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The COLDCARD Attackers Left More Than a Blockchain Trail
The COLDCARD theft is one front in the industrialization of cyber offense. The next race is to identify the attackers and harden every exposed system.

Rand Paul says letters seeking Fauci prosecution for contempt delivered to DOJ after Senate vote.
After Kimi K3 went open weights, @Rob1Ham started scanning bitcoin infrastructure and realized most projects weren't using AI for defensive security. "For $10-30 you can likely scan most small/medium code bases." "The bad guys will do this (or already have!) and your security posture has to change."
OpenAI launches Codex Security Review in research preview, automatically scanning GitHub pull requests for security issues using repo context and surfacing findings directly in the PR.
Bitkey breaks down how their multi-sig setup works.

Bank of America is spending $250 million a year on Ozempic and GLP-1 weight loss drugs for employees. CEO Brian Moynihan calls it a good investment in workforce health and productivity.
Rolling dice to generate bitcoin keys:

Anthropic is hiring an "Insider Risk Investigator" at $245K-$305K to conduct sensitive employee interviews, monitor security logs, and run internal investigations. The role reports to an Insider Risk Team tasked with protecting "people, data, and infrastructure." This comes days after reports that CEO Dario Amodei is worried new hires are joining for money rather than mission.
Coldcard is directing users to follow their next firmware updates on GitHub as they work on a new release focused on customer key migration. x.com/COLDCARDwallet…
OpenAI is making GPT-5.6 Luna available to free users with unlimited usage while Plus and Pro users default to GPT-5.6 Sol for both instant and deep reasoning.
Sen. Van Hollen and SIFMA CEO debate Clarity Act. Van Hollen: “I think this is a warning for all of us that bill is not ready for prime time.” CEO: “We think the bill that came out of the Senate Banking Committee had a number of good things in it.”
Wiz, founder of mempool.space, is submitting a community priority application to ICANN to secure the .bitcoin top-level domain before the deadline on August 12. ICANN is accepting new gTLD applications for the first time since 2012, and without a community claim, .bitcoin goes to auction where the highest bidder could be anyone. His plan is to keep .bitcoin strictly bitcoin-only, restricted to node operators, protocol contributors, infrastructure providers, educators, and conference organizers. Projects promoting other cryptocurrencies would be explicitly banned from registering. Wiz would hold one ordinary seat on the governing committee with no veto power. He's asking the community for letters of support on organizational letterhead to strengthen the application.

55 hours in, the Bitcoin Red Team campaign led by @callebtc and @Rob1Ham has grown to 24 contributors working around the clock scanning bitcoin ecosystem code for vulnerabilities using AI. The numbers so far are staggering. 425 projects scanned, 6,700 total findings filed, and 1,029 classified as high or critical severity. That's roughly 19 high-or-critical findings per hour. Perhaps the most notable detail: not a single vulnerability was found by a US frontier model. The team is spending $10k a day running open-weights models like Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 instead because US models refuse to assist with vulnerability research without heavy gatekeeping. The campaign is funded by @OpenSats and individual donors.

Rand Paul says letters seeking Fauci prosecution for contempt delivered to DOJ after Senate vote.
After Kimi K3 went open weights, @Rob1Ham started scanning bitcoin infrastructure and realized most projects weren't using AI for defensive security. "For $10-30 you can likely scan most small/medium code bases." "The bad guys will do this (or already have!) and your security posture has to change."
OpenAI launches Codex Security Review in research preview, automatically scanning GitHub pull requests for security issues using repo context and surfacing findings directly in the PR.
Bitkey breaks down how their multi-sig setup works.

Bank of America is spending $250 million a year on Ozempic and GLP-1 weight loss drugs for employees. CEO Brian Moynihan calls it a good investment in workforce health and productivity.
Rolling dice to generate bitcoin keys:

Anthropic is hiring an "Insider Risk Investigator" at $245K-$305K to conduct sensitive employee interviews, monitor security logs, and run internal investigations. The role reports to an Insider Risk Team tasked with protecting "people, data, and infrastructure." This comes days after reports that CEO Dario Amodei is worried new hires are joining for money rather than mission.
Coldcard is directing users to follow their next firmware updates on GitHub as they work on a new release focused on customer key migration. x.com/COLDCARDwallet…
OpenAI is making GPT-5.6 Luna available to free users with unlimited usage while Plus and Pro users default to GPT-5.6 Sol for both instant and deep reasoning.
Sen. Van Hollen and SIFMA CEO debate Clarity Act. Van Hollen: “I think this is a warning for all of us that bill is not ready for prime time.” CEO: “We think the bill that came out of the Senate Banking Committee had a number of good things in it.”
Wiz, founder of mempool.space, is submitting a community priority application to ICANN to secure the .bitcoin top-level domain before the deadline on August 12. ICANN is accepting new gTLD applications for the first time since 2012, and without a community claim, .bitcoin goes to auction where the highest bidder could be anyone. His plan is to keep .bitcoin strictly bitcoin-only, restricted to node operators, protocol contributors, infrastructure providers, educators, and conference organizers. Projects promoting other cryptocurrencies would be explicitly banned from registering. Wiz would hold one ordinary seat on the governing committee with no veto power. He's asking the community for letters of support on organizational letterhead to strengthen the application.

55 hours in, the Bitcoin Red Team campaign led by @callebtc and @Rob1Ham has grown to 24 contributors working around the clock scanning bitcoin ecosystem code for vulnerabilities using AI. The numbers so far are staggering. 425 projects scanned, 6,700 total findings filed, and 1,029 classified as high or critical severity. That's roughly 19 high-or-critical findings per hour. Perhaps the most notable detail: not a single vulnerability was found by a US frontier model. The team is spending $10k a day running open-weights models like Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 instead because US models refuse to assist with vulnerability research without heavy gatekeeping. The campaign is funded by @OpenSats and individual donors.
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