breaking: @Patrick is starting his own chain
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it's me, real fake
npub1ya2m...rwkg
former full-time pope, consulting saint of inconvenient computing in loco parentis
awesome!
but slow
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nice table of vulnerability if you didn't roll for entropy
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looks like the Cold-card dice roll mechamism is not broken
https://itsrealfake.github.io/2026/07/31/coldcard-dice-roll-entropy-is-sound.html
I used @semisol 's post as a seed to get some research on other coldcards.
this writeup includes details I was curious about: Mk1, Mk2, Mk3, Mk4, Mk5 & Coldcard Q with links to the source where appropriate
https://itsrealfake.github.io/2026/07/31/coldcard-rng-vulnerability-analysis.html
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