The incident reinforces a structural lesson: the security guarantee of any self-custody arrangement rests entirely on the entropy quality of its seed generation, and a single misconfigured preprocessor macro can silently collapse that guarantee for years without triggering any observable alarm. As AI accelerates both vulnerability discovery and defensive auditing, the practical burden of verification shifts further beyond what individual users can reasonably perform. Will the industry converge on multisignature architectures and AI-augmented audit standards as the new baseline for self-custody, or will the next entropy failure arrive before those defenses mature?
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