A book like the one I wrote (Bitcoin Hands On) is the way I would have loved to be able to learn about Bitcoin, at the beginning of my journey. That's for technical/self-custody part, anyway. It has (without much detail, until you need it) a set of step-by-step exercises in setting up wallets, backing up, restoring, sending and receiving, etc.

For the "Why Bitcoin" aspect of things, The Bitcoin Standard by Saifadean Ammous was amazing. That sent me down the rabbit hole.

Mine is all dice. I think the way the worksheet is laid out makes the entropy generation easy to understand.

Generating seed phrase from dice - an easy, understandable method

Here's the first page, the instructions are after the seed words. Feedback is welcome.

https://m.stacker.news/154072

Dang. That's pretty hard core!

Here's another way to do it - https://pleaseinconvenienceme.com. It's an app I wrote, to make it more difficult (not with hard blocks or limits, but with friction/inconvenience) to make you do a chore before doomscrolling.

What happens is that the calculation in your head changes. Yes, you get the dopamine from the doomscrolling. But then also you have to do a boring task like typing some random characters, a math problem, etc - every X minutes.

Free for 7 days, then by for $15. Also completely free if you use the open source version (https://pleaseinconvenienceme.com/opensource.html)

I just developed this dice-roll-to-seed-phrase pdf, with the help of Claude.

Generating seed phrase from dice - an easy, understandable method

The back and forth development process with Claude was really zen-like.

Especially with a very targeted project like this, so goal-driven (make the absolute most straightforward, easiest to understand method of generating a seed phrase from dice rolls) it feels like an arrow shooting towards the target, in slow motion.

When the back and forth with Claude takes a little too long, I take a break and do a little bit of a paper sudoku. It's what works best for me - definitely don't want to be going to news or social media.

Here's another way of generating your seed phrase via dice rolls - #1541955

It's good if you want to truly grasp, hands on, how the entropy is created via dice rolls. I designed it to be as understandable and transparent as possible.

My understanding is that it's JUST the seed generation that was flawed. I'd for sure double check though.

This is the method I've come up with, to generate a seed phrase - #1541955

Basically, rolling dice to pick seed phrase words, but in a way that's very easy to understand, and gives you a real feel for the entropy.

I'd love to hear what you think about this dice method (#1541955)

I created a straightforward dice-to-seed-phrase worksheet. I had a (non bitcoin savvy) friend check it out, and fixed a few UI issues that came up from that.

I, along with a lot of others, will be upping my security in the near future with dice. No more trust in entropy from hardware wallets!

bitcoinhandson.com/dice

I'd love to get some feedback on it, in terms of:

• is it easy to follow?
• any holes in the logic?

Here's the first page. The instructions and worksheet are at the end.

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Thanks. Let us know when your article is written!

If you do a little searching you'll find a method of testing dice for randomness. It involves letting them float in water, or something similar. Check it out...

What advice do you think Satoshi would give, for generating a wallet?

It's basically doing 4 dice rolls and 1 "coin toss" (using 1-2-3 and 4-5-6 from the dice to give 50/50 odds). That's why there has to be some blanks.

From the Notes section, on the Instructions page

Why are there blank ROLL AGAIN areas? Every single word needs to have the same chance of getting picked. The 5 rolls lead to 2592 different possible combinations (roll 5 only picks left or right), more than the 2048 words. So 544 places are blank.

The one I originally looked at (diceseed) did the "coin toss" at the beginning. This gives you fewer pages to look at, but to me it also made the whole thing kind of muddled and confusing.

I should have said this in the first post, but the idea for doing the dice rolls like this came from a post on the SeedSigner telegram group (which, btw, is outstanding).

Somebody uploaded a pdf called diceseed.pdf (originally from https://en.bitcoin.se/diceseed, but looks like the site has changed). I thought it was very promising, but majorly flawed. So I and came up with this idea, which I believe makes the whole process of entropy generation VERY understandable.

You all were talking about dice rolls - thoughts?

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I created what is hopefully a straightforward dice-to-seed-phrase worksheet. Check it out.

http://bitcoinhandson.com/dice

I'd love to get some feedback on it, in terms

- is it easy to follow?
- any holes in the logic?

Here's the first page (instructions and worksheet at the end).