Morning Edition · Thursday, September 24, 2026Published at 1:46 AM EDT · New York
A firmware defect from March 2021 produced guessable wallet seeds, and in France six people were charged after holding and torturing a family over a wallet that contained 100 euros.

Security researchers have moved 52.37 bitcoin recovered from the Coldcard hardware-wallet exploit into a Wyoming recovery trust, and a public portal now lets holders check whether their addresses are covered, CryptoSlate reports. The transf…
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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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