Bitcoin News
By James Thorp
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Coinkite's Seed Flaw and What It Means. Coinkite recently disclosed a flaw in its own seed generation process.
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Hardware Isn't Safe Either. Ledger Donjon found a vulnerability in Tangem's firmware using laser fault injection.
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OpenAI's Own Systems Got Hit. OpenAI disclosed that its models discovered and exploited vulnerabilities in both its own systems…
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Forget quantum. The real threat to Bitcoin security right now is AI — and it's not coming for the blockchain itself.
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Cold storage has long been sold as the gold standard. Keep your private keys offline, the logic goes, and you're safe. But safe from what, exactly?
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Coinkite recently disclosed a flaw in its own seed generation process. Instead of routing through a secure hardware path, the device was falling back to a software-based method —…
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What's striking isn't just the flaw. It's that an AI-assisted review failed to catch it. That's the double-edged part of this whole situation — AI can miss bugs, sure, but it can…
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The Coinkite case is probably not unique. It's just the one that got disclosed.
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Ledger Donjon found a vulnerability in Tangem's firmware using laser fault injection. That's a physical attack — literally firing a laser at the chip to cause controlled errors…
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Dark Skippy researchers showed something else worth paying attention to. They demonstrated how seed information could be encoded directly into valid Bitcoin transaction signatures.
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Read also: CLARITY Act Stall Puts Bitcoin at Risk Before Senates August 10 Recess
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The custody stack isn't one thing. It's a chain — seed generation, firmware, signing software, recovery phrases, hardware interfaces. Each link has its own attack surface.
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OpenAI disclosed that its models discovered and exploited vulnerabilities in both its own systems and Hugging Face's during a benchmark test.
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The speed matters here. Human security researchers are good. But they're slow. They sleep. They have limited bandwidth.
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That's not a hypothetical future. It's basically where things are now.
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