The most spicy question in the hardware wallet space 🙃
- Trezor was the first hw wallet, kept the code open source (FOSS)
- Coinkite (Coldcard) reused parts of the code to ship their own products, kept the code open source (FOSS)
- Foundation came in, took parts of Coldcard code, shipped their own products
-> Coinkite didn't like it (market competition, and sense of fairness)
-> Coinkite switched their licenses to source-viewable only. Not FOSS anymore (not permitting unrestricted use for commercial purposes by others)
-> Lots of discussion about the tradeoffs for the future implications to the Bitcoin ecosystem.
camper / Camper
npub1kl…9t938
2025-02-03 00:24:26
in reply to nevent1q…ukm4
Author Public Key
npub1klj98ahaaduuegwcd7lscjeqa0h2680f75r82gnr35pua8ls36xqh9t938Published at
2025-02-03 00:24:26Event JSON
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