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Software engineer. Building bitcoin tools. Currently building Live Wallet https://livewallet.space https://github.com/Jwyman328/LiveWallet/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#live-wallet

They also have a youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@aplacetob

and the organizers of the school have been on nostr:npub1hghnjjpnvkz8t6gkszuf37d7puwc2qtxc65rnklqsngzv6kkug9qhhfyz2's podcast I believe, but I forget the episode number.

Also I think nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft might have some involvement in the project as well.

Live Wallet for Linux is finally here!

Live Wallet version 0.8.0 is now available for download on Debian/Ubuntu Linux systems and macOS!

Download it here: https://github.com/Jwyman328/LiveWallet/releases/tag/0.8.0

Yesterday in #tokyo headed up the nostr:npub1vmpf90hq56wzyxht6teg3llpa74rzcepw9suj5unxl3tph24zd4qgtxhm7 day at the Japan Bitcoin Conference! thanks to Joe and everyone else for being such amazing co-organizers for the event and to nostr:npub1r7psmkr4zv93xnal8un6d8hvmpsn5jvhfzn3kk38rfcel6awznks7znspg + nostr:npub1vm8ysnhr3dhqw4sa9c0esuf5x5eldgt53qrz4vpe9x89fasqn7zqks9a6c for showing up to run a great LARP; first one in Japan 🇯🇵

https://m.primal.net/KwIA.mov

Great content, loved the btc++ I attended years ago

Replying to Avatar walker

I was a unique case of homeschooling because I was homeschooled through 8th grade then went made the decision to go try high school because I was worried I might be stupid compared to other kids who I knew through sports, clubs, community, etc… My parents made it clear that it was my decision to make, so I made it.

Turns out I was not, in fact, stupid relative to the other kids… I was able to skip through math classes in high school and graduated valedictorian while being a three-sport athlete all four years. I discovered that public school is absurdly easy, because everything caters to the lowest common denominator. The focus was on time spent (in your desk, doing homework, etc) vs deliverables. Put another way, it was an “hourly” mentality instead of a “salary” mentality.

That said, I had some really great science and math teachers in high school that I am still very grateful for. They were also the type of teachers who thought administrative mandates were bullshit and just wanted to focus on teaching.

Things I liked most about being homeschooled:

- I finished all my work in 2-3 hours in the morning and spent the rest of the day outside — I was outside constantly.

- I was done when I was done. There was no “homework” because it was all at home.

- I could do my work from anywhere, or work ahead a few days bitcoin if needed. There were no arbitrary constraints.

- It taught me to work on deliverables.

- I read a shitload.

- I was never uncomfortable around “adults.” They were just bigger people to me. I showed everyone respect, but I was perfectly comfortable and happy hanging out with adults even as the only kid (plus my sister).

- I got to do a bunch of random shit because I my schoolwork itself took very little time.

On the subject of random shit, one of my favorite memories is when my mom set me up with a legit blacksmith to apprentice for a day. He’s the first person who taught me about Fibonacci. Seriously brilliant and badass dude. Made a huge impression on me and I will never forget it.

I also just played in the woods constantly. Started fires, built forts, used knives and axes and guns from a young age.

In terms of things I disliked, the only real thing was the worry that I was not going to be as smart as my peers at public school. Benchmarking was hard. It’s the whole reason I decided to go to high school, only to find out that a lot of people are complete morons, with zero initiative, drive, or grit.

I also spend a day a week at a Montessori school for a year or two. That was neat. Zero “schoolwork” was done. We just built shit and cooked shit and played outside.

My parents also helped found a small charter school (about 10 kids). We would get together once a week and had a couple tutors who came in. I had an awesome Mennonite algebra tutor named Edith. We got on swell.

Anyway, highly recommend homeschooling, and will be doing it with our kid(s). There are infinitely more online resources available now than there were when my parents did it.

Love hearing this, thanks for noting it!

I built a tool to help people understand which utxos to consolidate. people should consider using it before consolidating in order to consolidate correctly.

https://github.com/Jwyman328/LiveWallet/releases

Replying to Avatar Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #321 is here:

- links to a proof-of-concept implementation for

proving in zero-knowledge that an output is part of the UTXO set

- describes one new and two previous proposals for allowing offline LN

payments

- summarizes research about DNS seeding for non-IP network

addresses

- summarizes changes to services/client software

- Optech Newsletter #321 Recap on Twitter Spaces

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/20/

Johan Halseth posted to Delving Bitcoin to announce a proof-of-concept tool that allows someone to prove that they control one of the outputs in the current UTXO set without revealing which output...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/20/#proving-utxo-set-inclusion-in-zero-knowledge

Andy Schroder posted to Delving Bitcoin to sketch a communication process an LN wallet could use to generate tokens that could be provided to an internet-connected wallet in order to pay it...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/20/#ln-offline-payments

Virtu posted to Delving Bitcoin a survey of the availability of seed nodes on anonymity networks and discussed methods for allowing new nodes that exclusively use those networks to learn about peers through DNS seeders...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/20/#dns-seeding-for-non-ip-addresses

Changes to services and client software:

- Strike adds BOLT12 support

- BitBox02 adds silent payment support

- The Mempool Open Source Project v3.0.0 released

- ZEUS v0.9.0 released

- Live Wallet adds consolidation support

- Bisq adds Lightning support

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/20/#changes-to-services-and-client-software

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Twitter Spaces Tuesday at 14:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1RDGlywwRREJL

Thanks for including Live Wallet in the newsletter! 🙏

Feel free to go over some of the software updates you missed last week

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/live-wallet-v0-7-0/