For many years Rodolfo Novak Coldcard CEO dedicated to market his insecure product through his rnvk account in this community but using a proxy website. Federal Trade Commission also probably is going to be interested on this nvk practice

Rodolfo novak (rnvk) was for many years using in this bitcoin community its shady practice.

No user following the guide he shared was aware it was from a wallet vendor (himself) and all the "comparisons" "our suggestions"

Last screenshots regarding user research dates back from 11 years ago.

All scrutinity and red flags that were there all these years take a different tone and more eyes warching when that device caused losses of more than 115M in losses.

Many of those users never knew they were being "redirected" to follow a deceptive guide that was Coldcard's CEO website, they choose coldcard over other hardware wallets, when a consumer would have take into account other things like external audit certifications to decide, and yet the "guide" was stating things like:

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"Our Recommendation

COLDCARD meets all seven criteria, is Bitcoin- only, and has been battle-tested since 2018"

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So, it was Rodolfo Novak recommending himself the Coldcard....

IT IS TRULLY FUCKED UP the thing....And many of that "reputation" was build in a very deceptive way