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140 sats \ 3 replies \ @028559d218 2 Jun \ on: Mint your own Casascius style bitcoin with $1 NFC tags, new FOSS bitcoin project bitcoin

Gifting someone as a tip a coin or card with some bitcoin in my experience... Is like gifting someone from the 18th century the components to a shortwave radio, or gifting them pieces of wiring or copper or electronics hobbyist equipment. They don't really know what to do with it

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155 sats \ 2 replies \ @justh0dl OP 2 Jun

That was a partial motivation of making this app. One time I gifted someone an opendime and they lost it.

While I don't recommend backing up private keys for "true bearer tokens", you technically can and have the ability to. That way if someone loses the tag you can assist them with recovery. That's also why I call it a "semi-trusted" system.

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62 sats \ 1 reply \ @028559d218 2 Jun
One time I gifted someone an opendime and they lost it.

This is why I don't gift strangers bitcoin... Any bitcoin.

The other reason I don't have bitcoin 'tipping cards' is because I don't want to look like a weirdo / or get robbed (of what exactly?) By clueless weirdos just for saying the word bitcoin.

So weird situation all around honestly

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27 sats \ 0 replies \ @justh0dl OP 2 Jun

The app solves for that in a way if you'd like it to.There
are different "token modes"

One of them is called a "stealth token". So when minting, you put a password on the tag & basically make the NFC tag look like a generic NFC tag (ie a Door key tag, employee ID tag, or enter your own data/message) to any generic NFC reader apps like NFC tools.

But if you scan the tag with my app & enter the same password, you will reveal the "true identity" of the tag as a password protected Bitcoin bearer token tag.

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