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Adding to the Public Record on Our Ongoing Investigation - Coldcard

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https://stacker.news/items/1540370

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2026-08-04
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Scoresby linking Coinkite's official 4 August investigation statement, separately held as coldcardwallet-2084731768632991801. The link post's eight-comment discussion records community reception of that statement; the vendor's claims remain attributed to Coinkite and are not independently verified here. Captured through the site's public GraphQL API: the rendered pages crash the capture tab, and the API answers POST from this host. The query fixes the captured surface to the item's title, text and two levels of comments, each with author and absolute timestamp.

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          "comments": {
            "comments": [
              {
                "createdAt": "2026-08-04T20:45:36.733Z",
                "text": "Self-serving shit. At every opportunity they're trying to ease their own accountability by blaming AI and the magical new security reality, as if no one before Kimi AI could have audited the \"PRNG, not TRNG\" bug.",
                "user": {
                  "name": "Aeneas"
                }
              },
              {
                "createdAt": "2026-08-04T22:01:13.409Z",
                "text": "An apology would have gone a long way here. .\n\n> Since the incident, we've also tested our code against frontier models, including Kimi K3, Claude Fable, and Codex 5.6. None of them caught it.\n\nWeird, since others have made claims to the contrary. Are they betting on us not believing them?",
                "user": {
                  "name": "billytheked"
                }
              },
              {
                "createdAt": "2026-08-04T21:29:23.988Z",
                "text": "Conflicts with what Rob Hamilton claims, that he found the bug quickly with Kimi K3. Who ya gonna believe, Coinkite or Rob Hamilton?",
                "user": {
                  "name": "KiwiBitcoinGuide"
                }
              },
              {
                "createdAt": "2026-08-04T20:27:12.756Z",
                "text": "gonna go out on a limb here and say that this is not the best look for the third or fourth post after a major problem with almost all your products that led to the loss of $100 million.",
                "user": {
                  "name": "Scoresby"
                }
              },
              {
                "createdAt": "2026-08-04T23:52:23.495Z",
                "text": "for me the whole perfect storm looks like a inside job, until they prove otherwise.\n\nAI just helped thiefs because their firmware was completely flawed",
                "user": {
                  "name": "Fenix"
                }
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