Super Testnet on Nostr: Here's something that interests me about the coldcard bug: it had 2 random number ...
Here's something that interests me about the coldcard bug: it had 2 random number generators. The "bad" one was seeded with data including keypresses, the timestamp, and the device id. I can understand that, it's probably how I would seed it. What was the "good" one seeded with?
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2026-08-06 19:36:04 UTCEvent JSON
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