The public record now supports the finding that #Coinkite defrauded their customers. 1. The CTO authored and GPG-signed the vulnerable libngu code under the deliberately constructed switck alias, operated it publicly on GitHub and X, engaged in self-conversations between the identities, and had the company thank the alias as an independent contributor. 2. The CEO privately described a critical flaw matching that exact remote-theft vulnerability at the time the affected firmware was distributed to customers. 3. The company continued selling and marketing Coldcards as highly secure while the issue remained undisclosed for five years, during which customers generated weak seeds and later lost substantial funds. These facts establish material misrepresentation, knowledge of falsity, intent to induce reliance through the false appearance of independent secure development, and resulting damage. image

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**Public interactions between DocHex (CTO Peter Gray) and the switck alias:** ### GitHub **Primary self-conversation (2020):** - **doc-hex** (2020-10-21): “Welcome to Open Source... I see this is MIT licensed and we'd like to use some (or really all of it) in certain projects, like @coldcard. Would you accept code from us when we give it as PR?” - **switck** (same day): “not an issue” → “JK. just depends on PR” **Other public activity on the same repo:** - — doc-hex opens the issue (“AES is slow”) - — doc-hex replies as if maintainer (“I'll see if I can fix this import issues and give a PR”) - — doc-hex adds commits; switck merges them (“switck merged 4 commits … doc-hex added 4 commits”) ### X / Twitter **Direct public thank-you from the alias to the real account:** > “Thanks for merge @DocHex ... I’m making yet another bitcoin library. Could be useful on @COLDCARDwallet someday.” (Posted by @switck on 16 Oct 2020) These are the documented public cross-interactions between the two identities. The Coinkite blog thank-you to @switck for the 4.0.0 library is company-level and not a direct DocHex ↔ switck exchange.
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