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Bitcoin Design Newsletter #56

Human-readable addresses, satoshi symbols, covenants, and more…

Help review the call transcript for our learning call about silent payments with @npub1uaj9...665u, and earn a few sats. https://btctranscripts.com/bitcoin-design/learning-bitcoin-and-design/silent-payments/

Want to keep the Euro/Dollar/... value of your bitcoin stable, without actually selling your bitcoin? The new Stabilizing bitcoin value page describes techniques for just that. Some are more experimental than others, and each one has different pros and cons. Do you already use some of these?

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Stabilizing bitcoin value

Bitcoin Design is a free open-source community resource that helps designers and developers working on bitcoin-products to create better experience...

Join our design review tomorrow at 13:00 UTC about the satsymbol.org proposal with the Synonym crew. More info here:

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Design Review #36: satsymbol.org · Issue #632 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

UTCTime: 2024-02-15 13:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda There's a new proposal for a new symbol for satoshi at satsymbol.org. Let's discuss it. Check you...

We are starting several UX explorations of bitcoin tech that is being discussed. We started with learning calls to get a basic understanding, and are hoping to end up with detailed designs and prototypes. We'd love to have more contributors. Join us. Here are the respective issues:

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Explore covenants UX · Issue #607 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

There's interest in researching design solutions around covenants. Briefly, if I understand correctly, covenants are changes to bitcoin that would ...

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Explore FROST UX · Issue #636 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

We had a call about FROST yesterday, and there's interest in doing UX explorations around this brand-new tech. This is in the same vein to the cove...

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Explore silent payments UX · Issue #635 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

We had a great learning call today about silent payments. The protocol is in a refined stage and there's work going into an initial implementation....

Design can play a very helpful role in projecting forward what using these technologies might be like, way before they can practically be used. For more, join our Discord.

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Bitcoin Design. Open-source design for bitcoin products.

Bitcoin Design is a free open-source community resource that helps designers and developers working on bitcoin-products to create better experience...

Join us tomorrow to learn about FROST (8 UTC) and silent payments (15 UTC). Good design is based on thorough understanding, so let's get together and discuss this interesting bitcoin tech.

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Learning Bitcoin & Design #17: FROST · Issue #616 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

UTCTime: 2024-02-08 08:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda FROST (Flexible Round- Optimized Schnorr Threshold Signatures) is a protocol that promises to off...

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Learning Bitcoin and Design #16: Silent Payments · Issue #622 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

UTCTime: 2024-02-08 15:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda During this call we will have one of the bitcoin core devs who is working on silent payments. He'...

The latest newsletter is out, and this one is quite packed.

Bitcoin Design Newsletter #55

The impact of fees, a 2011 bitcoin wallet, and more.

Two of the calls we have coming up this week. The community call is about catching up what is happening in the community and a few organizational things. On Friday, we dig deeper into covenants use cases in an open discussion format. The call issues:

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Community Call #55: Catching up · Issue #621 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

UTCTime: 2024-01-31 15:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda Time for our first community call in 2024. We'll chat about organizational things in the communit...

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Learning Bitcoin and Design #15: Covenants Part 2 · Issue #623 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

UTCTime: 2024-02-02 14:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda In our first call about covenants, we had a great discussion around the basics and certain use ca...

The multi-key wallet management page got updated with diagrams to better help convey user interactions. What do you think?

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Multi-key

Learn the basics of multi-signature bitcoin wallets.

Two of the calls this week dive into planning UX research sprints and interviews, and time-based recovery. Join us. Thanks to Mo and Michael for organizing. Here are the respective issues, if you'd like to dig in a bit.

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Learning Bitcoin and Design #14: Time-based recovery · Issue #611 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

UTCTime: 2024-01-26 14:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda Time-based recovery allows for accessing bitcoin in certain, typically catastrophic, situations. ...

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UX Research Call #32 : Sprint planning & Interviews · Issue #598 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

UTCTime: 2024-01-25 14:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda During this call Erik is going to share his process with setting up a UX research sprint as well ...

Generally, the best way to stay up-to-date with calls is the calendar.

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Calendar

Design reviews, community calls, project sessions, and other events planned by the Bitcoin Design Community

And if you missed one, you can catch up on the 'tube. https://www.youtube.com/c/BitcoinDesign

The Creative Freedom Summit is a free online conference about open-source design tools, happening next week on Jan 23-25. Right up our alley. Organized by Fedora.

