New HW wallet announced: COLDCARD Q1

[DaveF]

Coldcard has announced that they will start shipping the Q1 preorders from next week. In their own words, they have a huge backlog of orders to go through. They have also announced that it might take several months to ship everything. So, if you ordered a Coldcard Q1, check the email connected to the purchase regularly because they will email customers when their orders are ready to be sent.

https://twitter.com/COLDCARDwallet/status/1766864339527413819

So over a year and still not firm ETA of getting this into customers hands. Just next week for some and 'soon' for others.
I really used to like them and their products. But, I have no idea were they are going in terms of a company.

Lets see how the Q1 really is in person once it gets into peoples hands.

-Dave

[Pmalek]

So over a year and still not firm ETA of getting this into customers hands. Just next week for some and 'soon' for others.

I believe them when they say they have plenty of backorders to process. If it's a small team doing that, it's going to take a while.

I really used to like them and their products.

I can't comment on the build quality of their hardware. It looks good on first sight. Their decisions are questionable, though. dkbit98 mentioned that they created a unique QR code format that is not supported by other software wallets. I later saw what I believe is his source for that information. The team behind Foundation Devices made a post at the end of 2023, announcing that the new Coldcard would have that unusual QR system. It's weird business politics doing things completely different from everyone else and not using proven and well-supported formats. But it's their call, and they'll have to live with that and the aftermath.

[dkbit98]

https://x.com/zachherbert/status/1728077006745542860?s=20

NVK always have the need to invent the wheel all over again, maybe he is hoping to sell more devices now, and other people can deal with new QR code system later  
If he didn't live in his small eco chamber and block all the people in social media and everywhere else, he could actually hear other developers of software wallets and actual users.
Good luck everyone who took his bait and purchased his new gigantic q1 device 
Jus sayin.

 

[Pmalek]

I just noticed that Coldcard announced a new firmware update for the Q model.

One point in the release notes caught my attention. It says:

- Sparrow wallet export will always be BBQr now.

I remembered that dkbit98 and the Foundation Passport representative talked about how Coldcard developed a new QR system that was different from what competitors were using and unsupported by software wallets.
Now we know that Sparrow Wallet supports this new standard. Proof of that can be found in their release notes for version 1.8.3:

Coldcard Q1 support (with BBQr)

Update:

Nunchuk has now become the second software wallet that I know of that supports the new BBQR encoding standard.

• Added support for BBQR (QR encoding for the Coldcard Q)