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Morning Edition · Wednesday, September 23, 2026Published at 7:09 AM EDT · New York
White Hats Route 52 Bitcoin From the Coldcard Entropy Failure Into a Recovery Trust
The transfer covers 2.8 percent of an exploit that reached roughly $130 million after a firmware defect made seed generation fall back to a weak software random number generator.
White-hat researchers moved 52.37 bitcoin taken from vulnerable Coldcard hardware wallets into an address controlled by Crypto Recovery Trust, a Wyoming trust set up so victims can claim funds back, according to Galaxy Digital's Alex Thorn.…
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Hardware-Wallet Trust Erodes
Recurring firmware and entropy defects in self-custody hardware, now surfaced faster by AI-assisted code analysis, will keep pushing risk-averse holders toward custodial and ETF products rather than personal key management.
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