Connor Showler | SEO & Marketing Master

$1.6 million dollars in Bitcoin was drained from my account on July 29th in the Cold Card wallet hack. My Bitcoin was in cold storage. My keys were on a ColdCard device kept in a safety deposit box that had never been connected to the internet. This part's nerdy, but here's what happened: Hackers discovered a vulnerability in the part of the hardware wallet code used to create seed phrases. This allowed them to use AI to brute force guessing seed phrases. I was at our cottage and heard about the hack today. "No way this affects me." I thought. I logged into Wasabi––software that lets me view my bitcoin wallets online. Right away I saw lines of red transaction–withdrawals–and I knew. From 9:36pm - 9:43pm on July 29th, every wallet I had had been emptied. 18.25245043 btc gone. That's just over $1.6 million dollars CAD. Perhaps the hardest part about this is that I did everything right. I never shared my seed phrase with anybody. My devices never touched the internet. Everything was kept in multiple safes and safety deposit boxes. None of it mattered. All because the hardware that created the seed phrase originally had one line in their code from 2021 that had a vulnerability. I'm filing a police report and a report with the Ontario Securities Commission. But I don't expect to recoup anything. A part of me is trying to make sense of what just happened. Or try to figure out a lesson in it. I'm struggling. $1.6 million is a staggering amount of money to have stolen. I guess all that I can think about right now is that I'm so damn happy that I'm an entrepreneur and that my earning potential is under my control. Mark my damn words. I'll recover.

Today I'm 28 In the past year, I've: - Had my first son with my wife - nothing has motivated me more - Tripled my personal income - Grew revenue 25%+ MoM for 8 months now in my company - Started a new company placing VAs, and made 25k profit in the first 45 days - Hired more 30+ VAs - Ran 120+ miles - need to work more on this - Took the wife to London for the first time - Met my international team in the Philippines and had a blast - Bought a house - Crossed 5k followers - Closed a six figure software contract - Recovered the business from nearly putting payroll on credit card in December, to approaching six figure months rapidly now I'm on track to do just shy of 1m in revenue this year, possibly over if we can figure out lead flow for VAs Watch as we take this to 2m, and beyond. Goal of 5m in the next 5 years, or I suck Biggest takeaway from this past year, is just keep going. Its not easy for anyone, you're not doing anything wrong, and its normal to be dodging bullets in business all the time. Just keep going. To anyone reading, thanks for the support and attention/time. Hope its been entertaining watching me 🍻