Having so much trouble keeping my mouth closed today, LoL. Oy. I have to remind myself that it’s just not worth it.
SeedSigner ("the man")
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Creator of SeedSigner, lead shill, social media guy, rando internet person, influencer bully, sometime speaker of inconvenient truths.
Just had an extremely energizing call with our core SeedSigner contributors (@Nick Klockenga, @Keith Mukai, BitcoinPrecept & @npub177zf...dp8e) -- things are moving so quickly with the multi-language initiative. So exciting, feeling super blessed.
It is indeed important to call out bullshit.
People with financial interests in building, selling, and/or profiting from license-restrictive, “source available” products should not be involved in grant-making decisions involving free and open source projects that could be seen as “in competition” with said for-profit products.
I am not complaining and am not begging for change, just calling out the bullshit.
Myself and my collaborators just continue to build the better alternative; we are indeed being the change that we want to see. View quoted note →
"It worries me that no large entity/influencer has talked about this in any meaningful detail."
I regularly get DMs from random bitcoiners asking about @SeedSigner FUD & the dynamics around cold storage tool development.
This is worth a read; it’s shared w/ the author's permission. 
This is exactly why I've been less interested in using Nostr -- the influencer cults are everywhere and the OpenSats/Ten31/Primal cabal does all they can to channel as many new users into the cult, resulting in this kind of cringe stuff. 🤮 View quoted note →
...Do not ask why a github repo was taken down. Ask why is it possible... View quoted note →
If you have to buy a product that has an exclusively bitcoin-focused use case, it's not private.
If you have to buy a product from a bitcoin-focused company, it's not private.
Definitely stop trusting the marketing. View quoted note →
Bitcoin industry != Bitcoin community
This is a nuanced, but important distinction b/c incentives matter -- you are much more likely to hear about the value of the @SeedSigner project via the latter, whereas the former is more concerned with realizing some kind of financial benefit from selling (or referring you to) a product.
Bitcoin product != Bitcoin project
I get why this is a thing, but it really doesn’t seem ideal. View quoted note →
seedsigner (SeedSigner) | Keybase
seedsigner (SeedSigner) is now on Keybase, an open source app for encryption and cryptography.