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What happens to your Bitcoin if you lose a key, get hit by a bus, or your house burns down with your signing devices inside? AnchorWatch has always had the answer. Today we are launching new and better ways to protect you. Your custody, your way.

We’re wearing berets now

@AnchorWatch apparently this is real this will get me through the strait

@cbspears It's real, and it's exclusive.

Ask and you shall receive. The @AnchorWatch Elite S Tier Beret is live in the shop. #CompleteTheLook

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We will also be a qualified custodian, imminently, to meet the needs of customers. However, the designation of QC is not what keeps our customers safe. That's accomplished with robust security infrastructure and intelligent key management. Optional insurance covers the tail risks that can occur anyway. We concur with Alex: operational excellency and transparency and proof of reserves or segmented verifiable customer accounts (with insurance to protect against wrench attacks and company crime and more) are what matter when securing customer assets.

@Leishman Doesn't @AnchorWatch solve this problem?

A major lesson from the Prime Trust fiasco is that legal protections (e.g. qualified custody) do not protect you from negligent custodians. Operational excellence and transparency are what matters. Does your exchange publish their financials? Do they have proof of reserves?

Custody Tier List: S Tier: Self Custody A Tier: Segregated Account or Proof of Reserves F Tier: Anything Else At @AnchorWatch, we can do accounts and PoR. If someone custodies your bitcoin, get commitments on timelines to upgrade to A tier, or move. No shortcuts on custody.

Learn more about our mining and datacenter coverage: anchorwatch.com/insurance/mini…

Mining is a physical business. Weather, fire, and other hazards are real threats. We've got you covered.

🎉 SPONSOR ANNOUNCEMENT 🎉 BITCOIN is for EVERYONE is proud to welcome AnchorWatch (@AnchorWatch) as a sponsor of #B4E2026! 🔐⚡️ Bitcoin-native custody + insurance backed by Lloyd's of London — up to $500M in coverage for individuals and institutions. Custody without compromise. Protection without excuses. This is what securing Bitcoin on a Bitcoin standard looks like. 🛡️🟠 Join us May 22–23 in Portland! 🌲🏔️🌹 🚨 Limited seats — bonus events below ⬇️ #BitcoinIsForEveryone #BTC #PDX

Seeing the current headlines about Iran launching a Bitcoin-denominated insurance company for ships passing the Strait of Hormuz, I had some thoughts. It hits a sweet spot of Bitcoin, Insurance, and Nautical themes (basically @Anchorwatch if it were a headline on the world stage). Here are some thoughts: 1. Reserve Pool? Iran’s crypto ecosystem hit ~$7.8B in on-chain activity in 2025 (per @chainalysis), but the actual size of their bitcoin holdings is opaque. Pre-war they had ~1% of global hashrate and have been officially mining since 2018. Their current float of network block rewards still couldn’t underwrite these ships. A single loaded VLCC tanker could be worth north of $300M including both hull and oil cargo. If this were run like a real insurance company, one advantage Iran would have is the incredibly short "tail" (the window after policy issuance where a claim could be filed). Ships are only in the high-risk zone for roughly a day at most, which would allow for high capital turnover. They’d still need billions, if not $10B+ in reserves to underwrite the risk adequately. There is also huge catastrophic risk where dozens of ships under coverage could be lost all at once. It would be hard to write an insurance policy for this that excluded stuff like "war with the US" since that’s the obvious risk all market participants know about. 2. Isolated Market Iran would be the equivalent of an F-tier carrier: fully sanctioned, so no global insurance player (London, Bermuda, USA) would ever cede risk. They have to treat it as a state-run captive insurance carrier. (cc @matthewqueen84) 3. Bad Incentives There’s a misunderstanding around insurance in the Strait today. Ships have crossed while insured, but only when Iran signaled safe passage. When Iran was shooting warning shots, they froze the markets. Now they’re underwriting the ships themselves, literally acting as both the arsonist and the fireman. 4. Revenue Projections The announcement has been tied to ~$10 Billion in revenue coming from the program. With some cocktail napkin math, this works out to around $1 per barrel of oil that passes the Strait. This was the same as numbers floated previously as taxes/fees paid to Tehran for safe passage. What is interesting though is to place this in the price of an "insurance premium", which is somewhere around 0.8% of the value at risk. 5. Geopolitical Reality There is no world where the US lets Iran charge an “insurance premium” for passage when it’s just a dressed-up ransom payment. They’ll simply extend sanctions pressure and won’t let ships cross, even if they get Tehran’s blessing with an "insurance policy".

Tether hedges with gold. Sovereigns hedge with diversification. What hedges your stack? Tuesday May 19, noon ET. Bitcoin Well Infinite Lunch and Learn on why insurance matters for Bitcoin holders. With Becca Rubenfeld and Rob Hamilton from @AnchorWatch covering custody coverage, mining policies, and the risk vectors most holders haven't named yet. Register: streamyard.com/watch/PYAEPhde…

Insured custody is the whole point. Your bitcoin in a vault you can audit on chain, with a Lloyd's of London policy written on the bitcoin itself, not bolted onto the custodian. Becca walks through exactly how that works. anchorwatch.com/insurance/cust…

Our coverage is written the opposite way. Direct, on the customer's bitcoin, through Lloyd's of London, on top of a Trident Vault. Multisig that mirrors your actual legal structure, with time-locked recovery paths that get more secure under stress, not less.

Becca joined @intangiblecoins @PubKey DC for Galaxy Brains podcast. The conversation opens on the question that defines our product: When a custodian says it has "insurance," what does that actually cover?

The seed phrase isn't the end of your security stack. It's the beginning. Next Tuesday at noon ET, Bitcoin Well Infinite hosts Becca Rubenfeld and Rob Hamilton from AnchorWatch for a Lunch and Learn on why insurance actually matters for Bitcoin holders. We'll get into the attack surface most stackers ignore: wrench risk, custody failures, miner exposure, E&O and D&O lines for businesses and institutions holding Bitcoin on the balance sheet and how AnchorWatch builds policy around the things a hardware wallet can't fix. Open Q&A at the end. Bring the questions that have been keeping you up. 🗓️ Tuesday May 19 · 12:00 PM ET · Free Register → streamyard.com/watch/PYAEPhde…

A recent analysis by @Gart_io dispelled the myth that leaving your Bitcoin on an exchange is somehow safer than self-custody in the event of a violent attack. In a robbery, extortion, or kidnapping scenario, a victim can just as easily be forced to log into an exchange account and transfer funds as they can be forced to sign a Bitcoin transaction from self-custody. There is no inherent safety advantage to keeping coins on an exchange - only the added downsides of counterparty risk, confiscation risk, and lack of sovereignty. With insured self-custody, however, robbery and extortion risks can actually be covered. @Bitsurance_ already offers coverage for robbery and extortion scenarios in several European markets, with France expected soon. In addition, @AnchorWatch can broker Kidnap & Ransom insurance - something increasingly relevant given that France alone has already seen nearly 60 reported crypto-related violent incidents this year. Self-custody does not create the problem. Visibility of wealth does. Insurance at least gives you a layer of protection when the unthinkable happens.

Bitcoiners who self-custody have access to BETTER insurance than those who use custodians. And you have @coinjoined @Rob1Ham and @KLoaec to thank! Fortunate to moderate this killer panel. Looking forward to next year! (video soon™)

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Better custody is not expensive. Vulnerability is expensive. Trident Vault custody starts at $100 or 0.02% monthly. Talk to our team. Your custody, your way.