dinner why Bitcoin is a scam while his savings melt in a chequing account like gravy on a hot plate. Smile, pass the potatoes, stack sats. 🟧

COLDCARD's year so far: July: firmware bug turned seeds into scratch tickets for thieves October: their own X account is telling people to "migrate" straight into a phishing site. Someone put them out of their misery already lol. 🟧 cointelegraph.com/news/coldc…

Update on our ads situation: Microsoft has manually approved "Bitcoin". Maybe the world is healing?