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The Coldcard Exploit: When the Random Number Generator Wasn't Random
A single line of C code asked the wrong question, and for five years Coldcard hardware wallets generated bitcoin seeds a laptop could guess. More than $130M is gone. What happened, who's affected, and what to do tonight.