Bitcoin makes me more and more depressed. The perfection if the math and the system, is clashing more and more with.... People.

Hardware can break, is expensive, has possible supply chain issues, and makes you run dodgy Middleware most of the time. AvbForge.com takes all the good stuff (own entropy, freedom, szlf-cuztody, offline use, encrypted keys...) and leaves out the only bad part of hardware wallets: the hardware.

Want to self custody, without the supply chain problems, without the cost and without spying Middleware tools and the 'unknown' entropy? We've ditched the only bad part about hardware wallets: the hardware. Try avbforge.com Value4Value development , open source and focussed on a no-install non-hardware prone stance on self custody.

Where we're going, we don't need hardware wallets. avbforge.com

So building +25 sovereign tools for the bitcoin community brought me about 7000 sats in donations so far. Nice to see so many, many people deeply caring about standalone software without a central party and value the work through V4V 😉 Yeah, I keep telling it, because some ppl in art, code, business in bitcoin see the exact same grifter mentality, and see the same happen to their efforts. Unfortunately not many can openly tell it like it is, b/c they fear losing customers or goodwill from the few people that do care (there are some good people that actually appreciate stuff and Value it accordingly). I don't have that disadvantage however. And it's important to point problems out in this community. I can say that a big % of the bitcoiners who act like real tough sovereign, strong individuals to the outside, are actually acting like cheapskate scared little hippies that rather would donate to Peter Shiff or "stack sats" than to support real bitcoin projects. Or they find excuses to play philosopher while doing absolutely nothing, but expect their bags to pump. And maybe that's what's wrong in this environment. Maybe "price can't pump" of a large chunk of the ones that should keep it alive are turning into bitcoin hippies? Who knows. Just my insight. Who knows. I keep building. And we'll see who's better of in the end. The builders or the armchair philosopher types.

The incident with Sparrow on MACos is an unfortunate example of the power of all these "app" stores... Apple, F-droid, Google,... they're all gatekeepers of "our tools". Free yourself. I've created an offline/online open-source, standalone toolbox, where you don't depend on app stores at all... it's all NO-install, non-KYC, non-corporate. (it's Value-4-Value ... appreciate it? donate

Amulet Arsenal · AVBforge

Amulet Arsenal — free, open-source Bitcoin & encryption tools

A free, open-source, air-gap-friendly Bitcoin self-custody toolbox. Single-file HTML you can read, verify and run offline.

AVBforge now has signed PGP commits. 1B356516AFFCCEFE -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- mDMEajlLdRYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAOKEvhpqhY7uDK5r3IMA5i8fOp+L9mKzb/C91 Kg0waLG0HGF2YmZvcmdlIDxhdmJmb3JnZUBub2Rlcy5iZT6ImQQTFgoAQRYhBIeB V9Qdn7m82ZsfgRs1ZRav/M7+BQJqOUt1AhsDBQkFpKgrBQsJCAcCAiICBhUKCQgL AgQWAgMBAh4HAheAAAoJEBs1ZRav/M7+/H0BAOHBfxNr0wjw9u6gDC4ubW+T6ghF Tbe0ckXjkmbyhj+rAP4hybs5d7vT9e7nEH4Aqh8JhbOtmz2A/9h1sOXJ0lw/A7g4 BGo5S3USCisGAQQBl1UBBQEBB0Czt7IyWhf1G3UEDGgbpsazxBdpSczKC1jBvaQ6 m70GNQMBCAeIfgQYFgoAJhYhBIeBV9Qdn7m82ZsfgRs1ZRav/M7+BQJqOUt1AhsM BQkFpKgrAAoJEBs1ZRav/M7+GpIA/2k3OR04WKYWRZgwdkA1hvBwiKBKuEkNlPKh 2uplzv8OAQCHcrq0kZNSkh/0Ox4Rl6hWuLecMvkWHxo8xluzymO5BA== =LUzs -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Double-checked and both the LN as zaps work fine now. thank you for the support for avbforge all, you know who you are.

thanks for the 200 sats whoever bothered to open the AVBforge.com and look at the months of work in there. 😉

Did you try avbforge.com yet? Build for the Sovereign. Each Bitcoin function has 1 html file you can use standalone, offline, secure. #value4value #bitcoinwallet

The race is on. Sooner or later, you won't be allowed to get some apps from anywhere, or some countries will even "block" (or attempt to block) anything to do with bitcoin. We tool all good stuff from hardware wallets and bitcoin wallets, and silent payments and put it pure local, digital and open-source.

