My daughter asks me every morning if today is Saturday; knowing she’ll get to spend the entire day with me if it is. I look forward to each Saturday more than ever. Today is no exception.

Did @Bitcoin Keeper get pulled from the iOS App Store?

SeedSigner v0.8.5 has reproducible builds from source. This means sole trust in SeedSigner the person (or any other SeedSigner contributors) isn’t needed for the image that most people run on thier SeedSigner. This trust can be distributed through others attesting they to can produce the same image byte for byte. If you have docker installed, a few hours of CPU cycles available, then you too can contribute and attest that all 4 device images built from source match the released binaries. ``` git clone --recursive

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GitHub - SeedSigner/seedsigner-os: SeedSigner OS | Minimal Raspberry Pi image made for SeedSigner

SeedSigner OS | Minimal Raspberry Pi image made for SeedSigner - SeedSigner/seedsigner-os

cd seedsigner-os export DOCKER_DEFAULT_PLATFORM=linux/amd64 export RELEASE_TAG=0.8.5 git checkout $RELEASE_TAG git submodule init git submodule update for device in pi0 pi02w pi2 pi4 do SS_ARGS="--$device --app-branch=$RELEASE_TAG" docker compose up --force-recreate --build done cd images shasum -a 256 seedsigner_os.0.8.5* ``` My personal attestation: bcb901e27d309d85f086dc80b49b153d6b1caab2247eba2811731384d58f2f3e seedsigner_os.0.8.5.pi0.img 398d9bf9cda0858fe97c0788b353194c1c902335a858b7dbf5d7b213bda75d96 seedsigner_os.0.8.5.pi02w.img 1e93a82e62d4a1defbdc777a6762a813f4cb5c3ef9090da0bd07542dfd6f62bf seedsigner_os.0.8.5.pi2.img d298ffad3c765e11e48873efc6d1c65e4230528fde4d5bd4701bb507acbf493c seedsigner_os.0.8.5.pi4.img matching https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner/releases/download/0.8.5/seedsigner.0.8.5.sha256.txt View quoted note →

Ran out of maple syrup from the @Mapletrade guy this morning eating pancakes with the family. I look forward to buying more in the spring! Definitely a family favorite.

I wonder what it would be like to have root access to Whitehouse dot gov. I’d spend way too much time thinking about shenanigans I could pull and how long it would take for the secret service to come knocking. Not a job I would ever take.

¡SeedSigner en español está aquí! Release Candidate 1 for 0.8.5

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Release Release Candidate 0.8.5-rc1 · SeedSigner/seedsigner

🔥 ¡SeedSigner en español está aquí! 🔥 ⚠️ Pre-Release Notice: This is a Release Candidate (RC) version of SeedSigner. It is meant for...

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Spam @ODELL s are easiest to spot because the realODELL only writes in all caps. I’m late to the spam conversation, but looking at note replies is basically a dumpster fire.

@ODELL in the most recent @RABBIT HOLE RECAP you spend a few minutes addressing accusations regarding your integrity around simultaneously supporting @SeedSigner and having a vested financial interest in the success of Cold Card. You said the SeedSigner project is “incredibly important” but continue in the same breath to deny they are competitors and described SeedSigner as only reasonable to be used as a fallback if we lived in a world where devices like Cold Card don’t exist. Far from an endorsement. You have historically supported the SeedSigner project and I appreciate the support. There’s 100+ ways the SeedSigner project could be better. Your most notable grievance of SeedSigner seems to be solely focused on physical security attributes when comparing the two air gapped Bitcoin signing devices. Specifically you don’t like that SeedSigner doesn’t have a secure element. Secure elements are great tech, but you never cover the actual trade offs on RHR. You gloss over how Cold Card is verifying firmware at boot on behalf of the user. You don’t discuss the trade offs at all. The verification of firmware at boot on a Cold Card requires trust in Coinkite. The user isn’t verifying, Coinkite is. You also make it sound like it’s an impossible task to verify firmware for SeedSigner. IMO you’re getting sucked into stupid polarizing debates around Cold Card vs SeedSigner. I think Cold Card and SeedSigner are both great in their own ways. They make different trade offs and actually complement each other really well in a multisig setup with Sparrow Wallet. I personally have no issue with you recommending a Cold Card over a SeedSigner if you prefer the trade offs. Totally reasonable if you asked me. It’s way more important people self custody Bitcoin using cold storage.

Unpopular opinion: Bitcoin Monthly on Ungovernable Misfits is a better Bitcoin and open source software podcast than RHR. Show notes, chapter markers and chapter artwork is high quality. No one does it better in the Bitcoin space.