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 Painful when it’s a previously well-liked figure, but this seems like something we need to out wherever we find it 
 Mmm dunno coinkite are probably sick of people ripping off their ideas and code and they are a for profit business. I don’t think the blockclock was ever advertised as FOSS. It is a unique product. I’m sure the people behind BTC clock had good intentions, agree there. 
 Business is hard. Especially something effectively commoditized (i.e. basically anything open source). People make money in commoditized businesses all the time through other competitive advantages. Like a brand advantage for example, which they’ve effectively fucked up here. 
 I’ll agree that it seems like an over-reaction given you’re either spending $400 on a blockclock or it’s a hard no and BTC Clock looks like a fun project. I’ve considered both as options. Still love NVK and coinkite i don’t think there is a  Ledger “we like to know your seed” of dissonance. 
 * level of dissonance 
 Fair, they could recover 
 Like they ripped off Trezors open source code to create the closedcard? 
 I don’t know the history there, the feature set in a coldcard is very different to a trezor these days. This thread is making me want to buy a blockclock😬