There are reproducible builds for Android. LineageOS can install these:
I hope you‘re right
I suspect it‘s only a matter of time until encrypted messengers and bitcoin wallets disappear from app stores.
I hope for push back on the policy front but I‘m not hopeful here. There are a growing number of boogymen to invoke, and there seems to be little to no political incentive with a lack of awareness and public discussion.
I suspect the only way to use Signal or wallet apps will be using open source mobile OSes and app stores. This is one area I‘d love to see more grants funding for.
Re PWAs … they are a nice short term backup to get your funds out in case of an app store ban of wallets. But they are not the answer longterm as they rely on trust of web servers and SSL CAs. nostr:note13m6sh5tggy6uk4gntnhfu6zkz45ekxq9c3qphw5pfurzy82j22gseu5lv4
Will test LineageOS on an old Android device. An open source mobile OS might be more important soon https://lineageos.org
💯 none of us have skin in the game.
I‘m grateful for the Phoenix team‘s contribution and hope this decision gives them peace of mind to continue to build awesome stuff. nostr:note1m4vfjastkwcyl9mwmhywqzpat9st6xckj0z60z8ywc6w07gvpwpqdymket
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll take a look.
I’m trying to stick with Zaprite integrations for now. There is also Strike but I’d rather support a cypherpunk business that gets me closer to running my business with P2P tech as much as possible.
I will provide more feedback on the Zaprite integration. I honestly think this is a great solution for small businesses and freelancers. It will likely take a while until we have BOLT12 and Async Payments.
Especially if you’re running a single person LLC remotely as a digital nomad. Many US banks don’t accept non-US residents (likely a compliance risk in their eyes that is not worth the hassle).
So potentially a worthwhile business case for Mutiny. I did some research on this market and there are ~1.5B freelancers worldwide. So LFG 😃
CC nostr:npub1t0nyg64g5vwprva52wlcmt7fkdr07v5dr7s35raq9g0xgc0k4xcsedjgqv
I’m now a nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg plus user!
Accepting zaps via the lightning address to fedimint works like a charm.
Sending zaps from Damus via NWC has not worked reliably for me. Not sure what I’m doing wrong? So I’m currently using Fedi to send zaps.
Also love the new Zaprite integration. I use Zaprite for my business and will test that integration soon. Though I will likely wait a bit to use it in production for monthly client invoices. Payments from one federation often failed. But it’s still early days and I’m sure these issues will be ironed out soon.
Anyway awesome work to the Mutiny team!
This has been said before but not enough.
Do you think we will have digital money someday? True internet currency?
If you do (are we going to print bills and make coins forever? Maybe actually), there are two ways to do it.
1) the fed makes a money database (CBDC)
2) decentralized open protocol (Bitcoin)
1 is the naive way to go. The fed makes money now, and has some sort of ledger for the banks it deals with. Just extend that to everyone.
The reason why it is naive is the unprecedented power that puts in the hands of the gov’t.
Every txn and account balance visible, full discretion over access.
The founding fathers couldn’t ever conceive of a way to have that much control. An unelected official could take away the ability for someone to buy food in an instant with no due process.
Less obvious, imagine a market regulator having insight into the exact balances, P/Ls of all of the industry players they regulate. You think insider trading / lobbying in congress is bad now?
1 is true and total control. I don’t think most (including in the US gov) really want this? I also don’t think most people understand the implications of 1, especially if it’s packaged as “safe, trusted, just like dollars, fair”
2 is the opposite. Maximum access, no central control, but bad guys will use it. I really liked Natalie Smolenski’s talk at the bitcoin policy summit recently https://youtu.be/UiDa_wP8q3s
Is there an in between? This is much like the encryption debate— you can’t have backdoored encryption to make sure bad guys don’t use it. The backdoors will be used against the good guys / everyone. Half encryption is no encryption.
In a digital currency system, the same principle applies. Bitcoin and lightning built on top of it use cryptography at their core. To try to police or patrol either at the protocol level is to break the things that make them neutral and valuable in the first place. Might as well use the database.
This is the fundamental issue we face today. I worry most people won’t realize the importance until it’s too late.
💯
P.S. I was unable to zap you 🙂
You’re not a criminal if you desire privacy and don’t need anyone’s permission. The first two are Satoshi and Hal… https://youtu.be/kbJcQYVtZMo?feature=shared
Happy halving everyone. Grateful for you all 🧡 #bitcoin
Awesome 🔥 Do you have a writeup of how this works? Stablechannels?
I respectfully disagree. Many people might not care about free speech (now). But once truth is harder to find elsewhere more curious seekers will flock to nostr. Many are already here. IMHO we already have the killer feature.
