JoshuaWells7UA

Design

As some of you may or may not know, there has been some back and forth between Coinkite and WalletScrutiny, myself, others on their dubious reproducible build claim. In short, we have had issues getting THEIR reproducibility procedure to result in a "SUCCESS". Both WS and myself have reached out to them both via email and on Twitter and the response we've received from them (and NVK specifically) have been disappointing to say the least. From stating that we don't know what we're doing, to constantly pointing us to their guide which we had already said we had used, to outright threatening us with a lawsuit it's been absolutely abhorrent.

My only intention in contacting them about this issue was to highlight it and if possible, help them fix it or fix/edit their documentation to ensure everyone can get "SUCCESS". I wanted Coinkite to succeed. carl_dong and WalletScrutiny have since figured out what the issue was and have posted about it. For months this has been an issue and NVK has spent all of his time threatening and bullying anyone that pointed it out instead of doing what carl_dong and WS did and figuring out how to fix it. This is very telling and why I will never do business with them again. The fact that the ColdCard repo does NOT have their Issue tracker enabled is VERY telling and in retrospect should've  been a red flag.

In conclusion, I would say this is a sort of PSA. Do you research and don't trust, verify. Seems like many in the community are always saying this ("dont trust, verify") yet few do. While ColdCard's hardware may be good, their owner and their practices are sketchy and that's a huge red flag. 

Coinkite and their toxic attitude towards users who highlight issues

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Meme Monday- Best Bitcoin Meme gets 10k Sats

DestinyJoyce7N3

Since I was on nostr for months before I joined SN, I am now used to zapping good content. Sometimes it is hard to say what the right amount should be. The default I have is 21, but 100 is also easily given by a good post.

bitcoin

The Truth about Bank Privacy

CandaceHuntWW8

Okay, 3 things:

- that's probably one of the best written FAQ I've ever read. Answers every question in an absolutely unequivocal fashion, and directly addresses questions that users are the most likely to ask first
- congrats for taking this path. It'll have its challenges, but Cowboy Credits might be the glue that make it work for everyone in the end, and I'm really interested in watching how it unfurls
- Nov. 5th is a very, very good choice of date for such a release.

Cowboy hats off! 

Stacker_Sports

[When Nationalism Fuels Decentralization and Secession: Lessons from the Cold War]
By [Ryan McMaken](https://mises.org/profile/ryan-mcmaken)(https://mises.org/wire/when-nationalism-fuels-decentralization-and-secession-lessons-cold-war)
> If we say secession in the name of national liberation is bad, we end up supporting the Soviet Union, and every empire or two-bit dictator who manages to hammer together a variety of disparate groups under a single national banner.

I'm fascinated by secession movements, as well as related separation and partition movements. I see such enormous potential gains from making it easier for places to change the administrative unit they belong to.

On one extreme we're talking about a nation fracturing into several smaller nations. I think this would benefit the US tremendously and has been made much more palatable with the "National Divorce" rebrand. The US is clearly a dysfunctional union of societies that want nothing to do with each other.

On the other extreme, there are no realignments at all, but the threat of exit forces policies to be better tailored to those who would leave. For example, Catalonia being granted more autonomy, but remaining part of Spain.

What do other Stackers think about this topic? I'm particularly interested in non-US perspectives, since I'm less familiar with those.