Is walletscrutiny.com a legit source? They seem to have legit points, otherwise they constantly hating on samourai wallet and pushing for their crappy mycelium wallet makes me wondering how trustworthy they are
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Is walletscrutiny.com a legit source? They seem to have legit points, otherwise they constantly hating on samourai wallet and pushing for their crappy mycelium wallet makes me wondering how trustworthy they are
Tell me what's worse.
Leaving your bitcoin on a custodial exchange, or using a wallet app that was installed using a binary that cannot be reproduced?
I would say the risks are about the same. Except most people don't even know that their wallet app is not reproducible.
Who is raising awareness on this or doing anything about it? Well, ... Wallet Scrutiny is, for one.
Is the following really considered "pushing for" mycelium?
https://twitter.com/LeoWandersleb/status/1543395075362885635 [Nitter]
https://twitter.com/LeoWandersleb/status/1606797801236713473 [Nitter]
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Your question is indeed very on point.
The answer: No they are not.
NVK also "discovered" and posted some months ago on twitter that they are literally begging for money in order to put an app on review.
Also their methods to "review" are quite shady, like everything is paid-to-review, money corrupts and you will not have anymore an objective review.
And yes, they are the devs (or members of the team) of the shitcoin Mycelium app.
Walletscrutiny is just a garbage review web.
No, no and no.
NVK was pissed that his product was listed as not reproducible. His own website - bitcoinbinary - does not list versions of products if they are not reproducible. So when you go to his website and see "oh, product X is reproducible" and then head to the download page, you might get a binary that is to the best knowledge of all experts not reproducible.
WalletScrutiny on the other hand warns visitors and followers on Twitter when a new update of any product fails to be reproducible.
WS never requested money for a review. On the contrary: The order in which reviews are done is determined in the methodology of the project. WS did ask for money and did receive money as laid out on the donations page but not once was the product of a donor reviewed as a consequence of donating.
All claims at WalletScrutiny are verifiable. Mycelium happens to value highly to be reproducible but doesn't get any favored treatment.
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Disclosure: I have been a walletscrutiny.com contributor for 1 year and 6 months now. But I am soon going to be with another project.
Most of these assertions are false. Except for one:
I think he believes that we're working with Foundation whom he accuses of pirating ColdCard's source. Which is not true. He's been all over social media and acting very unreasonable, attacking our identities.
Check up on ColdCard's history with Foundation. NVK's tweets about "Closed-source winning", how it was a mistake to use the GPL license, the change in ColdCard's license, etc.
NVK, and friends, I, personally have no beef with you. I'm sorry that you feel that way about us. It is truly unfortunate.
If it is true that a provider did copy from you, at a time, when the license for the ColdCard was GPL - then, I don't know what to say.
1 Timothy 6:10 says, "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."
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Could you please provide a link to those claims/findings?
Search all the discussion between nvk and scrutinity guys back in May 2022.
Also on their webpage are comments about that case (if they don't delete it).
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For additional information and comments on this topic, see also an earlier post found here on SN:
Reproducible Build Proofs: Wallet Scrutiny and BitcoinBinary
#55733
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https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1442508908359213061
https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1583509213816401923
https://i.postimg.cc/q7jxD3jw/nvk-wallet-scrutinity.jpg
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https://gitlab.com/walletscrutiny/walletScrutinyCom
Disclosure: I'm Daniel and a WalletScrutiny contributor.
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lightning on blue wallet is just an account in their custody
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To be clearer. I already made a video for this.
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