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378 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 23 Jun 2023 \ on: Coinkite and their toxic attitude towards users who highlight issues bitcoin
Attitude is only relevant when determining whether you trust someone. It's not really relevant when verifying.
I wouldn't pay too much attention to anyone's particular attitude online. Most people are strung out on fight videos and stuff. Some people are also just naturally grumpy, rude, and socially unreasonable and being online just makes it worse.
I agree. And NVKs attitude has removed all trust I have in him, his product, and his receptiveness and willingness to fix issues. If he can't handle constructive feedback and issue reporting, then it's very possible for there to be existing bugs in the code that have been reported but ignored. Attitude is a great indicator of how a person/company will act in the future and whether that will be beneficial or detrimental.
I, like many, don't/can't look at every line of code and determine if there's no issue with it. As such, I depend on others with higher skillsets to do so and report any issues. Without a public issue tracker and with NVK dismissing and blocking people for reporting issues, there's effectively no way of knowing if there's an issue with their software. Look at the struggle it was just to get to the bottom of this nonreproducible issue! And this is a simple thing!
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To be honest - when I was new to this bitcoin thing, I admired nvk a bit. ColdCard was among the few hardware wallets that I wanted to buy.
But he just kept hatin, and hatin, and hatin, and hatin.
To the point that I feel like, man, this guy treats me - us - like trash.
And we're not even attacking him... He just went full on rambo on us. like, wtf man, if its not reproducible, help us figure it out, if you know something.
Dude got no chill.
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This 100%. Couldn't have stated it better myself. WalletScrutiny, myself, and others were nothing but respectful and he was just acting like we had killed his dog or something. Very odd. Honestly, it felt to me like how someone that has something to hide would act (not saying he does).
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yes but I would distinguish between general behaviour online eg obnoxious behaviour on twitter, and responding to issues raised about their product or claims they make about their product
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