Coinkite, the company behind Coldcard, has shipped a firmware update that will not generate a new wallet seed until the owner supplies randomness by hand. That means at least 50 dice rolls, 128 coin flips, or 65 timed key presses, three weeks after a defect in its random number generator opened customer funds to attackers. […]
Bitcoin (BTC) active addresses reached roughly 0.98 million a day on July 31, the highest daily count since December 2024, after attackers began sweeping wallets whose seeds were generated on defective Coldcard firmware. Glassnode published the figure on August 6 and called the surge “fear-driven on-chain activity.” The analytics firm stated that “holders migrating seeds […]