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Bitcoin in K-8 Ed is my Jam now…

Nice, I’ve been looking for bitcoin jammers recently- I go to events and gatherings and it would be so cool to have a little jam session off to the side - something fun and constructive while the party people party. 😀

As I’ve seen @jack say - You are here, that’s enough !

I’m going to try it as a step up from custodial storage for my Cash App DCA stuff. So not a daily driver, but more of an easy place to stack until a nice cold storage size UTXO builds up.

Also I’m a gadget degenerate that will make any excuse to play with new hardware 😀

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Finally back to normal, if there even is such a thing. The last couple of weeks were a whirlwind, as is to be expected if a lot of bitcoiners are at the same place at the same time.

Bitcoin Atlantis was a fantastic event, as many others have mentioned before me. It was so good to see everyone. New friends, old friends, brothers and sisters, even classmates and family. Yes, family.

To me, the gathering that happened on this strange island in the middle of the Atlantic felt more like an extended family gathering than a conference, which is what made it so beautiful. Exhausting? Yes. Strange? Definitely. But also full of love, tears of joy, and a deep sense of "togetherness" that only families can provide. Strange uncles and all.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: cherish these times. We're still in the early days, and as bitcoin marches on and grows, and as bitcoinization proceeds, what is strange and extraordinary now will soon be normal and ordinary.

The internet is magic, as are mobile phones. Yet we don't have any "internet people" anymore, not in the "bitcoiner" sense, to bridge the analogy. In certain places and for certain people bitcoin is already normalized, and what used to be mind-blowing just 12 months ago simply isn't anymore. We get used to things too quickly, even magic. We adjust, we get bored, and we fail to appreciate how far we have come.

I'm writing this as a sip my morning coffee, a coffee that I will pay in sats outright, with zaps I've received on nostr. Isn't that magical? Yet it's very normal to me. I have to pinch myself every day to make sure it is real.

It's hard to comprehend how much sweat, blood, tears, and pain were necessary to make all of this work. Bitcoin. Lightning. Nostr. The myriad of tools, libraries, capital, and infrastructure required so that you can zap me and I can pay for this coffee. Instantly. Global. Without anyone's permission. We say that Bitcoin is magic internet money for a reason, so please take a step back and appreciate the magic. Appreciate how far we've come.

It's easy to get lost in the thick of it all when you're close to the grindstone. I know there's people out there that question themselves, wondering why they keep working on all this stuff, asking themselves if they make a difference. I know because I'm one of these people sometimes. I know because some of my friends are struggling, and have been struggling for a while. I see you, and if I could I'd give you a hug twice a day.

But most days we're not in the same place at the same time, so let me say the following instead: You matter. Your contributions matter. You just being around matters.

That's why physical events are so important. It's borderline impossible to feel stuff through a computer screen. But once you meet people in person—your people, the people that, for one reason or another, are perfectly aligned with you—you can FEEL it. You can really feel it. You can feel that it matters, that the tide is shifting, that the freedom tech we are working on changes the very real lives of very real people.

It was wonderful to meet all of you. Peace & Love, and please take care of each other. 🙏🧡

You are one hell of a North Star dude!

....and you built the damn roads and wrote f'n manuals illuminating "the way" - stoked you're feeling the love you gave....

It’s genuinely weird to sort of be a Nostr OG while it’s all still so new. That Nests test I I happened upon prior to Mederia is the type of rapid development that just blows my mind. You guys just make shit happen!

Had the great pleasure of being shown around north west jamaica by a dude Byron Powell with Island Transfer & Tours about 10 years ago now - such a great vibe everywhere! Dude absolutely made the trip for my crew - love that place. You lucky bastard you 😂

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Hi Nostr,

nostr:npub14yf4yasnqgpkzjrzhysshglf82e8nkp8r9sn5hzqu4n244k3avtshhwpyu told me that some of the other girls have linked their IG accounts here to prove they are real, but I don’t have instagram. So here is my “Prove it, prove it” image, proving that I have started reading #theBitcoinStandard.

✌️

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For each Halving, I will create a tribute, all identical in structure and seamlessly connected, like one Bitcoin block to the next. After three months of working on this series, the upcoming Halving will mark the end of this series for the time being. I will draw part 5 in 2027/2028, when the fifth Halving takes place with block 1,050,000.

