Jameson Lopp

In 2025, 27% of bitcoin wrench attacks were in France. Thus far in 2026, 70% are in France. It's accelerating.

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@lopp @Crypto_guy1 Any tips on how to mitigate this (blog posts, videos, etc)?

In 2025, 27% of bitcoin wrench attacks were in France. Thus far in 2026, 70% are in France. It's accelerating.

If you're unable to admit that Bitcoin has weaknesses and room for improvement because your bags are heavy, then you don't own bitcoin. Bitcoin owns you.

@Crypto_guy1 To inform folks about changing trends in the security landscape. The ultimate goal is to get people to harden their security so that wrench attackers stop being so successful, which should disincentivize them from trying and thus make us all a bit safer.

@lopp Lopp why do you post this stuff? Like what’s the goal here?

@SaniExp @ronin21btc x.com/lopp/status/20…

@lopp @ronin21btc How many counts so far this year ?

@BtcCuracao 2025: 27% of attacks are in France 2026: 70% of attacks are in France There are some neat visualizations at stats.gart.io

@lopp So, non-France is 2025: 32? 2026: 7? Almost no growth? But France is 3x worse?

We averaged a little over 1 bitcoin wrench attack per week in 2025. We're 11 weeks into 2026 with 23 known attacks. Stay frosty.

@BtcCuracao Bitcoin wrench attacks in France: 2017: 1 2018: 0 2019: 0 2020: 0 2021: 1 2022: 1 2023: 0 2024: 1 2025: 20 2026: 16 so far

@lopp If you filter for France what does the trend show?

“PEOPLE ASSUME THEY’RE GOOD AT SECURITY JUST BECAUSE NOTHING HAS GONE WRONG YET.” 💥 @lopp from @CasaHODL explains why the biggest risk in Bitcoin security isn’t hackers, it’s your own setup. Watch the full clip 👇🏽

@DaniREscudero yes

@lopp Did you add this last one which occurred yesterday in Madrid, Spain? okdiario.com/sucesos/tres-s…

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@lopp Where are these documented?

@NeerajKA Both sides get to make fun of crypto again.

Vanity Fair article is a simple business transaction. You get cool pictures and a clouted thing to say you did. They get to make fun of crypto again. Everyone wins.

TRT

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North Koreans hate this one simple trick! To filter out these threat actors, whenever someone wants to "just catch up" with a call, you require them to first proclaim that "Kim Jong Un sucks donkey dick." x.com/jimmysong/stat…

Blocking out "non-standard" transactions in general just harms potential innovation

@BitMEXResearch @knutsvanholm Haters can't comprehend that ain't nobody got time for that. x.com/lopp/status/20…

.@knutsvanholm on why we should change Bitcoin’s consensus rules with BIP-110: “From my point of view, even if all it accomplishes is like a hit on the nose on these spammers, I think it’s worth doing it because I don’t think people hate them enough” 🤡🤡🤡 youtu.be/hBvlmFgQENw?si…

Agreed. Let's activate BIP 346, OP_TXHASH, so that Bitcoin can finally achieve transaction instrospection! x.com/pmarca/status/…

Andreas Antonopoulos is widely considered as one of the best-ever Bitcoin educators. This week, he announced he will stop making content due to ongoing health issues. But @aantonop stopped being active on X a while back - @lopp explains why it's a huge loss to Bitcoin 👇 I've been seeing guys like @Vladcostea talk a lot about Bitcoin 'post maximalism' and it's a concept I agree with. It's not a crime to explore the world around Bitcoin. Bitcoin is cut from a different cloth, but it doesn't mean that there aren't meaningful, innovative protocols being built using the same technology. Antonopoulos stopped appearing at conferences and largely moved to Patreon to continue his education content. Bitcoin needs someone of his calibre once again.

If you can't improve your life by selling your bitcoin because of some meme people made up about never selling then you haven't actually achieved freedom.