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2021: retirement attacks impossible

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https://x.com/COLDCARDwallet/status/1447198712736985093

Captured screenshot of the post by @COLDCARDwallet, posted 10 Oct 2021, 13:53 UTC
@COLDCARDwallet posted captured full-size capture → original post →
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The vendor's own 2021 marketing claim that COLDCARD makes retirement attacks impossible because users can generate their own entropy and reproduce it provably. Held as historical context: the July 2026 failure was an entropy defect in the device's own generation path, the class of attack this post claimed to defeat.

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