Building a company is hard in it's own right. Building a bitcoin company is significantly harder for a number of reasons.

I shared some reflections on my conversation with Will Reeves about Fold's journey from a startup to a publicly traded company.

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Have i reached a stacking goal ? Errrrr WTF is enough. The more sats I stack the more i can share with all my family members who are still firmly stuck trousers down on zero 🤷‍♂️

GM

- sunshine

- grounding

- coffee

- bacon

- eggs

- pregnant wife

- kids playing

- Bitcoin still in self-custody

- Nostr spreading virally so we can finally all say what we actually want…

Sending good vibes far & wide

🙏🏻

Being both willing & able to leave fiat employment contracts have proven to be the best single source of lifestyle improvement for me

If I still had some UTXOs, I'd be consolidating them

Now you are all back in your cubicles and the kids are back in their gulag indoctrination camps, the beaches, the parks and river banks are all empty.

Devoid of human life.

This is beyond madness.

All because we were enslaved by fiat currencies, taxes and lies.

Opt out.

#Bitcoin

Dear #bitcoin,

My patience is being tested. I’m a bit bored. Could you do something dramatic pls? Up or down is fine, but this interminable sideways action is killing me slowly.

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HODLing and using Bitcoin can be a strange path to follow. At first, you want to try and 'save people'.

Then after a while, you realise you can't save them because lots of people don't want to be saved.

Help the people who are willing to listen, and be patient about it.

Bitcoin backed cards are coming to Debifi soon. We announced it during Baltic Honeybadger.

Today, hot smartphone wallets save your private keys in the secure element at rest, but pull it out to sign in the normal environment where malware can get access to it.

This is necessary because these secure chips can't do secp256k1 natively.

So I know private keys can't be kept locked in your phone's secure element today, but your phone CAN do challenge response with other cryptographic algos.

I'm just thinking out loud, but with taproot, can't we create addresses that use another algo that is not secp256k1 to embed a challenge into the spending conditions for your address that the smartphone CAN protect and sign with securely?

This way we have funds in a wallet that is a bit better than hot. It is in a secure element which is used to secure other things like your password manager and other things.

Possibly then we can also create modified XPUBs using your private key's public key and this other pubic key that relates to the secret used by your phone.

Overall, I'm thinking a new type of wallet that has 2 keys: your bitcoin key, and an adaptor key. You need both to spend funds, the algorithms are all standard public ones, we get the assurance that secp256k1 provides that it isn't secured by a potentially compromised NIST algo, but also the convenience that it is partially secured by a NIST algo that popular smartphones can secure.

Is this possible or a dumb idea?