He is a huge hypocrite.

You cannot operate a VC firm and a 501c in the same industry and not be biased.

Example of said hypocrisy Odell and NVK both sit on Opensats. They have a major say in what applications are approved for grants. NVK and Odell both have equity in Coinkite which has been funded by 1031. Odell and NVK have both thrown shade at other hardware wallets like seedsigner and could have very well denied grant applications to people and companies that compete with coinkite.

Primal is another 1031 funded project in which Odell has substantial equity in. Odell constantly criticizes X for KYC policies while Primal is KYCing people even harder. Primal uses the strike API which collects your name, address, contact info. Primal is able to link this information to your npub. How is this any different or better than what X is doing?

Primal doesn’t even use Nostr best practices. They are extremely nefarious. Example: Primal uses a non standard caching relay where they actually alter all alter users notes. When I use damus my images are uploaded to Nostr.build but if you view my image on primal you will see that the image url isn’t Nostr.build it is a different media file hosted by primal. They have actually constructed a new event without the users permission. They could at a later point in time change the media or remove the media that’s being displayed to primal users.

I could go on but I think you get the point.