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Re: Thoughts about Passport hardware wallet
by
dkbit98
on 29/07/2022, 18:04:59 UTC
I remember that ColdCard was upset about Passport supposedly being a CC fork, but if I roughly compare the two projects' structures, they look very different. A quick diff over both projects (latest commits) also shows no single identical file - obviously, this would also be the case if Passport was based on CC and changed every single file between the fork and now.
This was one of the reasons why ColdCard changed their license from OpenSource to CommonClause.
I don't think they benefited at all from this, on contrary I think they are going to get less or no more contribution from developers outside Coldcard circle.
btw I heard that there is only one developer in Coldcard team, but I can't vouch for that...
I am not exactly sure how much people is working on Passport  wallet, but there are seven contributors so far.

Indeed, they removed the snake game from Passport batch 2.
We can also compare the same folder in both repos and notice that the other game, stacking_sats.py is gone too and the project generally looks much cleaner and smaller than batch 1.
Maybe they actually visited bitcointalk forum and found some criticism we made regarding those game bloatware found in first version of their device.
I can't exactly remember if some of their developers an created account here, but I think they did, correct me if I am wrong.