Well the easiest thing to point to is their move away from GPL license. That may seem insignificant to the uninitiated, but its a literal maneuver of theirs to take their product out of the FOSS space. Essentially they have transitioned from fostering open software ecosystem to leeching off of open source projects and building a proprietary walled garden. Its anti-FOSS. Its anti-Bitcoin.
You can also see NVK's ad-hominem attacks against other FOSS "competitors". Calling other hardware wallets, software wallets, even calling Android itself a shitcoin. Everything that isn't making NVK money is a shitcoin in NVK's eyes. He does this to tap into Bcoiner's strong anti-shitcoin mentality (which exists for a good reason), but in effect manipulates Bitcoiners into becoming COINKITE maximalists too. Ironically being a maximalist for a tool like a hardware wallet is antithetical to being a maximalist for a protocol like Bitcoin. The latter actually makes sense. The former is backasswards.
But really... if you haven't been following, or havent noticed the NVK rhetoric, then give Seth For Privacy (npub1tr4…2y5g)'s thread a read. He outlines it better than me.
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2023-04-26 03:07:49
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