April 13, 2026

I opened a licensing issue.

I asked how HaleHound-CYD could distribute binaries under a proprietary license while listing RF24 and LGPL components.

April 14, 2026

The license was changed.

The linked commit removes RF24 from the third party list, says it contains “zero GPL licensed code,” and describes a clean room NRF24 implementation. It also adds hex encoded text to the LICENSE and an encoded comment to the README. One of the encoded strings decodes to a personal insult directed at me.

April 14 and 15, 2026

I declined a private mediation call.

After the license discussion, ValleyTech asked whether I would speak privately with Jesse. I said more than once that I had no hard feelings, but I did not want to continue the conversation and was stepping away because I did not think it would be productive.

He continued asking me to give it a chance, offered to put me in the same conversation as Jesse, and invited me to a collaboration server.

May 2, 2026

TWH states its boundary on jamming.

The Wired Hatters publicly said it would stop supporting creators who publicly promote projects associated with RF jamming. Its stated position was that jamming is illegal, unsafe, and outside responsible security research.

May 2, 2026 / later that day

I restated GhostESP's position.

I posted that GhostESP is for network auditing and security research, has a zero tolerance policy for malicious signal jamming and RF interference, and distinguishes protocol auditing from blindly polluting the spectrum.

May and June 2026

He said “never,” then broke down a jammer.

Right after that post, ValleyTech put out his own statement that his channel “has never, and will never, promote jamming or any illegal activities,” adding “consistency is key” and captioning it “only cowards pick and choose.” He also told Billi Green “nobody promoted jamming.”

On June 24 he premiered Emensta's Bluetooth Jammer Firmware | Full Breakdown on his own channel. By his own description it is a deep dive into the ESP32-BlueJammer, a tool that “generates noise across the entire 2.4GHz band, interfering with Bluetooth, BLE, WiFi, and RC signals including drones.” In it he praises the developer, says he disagrees that interfering with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi “has no educational value,” walks through a DIY setup guide, and links a browser web flasher and the developer's shop.

The video carries a long disclaimer calling it an educational review and stating he does not endorse jamming for any unlawful purpose. The firmware's named and described purpose is still jamming, which is the whole point: the objection was never to a module, it was to platforming firmware built around interfering with communication, which is the exact line he said his channel would never cross.

May 4 and 5, 2026 / private server exchange

Billi confronts ValleyTech directly.

Billi Green, from The Wired Hatters, told ValleyTech directly that nobody was saying the NRF24 is a bad or nefarious module. ValleyTech responded by accusing TWH of running an announcement that got “an entire wave of sheep” to follow a “crusade” against other developers, calling it a “cowardly ass post” that caused “an entire chain reaction of people literally wanting to swat other people.”

He also said, “Nobody promoted jamming,” then immediately said he could “name 16 different devices that have features they aren't supposed to have” and violate FCC standards, adding “you also seem to forget where you're at.” Billi asked him to mind his language; he kept swearing regardless.

The next day the exchange escalated further on ValleyTech's side into repeated sexual insults and name calling after Billi pointed out that ValleyTech was not following his own server's “be respectful” guidelines. Billi stayed measured throughout and closed with “you're a sad man valley, im sorry for you.”

May 3, 2026 / 08:35 PDT

ValleyTech posts about NRF24 “hypocrisy.”

In a video titled NRF24's and the hypocrisy behind it, ValleyTech says people who treat NRF24 modules as evil or as an “ultimate jammer” are uninformed, and frames the disagreement as fear-mongering, hypocrisy, and jealousy.

My position as GhostESP's lead developer and maintainer was not that NRF24 modules are inherently bad. The May 4 blog posts later state that distinction directly.

In a public comment under the video, I asked who had called NRF24 the “ultimate j word” and where that claim had been made. He never replied.

May 4, 2026

I published GhostESP's boundary.

I published three posts without naming ValleyTech, HaleHound, or NyanBox as targets. They explain the difference between deauthentication and jamming, reject feature count thinking, and state that RF modules are not the issue.

May 4, 2026 / public Discord exchange

The disagreement becomes personal.

During a public discussion about open source, ValleyTech accused GhostESP of missing attribution and said people connected with GhostESP wanted open source only to fill GhostESP with other people's work. No specific files, commits, or license references were provided in that exchange.

In the same exchange with a GhostESP contributor, he wrote, “I know exactly who you are” and “I know your name.” I am not describing that as a proven doxxing threat. In context, it was an identity-related safety concern.

These messages appear under the handle “Your Pal Kal.” ValleyTech's own server welcome card, captured in the Billi Green exchange above, reads “welcome to Valleytech Custom Solutions hosted by your pal kal,” which is why they are attributed to the same person.

May 5, 2026 / 00:07 AWST

My post was framed as feature weakness.

ValleyTech's post calls the “The Module Is Not the Problem” position “holier than thou,” says GhostESP cannot compete on features, and argues maintainers should expose raw capability.

The post also collapses the distinction this record is built around. It frames jamming as a matter of perspective, saying “one man's interference is another man's resilience testing,” and rejects maintainer responsibility outright, arguing that a developer afraid of what people do with their code should stop publishing it and otherwise “get out of the way.”

After May 4, 2026 / video published March 23

An earlier video is later changed to target GhostESP.

The video was originally published March 23. After the jamming and blog post dispute, its thumbnail was changed to ask “Worst Firmware?” and its description was changed to call GhostESP “subpar garbage”, say it is built on “skidded firmware,” and direct viewers to other firmware projects.

After May 4, 2026 / earlier Banshee video

An earlier Banshee video is later changed too.

The later captured description calls Banshee “built on a lie” and GhostESP “vibecoded and skidded work.” A follow up reply says the device was designed “like utter trash.”

Later YouTube reply

A reply targets GhostLink and GhostESP.

In a public reply to a GhostLink question, ValleyTech calls GhostLink “trash,” calls me a “young junkie degenerate,” and says GhostESP skids code from other developers. The reply provides no specific code or attribution example.