Amulet Arsenal · AVBforge

Amulet Arsenal — free, open-source Bitcoin & encryption tools

A free, open-source, air-gap-friendly Bitcoin self-custody toolbox. Single-file HTML you can read, verify and run offline.

my Mr21

Amulet Arsenal: an offline, single-file Bitcoin self-custody suite. I have been building a family of Bitcoin self-custody tools called Amulet. Last week I've released the teaser : the Amulet Silent payment wallet, today the full suite is open to try. Today it lives at avbforge.com, with the full source on Codeberg and an MIT licence on every file. The idea: Every Amulet tool is one self-contained HTML file. All code, all wordlists, all cryptography is inlined. No content delivery network, no web fonts, no analytics, no telemetry. You save the file to disk, you compare its SHA-256 against the hash file published next to it, then you open it in a browser. Air-gapped if you want, one click. The expected workflow is always: download, verify the hash, run offline. I am not asking anyone to trust the build because I shipped it. The hash check is the trust step. Every tool ships next to its hash_*.txt for exactly that reason. The first door. The piece I would point a careful Bitcoiner at first is the Amulet Wallet Generator. It rolls a fresh BIP-39 seed from secure randomness, with optional dice, cards, or keystroke entropy mixed in if you want belt-and-braces. It exports a plain text seed report, a PDF report, or an Amulet-encrypted .enc file that the rest of the suite can read. Every wallet gets a colour-bar fingerprint (a quick visual identifier for the seed, eight colour-blind-safe colours, 60 bits of state) and an optional Standard SeedQR drawn into the PDF that scans straight into SeedSigner or Sparrow. All offline, all auditable in one HTML file. The rest of the suite. After the Generator you can try the other tools like: Amulet Vault, an encrypted keeper for seed wallets, time-locked redeem scripts, and pubkey-only entries. Argon2id at rest. It makes you have a blob of encrypted data that makes your "hardware wallet" just a transferrable block of code if you like. It's heavily encrypted, post quantum ready and pure digital. Amulet Picker, a master-passphrase generator drawing from a 10,000-word pool. Amulet Timelock, builds Bitcoin time-locked redeem scripts. Amulet Transaction Creator, builds and signs transactions offline. Build and sign in one file. Amulet Shamir Shared Split, splits a vault into T-of-N shares or reassembles them. Silent Amulet, a BIP-352 silent-payments wallet. Amulet Scryer, a watch-only balance viewer (the online companion). Amulet Broadcaster, pushes a signed transaction. Amulet Relic, a small Python script of last resort for emergency .enc recovery. A launcher ties them together. The landing page is at avbforge.com MIT licence, fork friendly, no accounts to create. This is ALL my personal gift to the bitcoin community. As I strongly belief we'll lose access to most of our tools, centralized services and open-source repositories at one point. We'll need to be even more self-reliant. And a single html file, ran on an offline laptop,... is pretty cool I think. greetings, Mr21

The wait is over. After months... "Amulet Arsenal" is live: a family of single-file, offline Bitcoin self-custody tools. MIT, no telemetry. Every tool ships next to its SHA-256. Download, verify, run offline. Start with the Wallet Generator. The Vault, Picker, Timelock, TX Creator, Shamir, Scryer, Broadcaster, Silent Amulet and Relic complete the suite. avbforge.codeberg.page #bitcoin #selfcustody

Amulet Arsenal · AVBforge

Amulet Arsenal — free, open-source Bitcoin & encryption tools

A free, open-source, air-gap-friendly Bitcoin self-custody toolbox. Single-file HTML you can read, verify and run offline.

V4V: allesvoorbitcoin.be/donate

While some sell fake Bitcoin and fiat schemes on stage of a corporate conference, I build real tools for real bitcoiners.

Saylor didn't just lie or misrepresented things. He tricked real shareholders.

Working to get everything ready for the release of the aVBforge tools.

Nice to be picked up , only if it's only a pre-release teaser / the Silent Amulet wallet. Full tool set scheduled for a 15 June release.

soon.... 15th of June My gifts to the bitcoin community. V4V, open-source, tested and vetted.