Tried getting into Starfield. Gave it 6 solid hours before I gave up. Everything about it feels soulless and stale. Can't do it.
"Science is the Belief in the Ignorance of the Experts"
~ Richard Feynman
"I'm the good guy"
~ Every bad guy who's ever existed.
NEW: HRF announces the Bitcoin Bounty Challenge
20 BTC up for grabs for 10 UX improvements to Bitcoin (mainly focused on mobile wallets) requested by dissidents and human rights groups from across the world 🌍
Bounty #1: Open Sourcing the Design Guide
2 BTC to port the Bitcoin UI Kit from Figma to an open-source Penpot (@Penpotapp) project
Currently, the Bitcoin UI Kit is only available in a proprietary Figma file format
Bounty #2: Serverless Payjoin
2 BTC to deploy a production-ready version 2 payjoin protocol which may send and receive payjoin transactions without requiring a sender or recipient to operate a public server
Bounty #3: End-to-End Encrypted Nostr Group Chats
2 BTC for the creation of end-to-end encrypted group chats powered by any popular Nostr client that do not leak metadata to third parties
Users must be able to chat with at least two other Nostr users
Bounty #4: Silent Payments
2 BTC for a mobile Bitcoin wallet which can send and receive Silent Payments in a private manner without requiring the user to run a full node
https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/silent-payments/
Bounty #5: Human Readable Offers
2 BTC for a human-readable BOLT 12 offer generator feature integrated into a popular iOS or android bitcoin wallet
Bounty #6: Self-custodial Mobile Lightning Address
2 BTC for an easy-to-setup self-custodial mobile Lightning address generator integrated into a popular iOS or android bitcoin wallet
Bounty #7: Mobile Border Wallets
2 BTC for the integration of @BorderWallets optionality in addition to a seed phrase for a popular iOS or android wallet
The user of the wallet should be easily able to choose to use border wallet functionality to create their seed
Bounty #8: Easy Mobile Multisig
2 BTC for the implementation of a “tap or airdrop to create 2 of 3” multisig functionality for an open-source popular iOS or android wallet
The wallet must be self-custodial, with a method for users to recover funds using open-source software
Bounty #9: Frost Multisig Wallet
2 BTC to a FROST-powered dynamic mobile multisig that allows the user to modify the signer set without moving funds to a new address
The wallet must be self-custodial
Bounty #10: @CashuBTC
0.5 BTC for a fully-functional iOS Cashu app
0.5 BTC for a fully-functional Android Cashu app
0.5 BTC for an open-source Cashu web widget for anonymous paywalled content
0.5 BTC for Cashu-TS backup restore
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We are launching with an initial set of 10 bounty challenges
More bounties might be added as we go
An individual or team who fully solves any of the ten challenges will be eligible to receive a bounty of 2 BTC
For transparency: submissions will be shared with external industry experts to help us discern whether submissions meet bounty requirements
HRF will be making decisions in a charitable way for bounty submissions that make a good faith effort to meet the requirements
We will be leaning to the spirit, not the letter, of the law
Individuals and teams are encouraged to contact bounty at hrf dot org with any questions during the bounty process
HRF retains final approval on allocating prize funds
The Bitcoin Bounty Challenge will run until December 31, 2024
Any unclaimed bounties will convert into general operating funding for the HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund on January 1, 2025
An individual or team may collect any amount of bounties
If a leading wallet maker or for-profit corporation would like to compete, we would be delighted
To claim a bounty submit proof to bounty at hrf dot org
For full terms and conditions visit hrfbounties.org
This project was born out of 6 months of field research where HRF staff met with + interviewed a) dissidents and human rights NGO leaders from around the world and b) Bitcoin developers
The goal was to settle on a mix of desired upgrades to Bitcoin that seemed somewhat realistic
We fully expect a handful of these bounties to be claimed by the end of next year
We fully expect the bounties to spark debate, arguments, new ideas, criticism, and other stuff that may indirectly help Bitcoin and Bitcoin users
We *do not expect* all of bounties to be claimed
You all have 523 days left
Good luck!
And big thanks to @BitcoinMagazine for covering the news :)
Very cool! I may have some political disagreements with you Alex, but I still really appreciate all the great work you do.
"The belief that any large population wouldn't be overwhelmingly composed of idiots is a utopian fantasy" ~ Michael Malice
It looks amazing, but I've never been able to get it to work for me. Tried multiple computers, multiple browers... always get this error whenever i try to do anything
I don't like them and think they're kind of trashy, and sometimes I even find it mildly irritating and cringy how common they are among young people these days. That being said, I don't really judge it too harshly, just not my thing, at all.
What worthwhile books have you read and enjoyed so far this year?
nostr:npub1klq6tmmueaw06ktklw39zytw60e6u0f76966nnj785e63y95dp9smqg5ss is going after Disqus. Let's go!
that's really cool!
Not a bad little stack just from playing a few mobile games on my phone over the last few months.
I have put my nsec into Private Key area.
Read this many years ago and loved it. tanstaafl
Yes. And we'll probably never know, unless it is stuck at the bottom somewhere very close to the titanic wreck.
I've given up on trying to get nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg to work for me.
I'm at a loss. I've tried it on windows, on linux, on multiple browsers, with nos2x and with Alby. I've tried it on multiple different computers in my house as well.
I just can't get anything to function on it. I can browse the feed and get alerts, but I can't interact with anything. Cant post, cant follow, cant like, etc.
It seems like it is potentially the best web client, to me, and it appears to be working for nearly everyone else but me. Truly baffled.
@iris proving itself to be the most reliable, consistent and aesthetically pleasing client for me, over time. Haven't had any issues with it in a very long time.
I've given up on trying to get nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg to work for me.
I'm at a loss. I've tried it on windows, on linux, on multiple browsers, with nos2x and with Alby. I've tried it on multiple different computers in my house as well.
I just can't get anything to function on it. I can browse the feed and get alerts, but I can't interact with anything. Cant post, cant follow, cant like, etc.
It seems like it is potentially the best web client, to me, and it appears to be working for nearly everyone else but me. Truly baffled.
nostr will become something much bigger than a decentralized social media platform. They may not come here for the twitter clone, but over time, things will be built on here that could attract the masses. They may even end up using it for a service without even realizing they are using something called nostr.
What is this? A pump for ants?
