so much infighting in bitcoin lately (maybe it always was). sometimes it feels like the wu wei. i take comfort in that. despite the vitriol i will never forget you guys 🫂.

polishing onboarding for cashu me. onboarding is special. it's the first chance you get to show the care you put into what you built.

ty to the rng response team. you are saints.

is pen testing bitcoin with chinese ai a game of skill? or is it more like a work of art?

arm yourself. train yourself with the warriors eye. wage butlerian jihad against ui slop.

Slop | Impeccable

64 patterns that mark an interface as AI-generated or poorly built, including all 59 deterministic detector rules.

bitcoin is the natural progression if you grew up on private trackers and torrents. same exact ethos. bitcoin is that version for adults. the stakes are higher and the philosophy runs deeper.

my @primal wallet hasn't received a single zap since july 9th. i get zapped but the money never comes in. nothing but problems since the 'upgrade' to spark. it used to be one of my favorites. now it's slow, bloated, and broken. i'm literally just losing money at this point. what a disaster. it makes me so sad to have lost such a reliable wallet.

launching my second app today: zeile. it's another simple one. you pair with one person. send a note or a doodle, and it lands on their home screen via widget. 100% free. iphone only. no accounts, no user ids. just a code generated at setup. one of you shares it, the other types it in, and you approve. it's simple and there are others like it. but this one is free. nothing behind a paywall. plus i put a little extra care into the ui. had a lot of fun building and testing it. check it out:

zeile

zeile · leave a little note

zeile pairs you with one person. Send a quick note or doodle, and it lands right on their Home Screen.

wrote about how we've been building at numo over the last few months. we've been slinging hats behind counters, handing a pos to restaurants, putting devices in bartenders' hands, and watching what breaks. almost every change we've shipped came from these sessions.

Cashu Blog

Numo: Lessons From Standing Behind the Counter

For the last couple of months, we've been doing something we don't usually get to do: standing behind counters. Conferences, restaurants, actual me...

codex 5.6 sol is much better at identifying and laser targeting sources of jank, like split-second screen flickers between animation transition states and stuff like that.

bip110 is sedevacantism for bitcoiners.

you must respect the work. you should put in a lot of effort to show you respect the work. if you don’t take the time to do so why should other people take the time to use your product?

cleaning up recent transactions history on cashu me. old version on the left, new version on the right.

cashu tap to pay now supports jacobin conjecture counterexamples.

did a big sweep of cashu me tonight. found a lot of inconsistencies between ios and android on bolt12 and on chain. spent the day fine tooth combing to get parity between the two. onchain is also closer to parity between ios and android. android wasn't querying the block explorer from the onchain receive. now both poll every 30s and both ask the mint if the quote is paid. try it here:

cashu.me

Cashu Me

A native wallet for iPhone and Android. Hold bearer ecash on your device, send with a tap, redeem to any Lightning address. No account.

cashu me is in public beta right now. would love feedback from anyone testing. your feedback is a gift.

gm. have you heard the good news? cashu me is now fully android and ios native. public beta open for you.

cashu.me

Cashu Me

A native wallet for iPhone and Android. Hold bearer ecash on your device, send with a tap, redeem to any Lightning address. No account.

the cliche 'never judge a book by it's cover' is true. this was exhilarating.

cashu me is now native on ios and android. lots of screen time went into this one and I had a blast building it. today, the public beta is here. still a lot of work to do. life time of polish to apply and jank to fix, but perfection is the enemy of good.

soon ™️