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Appreciation of the community response

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An assessment of how bitcoin X responded to the incident, listing the strands the poster credits: rapid diagnosis, specialised domain expertise, frontier AI tools scanning code, tracking of the stolen funds, marathon Twitter Spaces on best practice, and broad message-spreading. It adds that even paid Coldcard promoters made alert videos, apologised and told affected users what to do, and argues nothing comparable follows a typical DeFi rug pull. Held as a dated record of community sentiment near the end of the first week, and because the strands it names are separately captured here. The characterisations, including the reference to paid promoters, are the poster's own.

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