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File this as posted under the umbrella of my personal opinion, flowing from my "exorbitant privilege" as the creator and public face of our project, and not necessarily representative of the opinion of all, or even any, of our other contributors. The tone of this note is not constructive will only cause more people to question the motives behind the rejection of Peter Todd's grant application. A constructive response would at least make some reference to the specific proposal's faults, or the specific shortcomings in the applicant's credentials, but instead he childishly makes fun of Peter without even having the courage to mention his name. It is absolutely detestable that this individual, who operates a company that profits from bitcoin products that are not open source, and that had to be publicly pressured to take down marketing claims of those products being open source, is in a position where he influences decisions on literally millions of dollars of funding for other, legitimate, open source builders. OpenSats will continue to struggle with credibility and public perception as long as nvk has a role of influence there. View quoted note →

Perspective worth considering from our project's Telegram community.

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After witnessing several orange-pilling sessions in Curaçao last week, am thinking that cashu.me with a solid mint like minibits is one of the lowest friction ways to quickly get some sats into a noob's hands.

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Continue to appreciate every seller who donates back to our contributors. 🧡 View quoted note →

👀 If you purchase SeedSigner-related items, please buy from sellers who commit to donate a portion of their proceeds back to support our contributors. And if you're a seller who does this, please let us know! 🧡 View quoted note →

The "Cult of Jack" is just as bad as all of the other cults in bitcoin. Kill your heroes. It's just you, your keys and the protocol; and that's okay. View quoted note →

YubiKey has a larger security budget than your favorite HWW -- hardware security is a never-ending cat and mouse game. Better to put your trust in functionally unsolvable math problems rather than "unhackable" hardware. View quoted note →

Multisig w/ geographically distributed analog keys. 🙌

A few of our contributors were disappointed by how SeedSigner was characterized last week during RHR. I agree with Nick's comments here and am reposting for visibility. View quoted note →

Proud that our project has continued to reflect the ethos of bitcoin -- volunteer driven, collaboratively built, distributed at zero cost, permissively licensed, and highly accessible; while cultivating deeper understanding, personal responsibility & self reliance.

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"I had a few similar donations in the last week or so. Personally find it very encouraging." (a quote from one of our contributors) Now that we're about a week after the 0.8.0 release, if you're a SeedSigner user and you're getting value from the project, or if you just want to support freedom tools, please donate to our most active contributors. We have a lighting-enabled workflow that you can use to directly support those who have worked to build SeedSigner into the amazing tool that it is. Even if it's a small amount, each donation gives these contributors a little bit of encouragement to keep going. 🧡

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The sleeping like a baby part has been my goal with our project all along. Different people have different concerns; given my unique background and perspective, SeedSigner is what has brought myself, as well as many others peace. Proud to be helping to build one of several different approaches to sleeping like a baby when it comes to saving with bitcoin. 🧡 View quoted note →

X-posting this from the bird app, a continuation of my thoughts from earlier. cc @Lyn Alden I continue to think about this and the challenge is that it's much harder to profit from freedom tech (it's users are generally more anonymous and the software more freely distributed); centrally controlled systems are much easier to monetize and extract value from. But it realistically costs time and money to build things, especially to build them well, so if funding is given it has to come from a place of idealism and hope with few strings, rather than from a place that is in search of investment multiples. Even grant money for FOSS tech in the bitcoin/nostr spaces is often tied to for-profit business models -- the nexus of venture and grant funding is a tricky place fraught with ethical pitfalls. Just find capable people with proven track records who are building for the greater good and support them. The @HRF does this best as an organization IMHO (kudos to @gladstein @ck et al). But also, personally dig in and really learn about projects that build freedom tech, and then give directly to the ones you think are doing important work. There are tons of high quality devs who work on freedom tech part time, or who flatly won't provide identity info for money. Direct donations reach these individuals whereas grants & bundled funds primarily target those working full time and who are willing to provide identity info for payment. Lastly, retroactive support for builders is highly underrated, and it's just ethically right. Capital allocaters and givers get too caught up in incentivizing what they think should be the next thing. If someone has built freedom tech that works and is contributing to the cause, financially thanking them puts some great incentives into play in that they feel appreciated (a deep human need), they will feel incentivized to improve / maintain what they've built, and they will often feel motivated to build the next important thing that no one else has thought of yet. You’re asking some of the right questions, and coming at this from a place of humility is a great approach.