Cobo Vault is shutting down next week.
Nice to give your users an entire 8 days before shutting down your back end.
I wrote about this news few months ago (June) in their topic and everyone was aware that something like this was coming.
Not everyone, someone not on the forum asked me about a tweet they saw about it, which is why I posed here.
I did a quick google search for
wallet not vault (so that's on me):
cobo wallet site:bitcointalk.org
The 1st 3 or 4 results were all to the altcoin sections. So I thought (incorrectly) that there was no dedicated post in the HW wallets section.
Their topic has fallen to the 2nd page so even a quick look did not show it on the hardware wallets page.
At that point I figured a post on this thread was worth it.
Their wallet is open source, so there is nothing hidden and anyone can check the code, plus their developer LixinLiu is very active and trying to help everyone.
I am not trying to justify anyone, Cobo made a bad decision
Did not mean bad as in going to steal your
BTC, but bad as in "whoops that little bit of code does not work the way it was supposed to" and you now have a device that is not doing what you want. The same way any piece of unsupported hardware can have issues that will not be resolved.
As for LixinLiu and all the rest, if you look at the tweets from cobo and on the article I linked it does not mention him. So, look at it as someone who bought this product and got the shutting down info and has seen no other communication from the company.
I got a call last night, did a quick (wrong) search and followed the few links that cobo provided and sow nothing.
Just what happened.
My Opinion: If keystone / LixinLiu want to keep going they really should be posting here about it in a new topic.
-Dave