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erik
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Bitcoin Product Designer @ Hoseki. Human Rights Foundation grantee working on ecash.
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erik 6 months ago
Steady lads, deploying more hash. image
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erik 6 months ago
Imported Bitkey watch only into Sparrow Wallet. Worked quite nicely.
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erik 6 months ago
Make the most of your life, while it is rife.
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erik 6 months ago
Need a NWC connect type user experience (that keeps IP restrictions) for connecting core nodes to wallets / applications. Fumbling with RPC is annoying.
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erik 6 months ago
Designing multinut payments reminds me of the water temple. image
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erik 7 months ago
I really want to get a tour of mining farm. Do I know anyone who can help me?
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erik 7 months ago
It ain’t much but it’s honest. Running Bitaxe. image
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erik 7 months ago
Grateful to the @npub17xvf...c9as 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. image
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erik 7 months ago
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.
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erik 7 months ago
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 Outdated, insecure, and kind of dumb.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.
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erik 7 months ago
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.
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erik 7 months ago
Don't just spend bitcoin. Throw it at them with ecash.
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erik 7 months ago
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.
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erik 7 months ago
Remember, the anti-democracy ‘WeStErN lIbErAlIsM hAs FaIlEd’ are a fringe LARP online minority. Don’t feed them.
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erik 7 months ago
Philip Zimmermann on why Chaumian ecash never caught on despite its solid cryptography.
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erik 7 months ago
We don’t need LinkedIn for what we’re building.