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Creative Freedom Summit - Hosted by the Fedora Design Team

The conference dedicated to the features and benefits of Open Source creative tools. Be inspired and learn how you can enjoy more creative freedom!

Some of the calls happening in the community this week. Open to all, you're welcome to join. Easiest way to stay up-to-date with these is the calendar.

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Calendar

Design reviews, community calls, project sessions, and other events planned by the Bitcoin Design Community

How might we interact with covenants in the future? A new design challenge, added by @Dan Gould.

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Design challenges

Take-home bitcoin design challenges to practice and play with.

We recently launched the Bitcoin Design Foundation to support designers and design work in the open-source bitcoin ecosystem. If this sounds interesting to you, reach out.

Bitcoin Design Foundation - Open Collective

We organize funding for open-source bitcoin design work.

Stacker News now has a new design territory.

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~Design \ stacker news

moderating forums with money

The latest newsletter is out. We're kicking off 2024 with calls on covenants, time-based recovery using miniscript, research sprints, a design huddle, and a review call with @Resolvr_app.

Bitcoin Design Newsletter #54

Covenants, first design huddle, time-based recovery, Bitcoin UI kit updates and more.

Lots of other interesting bits of activity in the community in the newsletter. Check it out and let us know how you like it.

We have 2 calls coming up. In the huddle, we'll loosely collaborate on designs together hands-on. In the learning call, we'll try to make sense of covenants. More info in the issues (

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Discussions around the processes and coordination of the Bitcoin Design Community - BitcoinDesign/Meta

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Discussions around the processes and coordination of the Bitcoin Design Community - BitcoinDesign/Meta

Join us. In many of our calls, we look at and discuss designs. The huddle format is about having calls where we get our hands dirty and create. Anyone can suggest a design to work on. The covenant exploration came out of interest in the topic and general confusion about what covenants actually are. Maybe we can demystify together.

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Explore covenants UX · Issue #607 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

There's interest in researching design solutions around covenants. Briefly, if I understand correctly, covenants are changes to bitcoin that would ...

The new "time-based recovery" page just went live. It's about designing a miniscript-based feature for recovering your multikey wallet, even if you lose lots of keys and backups. Great work by @Michael.

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Time-based recovery

A UX reference design for a simple multi-key bitcoin wallet a recovery path designed for long term cold storage.

Many things can be done with Miniscript. It's more of a general toolbox. So it's up to us to identify good uses of the technology and build help products and features of it. An emergency recovery option is one of them, and can be a life saver in certain situations. This new page is a sub-page to the savings wallet reference design. Over the next months, we will make more updates to this set of pages as we flesh out more miniscript based features, and multikey UX in general. This functionality is quite complex, so we're thinking of organizing a reading/learning/discussion session on the page in the new year. Would you be interested? We'd also love to hear from projects that work in this area for possible collaboration.

Big thanks to @BitcoinMagazine for covering the launch of the Bitcoin Design Foundation and its mission to support sustainability around design efforts in the open-source bitcoin ecosystem.

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The Bitcoin Design Foundation Launches Supporting Design In Bitcoin Ecosystem

By providing financial support to talented individuals and community projects, the foundation aims to fuel ongoing innovation and development withi...

To reach its potential of providing an alternative financial system, bitcoin needs to become more usable for more people and use cases around the world. At the same time, the technology keeps maturing and evolving and new approaches to interaction are needed. Design can be the connective tissue and bring our human nature and technology in harmony. The Bitcoin Design Community is laser-eye-focused on this mission, and the Bitcoin Design Foundation will help support builders and initiatives who help move things forward. It’s an effort by and for the community. If you’re interested in donating or applying for a grant, reach out via our website:

Bitcoin Design Foundation - Open Collective

We organize funding for open-source bitcoin design work.

Big thanks to your first supporters @spiral, @bitbox, and individuals donors. We have big plans for 2024.

Join our next design review call on Thursday with the Bitcoin Keeper team on the redesigned home screens.

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Design Review Call: Keeper home screens · Issue #604 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

UTCTime: 2023-12-14 14:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda In our second design review with the Keeper team (first one is here), we'll get to take a look at...