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NVK steps down from OpenSats board

stackernews-nvk-opensats-departure

https://stacker.news/items/1538698

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2026-08-02
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justin_shocknet reporting that NVK stepped down from the OpenSats board. The OpenSats statement is registered as opensats-nvk-board-departure; this source holds the Stacker News discussion of the governance fallout. Captured through the site's public GraphQL API: the rendered pages crash the capture tab, and the API answers POST from this host. The query fixes the captured surface to the item's title, text and two levels of comments, each with author and absolute timestamp.

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        "comments": [
          {
            "createdAt": "2026-08-03T12:01:36.765Z",
            "text": "Strange that NVK was building some kind of an AI aggregator and recently talked about it on Livera’s podcast, but never bothered to run through Coldcard’s code with an LLM?\n\nEven some of the earlier open-source Qwen models caught the entropy bug retroactively.",
            "user": {
              "name": "teemupleb"
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          {
            "createdAt": "2026-08-02T23:40:21.601Z",
            "text": "Is RHR finished also?",
            "user": {
              "name": "OT"
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          {
            "createdAt": "2026-08-02T22:38:42.998Z",
            "text": "Opti need a vacay from reading those comments.",
            "user": {
              "name": "optimism"
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          },
          {
            "createdAt": "2026-08-02T23:33:27.220Z",
            "text": "The road to redemption will be long for NVK. \n\nHopefully he learns from this and becomes a better leader.\n\nI honestly think if he was a compassionate and humble guy the backlash would be a bit more sympathetic.\n\nNo one is infallible!!!",
            "user": {
              "name": "BlokchainB"
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          {
            "createdAt": "2026-08-02T21:48:49.057Z",
            "text": "![](https://m.stacker.news/150585)\n\n[source](https://x.com/OpenSats/status/2084017521376866402)",
            "user": {
              "name": "Scoresby"
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