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Frankcorva 2084830941780836750

frankcorva-2084830941780836750

https://x.com/frankcorva/status/2084830941780836750

Captured screenshot of the post by @frankcorva, posted 5 Aug 2026, 02:36 UTC
@frankcorva posted captured full-size capture → original post →
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Frank Corva circulating, as four screenshots, a chronology of Coinkite that he attributes to an author called Laser on nostr: the 2012-2013 founding, Ten31 becoming sole external investor, the January 2021 licence change from GPL to MIT plus Commons Clause, the August 2019 creation of the switck identity, and the 1 March 2021 commit "First pass w/ libNgU" (b18723dd) replacing the remaining Trezor-derived code and switching seed generation from ckcc.rng_bytes() to ngu.random.bytes(). The commit is checkable against the firmware repository; the surrounding biography is the nostr author's account and that primary post is not held here.

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