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nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 has thoughts. 😅

For me personally, after talking to LOTS of bitcoiners who are deeply technical and very committed to open source AND still will only use a Coldcard, I'm never going to use anything else.

Call it social heuristics if you want, but I guarantee that 99.9% of bitcoiners (me included) have no idea how complicated it is to keep keys properly secure. If "verifiable source" is the tradeoff required, so be it.

cavemanf16 1y ago

Well, this post of yours will likely start a flamewar, but I’m on the side of you with ColdCard, primarily because it’s Bitcoin-only. “Open Source” means a lot of things, and I think it shouldn’t be exclusive to the GPL3 purist language. But the Bitcoin-only focus of ColdCard means it won’t try catering to the real fraudsters, the cryptobros. Hence, better security, EVEN IF there’s some level of code obscurity with ColdCard.

Besides, ColdCard’s documentation is top notch in my book.

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Lostdog 1y ago

"Open source" has had a commonly accepted definition since at least the mid 90s when I started working with it. It's mostly non-developers (and NVK) that are confused about this

There are plenty more FOSS licenses than GPL3, which is actually quite unpopular. MIT and Apache are the most used by far and provide users with maximum freedom