Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on Today at 06:24:34 AM

Here's a post from the CEO of Passport about this: https://www.zherbert.com/an-open-letter-to-nvk-and-coldcard/

A bit off-topic but to add to this story, I recently tried to summarize in a post[1] some background that led to discussion:

Quote from: RickDeckard on June 22, 2023, 06:57:57 PM

There was a clash between the two some time ago. Zach (Foundation CEO and Co-founder) even made a post in his own blog about it[1]. It mostly started when Matt Odell (seen as an influencer within the crypto community I assume) posted a tweet[2] claiming that all what Foundation did was to clone NVK source code into their product. Besides Matt, even the co-founder and CEO of CoinKite (@nvk[3]) - the producers of Coldcard - was spreading that same information on their Discord channel - that not only did Foundation copied their code but that they were also closed source (you can read more about it on Zack open letter).

I don't know how the situation ended between the two, but I wouldn't be surprised if Foundation (and Zach team) ended up a bit frustrated against this "attack" by nvk and would keep communication on strictly what was needed. You can feel that on Zach closing remarks on his letter:

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Our team would appreciate if you lay off the character attacks and untrue statements. Let us know if we’ve done something wrong. But in an open source world, we need to build on each other’s work in order to bring Bitcoin to the masses.

[1]https://www.zherbert.com/an-open-letter-to-nvk-and-coldcard/
[2]https://nitter.it/ODELL/status/1651220101721358336
[3]https://nitter.it/nvk

I think it is always good to understand both sides of the story in every scenario and this is also an example of that. Sadly, on Ledger case, there isn't anything that they could do to salvage the current implementation of their new feature. I'm really considering creating an account for Twitter (since I'm not able to use nitter[2] ever since Twitter blocked people from browsing unless they are signed in[3]) just to be able to follow the discussion regarding Ledger in that particular social network and see how people continue to react to the deployment of Ledger Roadmap...

[1]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5441422.msg62445559#msg62445559
[2]https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919
[3]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-30/twitter-blocks-people-from-seeing-tweets-unless-registered