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Eric Yakes predicts that the COLDCARD incident will not be remembered as a significant moment in bitcoin history and that what will be remembered is bitcoin developers running their own equivalent of Project Glasswing in public, on open-source models, without a frontier lab's resources and funded publicly. He closes by directing donations to the Red Team through OpenSats. Held as a compact statement of the position that the response matters more than the breach, which several held sources take, and as a further instance of the incident being converted into a fundraising ask. It is a prediction and a solicitation, not a claim of fact about the defect. The judgement is the poster's own.

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