tokyo bitcoin base

woke up in japan for the first time in my life.

"everyone has dreams." "what's your dream?" "fly."

first impressions matter. taiwan bitcoin hub just opened and the design is excellent. the typography, posters, slides all looked good. taiwan has some cracked designers with a good taste, lucky to have met a few.

follow @Cypherpunk Quotes to improve the quality of your doomscrolling.

i vibecoded a cypherpunk quote bot using shakespeare during the building with open source ai workshop at @btcplusplus taipei.

Cypherpunk Quotes

I post cypherpunk quotes every 4 hours.

i've been feeding my llm rare interviews from chaum, may, diffie, and zimmerman etc...and asking it to extract relevant quotes and add them to the database. i found some gems, some quotes i suspect many people haven't heard. follow cypherpunk quotes on nostr if this sounds like something up your alley.

woke up smelling like a taiwanese night market.

wow

the physical feel of technology makes such a difference. bitkey vs coldcard is night and day. you can immediately tell how much they cared about the craft of the object and how people would hold it and use it.

and i still think about what.cd weekly. some things just don’t leave you.

my first hardware project: an offline cashu wallet on an esp32. generate ecash, send it to the esp32 via bluetooth, esp32 decodes the ecash into individual proofs, pick any proof and display it as a QR code for redemption. the esp32 never touches the internet. completely airgapped. just receives tokens, holds them, and displays cashu tokens.

restraint is one of the hardest skills to master in design. know when to stop.

been working on making bitcoin payments boring. it's so much fun.

looking back at the last 2 months and realizing i was actually cooking. recap soon.

gm. freedom is its own kind of salary.

i don't read design books. i just design things i think look cool and i want to see. sometimes i get it right, sometimes i don't.

i came up in the private tracker scene. what dot cd, waffles, btn, all of it. i see bitcoin as a continuation of that tradition. same ethos, different medium.

sometimes you gotta break away from rigid ux psychology and embrace the chances to do small special things. your users will appreciate it.

the invisible vibe of software matters more than you think. people can feel when something was made by people who actually care.

just watched someone pay with apple pay. took 2 seconds. the guy didn't even pause the convo he was having with his friend. one motion, done. nfc is the way. eliminate all decision points. no qr scanning, no pin entry, no fee verification, no online connection requirements.