A community built on verification spent five years outsourcing its judgment to one man, writes Foundation CEO Zach Herbert. Attackers have now drained nearly $114 million in bitcoin from more than 709 addresses , exploiting a Coldcard firmware flaw that generated wallet seeds with a fraction of their promised randomness. The first sweep emptied roughly 500 wallets in 25 minutes . The bug entered the codebase in March 2021 and sat in public, open-source view for more than five years. Plenty of p…
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