Galaxy Maps Coldcard Bitcoin Losses After Wallet Incident
Galaxy Research identified more than $70 million in Bitcoin losses linked to the Coldcard wallet incident and warned users to move funds from vulnerable addresses.
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Galaxy Research identified more than $70 million in Bitcoin losses linked to the Coldcard wallet incident and warned users to move funds from vulnerable addresses.
Galaxy Maps Coldcard Bitcoin Losses After Wallet Incident
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Coldcard Bitcoin loss estimate rises to $70M after Galaxy analysis
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Aug 1, 2026
Galaxy Research identified 1,196 addresses that lost 1,082.65 Bitcoin in a 41-minute window, expanding the estimated scope of the Coldcard wallet incident.
Galaxy Research, the research arm of crypto investment company Galaxy Digital, identified 1,196 addresses linked to the Coldcard wallet incident that lost 1,082.65 Bitcoin, worth about $70.2 million at the time of the transactions.
Galaxy Research traced the Bitcoin movements between 1:10 AM and 1:51 AM UTC on July 30 across blocks 960,183 to 960,191, about 30 hours before Coldcard published its first security advisory,
according
to an X post on Friday.
Earlier preliminary analysis of the Coldcard incident by AnchorWatch CEO and co-founder Rob Hamilton estimated that
594.48 Bitcoin, worth around $38 million
, moved across 500 transactions within a three-block window.
Galaxy Research later
said
the identified transactions shared a pattern, including identical 30 satoshis per virtual byte fees and no change outputs. The company
said
the initial attack activity is identifiable on-chain through this pattern, but noted that future attacks against Coldcard-generated addresses may not follow the same fingerprint.
Coinkite co-founder Rodolfo Novak
said
in an X post on Friday that the company takes responsibility for the firmware bug and is working to determine the full scope of the issue.
Novak said Coinkite released a hotfix to remove the software fallback path, but warned that the update does not protect seeds generated on vulnerable firmware. He advised users who generated seeds on vulnerable firmware to move their funds to a new seed.
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