“If you’re looking for a call to action, then I give the same advice to both humans and companies: Switch to chat. Ditch completions. Stop writing code by hand. Learn how validation and verification work in the new world. Familiarize yourself with the space, and follow the state of the art. Stop whinging and turn this into an engineering exercise. Stay on top of it. You can do it.” View quoted note →

Really enjoyed this one. Already downloaded his other book “The Untethered Soul”

After half a day of blackout the power is back in Portugal. My girlfriend who grew up in communist Romania was the most calm. She just drove to the store, paid by card and lit some candles. “What’s all the fuss about!”

observe and relax

Imagine all the wallets and nostr apps that will come from being able to vibe code on top of all these SDKs. It’ll be like fuzz testing the market to accelerate peer-to-peer adoption.

“Somehow connectivity is related to rising complexity”

Interesting insights. Curious how the game theory of Bitcoin plus flag theory will affect geopolitics

Imagine a world without Triffin’s dilemma. View quoted note →

Really enjoyed my time here in Bitcoin Jungle. So cool to see all the vendors accept bitcoin at the farmer’s market. Pura Vida from Costa Rica 🤙

hikes > panels View quoted note →

Updated the StashPay website. I’m pivoting away from the freelancer focus and making a minimalist wallet for everyone. I’ve realized I care more about exploring peer-to-peer payments UX than building a B2B business. I’m also considering turning Onion Mill into a non-profit to get more people involved via grants. But for now I’ll continue to self-fund my work. I kinda like being an independent voice.

StashPay - A minimalist Bitcoin wallet for everyone

StashPay makes sending and receiving your first Bitcoin easy for newcomers and powerful for advanced users.

Very excited to see this PR merged:

GitHub

Remove mandatory API key checks by hydra-yse · Pull Request #639 · breez/breez-sdk-liquid

Closes #661. Built on top of #637. This PR: Makes the real-time sync service optional (depending on the presence of sync_service_url) as follows: ...

Thank you to Roy and the @Breez ⚡️ team for being open to feedback and enabling use of the SDK without an API-key again. Onwards ⚡️

There is nothing inherently more decentralized about ecash mints over submarine swap servers. Both are fundamentally lightning nodes that can be run over tor by a community member. Ecash has better privacy but also requires trusting the community member(s) with custody. The swap server on the other hand delegates custody to a diverse set of options that users can chose based their desired trust trade-offs.