Coldcard co-founder is deleting X posts as losses top $130M

Rodolfo Novak (NVK), co-founder of Coldcard maker Coinkite, is deleting posts from his social media. Some people think Coinkite has also deleted recently content from its website.

The apparent elimination of these historical artifacts is concerning amid the ongoing theft of BTC from Coldcard customers. 

For over five years, Coldcard hardware wallets generated private keys for customers with insufficient entropy. Since hackers discovered and began exploiting that vulnerability last week, they’ve drained over $130 million from victims.

The thefts continue as they crack insecure private keys using brute force computation.

For whatever reason, NVK has decided to remove certain pieces of content that he published over those five years.

Take, for example, in November 2024, when NVK wrote that a knockoff of his company’s Blockclock might be “a back door into peoples home network.” That post now resolves to an X error page. It went dark this week.

Bitcoin developer Peter Todd caught that deletion. On August 5, Todd posted the screenshot of the original post. “Deleted recently enough it seems it was still in my phone’s cache,” Todd explained.

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