"I have long since publicly admitted that I seek spirituality through food and wine. In France, Italy, and Spain, I seem more drawn to markets and cafés than to churches and museums.

Too many portraits of bleeding Jesus and his lachrymose Momma make me thirsty.

The Lord himself said on the cross, “I thirst” and since our world itself has become a ubiquitous and prolonged crucifixion it is altogether logical that we are thirsty."

~ Jim Harrison

TFW A BLUE CHECK POSTING ON WECHAT OF THE WEST GETS WORSE ENGAGEMENT THAN MOST OF MY NOSTR POSTS

Just had an insight: Ecash wallets with the same seed phrase can be synced across different devices! This would eliminate one of the last big issues I see with ecash wallets because they can only be used locally (in one wallet only, i.e. different wallets of the same user will have a different balance) –– BUT NOT ANYMORE!

If two wallets use the same seed phrase, they generate the same ecash. The difference between two wallets is the counter with which the secret derivation is iterated by. That means if a user uses wallet_1 to reach counter_1 and then uses the same seed in wallet_2, then counter_2 can iterated until no ecash can be restored "from backup" anymore. Now, both wallets have the same state again (same ecash, same balance, etc...).

So instead of using the `/v1/restore` API only for backup restore, it can also be used to sync multiple wallet instances of the same seed phrase to each other! DAMN!

what's your one-sentence ELI5 answer to:

"ecash is just a different from of custody"

?

Introducing Hashi, the number-crunching monster that fits in your pocket.

Hashis are strange but cute aliens from a parallel universe.

Hashis love to crunch numbers! Feed them energy so they can SHA-256 hash all day long.

Take good care of your hashi and it might reward you with #bitcoin as it grows!

Hashis love to hash together in pools! If the pool gets too cold, find a new pool for your hashi.

And this design-exercise/goofing-off is simply the result of a fun conversation I had at an Atlanta BitDevs meetup. What do you think? Should there be a small mining device that doubles as a collectible kid's toy?

nostr + bitcoin = Robert Hettinga's Geodesic Market

THE ETFS HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY THE SEC.