CoinKite most likely authored the entropy weakness on purpose ( in my opinion). Their CTO introduced the buggy library under a pseudonym, had open LARP discussions with it on twitter/GH. The only problem: he forgot to change his GPG key and we have the smoking gun. The company joked publicly about the Retirement Attack/Entropy weakening "bug".

Let's also keep in mind: NVGay was empowered and enabled for 8+ years by the likes of OpenSats grifters, TFTC VC shills and the "people" pushing the "Red Team" effort. Rodolfo was heavily involved with many Ten31 investments and rumor has it he invested in AnchorWatch (best buds with Rob Hamilton).

Many of those guys have direct business ties with him such as investing in one another's companies, cross promoting and other general purpose circle jerk activity. Other skeptics and I have been screaming about this obvious corruption in bitcoin influencer circles and attacked personally. We are vindicated as a group.

NVGay openly attacked, belittled and targeted competitors and security researchers trying to help. And in my opinion, the entropy weakening is an inside job (see retirement attack comment). The sad thing is that CK will most likely go bankrupt and NVGay will slink away with probably hundreds if not thousands of bitcoin while the hardcore average joe plebs that trusted him

I'd take it a step further: it looks like a classic intel operation. Divide and conquer. Demoralize, steal from and lie to the movement. Run away in the middle of the night with the money. I think the only thing they didn't count on was chinese AI making it so an 80IQ kid in college could clumsily discover and try to steal funds.



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