It Wasn't Just ColdCard: AI Is Finding Bugs in Every Bitcoin Wallet
Bitcoin Well Podcast
- Published
- August 14, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 1m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Aug 14, 2026
Discusses ai, society, culture.
Summary
This isn't just a ColdCard story anymore. In this emergency episode, Portland Hodl, Bitcoin Core contributor and creator of Slipstream, reveals that an open-source AI model with none of the safety guardrails of US frontier models is now tearing through the entire hardware wallet industry's code. ColdCard was first. Then BTCPay Server. Then Nunchuk. As of …
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This isn't just a ColdCard story anymore. In this emergency episode, Portland Hodl, Bitcoin Core contributor and creator of Slipstream, reveals that an open-source AI model with none of the safety guardrails of US frontier models is now tearing through the entire hardware wallet industry's code. ColdCard was first. Then BTCPay Server. Then Nunchuk. As of this morning, Trezor too. We get into what to actually do right now if you're on an affected device (priority order matters: some setups need t
Themes
- ai
- society
- culture