It‘s us :)
A bunch of curious seekers in one place. People building something based on what they feel in their heart. We just need to be patient for others to find us.
It seems to currently only track onion message support. Though onion messages are the main building block for BOLT12 features such as:
• Offers (static QR codes)
• Async Payments (offline receive for self-custody mobile wallets)
Other features like blinded paths tie into these ( see https://bolt12.org ). It’s my understanding that the following Lightning implementations fully support BOLT12:
• LDK
• Core-Lightning
• Eclair
LND currently does not. Though LNDK is available if you’re running LND. But that currently only supports onion messages, not yet blinded paths:
https://github.com/lndk-org/lndk
Is that correct nostr:npub1ug8c5wp6chs4xessrstq3mj0x0agkttey5xwk26632a2gw22de7qkfd9ry ?
For anyone looking for inspiration on turning their open source project into a business. My former colleague Andris wrote a great post on how he built a sustainable one-person startup without VC funding: https://docs.emailengine.app/how-i-turned-my-open-source-project-into/
Well deserved nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft nostr:note1qdfm26kgnqkjjg0jgusgzp6xrv8m8kvn4zfxev33krvja5veztgsapcz95
Atlantis Startup Hike backstory and why I became a Coach for Bitcoin founders… It took three months to organize this group for the hike in Madeira.
I‘m an engineer by background and had no prior experience organizing events. I have been working in the bitcoin industry for 6 years. So I knew plenty of great people. Being an introvert, I hadn‘t met many in person. But as a former founder I knew what I would have wanted… to meet mentors and investors to help me in my venture.
But how did I make the transition from engineer to becoming a startup coach? I worked as an engineer in startups for 12 years. I was Co-founder and CTO at my own email encryption company and worked at several bitcoin startups. Always working on open source. After a burnout several years back I received therapy, coaching and worked with psychedelics like Ayahuasca. That healing journey created a shift in me and I made a lot of changes in my life that improved my health. Overall I feel much more resilient, balanced and productive now. After sharing my journey and lessons with others, I was given feedback that my advice helped them and that I should become a coach. Needless to say the work culture in tech startups is highly competitive and often times toxic. But I still loved working with smart people and being involved in the creative process. I also loved the people working on bitcoin, especially those in the open source community! So after completing the formal training to become a coach I decided to focus on executive coaching for bitcoin founders. I thought this would be the way I could make the biggest impact on Bitcoin adoption, while helping founders make positive changes and find balance. After working with a few founders in the past two years, I knew I was ready to grow my coaching business. So I got a business coach myself to help me figure out a sales strategy to meet more founders. The idea was to do a startup hike at a conference to bring together new founders, mentors and investors. Everyone could profit from making stronger relationships. Founders wanted to meet investors and mentors. Investors wanted to meet founders to invest in. And I wanted to meet founders who needed coaching… win-win-win!
I also felt many conferences are largely broadcasting from the same group of people. While I highly respected these people, I felt the conferences weren’t providing the most valuable experience for me. As I could already listen to many of these people on podcasts. In the spirit of bitcoin, I wanted more peer-2-peer conversations between new founders (from the pitch day) and mentors in nature while moving. So I decided to organize the startup hike as a satellite event at Bitcoin Atlantis in Madeira.
If you ever want to meet a lot of people in an industry, organize an event. It‘s highly political process, but you‘ll learn a lot about the people involved. You‘ll also know pretty well who you‘ll want to work with in the future. The hardest part was saying no to a lot of amazing people who wanted to join. But keeping the group focused on founders turned out to be the right decision. The feedback I’ve gotten from the founders has been amazing. One even said it was the most valuable event for him at the conference. Some even skipped the conference and flew in just for the hike! And a few founders have already reached out to ask for coaching. So in this regard the event was already a success. If you have any feedback about the event, please reach out and let me know. I‘m still learning. And I’m definitely considering organizing another startup hike later this year. It was a blast. And thanks again everyone for the support. Special thanks to nostr:npub1jaxs73m0zadd7fkwmkef73srdpfkxs6krwdhvkp0axzefqlsrpuqcvsjkt for organizing the pitch day and nostr:npub1ug8c5wp6chs4xessrstq3mj0x0agkttey5xwk26632a2gw22de7qkfd9ry for the support and introductions. I couldn’t have done it without you all! 🧡
Same. Increased my monthly Signal donation instead. Feel much better now.
These are the same arguments that we went through in 2012/2013 when we discussed cryptocat and encrypted webmail when we worked on openpgp.js.
Bruce Schneier also wrote a piece on it back then: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/cryptocat.html
Unless browsers integrate the W3C web package format (which never shipped), I‘m not sure how these issues can be resolved https://github.com/WICG/webpackage
Is there a write up of how the signing server works?