Making a user jump through 20 hoops to get to a service , diminishes the number of users to the point that every hoop costs you exponentially more users.
In Bitcoin and lightning, nostr they don't seem to get that.
I needed +50 clicks and other actions to do a simple thing that could be done in 3 clicks in telegram
Keychat group.
'GBGO' (Get Bitcoin & Get Out)
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Trying to build a new group here, if you don't have keychat.io yet, you should get it.
Bip39tool.com
Is updated (the other tools are in the link in the footer)
With all the hardware wallets being promoted, I can only say that you'll probably only need this when you either handle a lot of btc (or other) for or as a business , or you're a shitcoiner that needs to sign a lot of smart contracts all day.
Most bitcoiners don't need such devices imho.
Popes are a shitcoin.
They 'elect' one if them every so many years, and their average age is already in their 70s at time of election, it's more like a subscription at this point.
So ...
The yearly cost of maintaining the Vatican and papacy is approximately $1.25 billion. The average number of popes elected per year over the last 300 years is 0.072 (one pope every ~13.89 years). The cost per Pope’s lifespan, representing the total cost during their average reign, is approximately $17.36 billion (range: $16.21–18.58 billion). This assumes the entire Vatican budget is attributed to each pope’s reign of ~13.89 years.
This is the bear market of Bitcoin communities.
gm
First rough version (layout still needs to be done) of the 'get your seed' wizard is online.
Available in both Dutch and English.
Bitcoin Wallet Setup Wizard for Newbies
'8 rack' , a seed generator offline and open source, fair distributed entropy based and with a protection against side channel attacks.
The 'Say Le Clock'... Hear a waterdrop every new block, hear a quote ever 3 blocks, set background music if you like.
Say-Le-clock | Bitcoin Live Counter with Sound
Does anyone have a tip for an easy to use, minimals style addon for chrome and/or firefox in order to zap people from a lighting wallet in combination with primal net?
(Not Alby, I get the creeps from their UX and way of working).
GM (holiday nightlife)
Any WM41 watchers still awake here? 😉
Introducing "8rack": User-friendly seed generation with three 96-card decks.
8rack is a unique tool for generating secure, human-readable results from entropy, using a custom deck with 8 suits and 12 ranks, ensuring a fair random selection of BIP-39 seed words (432 possibilities) plus checksum.
Unlike other card-pick tools, it uses three shuffled 96-card decks for equal word selection probability. Open-source, fast, and secure, it works online and offline with fair result distribution.
Learn more within the tool. If you value my work, consider the tip jar at the bottom.
They say bitcoin has no yield.
...
You're looking at it.
Local meetups should have this unwritten rule that anyone showing up there should be on Yzer.io and have leve3 or up.
So you know they at least have knowledge of the very basics and have spent some time on education.
Everyone who talks about long time preference but doesn't even get to spend an hour getting the basics can actually pack and go imho.
(of course, that won't solve all problems, but it will surely be some small form of hurdle for the absolute bottom feeders that only show up to promote their unrelated business, snoop some votes for a local political party or get some info out of people for whatever reason and then disappear. (or don't know anything about bitcoin but crave attention)
If a club with nice things inside has no bouncer, and no internal 'eyes', you'll get problems.
If Bitcoin communities don't have any form of vetting, you'll be internally corrupted.
Let's start by having local meetups have a 'linimal' sort if vetting.
Havibg the Yzer.io app at level 3 at minimum should be a good start
And maybe, having people who claim to be 'years in bitcoin' deliver some form of proof that they're not just BS'ing to het attention.
Just some ideas I already floated around from a while back ,when I critizised some meetups with 'grifter' types.
I still haven't found a good integrated wallet thing to zap people with.
None of them work smooth and in combination with my other loaded apps.
Has alby made any progress lately that people know off?
If a free service I put online would randomly ask for a 2000 sats invoice to be paid at intervals (every 10 uses or so), would you be annoyed as hell or would you now and then pay that tipjar?
Riddle me this:
40+ billion dollars in bitcoin in a few big hands
40+ companies and initiatives all scraping to get a few people paid to make cool stuff to help the community and let bitcoin thrive.
If you accept a CBDC as payment, you're also going to love living in a 15 minute city gulag.
Anyone know a European company that can print / create playing card-sized cards in bulk?
I'm creating something and I think it's time to make it into a physical thing 😉
