Coldcard and Raspberry Pi is an ecosystem which is based on proprietary technologies and masquerading as an open source friendly thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24521265#:~:text=Raspberry%20Pi%20is%20an%20ecosystem,an%20open%20source%20friendly%20thing. https://www.reddit.com/r/coldcard/comments/cm2y3s/is_cold_cards_hardware_open_source/

@OceanSlim 👆

I think you can protect your IP and still make freedom tech 🤷 Pi is literally just hardware to do whatever with.

A blackbox 🤙

RISC-V can gives us more freedom

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IP is just a synonym for hiding behind the state's monopoly on violence. Re: the opposite of PoW.

"free market maximalist in bio"

Seems like they provide a lot of freedom. How many VPN, TOR, LN, and Bitcoin nodes are run on Raspis? How many people have cut their Linux teeth on a Pi? They made cheap computing accessible to the whole world. I'm experimenting with start9 on a Pi, and I've been running my own private Nostr relay, getting bitcoin set up, and hosting my own file server. I wouldn't have been able to do that otherwise. I'm no expert on wallets, but it seems like the consensus is Coldcard is super secure. Getting hung up on not being 100% open hardware seems a little picky. Perfection is the enemy of good. Is the world less or more free with these two devices?

I also use rasp, it was just a tease. In my defense, even the coldcard developer says that rasp is a blackbox, so I can put both in the same bag.

That's a rather old reddit thread, is this still the case with coldcard?