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Citadel Dispatch
CATASTROPHIC COLDCARD BUG
ODELL • Investing, Business, Technology
ODELL • Investing, Business, Technology
I think we should wrap and publish this. There's you know? There's If you if you if if you have friends or family that are…

Episode Summary

crosspost on rhr and dispatchhttps://engineering.block.xyz/blog/predictable-rng-fallback-and-32-bit-reseed-in-coldcard-firmwarehttps://insider.btcpp.dev/p/when-randombytes-runs-but-doesnthttps://x.com/Rob1Ham/status/2083936334511538368
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Transcript

Chapters

  • Coldcard seed flaw
  • Who is vulnerable and why moving funds is urgent
  • Accountability for years of recommending Coldcard
  • How trust and complacency led to this failure
  • The race against attackers and the scale of risk
  • Community response, guides, and safer migration steps
  • AI, audits, and why this bug was so dangerous
  • Investigation, white hats, and avoid firmware updates
  • Reflection on trust, humility, and Bitcoin custody
  • Lessons for future custody and final call to act

    • Clips

    • So if you generated a seed on any cold card after March 2021 and you didn't add sufficient dice roll entropy, so dice roll…
    • There was a level of complacency that happened. And I I I believed that someone just generating with a cold card without adding…
    • I think we should wrap and publish this. There's you know? There's If you if you if if you have friends or family that are…