i hope somewhere there’s an animal no person has ever seen. and i hope no one ever does.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

something i'm really proud of with numo: paying feels exactly like apple pay. press one button on your iphone, tap, beep, done. perfectly private. bitcoin as everyday money.

primal following notifications have become totally unusable. everyday i’m followed by like 50 bots.

imo the best bitcoin narrative is framing it as a public utility. the first truly public payments infrastructure we’ve ever had. public as in open to everyone regardless of race, religion, or political allegiance.

the machines have no original thoughts. robot snares have no cadence or balance.

moltbook is fake. you provide your agent an identity markdown file at setup and it just regurgitates talking points. memes are funny but it's all a larp. no original thoughts on moltbook.

me after customizing opencode

nice to see my @Cypherpunk Quotes bot has over 200 followers. if you’re not following already consider doing so. i’m updating it constantly with new quotes.

happy new year

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.

been working on making bitcoin payments boring. it's so much fun.

nut november update: community raised ₿108,701 sats, total prize pool now over ₿300k. still plenty of time to submit. build or design something cool.

Nut November

Nut November - A month-long hackathon for Cashu builders

A month-long hackathon for Cashu builders who just can't hold their nuts.

gm

being a cashu disrespector must be exhausting. so many people building and shipping, new developments constantly. you have to wake up every day and keep fading it. can’t be easy.

gm

Nut November

Nut November - A month-long hackathon for Cashu builders

A month-long hackathon for Cashu builders who just can't hold their nuts.

gm

gm. check out this episode about the guys who built the transatlantic telegraph cable. they failed over 3 times but remained locked in and eventually succeeded. we really need more people out there working on ambitious, human scaled projects like this.

i want to speak to satoshi nakamoto and tell him i’m doing the best i can, but there’s simply so much to do.

been reflecting on the bitcoin for signal campaign. i want to share why we designed it in the way we did. a lot of bitcoin projects try to get people to come to them. 'latest layer 2/ecash/ark/lightning/spark/liquid!' 'simple wallet!' 'frictionless onboarding!' i think that's not always the best approach. instead of promoting a new app or asking people to meet us, we should try to meet people where they already are and then make the case for bitcoin. millions already use signal everyday so why ask them to go somewhere else for private payments? bring bitcoin to them instead. i want to see more projects try to integrate bitcoin where people already hangout. cashapp nailed this imo. they didn't build a bitcoin app and ask people to come. they integrated bitcoin into a space that people already use to send $ to friends. try to follow that playbook.

i like how this shader reveal and hover effect is turning out.