The Coldcard incident is still unfolding but the lesson is already clear
Over the past few days, the Coldcard failure has moved from an alarming report about a cluster of drained wallets to a much broader custody event.
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The Coldcard Incident and the Failure of Passive Verification
On August 5, 2026, The Bitcoin Nova featured Josh (Secure Sovereign) arguing that the Coldcard incident exposed a gap between Bitcoin’s self-custody ideals and its actual systems of verification.
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Coldcard Failure Exposes the Limits of Passive Self-Custody
On August 4, 2026, Galaxy Grid featured a panel examining a reported Coldcard key-generation failure and the thefts linked to vulnerable Bitcoin wallets.
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AI Security Pressure Tests Bitcoin’s Custody and Governance Systems
On August 5, 2026, BTC Sessions Bitcast convened Ben, Nathan, Joey, and Brandon to argue that AI-assisted attacks and vulnerability discovery are pressuring Bitcoin’s custody, service, and governance layers at once.
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Alignment Failure, Frontier Pacing, and Liability Design
The August 5, 2026 episode of The Cognitive Revolution features Zvi Mowshowitz analyzing recent frontier model misbehavior as ordinary alignment failure compounded by operator negligence.
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AI impact framework
The aim of this paper is to give researchers and policymakers a common map for connecting partial measures of AI’s economic effects without treating technical capability, adoption, and public benefit as if they were the same thing.
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When AI-driven science outpaces its institutions
AI also changes the economics of scientific attention. Where generating plausible hypotheses becomes cheaper, the scarce resource shifts toward judgment.
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American Science Policy and AI-Driven Research Reform
On the Moonshot podcast, Michael Kratsios, director of the White House OSTP, argues that declining US scientific productivity stems from outdated grant structures and review processes.
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When AI data centers meet the energy value filter
A recent conversation about opposition to AI infrastructure tests—and sharpens—an argument in my draft chapter on Bitcoin mining.
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AI Data Centers and the Politics of Legitimacy
The August 4, 2026 episode of The Ezra Klein Show features Jasmine Sun examining the growing political backlash against AI data centers.
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Bitcoin mining using landfill gas - model code
Python code replicates results and reproduces Figures from Rudd et al. 2024. An integrated landfill gas-to-energy and Bitcoin mining framework. Journal of Cleaner Production
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Bitcoin Mining at the Energy Edge
The July 7, 2026 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Stephen Barbour describing Bitcoin mining as flexible load for upstream energy production.
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