Is Any Cold Wallet Safe? Inside the Coldcard Hack's Wave Three

Is Any Cold Wallet Safe? Inside the Coldcard Hack's Wave Three

Published: August 4, 2026

Duration: 18:39

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A firmware bug quietly introduced into Coldcard hardware wallets in 2021 has let attackers drain an estimated 1,600 to 2,000 bitcoin, over $100 million, from cold storage addresses that sat untouched for years.

Galaxy Digital's Alex Thorn has been tracing the exploit in real time, and in this clip he breaks down exactly how the random number generator meant to secure private keys "failed silently" into "way too weak entropy," and lays out the wave-by-wave forensic trail he is using to track...