I really want to get a tour of mining farm. Do I know anyone who can help me?
erik
erik@primal.net
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Bitcoin Product Designer @ Hoseki. Human Rights Foundation grantee working on ecash.
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It ain’t much but it’s honest.
Running Bitaxe.


Grateful to the @HRF for their support as I continue working on improving the design and usability of ecash. Private digital cash is essential to maintaining a free society. Privacy protects our dignity, autonomy, and ultimately, democracy itself.
Let's get to work.


Iranian VPN activists are cracked. Ziya Sadr explaining how devs are constantly deploying new VPN protocols so people can bypass the Iranian firewall. It’s basically a cat and mouse game, eventually the Iranian government finds out, blocks the method, then a new one is deployed.
Inspiring to see how much impact one developer can have. A single VPN activist can deploy a service that helps millions bypass the censor.


Watch the @HRF Freedom Tech Track today.
https://www.youtube.com/live/NVPhJ0aCKOw
Thank you Hal.


I think that in the future we’ll look back at seed phrases the same way we look at paper wallets. Outdated, insecure, and kind of dumb. Seed phrases are the best solution we have right now, but they dull away the security provided by cryptography and make bitcoin too analogous to gold.
I’m not sure what the next best solution will be. I think it’ll be a combination of things. Maybe something with OPVault or CTV, physical NFC tag backup split with shamir, a collab custody, or some combination of multiple methods.I do think that seed phrases are just a temporary solution, and not a very good one.
When you’re feeling inspired you have to strike. Inspiration is fleeting so you need to ride that wave while it’s there.
I must think of a way to make auto-swapping to default mints easier.
Oslo 🇳🇴


Don't just spend bitcoin.
Throw it at them with ecash.
Spent all evening showing throwing ecash at people. This way of tossing people bitcoin is special, people react to it really well. All credit due to the push UX of ecash.
Remember, the anti-democracy ‘WeStErN lIbErAlIsM hAs FaIlEd’ are a fringe LARP online minority. Don’t feed them.
Philip Zimmermann on why Chaumian ecash never caught on despite its solid cryptography.
We don’t need LinkedIn for what we’re building.
GM


This 1983 clip of Steve Jobs gives me chills. He's describing a future we’re only now starting to realize.
Getting really good at communication is probably one of the most important skills a designer can have, right up there with craft and taste. A lot of designers struggle with it (me included), mostly because our work tends to focus so much on those other two.
"My motivation for developing PGP was about human rights and democracy."
-Philip R. Zimmermann
