Got lots of these stickers, which are all meant 100% literal, delivered for TABConf. Say hi if you attend next week.
Gotcha. As I mention in my post, the situation is that you are editing your profile, for example in a Nostr client. You want to be able to accept payments (maybe you're an artist and post music to Wavlake). Your bitcoin wallet (Phoenix, for example) gives you an address that you copy and paste in. Now we have ~10 different types of addresses across bitcoin and lightning, suited for different use cases. Wallets support different combinations of those, so we need some good UI patterns for telling users what is supported, and give them tips and validation so they can set things up correctly. It is about money after all, so it's important that users feel confident.
The mockup looks at a situation where a reusable lightning address (aka BOLT12 offer or Lightning offer) is the best address type to use. A email-like address (BIP353 Human Readable Address) is OK, but will be resolved to a reusable lightning address for better security & privacy, which we inform the user about so there are no surprises.
Big picture, I don't think anyone other than hardcore techies will recognize and understand the different address types. I am exploring whether we can just call everything a "bitcoin address". So instead of the label being "Enter a lightning offer", it is "Enter a bitcoin address". And then we provide 1-2 extra pointers below to point people in the right direction.
I'm doing lots of explorations like these and tend to share bits and snippets. There's often a lot of context that is not obvious from these short social media blurbs. So I totally get that it may not make sense. Thanks for being interested and asking.
Join us on Thursday at 14:00 UTC for a design review call with the Saving Satoshi team. https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/707 
Very excited for this. It's bitcoin dev education, an epic sci-fi story, and a very ambitious UX design & generative AI project at the same time.
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No idea at all?
Matthew launched a new BDK example wallet, in Swift. Really nice. https://matthewramsden.substack.com/p/introducing-bdk-swift-example-wallet
Is this a good way to have users enter lightning offers? For example, in a Nostr client when editing your profile. Trying to use technical terms to the least amount possible.
I threw identicons in there just for fun. Would be nice to have visual hashes for a quick gut check, but that would obviously relay on broadly standardized implementation.
Cool initiative to get open-source maintainers paid. https://opensourcepledge.com
Some explorations around picking addresses in lightning wallets. https://youtu.be/o_0pl7XJ4Xk
To request bitcoin, you can share a
- (Legacy/Script/SegWit/Taproot) address
- Reusable payment code
- Silent payments address
- Lightning invoice
- Lightning offer
- Lightning address
- Human-readable address
As text, BIP21 URI or QR Code. Or ask for a Fedimint/Cashu token.
Probs overlooking some other options (including bad ones like sharing xpubs) and details, but either way this is a lot to wrangle in UX and for users to have a general framework for. Let's see what solutions we converge on.
A byproduct of nostr:npub1vy6wcgw6jhhtcmpawvlnsfx7g8qt8r40z7qlks9zwa4ed57vm5eqx527hr is this bitcoin script editor. The team built it for chapter 9, where you learn how to construct different spending mechanisms, and now it's available as a separate tool. It's brand new, we'd love to hear your thoughts. https://script.savingsatoshi.com
Good UX finds that sweet spot between the "grain" of the tech and the complex needs and behaviors of people.
This is a great episode to listen to for learning about the dynamics of how work sometimes gets done in open-source. Very relevant for designers and other contributors as well.
The Open Design Guide reading calls have been really interesting, in that we have been diving in the human experience of designers & open-source. I hope the guide will be able to capture all these nuances and make it 10x easier for newcomers. Lots of work to do still.
Have to think of a group of older women I overheard in a cafe once. They were talking about how they spend their youth rebuilding Germany after the war and how their youth was stolen.
We're having our 100th design call for the Bitcoin Core App (https://bitcoincore.app) project today. First one was almost exactly 3 years ago. Slow, steady, and deliberate (OK, it's a little messy sometimes).
I think these names are fine for early phases of projects. Rethinking name & brand is a good exercise if/when they grow and "professionalize" a bit.
Whaaaat.... you don't like Nosta? That cuts deep... 😭😉
Lots of conversations the past weeks around education efforts for helping more designers find their ways into the open-source bitcoin ecosystem and do good work. Great to see, lots to do to make it a reality.
We switched the Bitcoin Design Guide to all lowercase a few years ago. The lowercase/uppercase distinction might be a nice subtle approach, but will most people really get that? Isn't it easier to read when things are a bit more explicit, like using "the bitcoin network"? And does it translate across languages (for example, Germany has very different capitalization rules)?
nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs made me re-examine my goals. I’ve set some high bars, personal and professional. It won’t be easy, but I think that’s the point of goals - make them difficult to accomplish and do everything possible to meet them.
Exactly. World domination is not enough. Galactic multiverse domination is where it's at.