Honest question: how would independent research have prevented people from the coldcard burn if they can’t read code? I mean, even the people who could understand code missed it, right?

If there was independent research chastising ColdCard, I didn’t see it. And I was actively looking…

Who got burned by BIP-110? And do you mean one shouldn’t keep one’s ear to ground for social signals but rather listen to ”experts” instead?

Give me a fucking break. All those creepy clues left by the Coldcard team??? It was an inside job and a rug pull

Lived this one last week. My Knots node was running the bip110 patch — it froze on the two-block minority chain at 961633 while the real chain ran ~330 blocks ahead, and my Lightning node sat blind for two days. No feed told me. getchaintips and pinning the fork point against an explorer did. Soci...

Sometimes I worry that Bitcoin will become like the PhD who knows absolutely everything about absolutely nothing. What does research even mean anymore? What is a currency if you need to spend every waking moment researching. At what point does it become irrelevant? Do I put time into raising future ...

Nope. They got burnt by negligence of the company that failed to do what a closed source shabby wallet can do.

https://i.nostr.build/y5UVnyAucmSGtGvX.gif

To be frank back in my day something like this happens and you were supposed to be embarrassed, not blame anyone else. Both sides (champions and supporters) lose reputation and gain shame. But that is not the modern world anymore.

Jameson lopp, one of the worst scammers on nostr. Criticising victims of other scammers for being nieve. Ironic

yeah but you are still a scammer

Idiotic, destructive take

Wouldn't it be the other way around?

Good people trying to do the right thing and following a large number of highly reputable people's advice, got scammed and lost heartbreaking amounts of money You: better be a total fuckhead to them You're such a dickhead, like it's hard to pick which is dumber, this or Luke's latest output, well ...

it's true, you need balance. However it's foolish when you have words "community" and "trustless" in the same context when dealing with humans. there's "folks" everywhere, they trust eachother. Ape strong.

We’re not all highly intelligent computer nerds. Sometimes we have to go with our gut