What's your go-to #Bitcoin wallet for day-to-day spending? What are its killer features for you? #asknostr

@Zapstore I'm trying to install #bitchat 1.6.0 and keeping getting an error, "App did not fully download." Happens repeatedly.

Credit where credit is due: #CoveWallet is slick. And offers key features needed for those who actually use #Bitcoin day-to-day: * hot and cold wallet support * beautiful UI * transaction exports * shows the transaction memo inline in the listing (small, crucial detail for making sense of transactions) We need more wallet developers (especially in #Monero) that obsess over #ux like this. ColdCard + Cove + #Cashu feels like a very sweet combo (though I’ve not tried Cove with a hardware wallet yet.)

What’s the cheapest path from on-chain #Bitcoin to a #cashu wallet?

@Cake Wallet I love Cake, but wondering: when can we expect to see support for transaction exports? The lack of this feature makes it borderline unusable for me for day-to-day use. (Manually capturing transactions in a spreadsheet is agonisingly painful. 😎)

Programmers have a saying: Don't Repeat Yourself. (Duplicate code is a maintenance burden.) But when it comes to spreading a message, here's a better version: Repeat Yourself. State your message, clearly and concisely. Over and over. When you think you've made your point loudly and clearly, make it again. Say it one way. Say it another way. If you're worried about sounding like a broken record, don't be. Spaced repetition isn't just a trick for learning languages or chess openings. It's a tool for amplifying your signal. Use it.

Also, resist the temptation to think that your users *should* care about #privacy and #freedom. A chef thinks that people should care about how food is made and where it comes from. A vegan thinks you should care about animal welfare. A doctor thinks you should care about eating healthier and exercising more. A (naive) programmer thinks that you should educate yourself more about technology. An environmental activist thinks you should focus on reducing consumption. A politician thinks you should get more involved in democracy. Our attention radius is limited. You can try to bonk people over the head convincing them to care about something they don't. Or you can tap into a problem they *do* care about and bundle the payload of your real mission alongside a solution so good they can't ignore it.

How to sell people on the value of #freedomtech? Sometimes the best way to win people to cause X is to win them to cause Y - which is a much more compelling cause to them - knowing that more people doing Y ultimately means more people doing X. For example, Jacob Lund Fisker created an amazing site and community called Early Retirement Extreme: https://earlyretirementextreme.com/ It offers a revolutionary approach to achieving financial independence early in life. It focuses on radical anti-consumerism and a Thoreau-like self-reliance. Many people followed his advice and retired in their 20s and 30s. But: Fisker openly acknowledged that his real motives were ecological. He just shrinkwrapped the push for lower consumption in the incentive of financial freedom, to appeal to a much wider audience. He embraced their self interest to further his own. So: For those seeking to attract users to their #private/#decentralised/#permissionless freedom tech app, maybe the killer feature for those who want what you're building is none of those things at all. Maybe it's something else your product offers that you aren't bigging up enough, such as: * Low fees * Low/no server/licensing costs * Speed of getting up and running * Beautiful UI * Similar to another product in that space - but blazing fast * Seamless integration with XYZ In fact, maybe the best way to win people over to freedom tech is to ship a thing that solves the user's problem so well that the fact that it *also* offers tremendous freedom/privacy/sovereignty benefits can be enjoyed without distracting from their focus on the problem at hand.

I love #Amethyst, but it seems really bad at completing usernames. Eg. When I type "@Kag..." it doesn't find Kagi, but #Damus does. Likewise in the search box. What am I doing wrong? Cc @Vitor Pamplona

@Kagi How is support for accepting #Monero coming along? #privacy

So many ways to contribute to #freedomtech without writing code: File a bug report. Zap a creator you like. That cool app you heard about on that freedom tech podcast? Install and run it. You add value by participating. Send feedback to the builders: What confused you? What's missing? What feature would make it more useful to you? Help others by documenting your experience (in a note, blog post, video, whatever). Answer questions. Accept freedom money for your product or service. Contact a merchant you like and ask if they'll do the same. Pick one proprietary thing you currently use and migrate to an open source alternative instead. Code is only one tiny piece of the puzzle. It's often just a crystallisation of the knowledge gained from one or more of the above. The question is not if you can be helpful, but how soon you'll get started. #privacy #permissionless #v4v #freedom

Ready and waiting to switch to @Fountain as soon as @Oscar Merry open sources it. Who's with me? 😎 #v4v #valueforvalue #asknostr #podcasts

@Zapstore Posting feedback here because I got an error trying to submit it as me in the app: It's not clear to me when it says "Gigi picked this app". What does it mean to "pick" an app? Is that why it's on the Zapstore? How is Gigi connected to my network? I often see only single messages like this, when surely others in my Nostr network recommend the app, etc. Might be worth figuring out how to better capture and surface that. Also, I'd like everywhere that I see Nostr usernames in the app, I can click through to their profile, otherwise these types of messages are even more opaque, IMHO. #zapstore

“Don’t worry, we won’t share your phone number with anyone.” Don’t worry, I won’t share my phone number with you. #grownostr #privacy

Another argument against #cashu for me used to be "ugh, it's just like reimplementing the banking system on #Bitcoin!" It's not. First, cashu offers extreme privacy guarantees. Possibly even better than #Monero. (Side note: I love Monero.) Second, it's #permissionless. Third, cashu bearer tokens can be passed as data, allowing all sorts of programmable money use cases. Banking will never be any of this.

I'm more impressed by #cashu than I expected. I used to be really turned off by the tradeoff of relying on custodial mints, but: I value the high speed, low fees, and privacy benefits. (The custodian themselves has zero visibility into your activity.) Offline-capable lightning addresses is absolutely killer. As is the ease with which you can make lightning payments from a cashu wallet like Minibits. The speed with which you can start accepting lightning payments through Nostr using npub.cash is insane. It makes a lot more sense when you think of cashu as a spending wallet. Indeed it should probably warn on larger amounts (maybe it already does.) Sure, you can get rugged and lose some pocket change. But as webs of trust grow - and surface - around mints, I don't see this being a major issue. So, we'll see how this goes. 😎 #bitcoin

@vexl 😎 I'm not convinced by your reasoning for requiring phone numbers. It seems to wholly undermine the no-KYC claim, regardless of what promises you make about who can and can't see it. (And requiring an anonymous SIM to preserve privacy is a hassle.) Have you considered, eg charging 5-10k sats or something, as an alternative to providing a phone number? #bitcoin #privacy

Any #NanoGPT users out there? Can I ask a favour? They're not yet on Nostr AFAICS. Please consider using their "Suggestions and bugs" to request that they join Nostr. I've run into an issue where not having them accessible here is making me consider @Maple AI or @PayPerQ. #ssknostr #grownostr #ai

To answer my own question: @Plebchain Radio. One of the most #cypherpunk podcasts I've listened to in a while. Highly recommended. View quoted note →

Finally tried @Zapstore for the first time today. Very cool. The way an app store should be: #permissionless Powered by your social graph. Supports making direct payments to developers, with zero fees taken by the app store. Some days (most days?) using Nostr feels like living 10-20 years in the future. #grownostr