I mean, generally speaking, it's kind of hard to use everything open source because sometimes the software just doesn't exist or the hardware. Even I use non-open source software and hardware.

I've always really wanted to respect that company for being innovators in the space and doing things that I think are legitimately good for Bitcoin. But due to the way they act on several social media platforms and their overall business practices like this that make me unable to advocate for them.

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Honest question, albeit slightly off topic: If you could buy a very expensive laptop with an open source CPU, would you be interested?

MNT's FPGA-based CPU caught my attention a while back, and I don't have any income, so $1600-2600 for just the CPU is steep for my blood, but I'm curious to get your take.

More info here: https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2022-09-29-rkx7-showcase.html

Absofuckinglutely. But ro be real, daily driving would come down to reasonable performance vs pain in the ass compatability/performance issues. Checking it out now 🤙🔥

btw: It is a lot harder to verify open hardware for integrity than software

Depends on your expertise ;)

of course you're right, but not everyone can x-ray chips and etch away layers at home 😁

maybe I'm a bit over the top here too.

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you should distinguish people from services, evaluate work, not opinions