GOOOOOOOD MORNING

Don't forget Ledger has confirmed their software can extract your seed from your device.

I try not to repost stuff here that I already posted on Twitter / X, but this is too cool not share.

There's one thing that excites me more than anything with this project, and that's when people start saving in #Bitcoin, as a way to change their own future.

Sizwe is the owner of the GlobalBTCFest shack that we painted in January. Like all of the other painted-shack owners he receives R60 (~$3.50) in sats/week.

This is one way to get small amounts of #Bitcoin into the hands of the community without just handing it out randomly, but paying it in exchange for something. To encourage the circular economy.

Most spend their sats at the township shops we onboarded. But not Sizwe.

Phew, it's been a while since I've been active here but I'm slowly getting back in the saddle!

Welcomed our second For Privacy child into the world recently and things have been joyfully turned upside down as a result 😁

Quick thread of random updates 🧵

I... spent all my Monero 😅

Didn't expect it to happen so soon, but between onboarding locals to Monero, donating to FOSS projects, funding CCS proposals, and using Cake Pay and CoinCards it went quickly.

Thankfully the options for restocking are getting better by the day!

Shoutout to LocalMonero and Trocador for being amazing tools for onboarding people (and myself) to Monero directly.

I shut down my public Lightning node 🥲

After months of frustration dealing with downed channels and failed payments, I finally gave up on running my own 24/7 node (for now).

I'll circle back eventually, but for now have migrated to using PhoenixWallet w/ splicing via Tor.

We are back online! Things have been stable for the last 5 hours and we've made a number of improvements to assist with the generic error that has happened.

Essentially our encrypted lightning storage database had gone down. By default (configurable), the user's lightning state is encrypted and stored remotely so that everything can be restored with just the seed words. This also allows for using Mutiny with multiple devices.

While the state is also stored locally on the user device, we've had a number of problems in the past with that state not always saving to disk (mostly safari webview problems). We had to save remotely too for three layers of data redunancy and we check against all three and pick the greater version.

Because with lightning, if the latest state is not used, it will cause force closes and loss of funds. So if remote storage is enabled (default), we require checking it.

When our DB went down, requests were not timing out. That was one fix we made, after 30 seconds of loading a single request, we error out when initializing the wallet. We also made a new screen for when this happens.

Further, we have now implemented "safe mode" that still allows for viewing your wallet and accessing your on chain funds.

Lastly, we have made a number of improvements to our VSS (versioned storage server) database to hopefully help make sure it doesn't go down again. We will be monitoring this and look at other solutions if it continues to be a problem.

You Can Now Install Geyser As Progressive Web App

Liquid Federation Open Sourced Its Functionary Code

"The Liquid Federation fulfills a long standing goal to open-source the functionary code, allowing anyone to audit the code and create their own Liquid-like network," was announced in a blog post.

Zapping just got a huge speed improvement for Mutiny! Zap requests should now appear within 5 seconds. #zapathon

Sparrow Wallet v1.7.8: Taproot Message Signing & More

Sparrow v1.7.8 has been released with Taproot message signing (BIP322), improved QR scan performance, rename wallet support, RBF with initial minimum fee set, and more.