Over $130 Million in Bitcoin Stolen — How AI Scales Attacks and How to Defend Against Them

Over $130 Million in Bitcoin has been stolen over the past week due to ColdCard's RNG exploit.In this episode, I sit down with Nikolai Tjongarero aka Okin to discuss:— The ColdCard RNG Exploit— Boltz disabling its services— How AI is used to find and exploit bad code— How AI is being used to defend free and open-source software (FOSS) 🧡 Follow Okin:X: https://x.com/OKIN_17Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/okin_17/LinkedIn: Nikolai TjongareroGitHub: https://github.com/BigBossRabbit🧡 Subsrcibe / Follow:➤ https://www.youtube.com/@AskaBitcoiner21Questions?sub_confirmation=1➤ Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ask-a-bitcoiner-21➤ Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/askabitcoiner21➤ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/askabitcoiner21questionsChapters:00:00 $130 Million in Bitcoin Stolen04:29 How the ColdCard RNG Exploit Happened22:01 This Is Not Just a Problem with Bitcoin26:28 Boltz Disables Its Services30:34 Spending Ridiculous Amounts of Money on AI to Look for Exploits33:59 How Do You Navigate This New AI Reality?38:30 Open-Weight AI Models50:09 Is Trad-Fi Holding Wester AI Users Hostage?55:39 Are Bitcoin Influencers to Blame? How Korean Bitcoiners Survived the ColdCard RNG AttackPlease note that this video is for educational purposes and does not constitute financial or technical advice.(S/o to  @CryptoGuide  for spotting this issue years ago 🙏)Here are the referenced videos & tweets:— "Cracking Unsafe Bitcoin Wallets, ColdCard Mk4 Warning (Insecure Dice Based Seeds & Private Keys)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj_W3xOlt6U&list=WL&index=1&t=302s— "Situation Report No 1" from @ CalleBTC: https://x.com/callebtc/status/2085024458012586286— "How Korean Bitcoiners Survived Coldcard—and Issues It Revealed for the Rest of Us" by Koji Higashi ( @ Coin_and_Peace): https://x.com/Coin_and_Peace/status/2084637767720665120* I will continue with treasure hunt episodes, however, for the sake of transparency, I did the following: https://x.com/askabitcoiner21/status/2084214952752042417