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What is your spouse's response to the ColdCard entropy vulnerability?

stackernews-spouse-response

https://stacker.news/items/1536864

Organisation
Stacker News
Evidence role
Community discussion
Published
2026-07-31
Source changes
0
Detected differences
1
Unreviewed
0
Copies held
2

Scoresby asking how owners' spouses responded to the vulnerability. Community colour on how the incident landed inside households; part of the response record. 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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  1. Earliest copy held
    seen · Captured here 5,944 chars
    Extracted text as captured 
    {
  "data": {
    "item": {
      "comments": {
        "comments": [
          {
            "createdAt": "2026-07-31T12:00:26.399Z",
            "text": "Sell everything!!!\n\nBut she says that every bear market. Could be a bottom signal!",
            "user": {
              "name": "OT"
            }
          },
          {
            "createdAt": "2026-07-31T14:56:20.284Z",
            "text": "\"isn't the whole point of Bitcoin that it just uses a computer?\"",
            "user": {
              "name": "justin_shocknet"
            }
          },
          {
            "createdAt": "2026-07-31T14:56:30.835Z",
            "text": "This whole thing reminds me of linux neck-bearded nerds: they act like if not knowing how to use the computer by interacting directly with the kernel is a sin and assume everyone should know, and scoff on those who don't know. They assume their world must be everyone's. But 99.99% of people just want to send an email and buy that new appliance from amazon. The exact same scenario applies to bitcoin.",
            "user": {
              "name": "didiplaywell"
            }
          },
          {
            "createdAt": "2026-07-31T12:08:49.164Z",
            "text": "Breakfast this morning turned into a tutorial on generating sufficient entropy.",
            "user": {
              "name": "billytheked"
            }
          },
          {
            "createdAt": "2026-07-31T12:11:30.621Z",
            "text": "My wife: \"whatever. Did you put out the garbage?\"",
            "user": {
              "name": "siggy47"
            }
          },

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1 presentation-noise difference. Sidebar, ticker and other page chrome churn that our review classified as not being a change to what the source says.
  • +7 -7 Only comment ordering changed in the API response: billytheked's comment moved from below didiplaywell's to the top of the list. No comment text was added, edited or removed; this is ranking-order churn.
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