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The COLDCARD Disaster Has Reached Nine Figures
Galaxy now tracks 1,596 BTC stolen from roughly 7,300 addresses while new evidence raises deeper questions about how COLDCARD's weak-entropy failure survived for years.
Former Sen. Pat Toomey: “It’s essential the Senate passes the legislation this week” on the Clarity Act. “We’ve been working on this for years. Literally…the Senate needs to have this vote this week.”
Gary Vee predicts that everybody's grandchildren will marry AI humans.
The Spider-Man movie paid BMW to take over the display of every BMW made after 2020. When you start your car, you now get a full-screen ad for the movie. You don't own your car anymore.
Gavin Baker says GPU prices are going vertical. "They rented the exact same cluster, exact same size, essentially identical in every way, and they're hoping seven months later to pay just under $4," up from $2.
Gavin Baker went to Silicon Valley to pressure test the bear case. "Have you heard a single negative quantitative metric about AI? Nothing. In fact, every metric is accelerating."
Gavin Baker: "I think 500,000 people maybe are using agentic AI and we're in an acute compute shortage. There's seven or eight billion people on the planet. What happens when we go from 500,000 to 100 million?"

Bloomberg's @EricBalchunas argues the ColdCard vulnerability could push more bitcoiners toward ETFs. What many in the bitcoin community saw as a bug, trusting "dorky boomer TradFi" with custody, might now look like a feature. These are "large, established financial institutions with decades of experience safeguarding client assets" compared to "a Canadian co with 5 employees."
Sen. Jon Husted urges Senate to pass the bipartisan Clarity Act before August recess: “We have a bi-partisan bill, we are ready to go.” “It’s time for America to lead.”

American HODL received a phishing email urging him to download a fake "ColdCard Desktop" app. Scammers are exploiting the panic around the ColdCard vulnerability to trick people into downloading malware. As he points out, there is no ColdCard desktop app and there never has been. Stay vigilant.
ColdCard is pushing back on claims that the latest firmware patch permanently bricks devices. They say the TRNG fault is volatile, nothing gets written to flash, so a full power cycle should recover the device. A new proposed patch further hardens RNG recovery with bounded retries, seed-error detection, and discarding stale output.
James O'Beirne reveals he came to the same conclusion about ColdCard's firmware back in May 2025. While auditing the code, he flagged concerns about a suspicious library called libngu that was handling random number generation and advised the ColdCard team to rip it out. He was told, "if something was wrong, we'd already know about it by now."
Rob Hamilton posted an update on what Bitcoin Red Team has been up to. They've spent around $20K scanning 150+ repos across the bitcoin ecosystem and made over a dozen responsible disclosures. He built an AI agent harness that's already finding critical issues, and they're also working with OpenAI's Cyber Harness for the most load-bearing infrastructure. Plan is to open source the tooling so any project can point it at their own repos.
Former Sen. Pat Toomey: “It’s essential the Senate passes the legislation this week” on the Clarity Act. “We’ve been working on this for years. Literally…the Senate needs to have this vote this week.”
Gary Vee predicts that everybody's grandchildren will marry AI humans.
The Spider-Man movie paid BMW to take over the display of every BMW made after 2020. When you start your car, you now get a full-screen ad for the movie. You don't own your car anymore.
Gavin Baker says GPU prices are going vertical. "They rented the exact same cluster, exact same size, essentially identical in every way, and they're hoping seven months later to pay just under $4," up from $2.
Gavin Baker went to Silicon Valley to pressure test the bear case. "Have you heard a single negative quantitative metric about AI? Nothing. In fact, every metric is accelerating."
Gavin Baker: "I think 500,000 people maybe are using agentic AI and we're in an acute compute shortage. There's seven or eight billion people on the planet. What happens when we go from 500,000 to 100 million?"

Bloomberg's @EricBalchunas argues the ColdCard vulnerability could push more bitcoiners toward ETFs. What many in the bitcoin community saw as a bug, trusting "dorky boomer TradFi" with custody, might now look like a feature. These are "large, established financial institutions with decades of experience safeguarding client assets" compared to "a Canadian co with 5 employees."
Sen. Jon Husted urges Senate to pass the bipartisan Clarity Act before August recess: “We have a bi-partisan bill, we are ready to go.” “It’s time for America to lead.”

American HODL received a phishing email urging him to download a fake "ColdCard Desktop" app. Scammers are exploiting the panic around the ColdCard vulnerability to trick people into downloading malware. As he points out, there is no ColdCard desktop app and there never has been. Stay vigilant.
ColdCard is pushing back on claims that the latest firmware patch permanently bricks devices. They say the TRNG fault is volatile, nothing gets written to flash, so a full power cycle should recover the device. A new proposed patch further hardens RNG recovery with bounded retries, seed-error detection, and discarding stale output.
James O'Beirne reveals he came to the same conclusion about ColdCard's firmware back in May 2025. While auditing the code, he flagged concerns about a suspicious library called libngu that was handling random number generation and advised the ColdCard team to rip it out. He was told, "if something was wrong, we'd already know about it by now."
Rob Hamilton posted an update on what Bitcoin Red Team has been up to. They've spent around $20K scanning 150+ repos across the bitcoin ecosystem and made over a dozen responsible disclosures. He built an AI agent harness that's already finding critical issues, and they're also working with OpenAI's Cyber Harness for the most load-bearing infrastructure. Plan is to open source the tooling so any project can point it at their own repos.
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