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- Cryptographic prowess - Protocol navigation - Network engineering

Privacy

For me, something that is as non technical as possible - Beginner Guides for Bitcoin, Wallets, Nostr. I struggled to learn everyday, didn’t get a hard wallet for months. Maybe the resources are there, but I didn’t find them all.

1) privacy improvements (tor, i2p, silent payments, e-cash) 2) scaling (non-custodial ln node in phone that is a wallet and just works, Ark, e-cash) 3) bringing shitcoiners to btc (ordinals, runes etc)

best dlc-integrated application best ecash-integrated application best nostr-integrated application

I'm failing to zap you

i zapped you, but it doesn't seem to be showing up on the ui

best documentation/explainers - must include diagrams - see: anything elle mouton puts on her blog https://ellemouton.com/ best usability improvement - could be static addresses, fixing force closes, removing the need to run a server, etc. see: josibake silent payments, glozow TRUC transactions, calle cashu free-est freedom tech - biggest improvements in censorship resistance, trustlessness, decentralization, etc. see: bluematt & t-bast BIP353

From which wallet?

1- privacidad 2- Anticensura 3- Autosoberano

technical memeability

Knowledge Onboarding Promoting

1 core software - Satoshi 2 protocol - Satoshi 3 incentives - Satoshi

if you think incentives are not technical enough, then you're not an architect

1) Julius Caesar - Simple Cipher Key pair encryption - Merkle 2) Adam Back - POW hash cash 3) Nick Szabo - Timestamp chaining And... 4) Yoshi Itsuki from nostr:nprofile1qqsxugjjylrmak4hvhn5k2ddnqgvsereprgq9sdeunp3jhxa58dgafcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhskum55f for his work with Zen Kamera (a cover for the international encryption work he did in the 80s and 90s)

I THINK YOU HAVE TO GIVE AWARDS FOR PRIVACY, NETWORK EFFECT, INCENTIVE, AND MAYBE ALIGNMENT???

Sustainable Mining Award Strengthening Node Award Privacy Focused Development Award

Odell for his self custody recommendations, NVK for making the best damn hardware wallets out there, and Craig Raw for being a one man desktop wallet king.

my software is failing to zap you

my zap is failing

thanks. vipsats is not very reliable yet

outbound works like a breez

- onboarding and usability - mining decentralization - scalability

* "in the trenches": bitcoin core - gloria - that fuzzer guy I keep forgetting the name of, he's German - fanquake * "mad scientist": novel new protocol stuff - Robin Linus with BitVM - Rusty with The Great Script Restoration (maybe a misnomer but the generalized cost function idea is novel work) - Jonas Nick (with Veronika if I'm not mistaken) (et al?) with Shielded CSV - Josie Bake with Silent Payments * "user go up": getting stuff in the hands of users - Rust for bolt12 - Silent Payments could also fit here - Luke Childs of Umbrel Rough ideas, keep your sats 😅