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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 1 month ago
i vibecoded a cypherpunk quote bot using shakespeare during the building with open source ai workshop at @btcplusplus taipei. i've been feeding my llm rare interviews from chaum, may, diffie, and zimmerman etc...and asking it to extract relevant quotes and add them to the database. i found some gems, some quotes i suspect many people haven't heard. follow cypherpunk quotes on nostr if this sounds like something up your alley.
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erik 1 month ago
woke up smelling like a taiwanese night market.
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erik 2 months ago
the physical feel of technology makes such a difference. bitkey vs coldcard is night and day. you can immediately tell how much they cared about the craft of the object and how people would hold it and use it. image
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erik 2 months ago
and i still think about what.cd weekly. some things just don’t leave you.
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erik 2 months ago
my first hardware project: an offline cashu wallet on an esp32. generate ecash, send it to the esp32 via bluetooth, esp32 decodes the ecash into individual proofs, pick any proof and display it as a QR code for redemption. the esp32 never touches the internet. completely airgapped. just receives tokens, holds them, and displays cashu tokens.
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erik 2 months ago
restraint is one of the hardest skills to master in design. know when to stop.
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erik 2 months ago
been working on making bitcoin payments boring. it's so much fun.
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erik 2 months ago
looking back at the last 2 months and realizing i was actually cooking. recap soon.
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erik 2 months ago
the invisible vibe of software matters more than you think. people can feel when something was made by people who actually care.
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erik 2 months ago
feeling insanely bullish on cashu after today's monthly dev call. ty you all.
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erik 2 months ago
it came to me in a dream last night, so i just made it. image
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erik 2 months ago
it is deeply satisfying to design beautiful software that makes surveillance harder.
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erik 2 months ago
been deep in cashu for so long that sometimes i forget some people have never heard of it.
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erik 3 months ago
“writing code is like magic in the digital space.” -some orange mask wearing rando