The Saving Satoshi case study in the

nostr:npub13s5mxgws70rpxsug96jfvglggackjrxs2ehypwg0prjaxsek42sqd9l03e Guide is live. It provides lots of background about this unique and ambitious project. I'm super thankful to and proud of everyone who chipped in (you're all ₿OSSes).

https://bitcoin.design/guide/case-studies/saving-satoshi/

Make sure to give it a try and let us know how it can be improved.

http://savingsatoshi.com

Nonsense.

I like it, it's really well done (tested the beta app thoroughly). Just have to keep in mind who it's for. It costs $150, so it's only economically worth it above certain amounts. Screenshots on the site show balances of over $7,000 and transactions of $50+, which seems appropriate for an on-chain only product (assuming you don't want fees to be above a certain percentage of amounts). You get a really well-thought out security model and recovery service, and a nicely executed UX that doesn't bother you with technical stuff. So if that fits your needs, it's a great product.

Design should capture and express the essential properties of a product/technology. If users can't tell the difference between self-custodial and custodial bitcoin apps, then we're doing it wrong.

Especially open-source community-led projects are well-positioned to provide unique user experiences that companies and custodial solutions cannot offer due to their different goals, structure and incentives.

Awesome, thank you.

We're on the same page that having contributors & a community is amazing. My point was more about why it often doesn't happen. I've been trying to think of ways recently to help with that process, mostly because I think that a healthy and diverse ecosystem of community-led open-source bitcoin project is necessary for bitcoin to keep its unique properties.

What time is it? It's PR review time.

This is just a figment of my imagination (aka design mockup) and not a real app (sadly).

It's often a very big leap for an individual to open up a project to more contributors and a community. They have to change how they do things, how they spend their time, negotiate the best way to do things, etc. Not everyone wants to do that (or has time & energy to). But as you said, it's amazing when projects turn into something bigger and/or better. We need a good mix. Nostr is probably too much on the lone wolf side at the moment (including me with Nosta).

Not sure what everyone is so excited about. My chart still shows that 1 bitcoin = 1 bitcoin.

Do you have API data for historical currency rates?

Here's a visual for a planned transaction visualizer in the Bitcoin Core App (Sparrow-inspired). Does that look useful to you? You can also try the work-in-progress web prototype: https://lively-kashata-cfde7e.netlify.app/screen/coin-flow

Nice one. I think the fiat amounts could use a hover state, hand cursor and click event. Took me a bit to realize I could select those amounts and edit them as well. Also, deep-linking to an amount could be helpful if you want to send it to someone so they can see how much it is in their currency.

Maybe that's enough for a useful feature that users can wrap their heads around and easily work with?

Love it. That issue is quite complex. Someone in there mentioned breaking it down into 2-3 parts, which is probably worth doing. The Starter Pack thing seems really simple in comparison.

I also had some thoughts around an invite system for Nosta here, with another slightly different angle: https://github.com/GBKS/nosta-me/issues/64

Will have to think about this a bit more...

Starter Packs are a pretty cool Bluesky feature (yes, it's basically a glorified list but framing matters). Is there a Nostr version? https://www.starterpacks.net/

Great to see the Prototype Fund continue do its thing. They will focus on data security and software components now. https://prototypefund.de/en/the-prototype-fund-is-going-strong/

Very interesting presentation about open-source at the United Nations. Cool to see entities like the Sovereign Tech Fund pushing things forward. https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1q/k1qmxhno3c?kalturaStartTime=293

We saved Satoshi! Thank you to all the wonderful bitcoiners who joined our Saving Satoshi workshop at TABConf today.

Sometimes the problems with adults is that they have the ability to plausibly-enough rationalize anything and everything, and trick themselves into believing weird stuff as some deep and newly-discovered truth. Good to be humble with opinions.

Nice. Can't tell if you do already, but localizing the placement of the unit symbol, as well as use of comma/period/etc is also a good idea. Different countries have different standards. https://bitcoin.design/guide/designing-products/units-and-symbols/#formatting-units