He did not want the coins.
This smacks of other agenda.
Why do 500 seeded wallets in 1 shot.
Moron move. Unless stealing was not the agenda.
Be ready to do them and do 1 a month. Only do wallets seeds a little at a time .
If a coldcard was drained here and there most of us would think the owner of the wallet was careless.
In a year he could have grabbed 10-12 wallets with 1 or 2 coins each.
apparently bug this was soooo beyond stupid and easy for AI to help find that they prolly figured take it now before others will. after all not much honor among thieves and who knows how many peeps stumbled across this and didnt have the resources just yet.
For this particular coding deficiency, the AI element of story always sounded to me like a bit of a age-convenient red herring making use of the newness of the methods.
Given the atypical and highly specialized nature of the coldcard platform (with dual communicating secure elements and the like, at least in the case of the Q), I'm becoming dubious that the decrease in activity of the hwrng is likely to be missed even without profiling it in a dedicated manner. OTOH, apparently it was being used for other critical security operations...just not in the all-important seed generation.
I'm beginning to think that this may be a much bigger quasi-intelligence driven operation involving well more than one high-level actor. Possibly not even with the real goal of obtaining BTC. Guiding a herd to and through the gates into corporate-custodialandia at an opportune time could well be way more valuable in the end than purloining a few thousand BTC. It would be an outcome which would shape very much the future of the roll-out of post-dollar monetary solutions.
