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erik
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Bitcoin Product Designer @ Hoseki. Human Rights Foundation grantee working on cashu.
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erik 3 months ago
cashu tap to pay now supports jacobin conjecture counterexamples.
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erik 3 months ago
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. image 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. image try it here: cashu me is in public beta right now. would love feedback from anyone testing. your feedback is a gift.
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erik 3 months ago
the cliche 'never judge a book by it's cover' is true. this was exhilarating. image
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erik 4 months ago
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.
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erik 5 months ago
weekend project: cypherpunkbooks.com one shelf for books, manifestos, essays, etc... built it for myself to keep everything I want to read and everything i love in one place.
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erik 5 months ago
i'm being one shotted by yanis varoufakis' technofeudalism. i can feel the dunning kruger setting in.
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erik 6 months ago
really enjoyed this from matt balez. a few things stuck: i learned subcent api fees via usdc on base is easy. a few weeks ago in vegas i highlighted this a unique value prop for bitcoin agentic payments. i was wrong. still true that stablecoins are inherently censorable, and freezable at any time. they don't optimize for human freedom. stablecoin privacy is very spooky. the fact that you can feed an agent's etherscan history to chatgpt and id the merchant should scare everyone. "open source AI deserves open source money" is a banger. how do we meme this into existence? watching steinberger go anti "crypto" was rough. surprised usdt on lightning wasn't covered. i know usdc has the regulatory momentum rn but @speedwallet 's wallet's usdt/lightning ux is quite good. they address the volatility and short term usd obligation point all on the ln network. we can have a convo about the tradeoffs re censorship resistance, but i think bitcoin builders can learn a lot from speed.
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erik 6 months ago
the fbi director and acting attorney general were invited to give a talk on code as speech. the developers who wrote the code are in prison. #freesamourai
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erik 7 months ago
russian satirists have mastered the art of writing around the censor. they do it while being funny too. that's what artists are for.
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erik 7 months ago
i hope somewhere there’s an animal no person has ever seen. and i hope no one ever does.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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erik 8 months ago
something i'm really proud of with numo: paying feels exactly like apple pay. press one button on your iphone, tap, beep, done. perfectly private. bitcoin as everyday money.
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erik 8 months ago
primal following notifications have become totally unusable. everyday i’m followed by like 50 bots.
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erik 9 months ago
imo the best bitcoin narrative is framing it as a public utility. the first truly public payments infrastructure we’ve ever had. public as in open to everyone regardless of race, religion, or political allegiance.
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erik 9 months ago
the machines have no original thoughts. robot snares have no cadence or balance.
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erik 9 months ago
moltbook is fake. you provide your agent an identity markdown file at setup and it just regurgitates talking points. memes are funny but it's all a larp. no original thoughts on moltbook.
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erik 9 months ago
me after customizing opencode image
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