Topic: #self-custody
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Scotland jails Robert Barr for 8 years over £2 million crypto theft plot run from prison
Scotland's High Court of Justiciary jailed Robert Barr for eight years for directing a plot, run from his HMP Edinburgh cell, to steal over £2 million in digital assets from a Midlothian home. Two accomplices were also jailed.
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South Korea's Supreme Court sets rules for seizing crypto in civil debt cases
South Korea's Supreme Court Rule No. 3280 sets out how courts can attach, freeze and sell a debtor's crypto in civil debt cases, covering both exchange-held and self-custodied assets, according to Crypto Briefing.
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OneKey founder warns old offline iPhones aren't a safe stand-in for hardware wallets
OneKey founder Yishi Wang warned that a wiped, offline iPhone used as a crypto cold wallet is less safe than it looks, pointing to boot-level flaws such as checkm8 that someone holding the phone can exploit, U.Today reported.
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Texas brothers get 15-year prison terms in $8 million Minnesota crypto home invasion
Raymond and Isiah Garcia of Waller, Texas, were sentenced to 180 and 186 months for holding a Minnesota family at gunpoint and forcing the father to transfer over $8 million in crypto.
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Rabby Wallet adds long-press option to remove scam tokens on mobile
Rabby Wallet now lets mobile users long-press a token to remove or hide it, according to an October 22 post on its X account. The token stays at the address on-chain, so only the wallet view changes.
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Starknet Foundation launches Bramble, a self-custody wallet with STRK20 privacy
The Starknet Foundation launched Bramble, a self-custodial Chrome extension wallet that supports STRK20 private balances, Ledger devices and multisig accounts, Crypto Briefing reported on October 20, 2026.
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UK crypto trader robbed of about $800,000 in Solihull home invasion
Three masked men beat a UK crypto trader with hammers inside his Solihull home in December 2025 and forced him to move crypto into their wallets. Losses are estimated at about $800,000, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Tangem launches physical Visa card, says crypto card access lags demand
Swiss wallet provider Tangem announced its first physical Visa card on Wednesday. It told Cointelegraph that where crypto cards are available doesn't match where its payment demand comes from.
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Draper Associates leads Xverse round to build self-custodial Bitcoin neobank
Xverse, a Bitcoin wallet and web3 gateway, raised an undisclosed strategic round led by Tim Draper's Draper Associates to build a self-custodial Bitcoin neobank, the company said Monday.
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Brazil to require reporting of $10,000 self-custody crypto transfers from Oct. 1
Under Resolution BCB 588, Brazil's central bank-authorized institutions must notify Coaf of crypto transfers of at least $10,000 to or from self-custody wallets from Oct. 1, whether or not the transfer looks suspicious.
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Block Discloses Critical Coldcard Vulnerabilities Affecting Bitcoin Hardware Wallets
Block disclosed two critical security flaws in Coldcard hardware wallets (Mk2, Mk3, Mk4, Q, Mk5) that allowed remote theft of Bitcoin. Researchers identified over 1,082 BTC potentially stolen and warned the attack campaign remains active.
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MetaMask Launches Yield-Paying Money Accounts on Monad
MetaMask rolled out Money Accounts on Tuesday, a self-custody feature combining stablecoin yield, payments, and trading built on Monad. The product uses mUSD and deploys deposits into DeFi lending protocols including Morpho.