top UX struggle w/ primal right now for me: if someone tags me on a note and it goes viral i have no way of not getting notifications on that and it basically makes my personal notifications unfollowable for a while until that note dies down

doing an AMA on stacker news for the next hour! feel free to ask silly things

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I'm Hong, cofounder/CTO of Bitwise. AMA! \ stacker news

Hi everyone, I'm Hong, cofounder/CTO of Bitwise. I'm doing an AMA here for the next hour. For those not familiar with Bitwise, we're mostly known f...

update: coinbase custody now supports sending to taproot (bech32m) addresses! not rolled out to the retail coinbase app yet but soon. once coinbase graduates from this list then it's really just binance we need to get onboard? (source: whentaproot.org)

look, ppl should self custody their bitcoin BUT if your normie friend is about to buy these ETFs anyways, please consider pointing them to bitwise (ticker: BITB) notable features: - lowest fee amongst the four billion plus AUM products (20 bps) - 10% of profits donation to devs (via opensats, brink, hrf) - public transparency (only one to publish holding addresses) - we care (do you see anyone else on nostr?) [BITB disclosures & prospectus: bitbetf.com/welcome]

ppl shit on the bay area (and sf) all the time but the cryptography-forward anti-authoritarian resistance (cypherpunk movement) originated in berkeley/oakland. i’m always proud of that heritage. ny/la/miami could never.

bitcoin-backed ecash is free banking by the people

ecash (both cashu and fedimint) is by far what i’m most excited about flying back from bitcoin atlantis chaumium ecash failed in the 80s bc we tried to build it on top of fiat and tradfi banks. on top of bitcoin and lightning it has the potential to absolutely crush scaling bitcoin payments and user privacy View quoted note →

no book has captured the full origins of bitcoin better than ‘the genesis book’ by aaron van wirdum

speaking at the open source stage at 3pm about institutional adoption of bitcoin if you’re around!

nostr in three words: signed notes relayed

just arrived at the bitcoin atlantis venue (was jet lagged in the morning) dm me if you want to meet up! (esp if we discussed meeting up before)