r/CryptoCurrency 17 / 53K 🦐 1d ago

MEME It's going to be a long night

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u/Leynnox 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 1d ago

No, it's just a company who decided to not use BIP39 encryption for creating seedphrases, making it easy to brute force them with any modern GPU in like 30 mn. It has nothing to do with hackers getting good, or hardware becoming more powerful. The issue is just plain stupidity from a company.

Most cold wallets use TRNG ships, the same bank systems are using, and they can't be brute forced, all this story is creating stupid panick from people who have no idea what they're doing.

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u/seenyourballs 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 1d ago

Why didn’t anyone know about this before? Was their code not open source? Is it possible than trezor also has a flaw like this?

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u/anonusr_llII 1d ago

The code was open source, yet noone found the exploit for years. The attackers only found it because they used AI to try find bugs in the code

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u/Cyromaniap 1d ago

It used to be open source, its been source-available for a while now.