12 sats \ 9 replies \ @moneyball 22 Jun 2023 \ parent \ on: Does anyone know why Wallet Scrutiny can't reproduce Coldcard builds? bitcoin
Where is your evidence of this?
Making such bold claims requires some evidence
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Much of what I said is common public knowledge that stems over years so I'm not sure what you would think is bold. If there's something in particular you found incorrect, let me know.
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I got a splitting headache reading this. So I'm saving my response for later. You are replying to Moneyball, Tony.
Do you know who that is?
Do you know who I am? Geez. I am going to take five or more before I reply to you.
It's just that time of the month.....
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Yeah he's the one funding your BS marketing attacks.
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Where is your evidence of this? "malicious attempt at extorting funds from organizations"
Where is your evidence of this? "Now you have to either pay or contribute to their incompetent marketing attacks to get them to remove the negative marks."
Where is your evidence of this? "They often refuse to go back and "reattempt" the reproduction because they are "so busy" attacking as many wallets as possible."
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Maybe he's referring to the time before Spiral and the Human Rights Foundation granted the grant to us.
Some 1 to 2 years ago, we did embark on a "campaign" (if you can call it that) to email funds to ask for a grant.
- Some replied, but the most common reply was either "No" or "What's in it for us?"
- As a non-profit, we couldn't answer the what's in it for them part."
- Then, through Leo's personal contacts (which I think is you), Spiral came to the rescue. (Thank you steve and Spiral)
- A few months later, then Human Rights Foundation responded - the bulk of which went to EB, the security researcher.
As to attacks, we do not conduct negative interactions with wallet providers and we make it a point to try to fill the role of outreach as professionally as possible. Like how customer service would do it.
Most of the interactions were on twitter, and many were on the Gitlab or Github issue pages.
That is, to the best of my knowledge of it went.
The acrimonious relationship was stirred by non other than NVK and his cohort.
I do not know why - and I really don't want to dig in further to the reasons as it is not my concern.
I just know that there were allegations which were in now deleted tweets, about the licensing issues ColdCard. I can't recall exactly, but the license for the coldcard was previously GPLv3. I think ColdCard changed it later on, because of more deleted tweets concerning another wallet provider.
There was even a now deleted post about some person shouting on twitter that OPEN SOURCE LOST THE WAR OR BATTLE or something like that.
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🦗🦗🦗
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Steve, I'm not just sitting on stacker news all day worried about digging up years of tweets, interactions, and website archives to point to why I believe what I believe about WS's integrity and ethics.
If you would like to fund me to scrutinize wallet scrutiny then I guess I can stop building to do that for you. Otherwise, I find the invested interest and attitude here pretty pointless to continue with this conversation before it gets worse for no reason.
I hope you take some time to reflect on why funding a wallet hit list that targets competitors with words like "provider puts your funds at risk" and "If we had more resources, we would update reviews more timely instead of assigning this meta verdict ;)" with a donation link to change the results. If you can't see why that's fucked up, then I don't know what else to say to you.
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Steve is new here.
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