The ecash section of the @Bitcoin Design guide is live! Thanks to all the #Cashu and #Fedimint devs who helped out. I got to think through some of the unique nuances of ecash and suggest some design best practices. Check it out and let me know your thoughts:

Bitcoin Design

Ecash

An overview of bitcoin-backed ecash, protocols, and design best practices.

One day, years from now, you’ll scroll through your old Nostr events, see the dates, and feel a warm kind of sadness. Don’t forget the little notes and zaps that made you smile. You’ll be older, smarter, and maybe you’ll outgrow it, but don’t forget Nostr and moments it gave you. It was there for you when everything else was being captured.

Current hyper fixation: The Basque conflict.

We’ve added an FAQs page to Athenut. Check it out:

FAQ - Athenut

Frequently asked questions about Athenut

. Are there any other features you would you like to see added? Next we’re going to add the ability to export your searches as a Cashu token. This way you can gift shares to other users, and they can redeem them directly in the browser.

Back in the trenches designing for signature verification. I really missed this part of Bitcoin. This is where you see and feel the magic of cryptography in action.

We need more poets in bitcoin.

Amir Taaki on how the sci-fi UIs we saw in movies never became a reality. Instead, we got ugly apps, material design, and the idea that UIs should be dumbed down for users.

I can’t stop thinking about Ross. He has a chance at freedom. Thank god.

NEW: Invoice history on Athenut! Some people mentioned losing their searches after paying an invoice, so now we show a record of all your paid and generated invoices. If you’ve paid and didn’t get your search credits, you can refresh the invoice, and the credits should show up. Also fixed some navbar issues, should be less clunky and cleaner on mobile.

It's been 3 weeks since I quit my day job. I wake up and work on bitcoin projects. I am happy.

You spoke, we listened, we shipped. Dark mode and recovery are now live on Athenut. 🥜https://athenut.com🥜