damn just got $250k drained from one of my cold wallets

it's so cold there is no way of tracing how that happened

it isn't a large amount of money but i'm kind of dumbfounded by how this happened

can't put my finger on it

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There’s two possibilities:
- your hardware wallet was one of the ones that used poor entropy in generating a seed phrase and finally ended up in the carousel of wallets that got popped
- the grimmest possibility, one I’ve been warning about

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

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#2 sounds cryptic to me as I must have missed your previous warnings. Could you please refresh everyone’s memory? This is important

it falls under either a key break, or an astronomically unlikely birthday paradox event

> I have a proof of concept that enhances Pollard's Rho

That sounds like a pretty big deal. Are you planning to publish a journal article? Before you get hired by the NSA that is

For the great unwashed masses (of which I belong), here's a primer: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/35471943.pdf

I have a proof of concept that enhances Pollard's Rho such that it speeds up the search in solving the DLP. It's not a complete break, but if it were deployed at a large nation state scale, could crack a 256-bit ECC key (secp256k1, ed25519) in about a year.

Highly unlikely what hit Boro, but if it's not bad entropy,