awesome! thanks for sharing
yeah, this is such a lame response by people:
"I dOn'T cAre ABouT pRivAcY. IT dOEsN'T maTtER. i'M nOT dOiNg AnyThiNg wRonG."
the coming years it will become more apparent that privacy is key for everything we do! Changing laws and legislation, and societies turning technocratic bureaucratic hell holes. I guess it's necessary for things to change for the better ;)
I like you're setup, I love minibits. what is your experience with Cake wallet? when I tested it, the app was regularly unresponsive
cool, I recognise a similar track of research. except for electrum. I know they have been around for quite some time. never used their mobile wallet though. any insights?
cool, I recognise a similar track of research. except for electrum. I know they have been around for quite some time. never used their mobile wallet though. any insights?
I see, thanks for your swift response., i'm using both Zeus and Minibits for lightning only
I see, thanks for your swift response., i'm using both Zeus and Minibits for lightning only
I agree, yet from a ux standpoint it doesn't completely fit NY needs. perhaps it simply needs to grow on me ;)
interesting, do you use phoenix for on-chain transactions too? does it have coin and fee control features for instance?
thx! I am testing aqua. I love the simplicity and ease of use swapping in and out of lnBTC.
thx I have been testing bluewallet on android too. it's pretty versatile
I'm curious to what #bitcoin on-chain mobile wallet people are currently using? I was previously using #Samouraiwallet and #Mutinywallet.
i simply love minibits, they deserve more exposure.
the last couple of years I have been mostly focussed on on-chain bitcoin wallet setups/config. recently i have shifted my interest a not more to lightning and nostr wallet setups. it hasn't been the most fun/easy experience tbh considering resources are either highly scatteredand/or incomplete. tldr highly confusing. for instance what lightning node do people run? LND? if I run a wallet through NWC is this sufficient for a lightning noon self-sovereign setup? or do I simply install Zeus and try to figure our the channel management from there?
When trying it out I get this error:
SSL handshake failed: Error code 525
based on Snowden's testimony I'd say the three letter agencies have already done this to circumvent laws/legislation :)
nostr:note15pw6je3k54xrfup4cq4ajdnhkarwkvl5d59vfqqljdut7w286zlsfn55vulove what you guys do and how you communicate, honest and without uglyness
So basically all of them do the thing they claim which is, they separate the key from your main computer/tablet/phone. Most of them are pretty good we've only found minor issues since we gave that talk.
In that sense, I'd like to think the industry learned a bit from us. With the exception of tamper stickers. They are worthless.
But none of them solve the really hard problems of can I truly verify and trust this hardware. And some of them do shady things with licenses and cloud servers and what not.
So in conclusion, despite me earning money from the industry, I think people don't need a hww. I think a laptop running tails with persistent is fine for most people. Boot into tails, do your thing and disappear. Tails has had more eyes on that software than any hww code base. But nothings perfect.
Honestly, this is where nostr:nprofile1qqs09jtvjlmyrxjn37zv70a89csegcz7rpyqjmnw29cveedhv7vagqqpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0xmkjg2 kinda wins. I don't use it personally but it's the embedded version of what I just described. And it's an actual open source project, not a product.
I could audit it but it's like, it doesn't store anything. So I could verify it does that but at worst case it is a malicious signer. But that's the same threat to all hww, every vendor could push a (unintentional) malicious update.
Some hww vendors also just shit on each other all the time. It's honestly a bit exhausting.
I get a bit sad tbh because I'm in all these chats about how to do self custody and it's all these cults of people saying Coke is better than pepsi.
So I'm a bit disillusioned with bitcoin hardware at the moment. I'm hoping to make some actually fun electronic project instead of watching people cheer for their favorite vendor.
Anyway, long rant. But this is kinda why I'm doing bitpunk.fm at the moment to find my spark again ⚡️
I totally agree, thanks for your post