Resurfaced 2021 entropy joke with chatbot commentary
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- Author
- @bramk
- Organisation
- independent
- Evidence role
- social statement
- Posted
- 4 Aug 2026, 12:34 UTC
- Capture status
- capture held
One word, "Insane", over a stacked screenshot: a COLDCARD post dated 10 October 2021 joking that "the project makers could have a 'bug' in the entropy generation for later retrieval", a user asking Grok what the mathematical odds of that are, and Grok's reply. The reply names the retirement-attack pattern, in which makers intentionally weaken entropy so they can recover funds later, says the odds of pure coincidence are "effectively zero", and then describes the 2026 event as an accidental firmware bug that reduced seed entropy to roughly 40 bits on affected devices. Held because this is the vehicle by which the 2021 vendor post recirculated during the incident as an insinuation about the vendor's intent, and because that insinuation is carried entirely by machine-generated text quoted inside an image rather than by anything the post itself establishes. Nothing in the attached screenshot is verified here, and registration is not endorsement.
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