r/Bitcoin: allegation that Rodolfo Novak promoted COLDCARD through undeclared security guide sites
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New comments by KnowledgeOk473 and Thin_Needleworker795 were added debating whether an always-offline old laptop can substitute for a hardware wallet.
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SeedSigner does not secure your seed, you have to do that externally. Besides that, it does all the same things as any other hardware wallet.
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edited: false body: SeedSigner does not secure your seed, you have to do that externally. Besides that, it does all the same things as any other hardware wallet. + +comment: p3glcwt +parent: t1_p2x1lnw +author: KnowledgeOk473 +created_utc: 1786634540 +edited: false +body: +What's the problem with using an old laptop? + +comment: p3glnha +parent: t1_p3glcwt +author: Thin_Needleworker795 +created_utc: 1786634615 +edited: false +body: +Too large attack surface. A hardware wallet is designed to do one thing, and one thing only. A laptop is not. + +comment: p3glwxg +parent: t1_p3glnha +author: KnowledgeOk473 +created_utc: 1786634682 +edited: false +body: +Even if the laptop is always offline? + +comment: p3gm1az +parent: t1_p3glwxg +author: Thin_Needleworker795 +created_utc: 1786634712 +edited: false +body: +YesExtracted text as captured
post: 1vk6iiu author: Fearless-Second-7230 created_utc: 1786323265 title: More on the Coldcard fraud: deceptive practice of Rodolfo Novak used to promote his product. body: Two Rodolfo Novak's websites (two of the many out there): https://airgapcomputer.com/ This one do not even mentions that is owned by Coldcard or a Hardware Wallet vendor. https://bitcoinsecurity.org https://bitcoinsecurity.org/about This second one is more fucked up as for public in general looking for bitcoin self custody and security was apparently not related in any way with a Harware Wallet vendor. The footer and about show just a "Maintained by NVK." who knows how many users took that website as a "bitcoin security guide", when that website does not even disclose material connection as nkv Rodolfo Novak and a CEO of Coldcard Hardware Wallet, which interestingly enough is the only wallet that has all checklist as green and the only one recommended through the guides.... This goes way beyond the bug negligence that caused +100M losses and affected millions of Coldcard users, he has been doing very shady and misleading marketing....but who knows, that is for Canadian regulators to decide... comment: p2qzrtg parent: t3_1vk6iiu author: PlanNo3321 created_utc: 1786323632 edited: false body: His opinion on SeedSigner is odd because I hear nothing but great things about it from very knowledgeable people in the community comment: p2qzxn0 parent: t3_1vk6iiu author: iloverunning11 created_utc: 1786323687 edited: false body: I love how these companies around BTC are always founded by people who are not even tech-savvy but outright scammers like that Celsius scammer, SBF, Rodolfo Novak etc. I said all of them were scammers way before they got exposed, and I was definitely not the only one and definitely not the smartest one. it’s kinda funny since BTC is mostly about morons trying to find bigger fools these days. (Was different 10 years ago a lot of tech-savvy people were interested in BTC like me. Got rid of it long time ago for obvious reasons) comment: p2r0d4d parent: t3_1vk6iiu author: downtherabbitExcerpt only. The complete copy is held offline and backs quotations on this site. The original publication remains the canonical public source.
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post: 1vk6iiu author: Fearless-Second-7230 created_utc: 1786323265 title: More on the Coldcard fraud: deceptive practice of Rodolfo Novak used to promote his product. body: Two Rodolfo Novak's websites (two of the many out there): https://airgapcomputer.com/ This one do not even mentions that is owned by Coldcard or a Hardware Wallet vendor. https://bitcoinsecurity.org https://bitcoinsecurity.org/about This second one is more fucked up as for public in general looking for bitcoin self custody and security was apparently not related in any way with a Harware Wallet vendor. The footer and about show just a "Maintained by NVK." who knows how many users took that website as a "bitcoin security guide", when that website does not even disclose material connection as nkv Rodolfo Novak and a CEO of Coldcard Hardware Wallet, which interestingly enough is the only wallet that has all checklist as green and the only one recommended through the guides.... This goes way beyond the bug negligence that caused +100M losses and affected millions of Coldcard users, he has been doing very shady and misleading marketing....but who knows, that is for Canadian regulators to decide... comment: p2qzrtg parent: t3_1vk6iiu author: PlanNo3321 created_utc: 1786323632 edited: false body: His opinion on SeedSigner is odd because I hear nothing but great things about it from very knowledgeable people in the community comment: p2qzxn0 parent: t3_1vk6iiu author: iloverunning11 created_utc: 1786323687 edited: false body: I love how these companies around BTC are always founded by people who are not even tech-savvy but outright scammers like that Celsius scammer, SBF, Rodolfo Novak etc. I said all of them were scammers way before they got exposed, and I was definitely not the only one and definitely not the smartest one. it’s kinda funny since BTC is mostly about morons trying to find bigger fools these days. (Was different 10 years ago a lot of tech-savvy people were interested in BTC like me. Got rid of it long time ago for obvious reasons) comment: p2r0d4d parent: t3_1vk6iiu author: downtherabbitExcerpt only. The complete copy is held offline and backs quotations on this site. The original publication remains the canonical public source.
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