The central circular chart filled up again another 210000 blocks later. At the first Halving it was 50% filled clockwise, at the second Halving it was already 75% full and at the block of the third Halving 87.5% as 87.5% (18,375,000 Bitcoin) of all Bitcoin ever available. For the last part of this series for the time being, Halving IV, this circle will be 93.75% full.

Below are a few basic facts and figures about block 630000, which I have included in the drawing:

-the first block of the fourth epoch.

-took place on May 11, 2020.

-Block subsidy: 6.25 Bitcoin/block.

-Supply: 18,375,000 Bitcoin (87.5%).

-The median fee for the third Halving block was ~90 sat/vB.

-3134 transactions and a storage space requirement of 1.19 MB are included in this block.

-The hash of block 630000: 00000000000000000000024bead8df69990852c202db0e0097c1a12ea637d7e96d. Note the number of zeros at the beginning. Whereas there were 13 zeros at halving I, one Halving later there are already 17 zeros and 19 zeros at the third halving. This shows the increasing mining difficulty: the more zeros at the beginning of the hash, the more hashes per second were required to determine the valid block. This number of zeros will also increase with each Halving.

-The approximate hashrate that secured the network to block 630000: ~139.25 EH/s. During Halving II, it was still around 1.5 EH/s. This means that the hash rate increased by a factor of 100 in the period from 2016 to 2020!

A closer look reveals a few other elements that should of course be familiar to die-hard Bitcoiners.

The drawing measures 29.7 x 42cm / 11.6 x 16.5". Drawn with many pencils varying in hardness on thick, 290/m² rough drawing cardboard.

Completion block time: 832655

This is awesome! It seems like craftsmanship and bitcoin adoption are at a minimum correlated, and likely causal I'd guess.

Same ish - made a full on plea to all my buds and told them it was a fire sale at 16,000 ....... radio silence - ah breaks my heart....

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Heading to a remote parking lot to complete a KYC free Bisq transaction?😀

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Taproot 🤝 Passport

Today we’ve released Passport firmware v2.3.0, with a massive set of new features and improvements. Is it our biggest release ever? 🤔

You be the judge.

**Full Taproot support is here 🥕**

Passport now has full support for sending and receiving using Taproot, making the combination of Envoy and Passport a powerful way to leverage the latest and greatest tech that Bitcoin has to offer.

**Verifying addresses just got way easier 📥**

We’ve improved address display based on the Bitcoin Design guidelines, making it easier than ever to verify addresses on Passport! Shout-out to @bitcoin_design for the excellent work on this standard!

Check it out 📷

**Passport now has full support for verifying and displaying OP_RETURN messages directly on-screen 💬**

Want to send a snarky message to your friends or enshrine a headline directly in Bitcoin? Now you can do it (and verify it offline) with passport!

**We’ve enabled SeedQR exports of the master seed 📷**

While this feature should be used with caution, SeedQR is a rapidly growing standard that Bitcoiners are using to backup and restore their seed phrases. Now you can more easily do so on Passport!

**Passport now has a brand new address explorer ✉️**

Ever wanted to browse the addresses of one of your Passport accounts on-device? Now you can! We’ve worked hard to make it as easy as possible to navigate and find addresses for verification directly on Passport.

**12-word seed phrases are here 🌱**

Passport now allows the creation of 12 word seed phrases, and defaults to 12 word seed phrases during onboarding.

Want to learn more about why 12-word seed phrases are more than secure enough? 👇

**Calculate a manual seed phrase checksum directly on Passport 📝**

If you’re an advanced user who wants to generate a seed phrase offline, now you can have Passport automatically generate the final word for you when you import it.

**It’s time to name your Passport! 🔠**

Now you can set a name for your Passport that gets synced to Envoy when you pair it, and lets you easily distinguish between different family member’s Passports or your unnecessarily large Passport collection 👀

And much, much more. To get the full list of what we’ve added, improved, or fixed, read the full release notes below.

https://foundationdevices.com/2024/02/passport-version-2-3-0-is-now-live/

Thanks for joining us on this journey as we build and improve Passport, and we hope you enjoy this latest release!

So cool that a device with a perfect form factor and FEEL in the hand is also getting more useful and fun over time - love what you guys are building.