Curt BTC
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Curt BTC
@VikingKing447
I'm an Investor, Entrepreneur, Miner of BTC:: Co Founder of Bonanza Mining::🔥 I am on mission to advance hyperbitcoinization! JESUS IS KING! #Bitcoin🚀





The thing that makes me so angry is that this didn’t have to happen. There were so many warning signs. But too many people chose tribalism, sponsorship and purity. First of all Coinkite only had a handful of employees, they never employed a full dev team. Instead they were run primarily by an ego maniac who not only refused to cooperate with the larger community but was outright hostile to anyone that didn’t fawn over him. Coinkite was not ISO certified, they held NO standard formal security certifications. Instead demanding that every single user should “don’t trust, verify.” Verification is the very reason tech companies hold certifications. They did no third party audits. This is the part that makes me sick to my stomach that anyone was ever recommending them. And they had no bug bounty program. If you know anything about software, anything at all, those are three HUGE red flags. Furthermore NVK himself aggressively went after his competition. He registered a long list of domains and squatted on them so Seedsigner couldn’t use them. See @sesi_the_man He pivoted his “open source code” to new licensing that is "source available" instead of FOSS. See @zherbert It seems the bitcoin community wrote this all off because… those products made themselves available for other use cases? Even if Coldcard had been secure, it should have never been pushed onto normies with limited technical abilities. “Anyone can roll dice.” Sure. But should someone who has never even heard the word entropy be required to securely create their own? Absolutely fucking not. There are way too many things that can go wrong. And clearly, a lot has gone wrong. Do better. Godspeed.





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