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Are you on Android? I use this all the time on #Amethyst. I'll copy the note ID using the three dots at the top of the post then just past that into Amethyst DMs a lot of times. Amethyst supports gift wrapped messaging.

and now realizing that rana doesn't do vanity search while searching for mnemonics 😟

It could be. I've only tried on one of my personal nodes and through ZBD so it might just be a route problem.

Unable to get minibits to pay an invoice. Anyone else having issues?

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# I'm leaving Foundation and joining Cake Wallet

It's time for a new chapter in my journey building freedom tech, and I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be jumping in to help Vik run Cake as VP of Operations starting in September.

## Why Cake?

I've known Vik for many years in the space, and have been watching from the sidelines as he's worked hard to bring together an amazing team to build out a wallet that prioritizes ease-of-use and powerful privacy no matter what cryptocurrency people prefer. That all started with being the first Monero wallet on iOS, and has rapidly grown to being a cross-platform, multi-cryptocurrency wallet used by hundreds of thousands of people around the world.

The best part? Cake Wallet has been paving the way in the privacy space for many years, including the latest push to be the first mobile wallet to include Silent Payments for Bitcoin and MWEB for Litecoin. My vision for Cake is to carry this privacy-first vision even further, continuing to push the envelope and let users access powerful privacy features with an intuitive, beautiful user experience that makes privacy easy.

The first three objectives I have will be improving and expanding Silent Payments support (especially improving the sync experience!), building out an amazing (and privacy-preserving) Lightning experience, and fine-tuning and improving the existing Cake Wallet that you all know and love across the board.

I can't wait to step into this larger role, especially with friends that I've already gotten the chance to meet and get to know over the years. I'm also thrilled to be able to dedicate a bit more time to expanding access and ease-of-use for Monero, especially in the wake of the takedown of Samourai Wallet and the broad attacks against Bitcoin privacy.

Monero is a more important tool than ever, and Cake has been a key part of making Monero more useful over the years.

## Grateful for Foundation

I have nothing but amazing things to say about Foundation and the incredible people I've gotten to work with so closely over the past two years. We've gotten the chance to build the best Bitcoin hardware wallet out there in Passport, and turn Envoy from a simple companion app for Passport to a powerful standalone mobile wallet with the best coin control in the space.

I especially wanted to shout out Zach Herbert and @qna, as they have been close friends and allies, giving me the chance to get started in the space and grow into what became a much larger role than originally planned with Foundation. Zach has gone above and beyond to empower me over the past two years, and his tireless efforts to drive Foundation forward and ensure we ship the best possible products has been inspiring.

@qna is the reason I'm even in Bitcoin in the first place, and was the key voice of reason that helped me understand the how and why of privacy in Bitcoin, as well as the power (and necessity) of going no-KYC-only. We've built a great friendship over the past two years and I'm honored to be able to have learned so much from him.

This has to be the most bittersweet move of my life, but I'm thrilled with the new prospects at Cake and know that those taking over in my place at Foundation are going to bring a unique approach to help them take the next step forward as well.

Now let's get back to building 🫡

P.S. - Keep an eye out, Cake and Foundation will be working closely together in the near future 👀

Congrats Seth! Cake is getting a great person for the role.

It'll be on my to-do for a simple guide soon!

I fully support everyone running one for their own community. That will likely be enough for 50% of the population. If you just want to speak to the people that are directly connected in your communities that's already nostr. The problem is building large enough relays that hold and distribute notes for even larger groups. if you want to reach those large audiences for whatever reason why not throw some sats to the big relays to be included on their billboard?

That's already super easy that an idiot like me hosts many of them. You can even do it straight from Umbrel these days with the cloudflare app if you want to get even simpler than what I use.

So it's just that there's been an exuberant supply increase to offset both inflation and additional use in culture? I don't see anything wild good but definitely indoor grown. Are these grows using solar to stay off grid to avoid detection? Seems like surveillance would be easier these days by the State

I just tried out nostr:nprofile1qqsth7fr42fyvpjl3rzqclvm7cwves8l8l8lqedgevhlfnamvgyg78spz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqj9swg4 and the thing I took away most is how much I love the concept of ecash to post on nostr. I will happily run an open public relay if each message came with a small amount of ecash (from a mint(s) the relay operator defined) to me in each message.

I also think users will happily pay this fee. There's about to be a lot of new Bitcoiners that have never made a Bitcoin transaction at all. Let's give them the coolest reason to use Bitcoin!

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I've never understood why weed prices haven't felt inflation the way other products have

If you're connecting to your relay via clearnet then yeah they'll be able to see your IP. There are a number of relays that support tor. https://github.com/0xtrr/onion-service-nostr-relays