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Bitcoin Product Designer @ Hoseki. Human Rights Foundation grantee working on ecash.
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erik 6 months ago
redesigned the mint rating and review ui for cashu.me now you can see what mints your friends trust and leave reviews. wanted it to feel like getting a recommendation from someone you know. web of trust does helps do the vetting for you. image see a mint with all reviews, then you can toggle to only show web of trust. ratings recalculate in real time based only on reviews from people in your web of trust. if you don't really use nostr like that, then cashu.me comes with a built in web of trust based on based bitcoiners. this is now live in prod. give it a try and let me know what you think. please report and UI issues or bugs too.
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erik 6 months ago
being a cashu disrespector must be exhausting. so many people building and shipping, new developments constantly. you have to wake up every day and keep fading it. can’t be easy.
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erik 7 months ago
gm. check out this episode about the guys who built the transatlantic telegraph cable. they failed over 3 times but remained locked in and eventually succeeded. we really need more people out there working on ambitious, human scaled projects like this.
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erik 7 months ago
i want to speak to satoshi nakamoto and tell him i’m doing the best i can, but there’s simply so much to do.
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erik 7 months ago
been reflecting on the bitcoin for signal campaign. i want to share why we designed it in the way we did. a lot of bitcoin projects try to get people to come to them. 'latest layer 2/ecash/ark/lightning/spark/liquid!' 'simple wallet!' 'frictionless onboarding!' i think that's not always the best approach. image instead of promoting a new app or asking people to meet us, we should try to meet people where they already are and then make the case for bitcoin. millions already use signal everyday so why ask them to go somewhere else for private payments? bring bitcoin to them instead. i want to see more projects try to integrate bitcoin where people already hangout. cashapp nailed this imo. they didn't build a bitcoin app and ask people to come. they integrated bitcoin into a space that people already use to send $ to friends. try to follow that playbook.
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erik 7 months ago
i like how this shader reveal and hover effect is turning out.
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erik 7 months ago
i'm convinced the people who majorly move the needle on improving human life are civil engineers, computer programmers, electrical engineers, physicists, structural engineers, medical researchers etc...not politicians, nonprofit workers, or advocacy groups.
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erik 7 months ago
“who will run the mints?” i come from piracy/private trackers/ torrents. i know exactly who will: the same type of people motivated to keep torrent trackers alive. a wise man once said: “what the piratebay learned is that in the game of whack a mole, the moles win.”
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erik 7 months ago
milton friedman in 1990 on the future development of perfectly private ecash. i appreciate how he describes the push ux of ecash as just like handing someone a dollar bill.
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erik 7 months ago
GM. What do you think about these Cashu shirts?
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erik 8 months ago
We came, we saw, we vibe coded Cashu into Bitchat. image
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erik 8 months ago
Cashu is a perfect fit for chat apps. Today at Presidio Bitcoin for Bitcoin Design Week we’re running a vibe coding session. I’ll be showing a Cashu wallet I vibe coded straight into Bitchat with CDK and we’ll do some collaborative vibe coding together. If you're in SF, join us. image