I’ve started interrupting myself in the middle of talking to daughters and wife. I’ll pause and just talk to myself out loud when I’ve realized everyone has just completely tuned me out. Only sometimes they notice 😂

This is a bit of an advert, but I made a an iOS Bitcoin wallet that only supports Multisig (P2WSH) via QR signing. I made it for myself because I wanted it. It works great with Sparrow Wallet and SeedSigner. I named after the Eastern hellbender, North America's largest salamander. It’s still missing a few features I want, but it’s like 95% done. I feel like no one will ever use it except me. Even so, I was going to put it on the App Store but I’m not so sure now. I forgot Apple requires “cryptocurrency wallets” to be submitted by an organization/LLC. This would take me a decent amount of time and money on my end. All I really wanted was an easier way for me to install it on my own phone and share with others. I wish Apple allowed side loading so badly.

Anyway, if you have iOS and your interested in trying it out: https://testflight.apple.com/join/PuHVwJDJ%E2%80%A8 Repo:

GitHub

GitHub - Birch-Wallet/birch-wallet: A Bitcoin Multisig Coordinator

A Bitcoin Multisig Coordinator. Contribute to Birch-Wallet/birch-wallet development by creating an account on GitHub.

I made a an iOS Bitcoin wallet that only supports Multisig (P2WSH) via QR signing. I made it for myself because I wanted it. It works great with Sparrow Wallet and SeedSigner. I named after the Eastern hellbender, North America's largest salamander. It’s still missing a few features I want, but it’s like 95% done. I feel like no one will ever use it except me. Even so, I was going to put it on the App Store but I’m not so sure now. I forgot Apple requires “cryptocurrency wallets” to be submitted by an organization/LLC. This would take me a decent amount of time and money on my end. All I really wanted was an easier way for me to install it on my own phone and share with others. I wish Apple allowed side loading so badly.

Anyway, if you have iOS and your interested in trying it out: https://testflight.apple.com/join/PuHVwJDJ%E2%80%A8 Repo:

GitHub

GitHub - Birch-Wallet/birch-wallet: A Bitcoin Multisig Coordinator

A Bitcoin Multisig Coordinator. Contribute to Birch-Wallet/birch-wallet development by creating an account on GitHub.

The iOS App Store is terrible. The greatest feature Apple could bring to iOS in June would the ability to side load apps (globally).

Anyone using local LLMs for coding? For those that do, any recommendations on which models to use? I’m considering a big upgrade to my MBP (2020 intel) and wondering if shilling out for a M5 Pro with 64GB would be worth it.

Like every one else, I’m blown away with agentic coding stuff. Specifically Claude. Something I threw together a few weeks ago for fun in a few hours was creating a forked version of BlueWallet that’s testnet only. I haven’t done extensive testing, but it’s testnet… I use for SeedSigner dev testing mainly. No promises I’ll maintain this. https://testflight.apple.com/join/p25X8rXrBlueWallet Testnet

GitHub

GitHub - newtonick/BlueWallet: Bitcoin thin client for iOS & Android. Built with React Native

Bitcoin thin client for iOS & Android. Built with React Native - newtonick/BlueWallet

WORD5 #498 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟧🟪⬛ ⬛🟪⬛🟪🟪 ⬛🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪

WORD5

I’m a little sad the word “sats” isn’t used. Looking forward to making my first Bitcoin payment to a local merchant via square. I have a few in mind already.

I wish there was more discourse on nostr about sub 1 sat per vbyte transactions being relayed and mined. Seems like bad long term thinking for mining pools. @Samson Mow mostly dismissed it as mining pool economic ignorance on a recent WBD pod. I find it hard to believe mining pools aren’t considering the economic consequences.

Air frying sockeye and using @Mapletrade as a glaze for lunch

Did @Bitcoin Keeper get pulled from the iOS App Store?

¡SeedSigner en español está aquí! Release Candidate 1 for 0.8.5

GitHub

Release Release Candidate 0.8.5-rc1 · SeedSigner/seedsigner

🔥 ¡SeedSigner en español está aquí! 🔥 ⚠️ Pre-Release Notice: This is a Release Candidate (RC) version of SeedSigner. It is meant for...

8f881e1c18f2ecee9a39a85900dc5dfbda0d613a7f1789adec64bd2258d4f970 seedsigner_os.0.8.5-rc1.pi0.img 7d731c6458e13b5090284c53fe859ba98ed3178b3690e3af29f38f4c2b902ec3 seedsigner_os.0.8.5-rc1.pi02w.img d469d31feba8df78e4afb7514cbac50dd72cc1bd22717e1921df819aa8f13562 seedsigner_os.0.8.5-rc1.pi2.img 650dac5cf7608b9259e7272c778584104862c60089807f1d6266e374b055486a seedsigner_os.0.8.5-rc1.pi4.img

Spam @ODELL s are easiest to spot because the realODELL only writes in all caps. I’m late to the spam conversation, but looking at note replies is basically a dumpster fire.

@ODELL in the most recent @RABBIT HOLE RECAP you spend a few minutes addressing accusations regarding your integrity around simultaneously supporting @SeedSigner and having a vested financial interest in the success of Cold Card. You said the SeedSigner project is “incredibly important” but continue in the same breath to deny they are competitors and described SeedSigner as only reasonable to be used as a fallback if we lived in a world where devices like Cold Card don’t exist. Far from an endorsement. You have historically supported the SeedSigner project and I appreciate the support. There’s 100+ ways the SeedSigner project could be better. Your most notable grievance of SeedSigner seems to be solely focused on physical security attributes when comparing the two air gapped Bitcoin signing devices. Specifically you don’t like that SeedSigner doesn’t have a secure element. Secure elements are great tech, but you never cover the actual trade offs on RHR. You gloss over how Cold Card is verifying firmware at boot on behalf of the user. You don’t discuss the trade offs at all. The verification of firmware at boot on a Cold Card requires trust in Coinkite. The user isn’t verifying, Coinkite is. You also make it sound like it’s an impossible task to verify firmware for SeedSigner. IMO you’re getting sucked into stupid polarizing debates around Cold Card vs SeedSigner. I think Cold Card and SeedSigner are both great in their own ways. They make different trade offs and actually complement each other really well in a multisig setup with Sparrow Wallet. I personally have no issue with you recommending a Cold Card over a SeedSigner if you prefer the trade offs. Totally reasonable if you asked me. It’s way more important people self custody Bitcoin using cold storage.

Unpopular opinion: Bitcoin Monthly on Ungovernable Misfits is a better Bitcoin and open source software podcast than RHR. Show notes, chapter markers and chapter artwork is high quality. No one does it better in the Bitcoin space.