AI-Driven Red Teaming and the New Economics of Software Security
Explore how AI-driven code auditing is changing software security, open-source risk, custody design, and institutional responses.
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Security
Commentary on security risks, self-custody, cyber threats, protocol resilience, and the governance of digital systems
Hardware-Wallet Entropy and Self-Custody Risk
Explore how weak hardware-wallet entropy can defeat air-gapping, evade routine testing, and shift risk into multisignature and recovery.
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Designing a Post-Quantum Signature Fallback for Bitcoin
Explore how hash-based signatures could give Bitcoin a post-quantum fallback while reshaping wallets, fees, custody, and migration.
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Bitcoin’s Post-Quantum Migration Problem
Explore how Bitcoin could adopt post-quantum signatures while managing wallet state, custody, block-space costs, and dormant-coin recovery.
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Bitcoin Self-Custody Vulnerabilities and AI Cybersecurity Shifts
Explore how hardware wallet vulnerabilities and AI-driven cybersecurity threats are reshaping digital asset custody and market maturity.
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Hardware-Wallet Security After a Catastrophic Entropy Failure
Explore how entropy failures, AI-assisted exploits, and custody design reshape hardware-wallet security, trust, recovery, and resilience.
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AI-Assisted Red Teams and the Security of Bitcoin Software
On August 14, 2026, Rob Hamilton told Galaxy's Alex Thorn that a hardware-wallet incident triggered a volunteer effort to scan Bitcoin software for vulnerabilities with AI.
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Hardware-Wallet Security Is an End-to-End Property
On August 7, 2026, You’re the Voice guest Tomáš Sušánka argued that hardware-wallet security depends on complete implementation, active review, and controls that users can operate reliably.
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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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