“It's really difficult to engineer freedom tech—solutions that require you to kind of take ownership of your money, take ownership of your data. These things typically have engineering solutions that are harder to build; they might take a longer time to build, or it might actually require the user to kind of learn something new.” — nostr:nprofile1qyshwumn8ghj7en9v4j8xtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep0w3uhqetnvdexjur5qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqzpxvff4mhj5snxn95nyf7yvupuxt2rwcsuklrahkcu857pqplmpndukqdk5
NEW EP: Bitcoin and Freedom by Design
Using every last thing I learned at nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 about block template construction to pack my bag before my flight home
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Security Night 8 at nostr:npub1cst99sheckxrllnh9pw093mls775tdx80x99mq096pkl2t9r9swqsugekj
Penpot released design tokens. Another great iteration of this open-source design tool. https://penpot.app/collaboration/design-tokens
That's dope. I just wish Penpot wouldn't start lagging every time I have more than 3 frames. I feel like anytime I add a photograph to a board or duplicate a board, the whole application just comes screeching to a halt and starts freezing.
Some services are super aggressive about trying to switch you to PassKey on a new login instance 😩
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Atlanta BitDevs
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Nostr Atlanta 1 at nostr:npub1cst99sheckxrllnh9pw093mls775tdx80x99mq096pkl2t9r9swqsugekj
Wins prize for “the most Austin Texas coffee maker I’ve seen in my entire life”
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Trying to get back into the habit of sharing my #bitcoin FOSS work in a weekly blog. Over the past week or so, I've tinkered with the bolt12 website, TwelveCash, the TopBuilder program, and my new lightning prism project, Aurora.
My lab notes: https://d.elor.me/2025/02/stephens-lab-notes-02-21/
#bitcoin before / after
I'm speaking to the PlebLab TopBuilder competition today. I'm trying something different. Let's see if it works. This is Bitcoin UX for the Streets. It will make sense later. https://github.com/ATLBitLab/bitcoin-street-ux
GM, don't forget to forge your own destiny this week https://v.nostr.build/bMNiEw6vp2tDVIp3.mp4
What do you want to see from nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 in 2025?
Phoenixd support maybe
Is there a spec document that describes how boosts / boostagrams / anything remotely bitcoin related in podcasting 2.0 works?
Live from Atlanta: https://www.youtube.com/live/-XP2bYhNlAU?feature=shared
One time I noticed a friend's feed starting to promote a bunch of memecoins. When I reached out to ask about it, it turned out they had no idea. Somebody had hacked the their twitter account to turn it into a shill-bot.
Lol I had no idea that this random Fountain comment was going to get broadcasted to Nostr. This is completely out of context. #FixTheUX
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New updates to #TwelveCash! nostr:npub1aypcuyy3dkgss6wmvmeung05z56evucgk37wxymvnrc6dg32v9gqez0hdf and I added the ability to choose your own username as a paid option and login to the site with Nostr NIP-07 auth. This is in early access beta on https://12cash.dev/
More details here: https://d.elor.me/2024/07/twelve-cash-v1-1-0-beta-1/
Is this what AGI looks like? #artstr
I helped launch an updated BOLT12.org! https://bolt12.org/
If you're into #bitcoin, why should you care about BOLT 12? Well, I'll tell you why I care about it.
When I was working full-time on the nostr:npub13s5mxgws70rpxsug96jfvglggackjrxs2ehypwg0prjaxsek42sqd9l03e Guide, we worked on a reference design called the Daily Spending Wallet: an easy, mobile-first, self-custodial, lightning wallet. https://bitcoin.design/guide/daily-spending-wallet/
However, the friction of BOLT 11 invoice creation and the inability to receive payments while offline made the wallet feel less useful to me. I saw these as fatal flaws, and no amount of beautiful UI design would fix these.
Jump to present: BOLT 12 can fix these fatal flaws. With "offers", we have a fixed payment identifier for the user that does not need to be refreshed. Adoption of BOLT 12 also paves the way for async payments, which fixes the offline receive problem.
It's still early days, but we are already seeing many projects adopt BOLT 12. I would love to see your bitcoin project added to the list on this website! Source: https://github.com/sbddesign/bolt12.org
Thanks to everyone who brought this website together:
-@npub18agram6s6kulwwhc638d8q8y5vysutrrvvdll2wdjxd75wp4dfjqshytrf for frontend dev.
- nostr:npub13s5mxgws70rpxsug96jfvglggackjrxs2ehypwg0prjaxsek42sqd9l03e, nostr:npub14vnjvqrdxa3q2353gm0lla3hsxl354nmxhzkmkj8tarns0m8psxq0ss0ny, nostr:npub1ug8c5wp6chs4xessrstq3mj0x0agkttey5xwk26632a2gw22de7qkfd9ry, and the 4 black cats at nostr:npub1spralxq6jlw5rdy0249vqr5sh43rfrlx2wzv3rhjjqedw559w9psrs8s72 for much feedback along the way.
- nostr:npub179e9tp4yqtqx4myp35283fz64gxuzmr6n3yxnktux5pnd5t03eps0elz4s for writing the spec and loaning us his domain name.
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Which software did you use to do this? nostr:npub18s59mqct7se3xkhxr3epkagvuydwtvhpsacj67shrta8eknynegqttz5c3 looks like a great Win Hof point of focus
Initial design in Figma, then moved into AfterEffects for the animation
Experimenting with some #bitcoin motion #design
Kind of hypnotic when looped
Experimenting with graffiti at the brand-new nostr:npub1cst99sheckxrllnh9pw093mls775tdx80x99mq096pkl2t9r9swqsugekj office space #design 
Experimenting with BOLT 12 ideas #design 