Presidio Bitcoin Jam

The COLDCARD Hack and Future of Self-Custody

July 31, 2026·1h 37m
Episode Description from the Publisher

0:00 - The COLDCARD hack: bitcoin’s worst security incident ever? 4:30 - What happened and how thefts were identified 7:04 - The random-number failure behind the hack 13:24 - The right way to generate wallet entropy (i.e., dice rolls) 20:45 - Who is affected and what users should do 31:43 - Custody options and why diversification matters 37:37 - The source-license change behind the COLDCARD bug 40:33 - How AI changes open-source security audits 52:30 - How the community can limit further theft 59:56 - Why patches cannot fix keys and recovering stolen bitcoin 1:10:37 - Does AI strengthen the case for custodians? 1:16:30 - Future of self-custody 1:21:43 - Evaluating Bitkey, Ledger, Trezor and multisig post-COLDCARD 1:31:04 - ETFs, custodians and new transparency standards SHOW NOTES: PBJ custody survey episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSanv5Z-DA4 Block COLDCARD blog post: https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/predictable-rng-fallback-and-32-bit-reseed-in-coldcard-firmware

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