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Josh
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Hardware hacker who used to do submarine things.

Samozrejme! Je to pekná hackerská hudba.

Replying to Avatar Juraj

Communication about web wallets being a bad idea (fluffypony sharing his experience with mymonero, talking about nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg ).

"Education" is sadly rarely a good answer. It does not work. Education does not solve society's problems and sadly it does not solve problems of many individuals either.

I think the better way is when the wallet becomes self-hosted for every home node. Integrate it into Umbrel or similar service and users would access it by logging into Umbrel or similar service, not by accessing it over the common internet.

I think that PWAs and home nodes are crucial for future.

Screenshots from my presentations about Cypherpunk visions and trends 2023-2025.

https://hackyourself.io/product/cypherpunk-visions-and-trends-2023-2025-ebook/

I wish home nodes were more popular, but unfortunately I think there is a ceiling. In the US I think there is a cost benefit calculation. I considered an umbrel competitor and from europeans I was told that since they turn off the wifi to save electricity at night (!), that they would probably not consider this.

There are lots of interesting things one can imagine if everyone had a node with compute to rent let's say, but I haven't figured a decent incentive model (besides shitcoins).

But you get to vote on the new colors! After all, it's "your" money. 🤣

I've looked at many hardware wallets. I'm currently convinced the best form factor would be a watch or a bracelet. The electronics of hardware wallets are a low powered MCU, small display, and buttons. It could even tell the time in block height. #bitcoin #hardwarewallet

I still wish they would make the apk available on github. Yes I know it's available on mirrors, but many privacy apps have the apk directly available. There is an open issue that seems stalled I think.

If you want to watch an Arnold train wreck, apparently the three part Arnold producer self decoumentary on himself on Netflix is pretty apropos.

Don't overly complicate it. I don't think you have to preface the language. If the person is interested, they will translate it otherwise they will skip.