To me it's not about "throwing them under the bus", it's more about losing trust in them, in the whole bitcoin space in general.

Non-technical plebs, after time and effort, have come to deem trustworthy some people (influencers, devs, whatever), and these pleb must trust someone at some point (we can't expect them to verify code).

The fact that almost all unanimously were sponsoring or talking about coldcard as the best of hardware wallet, makes a pleb scared as shit, like "if basically everybody in the btc space said coldcard was the best wallet, and it turned out it was the worst of all, how can I trust now?"

I think this is the worst outcome of this cc disaster 🥲

Found it, is this one man

Use bitcoinguide/seed and iancoleman to check that the dice entropy you generate on the coldcard gives you the same 24 words.
Maplebitcoin has a YouTube video explaining it very well, it's called something like "how to generate your own entropy using dice", he uses a coldcard q in the video

Is it true that NVK cannot be found anywhere? I heard this rumor

If I'm not mistaken @Wilder from liberation travel should have this kind of solution:

Open a bank account in Georgia or Kirgystan remotely and with minimal kyc. They give you a visa or Mastercard that works worldwide (or you can connect an Amex to this bank account) so that you can use it everywhere.
If you need fiat, use a local exchange (local in Georgia I mean) to deposit and sell btc, and withdraw to the Georgian bank account). There they should not harass you for this kind of thing.

Correct me if I'm wrong anybody, not sure I got it 100% right myself

Did you guys look up that address (ending fcu9r) on memepool and look at what has been written in several op-return?

But not all projects are available on opensats to directly donate to (for example seedsigner that has been discussed lately).

As any organization for sure there will be some reasons for them not to list a specific dev or project, I'm thinking of ways to fix this

1) Also interested in hearing from the board about this

2) we need a platform where ppl can directly donate to dev/project, the middle man (in this case opensats) will become a problem like any centralized space

Is there a single place where someone can see all the devs/projects and directly donate to them?

For example I do not donate to opensats because I don't like the way they give grants (and like all organizations it has its nepotism problems), but I donate individually. I think we need more of this, direct donations from ppl to devs/projects without middle man in between

I think that a hardware wallet manufacturer can have a massive overlook like this, horrible and grave but is not the end of the world.

What's way worse is that coldcard was advertised as THE #1 hardware wallet, the bomb, the one you get if you want to be super safe. And it was advertised like this by all "major"/"more respectable influencers" in the business (the bitcoin way, daily session, Odel etc).
I think this is way worse because now there is a loss of trust that goes beyond 1 hardware manufacturer.

How is it possible that not one of these businesses/influencers took the time to seriously review the code? If you advertise it like that you must be sure of the product.
Non technical user must rely on reliable sources that they came to deem as trustworthy. And if all of them have failed like this the trust is out of the window now, who the hell are they supposed to rely on now?

This is huge because without non-technical users getting into self-custody bitcoin will become fucking useless and controlled as gold

Shitty times indeed, let's get out of this stronger but this goes way beyond a single manufacturer imo

@FrancescoConza

- Inventing bitcoin (great to better understand how it works technically)

- the big print (Lawrence Lepard)__to better understand how the current system is fucked

- the price of tomorrow (Jeff booth)__ to better understand structural forces at play

Enjoy !!