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Actually pretty impressed with how clean the overall #Bitkey UX is.

I could see how this would be useful as a daily spending rig, sort of filling the same place as today's checking/credit card role. The key sits in your pocket, replacing your wallet for payments.

The daily spending threshold makes it easy to get your regular, low risk purchases in (lunch, coffee) without any friction. Above that, grab your key and auth via NFC. Very smooth.

Obviously, because biometrics are usernames and not passwords, this type of setup does NOT make sense for savings or retirement; only as a daily spending account.

Not wild about the app knowing your email, logging into your Google account, and integrating against Coinbase, but I understand what they are trying to accomplish there.

One day I'd like to see this type of UX reimplemented on Ark with user privacy/safety in mind.

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Laser 1y ago

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1. Notifications sent directly as messages to an npub. For freedom minded users, this is preferred to email, which is notoriously unsafe/surveilled.

2. Option to save backup packet directly to device. This makes it possible to store in Proton Drive, Sync, or Bitwarden as an attachement, or backup offline, etc... Google Drive makes sense for normies, not us.

3. Option to add passphrase on spends greater than X threshold. The passphrase could easily be added to the backup packet for safety. This makes IRL state seizure much harder.

4. Option to completely disable embedded exchange (Coinbase, etc) for power users. Suggest adding nostr:npub1xkere5pd94672h8w8r77uf4ustcazhfujkqgqzcykrdzakm4zl4qeud0en and some of the other maxi-minded exchanges in various countries, too.

5. If not already, fully open source (no license trap) the wallet software and the hardware schematics and allow installing directly, outside the app stores.

If done right, the above wouldn't impede the golden path for noobs, but would expand #Bitkey to seasoned #Bitcoin users, better complimenting the values of our ethos.

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