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r/coldcard: critique of Coinkite's incident-week social media messaging

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https://www.reddit.com/r/coldcard/comments/1vjbjrr/what_is_up_with_coldcardcoinkites_messaging_on/

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    post: 1vjbjrr
    author: scrandlle
    created_utc: 1786235340
    title: What is up with Coldcard/Coinkite's messaging on social media?
    body:
    If you look on Twitter, you'll see that messaging from this company is now about pointing out rumors of hacks or vulnerabilities elsewhere in the crypto world. They're just stuffing their timelines with reposts of things completely unrelated to them. 
    
    This an attempt by u/HodlDee and others to try to say, 'Look! Everyone is screwing up, its not just us!'
    
    Owner of Coinkite, Rodolfo Novak (@nvk on Twitter), is busy retweeting memes/jokes about the hack of his product which destroyed lives. He thinks this is funny, not serious. 
    
    Hodl Dee, Novak, Peter Grey and others at Coinkite have destroyed lives. They've probably even gotten people killed, literally, I imagine there has been or will be in the future at least one suicide that comes from all this. Yet they refuse to take any blame and even make jokes about what has happened.
    
    Either they are unsympathetic to the point of being psychopathic, or this was an inside job. 
    
    comment: p2k5w6l
    parent: t3_1vjbjrr
    author: deny_by_default
    created_utc: 1786235700
    edited: false
    body:
    I heard that he deleted a bunch of tweets to try to save face. Not sure if it is true or not. 
    
    comment: p2k694u
    parent: t1_p2k5w6l
    author: scrandlle
    created_utc: 1786235828
    edited: false
    body:
    Yep. A funny one is that on the day of the attack, @ nvk on Twitter (Rodolfo Novak) was even making fun of another cold wallet for having low entropy. That got deleted hours later after the attack became apparent.
    
    They also tried to blame user error early on for the incoming reports.
    
    comment: p2k6mjw
    parent: t1_p2k694u
    author: deny_by_default
    created_utc: 1786235963
    edited: false
    body:
    Wow. That guy comes off like an arrogant asshole. 

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