27 sats \ 9 replies \ @joko OP 10 Dec 2022 \ parent \ on: r/bitcoin mods have completely lost their mind bitcoin
Leaving beside your obvious gaslightning about usb being insecure, anti-exfil not being imporant (for some inexplicable reason), etc, I think I now understand what your problem is:
You are trying to gatekeep Bitcoin.
"Everyone who doesn't use Bitcoin like I do, shouldn't use Bitcoin."
Sorry to break it to you, but no, not everyone will need to run a node. And not everyone will self custody their Bitcoin in the future. What we are trying to do is give as many people as possible the chance to self custody their Bitcoin.
I think you should step out of your bubble for a moment and actually talk with beginners in the space. I've onboarded hundreds of people and I'm telling you: Even opening the commandline is too hard for many. Should these people not be allowed to participate in Bitcoin in a self custodial way?
It's a ridiculous claim that can only come from people who are incredibly self absorbed and isolated in their echochamber.
Still a shitcoin wallet.
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Does coldcard support taproot adresses yet?
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coldcard has it's own issues too. no one is exempt. Yours just happens to be an obvious offender.
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Issues like selling fake wallets (aka card wallets), not being open source or not honoring bug bounties you mean?
Sure, if you'd just be honest about these. But I don't see you critizing any of those everytime someone brings up coldcard.
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all potentially valid points.
But at least they don't promote shitcoins or enable users to buy it within a companion app.
You can't say the same.
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Okay, so we're now at the point where your only beef with the BitBox02 is that it has a multi-edition. I'm happy to address that:
Be surprised, I see your point. I wish we didn't have to make one. Unfortunately it's simply the case that beginners won't buy a hardware wallet that only holds bitcoin. I've been there too, and that's why my first wallet was a ledger! Should we leave these people with a closed source shitcoin wallet?
We don't promote the use of shitcoins, we actually keep it quite to a minimum, only supporting the top ~5 coins on the multi. There's no in-app trading, no swaps, no liquidity mining, no yield farming no staking in the BitBoxApp.
One could make the argument that shitcoiners pay for the development of the bitcoin-only edition, as far less than 50% of our time is spent on the multi-edition.
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not the only beef. but it is the most obvious and glaring.
lots of beginners already buy Bitcoin only hardware wallets, and should.
You do have in app support for buying shitcoins.
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You do have in app support for buying shitcoins.
Not on the bitcoin-only version.