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The App You Should Not Authorize
The February 24, 2025 episode warned that a fake collaboration request on X can hand over an account, and that seed words must never sit on a computer.
This story is an episode of the Bitcoin Radio podcast.A direct message on X. Someone asks to collaborate. You say yes, and the next message asks you to authorize an app that can post on your behalf. That was the scam the Mining Disrupt News Surge warned Bitcoiners about on Monday, February 24, 2025.
The host built the episode's opinion segment around a post from Seb Bunny, a Bitcoin educator who helped found the education site Looking Glass Education. The steps were simple: a friendly message, a call, and an app permission most people would accept without reading. In the host's words, "this can happen to anybody." He said the permission hands over more access than users realize, and that attackers are not only after big accounts. Bunny had fewer than 10,000 followers.
The same week brought the Bybit hack. The host read a reply that summed it up: a signer who does not read the document, signs, and is thanked for the 1.4 billion. He also read Jason P. Lowery's point that code is never broken in a hack; it does what it is told, and people exploit the logic.
He tied it to what he calls the trifecta: self-custody, running your own node and home mining. That day he counted about 21,000 public nodes and said he had never seen the number above 22,000. For anyone new, he said, self-custody is the one of the three not to skip, because the attacks are getting more sophisticated every single day. He was clear that the show is not the place for financial advice, and that he was not trying to be hyperbolic about the risk.
His advice was about seed words. Keep them off your computer, out of email and out of Google Drive. An attacker inside a machine can scan it for groups of 12 words that look like a seed phrase, and the next time you open your wallet, nothing is there. As he put it, "as long as you have your Bitcoin in Cold Storage in self- custody then you're going to be good."
Bitcoin closed at $95,836 on the day of that episode. On October 27, 2026 it traded at $79,780. The price moved; the advice did not.
The episode also promoted the Mining Disrupt Expo in Fort Lauderdale, with Ben from BTC Sessions and Scott of Bitaxe fame among the speakers, and a post from Solo Satoshi on open-source home mining.
Read the full story at miningdisrupt.com, and catch Mining Disrupt 2027, March 22 to 24 in Irving, Texas.