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Jwweatherman_ 1328075905604829185

jwweatherman_-1328075905604829185

https://x.com/JWWeatherman_/status/1328075905604829185

Captured screenshot of the post by @JWWeatherman_, posted 15 Nov 2020, 20:42 UTC
@JWWeatherman_ posted captured full-size capture → original post →
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A November 2020 post, five and a half years before the incident, quoting Greg Maxwell that the mitigations for hardware-wallet tampering risk are to avoid specialised hardware or to use multifactor security. Registered as pre-incident context that was resurfaced in August 2026, not as a warning about this defect: the quoted concern is supply-chain tampering, not seed generation. Its value is that the argued mitigation, multisig across vendors, is the one the incident revived.

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