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.

You will learn how to throw the nut and be happy. Thank you Riga and Baltic Honey Badger. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gx5-X8IWwAAmew7

You can just drop ecash in the chat.

Riga round four.

When I’m on Nostr I feel optimistic about the direction we’re heading in.

Running Dia browser, but having issues with Nostr.

Who has Lugano recommendations? Send them.

I prototyped a fully functional Bitchat Cashu wallet. From Figma wireframes to Kotlin code running live on Android. Pretty excited about the workflow. Sharing my exact flow in case it helps anyone else.

why would anyone do drugs when they could just vibe code a cashu wallet?

Woke up to a

Cashu - Open-source Ecash

screenshot on TechCrunch. Not sure if anyone reads Tech Crunch anymore but LFG!

TechCrunch

Jack Dorsey pumps $10M into a nonprofit focused on open source social media | TechCrunch

Dorsey's initial investment has gotten the new nonprofit "andOtherStuff" up and running, and he worked on some of its initial iOS apps.

Bitchat reminds me of the feeling of coming from school, jumping on IRC, and loading up Counter Strike 1.6.