Unchained · Friday, August 7, 2026
While there is speculation about AI's role in discovering the Coldcard vulnerability, it is acknowledged that exploiting it requires significant computational power for mining compromised private keys. The attackers are effectively 'mining' for these keys rather than a direct exploit.
“Is it AI? All of those fun questions. Uh, so like, North Korea? It's not actually North Korea this time guys. This is not North Korea. How do we know? Yeah. How do we know? OK, so North Korea doesn't do these types of attacks. It takes a massive amount of compute and there are guys that have been like cracking and mining these things for ages.”
“Maybe with AI, maybe not. Um, some people are like saying that AI can find this, but once the, the exploit like, like, publicly. The AI tends to learn from publicly reported.”