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Shouldn't it be more desirable to come up with your own way (dice of various sides, coin flips, other) to pick one number in 2048. Just grab your own 11 or 23 numbers from the BIP-39 word list. You still need to calculate the 12th or 24th word which is a check sum. But it seems doing that (coming up with the 8 possible remaining words from the list of 2048 which can be used as the checksum word) may require less trust than making sure your dice rolls are actually used to generate the seed (as you point out). Then you can enter your 12 or 24 words into two different vendors hardware wallets (using the same derivation path) and confirm the first generated address is the same on both. Now you are confident your 12 or 24 words were in fact randomly generated, and the addresses being generated correspond to them as you expect they should.
I'd like to make a Nostr based Meetup.com alternative that is map based.
The general idea is you would travel a greater distance to attend an event you cared more about.
Someone would propose an idea for an event (could be a one-off event, or a recurring series more similar to a meetup group) in a general area, and you would respond by showing what area of the map you would consider attending said event.
The proposer of the event would receive back a heat map showing geographical areas that if the event were to happen there, how many people would be interested. The responding areas would need to have at least some overlap with the original proposer's area.
Once a sufficient number of people were interested, a private group message could be used to schedule the event among those interested.
For notifications, users would draw areas to indicate when they wanted to be alerted of new events containing certain keywords.
Perhaps I draw one shape to indicate an area I'd like to be alerted of any events containing the word SURFING, and another shape on the map to indicate the area I'd like to be alerted of any event that contains the word BITCOIN.
The thought is this method would both indicate relative interest (size of the shape on the map, and number of respondents) while also helping pick a location for events to be organized.
For privacy, you could be overly large with the areas you draw, and not center them around your home town. The general premise should still work.
It seems like a fun way to get people to gather over common interests.
What are the general privacy/security tradeoffs of using one of these travel eSIMs vs paying the higher international data rates for my domestic cell data provider? The answer is likely just use a VPN with both to be safe, but is there increased risk of the unknown (to me) cheap data provider trying to pull off a man in the middle attack compared to a generally known entity that is my domestic data provider?
Forked from bitchat it appears? Is it still compatible with bitchat? I.e would those using bitchat and sonar be able to see each other's messages?
Mindwtr is definitely geared for someone following the principles of GTD, but, almost all of that functionality can be turned off in settings. For example, under settings --> GTD --> editor layout, mark the following from 'shown' to 'hidden': status, project, project section, area, contexts, due date, recurrence, start date, review date, tags, priority, energy level, time estimate, assigned to, description, attachments, checklist, location. You'd be left with just task titles. Or leave on a few, such as description and due date if you wish. If you ever decide to give GTD a try, definitely worth circling back to it with that mindset as it's an awesome GTD focused app.
I haven't seen the docs for it yet, but I can explain how I hope it will work. If you already have a coldcard and have it backed up in a manor you're happy with from a security standpoint, this allows you to type notes into the Coldcard Q, and export them in an encrypted format that can be decrypted on any Coldcard Q that is running the same seedwoods/passphrase. Some perks of this would be
- Make a separate passphrase just for the following purpose. Leave some notes that would only be recovered if you passed away (a dead man's switch of sorts). Break the seed phrase into pieces with SeedXOR and give the pieces to friends/family. Leave them instructions on how to use a coldcard to recover a seed if/when you were to pass away. Then the M of N of them could combine their pieces, and read all the notes you've left to them. Instructions for how to get into your different accounts. Passwords for various things. Any other information you want passed along. The thought being, if you were alive, it would be unlikely M of your friends and family would collude against you (without you getting wind of it) to decrypt your post-death message to them.
The encrypted exported notes are not a security risk, so you can store them anywhere. That way wherever you are; you could always buy a fresh coldcard, recover your seedwords, and decrypt your secrets on an offline device.
You get redundant storage of secrets without them ever existing in plain text form on an internet connected device.
I should add, I'm aware seedXOR is M of M and not M of N. But if you print out multiple copies of each seed, you can pseudo create a M of N scenario, or something similar (with redundancy, or even giving some family members heavier weights).
Mullvad was the only service I'd use shitcoins to pay for because it would let you buy any length of time (20 minutes for a coffee shop, 3 days at an Airbnb). I used this many times to demonstrate how quick and cheap it was to buy some vpn time to friends/family and set them up with mullvad. It's weird to me now that they accept lightning directly, the minimum time you can top up with is a month. They're missing out on all the referrals from these demos, as multiple of these friends still use mullvad from those bitcoin cash demos.
Thanks for sharing. Habo looks interesting, but yea, not what I was looking for.
Mindwtr is an implementation of GTD (Getting Things Done). So quick inbox capture, then you process tasks into projects/next actions later. Based around the idea that your brain is good at having ideas, but not as good at keeping/organizing lots of ideas simultaneously. Get them out of your mind so you can focus on the task at hand. If you're confident they're stored and organized, and that they'll return when they need to, you can truly forget about them for the time being and free your mind to focus on the tasks that deserve your immediate attention.
I'd love to find a video of the what she clicked (I.e where she went back to, and what the menu looked like) so I could use it to show other square merchants where they might find the same option.
Nag your preferred Nostr client to support CLINK or be left behind
I assume this is the best place to link said clients to as part of that nag:
And that Zeus will show up in the 'comparable apps and projects' section soon?
For the BIP list, number of mentions (on the Bitcoin-dev mailing list, SN, Nostr, etc.) all time, or number of mentions in the last 60 days, would be a great way to sort the BIP list to see which drafts are getting the more attention. NIP mentions on nostr would also be a great way to sort that list as well.
Fantastic. Asking a merchant "Hey, I see you use square. I heard Bitcoin was added to all square terminals. Any chance you can check to see if Bitcoin shows up on the page after you click checkout?" is a specific enough request that I'd be open to asking as long as there wasn't a line at checkout. Will start giving it a shot.
The picture in the photo is what I see each time at businesses that accept square. Is the employee selecting "credit card" from a list before they flip the terminal to me and I see this screen? Do I need to ask them to go back a screen and select bitcoin instead? I'm just looking for a more specific instruction from someone who has done it (if possible)
Can anyone share where the employee is to look in between these two steps:
"Can you check please? All the square terminals are accepting Bitcoin now."
"OK... Actually we do take that I see that."
I'd be more inclined to ask if I felt more knowledgeable of what they should be looking for.
Also, what do I expect to see differently if they succeed compared to the square screen I normally see which is the one below? An extra button that says bitcoin somewhere on it?
I'm hoping at some point to find a walkthrough of what the screens look like when paying in bitcoin at a cash terminal. Complete with button presses on the seller's side, as well as button presses on the buyers side. Haven't been able to find this so far. Seeing that first would make me far more comfortable asking other square businesses once I know what I'm looking to see.
Seems it would be a lot better for hardware wallet vendors to have this 24th word picker on the hardware wallets as a feature. If you were going to end up putting the words into a hardware wallet anyway, might as well have it calculate the 24th word for you.