An August update on some stuff I've been working on.

#12 Building in August

Updates on Cashu Brr, BTC Pay Server, CDK-LDK, and a side project in SwiftUI

GM. Start your day with this in the background.

The @Bitcoin Design Community is 5 years old. It’s been a huge part of my growth and learning as a Bitcoin designer. Thank you to everyone who’s contributed, joined a call, and the projects who reached out for design help. You're all a part of this.

Bitcoin Design is 5 years old!

Proto Rig looks clean. Reminds me of beautifully designed Swedish telecom hardware.

Is there a SMS service where I can pay with bitcoin to receive a one time SMS?

Every time I hear that Kanye line on spaceship, “Lock yourself in a room doing five beats a day for three summers…I deserve to do these numbers.” I get so inspired. Passion is an incredible thing.

If I wasn’t working on ecash, I’d be working on making seed phrases obsolete. They’re the worst possible UX imaginable. "Hey, we have the best engineered money in human history…but before you can use it, you have to grab a piece of paper and write down 12 random words. BTW if anyone ever finds this paper, they can steal your money forever." Deeply unserious UX. I think seed phrases are the best solution we have right now. But it’s naive and short sighted to think they’ll remain the standard for self custody / backup, or that we can’t design something 10x better and just as secure.

cypherpunks prompt claude.

This is the place @miljan.

Spent all evening showing throwing ecash at people. This way of tossing people bitcoin is special, people react to it really well. All credit due to the push UX of ecash.

🎵 Join us now and share the software. You'll be free. Hackers, you'll be free 🎵

There’s no real line between work and life when you’re doing something that actually matters to you. A life spent building an open-source electronic cash system isn’t a life wasted.

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Sushant has been working on the @Sovran onboarding flow as part of the @bitshala & @Bitcoin Design fellowship, and I’m really liking where it’s headed.

Why are humans so hardwired to not grok exponential growth?

Christmas tri-tip with a peppercorn sauce from scratch.

Big thanks to everyone who participated in the ecash design guide review session last week or left comments on the draft PR. I've just pushed a new version of the guide incorporating much of the feedback. You can check out the latest deployment here: https://deploy-preview-1093--bitcoin-design-site.netlify.app/guide/how-it-works/ecash/introduction/ The first half of the introduction, Cashu, and Fedimint pages have been updated. The second half of the introduction and design best practices section are still to be reviewed. I'm aiming to set up another session during the last week of September. My goal is to have this ready and deployed before Bitcoin ++ ecash edition. I'm confident we can make it happen. As always, your feedback is a gift! Feel free to leave it in the open PR:

GitHub

Add ecash section to guide by swedishfrenchpress · Pull Request #1093 · BitcoinDesign/Guide

Hey @GBKS @mouxdesign @danielnordh. I am working on the ecash section for the design guide. I have some foundations laid down and would like to sub...

This is one of the best talks on ecash on bitcoin. Start here if you’re curious to learn more. So much was covered. View quoted note →

Great initiative. Lots of great discussion happening under the #nostrdesign tag. View quoted note →