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Fourteen-hour drain-test result

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https://x.com/coletu/status/2085256973923029482

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Cole reports the result of his own live experiment fourteen hours in: of five wallets funded on a compromised COLDCARD Mk3, only the plain seed-phrase wallet had been emptied, and the four protected by a passphrase or a non-standard account number still held funds. The post quotes his earlier video setting the test up and attaches a block-explorer view of the funding transaction, one 0.00055 BTC input split into five outputs of 0.000108 BTC. A first-hand, dated observation of which configurations the sweeper actually reached, which bears on the passphrase question other held sources argue about. It is one device, one attempt and a fourteen-hour window rather than a general result, and the video itself is not captured by this tool. The setup and the conclusion drawn from it are the poster's own and are not reproduced here.

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