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 seedsigner vs nvk

how old is this beef..?

https://m.primal.net/JrMp.jpg
https://m.primal.net/JrMq.jpg 
 Not new 
 What is the misinformation about seed signer? 
 I think “A Raspberry Pi is a closed source system and should not be used to store private keys” or something similar 
 Isn‘t the whole point of seed signer to not store the keys? 🤔 
 It stores them temporarily, and could exfiltrate them to the mempool or blockchain when used. 
 Same with passphrases? 
 In principle, yes. If you can exfiltrate any sequence of bits (eg a seed phrase), you can exfiltrate whatever you want (eg a BIP39 passphrase). But it may be impractical, and I don't know if there are actual exploits. 
 has to be pushing 2 years 
 The beef got worst when the SeedSigner guy went on Twitter Spaces to talk about how Coinkite as a business was not profitable

A bit after that, Coinkite announced that they had raised VC funding for the first time ever, thereby further confirming that they were indeed in a dire position

Then they got lucky with Ledger’s backdoor, but even that is not enough given the fierce competition and their inability to grow

If you don’t grow, you die 
 Coinkite was invested in by T31 because it is very profitable. It had 5x its business on the previous 18mo prior to that investment. Coinkite paid dividends of 4% of their investment back to them on the first year. That's insane :)

Bitcoin communist just need to find strawmans for their own failures and incompetence. 
 CAN CONFIRM. COINKITE IS AN INCREDIBLY PROFITABLE SATSFLOWING BOOTSTRAPPED BUSINESS.

WE ALSO INVESTED BECAUSE IT IS SIMPLY THE MOST SECURE HARDWARE ON THE MARKET.

MY FAMILY RELIES ON IT. MY BUSINESSES RELY ON IT. OPTIONS ARE GOOD. USE WHAT YOU WANT BUT I AM GOING TO KEEP USING COLDCARDS.