Dude, I love SeedSigner. I’ve met SS (the man) and told him as much. I’ve assembled and used SS’s, and have donated to support their work.
But I also acknowledge that the Coldcard is a solid product, as well as several other signing devices, and that there’s pros and cons to each product.
There doesn’t need to be a vicious war between users. You can drink Coke and I drink Pepsi, and we’re both happy.
I'm going to continue developing #Wasabi. I'm not talking about maintainance only but actual development.
Of course that without coinjoins there won't be any significant income, if any, to pay my salary, or at least no in the middle/long term, however that sets a clear goal for the short term: downsize it all. It doesn't sound great, but it is.
Wasabi was born as a light bitcoin wallet but with the time it became bigger and bigger. But now, zkSNACKs won't run the coinjoin coordinator anymore, all what is corporate-ish, such as Terms and Conditions, Web site, chainanalysis integration, affiliation integration, etc, etc, can finally be removed. All what made the code complex and that was great for marketing like "plebs don't pay", "friends don't pay" can finally be removed.
Wasabi needs to be also downsized to be maintainable for a couple of guys and that means we can remove things that are still there for reasons that I don't agree with, like the "password finder" among many others. I started doing that a few years ago in what I called Wasabito (little Wasabi) but then I went back to contribute to Wasabi, anyway, here you can have a better idea of what I had, and still have, in mind: https://github.com/lontivero/Wasabito/commits/master/
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These opinions are my own and I don't know whether zkSNACks decision making team agrees with me or not. Anyway, it is what I think should be done.
Please provide links where people can donate to support your work.
“McDonalds doesn’t produce the BigMac- they just assemble it for you.”
Well, they don’t produce hardware, so it’s naturally easier to iterate.
Love SS, but that’s a matter of opinion. There are pros/cons to every signing device.
Are you saying devs should write code that compensates themselves based on how many lines of code they wrote?
Do you get how bloated that codebase would get, and the perverse incentives it creates?
Easy for you to say, you live in the Free Nation of Canada, not the USSA. 😉
You run into a free rider problem, though.
Users benefit from the project, whether they donate to it or not. So everyone thinks, “Why should I contribute? Someone else probably will.”
That’s how you end up with systemically underfunded FOSS projects.
Which is why finding a monetization strategy (like fees for coinjoin coordination, or sales of hardware) can be very useful.
Relying on charity isn’t as sustainable as a business, though. Devs need to pay their bills.
Learning to code, my brother. 🫡
OpenSats Grants Long-Term Support for Shashwat Vangani
"This LTS grant will enable Shashwat to focus on the deployment of BOLT-12 within LDK, with a particular focus on blinded paths, invoice overpayments, and retrying invoice requests," said nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f.
nostr:npub1j4z7qht2yntl6tw7f48cj92dtm7nfsa8jnjklshj5yvug42nvykqxlwuxp's dream come true
Federal Prosecutors Are (Still) Investigating Jack Dorsey's Block a for Alleged Gaps in Compliance
"The company said it believed it had voluntarily reported the “thousands of transactions” described by the former employee to the Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, a department of the U.S. Treasury that enforces economic sanctions. But the former employee disputed that, saying thousands of different transactions were not reported."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/block-square-cash-app-federal-investigation/
It’s a purely political prosecution.
Bitcoin is going to flippen the US dollar, the way Christianity flippened paganism within the Roman Empire.
Malpractice risk leads to defensive medicine.
It was hosted on Gitlab, from what I understand. They were apparently very close to rolling it out. Not sure if anyone had cloned it before their arrest, but I assume so.
Writing code stretches your brain.
It’s why they made it the first!
So many podcasters, YouTubers, other types of content producers, coaches, course salesmen, consultants, and teachers nowadays.
Not a lot of doers.