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331 sats \ 1 reply \ @joko 29 Oct 2022
Incredible UI/UX - will try this one out thoroughly
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51 sats \ 0 replies \ @joko 29 Oct 2022
aaaand it stopped working lol.
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376 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bashy 30 Oct 2022 freebie
Is that open source ?
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bashy 30 Oct 2022
i've just found out
https://github.com/synonymdev/bitkit
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230 sats \ 3 replies \ @timechain 29 Oct 2022
Yep, just saw this, it looks huge.
"Bitkit is Lightning-compatible and leverages Synonym’s Slashtags protocol. Slashtags is a system that uses Bitcoin cryptographic seeds to create portable web profiles (that can be used across multiple platforms), automatically updated contacts, contact payment preferences and authentication without a password."
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/10/29/bitcoin-software-company-synonym-launches-bitkit-a-bitcon-wallet-powered-by-slashtags-protocol/
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53 sats \ 2 replies \ @go 29 Oct 2022
"Unfortunately, Bitkit cannot provide automatic Lightning connections to residents of the United States (yet)."
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @rijndael 29 Oct 2022
ah. I was wondering. I remember when blocktank launched, you couldn't use it from the US (I think that's still the case). It's open source, but for the official instance of it, its no-US. Was wondering if they solved that for BitKit yet
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @go 29 Oct 2022
I remember Carvalho at some point saying on twitter he wouldn't hire anyone from the US because he wanted to avoid the regulatory baggage that would come with that. There's more there than I can see
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230 sats \ 2 replies \ @go 29 Oct 2022
The first oracle (?) for the bitcoin news feed inside BitKit is showing stackernews.com @intensethomas
@k00b have you had any touchpoints with this? I notice the BitKit won't do your LN Auth function
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194 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 29 Oct 2022
I talked to John about it and excited to interop how we can.
I bricked on doing lnauth fallback to slashtag though. Still plan on doing it.
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475 sats \ 0 replies \ @starbuilder 31 Oct 2022
we did it at https://auth.starbackr.com let me know for help. the QR code format should be like this. slashauth:fb9wh8k6ymmiiiicq8r7uxpwcjooepgput5em5jax4tdm453sppy?q=kakTroq8qxWtX4ztAACp&lightning=lnurl1dp68gurn8ghj7ct4w35zuum5v9exyctrddezumt99amrztmvde6hymrpw46xstmpw46xs0m5v9nn6mr0va5kufntxy7k2e34xqexxdpk8y6r2efcvenxxc34vgmr2cesvcenqefexccnycmr8p3kzce5v5mr2cmx8qmnzdmyx56kgdf5xsungv3ev93njdfhxunxjepaddskk4rjdacnsutc2a69sdr6w3q5zsmsdsr70w
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202 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lumor 29 Oct 2022
When APK?
Latest release on Github is from 2020 (at time of writing): https://github.com/synonymdev/bitkit
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58 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lumor 29 Oct 2022
Ah, got it through Aurora Store.
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202 sats \ 3 replies \ @thrown 29 Oct 2022
Really cool step forward! It reminds me of Ethereum wallet apps that basically have browsers inside them and integrate with Metamask. It’s cool that Bitcoin has this now.
As-is, it’s really unclear about privacy implications of all of the stuff in there. There’s little guidance in terms or why you’d want to use one method over another etc.
I appreciate that it tries to guide people into sensible defaults, but it is all very opaque as of now. That is good because it is “grandma friendly”, but what is not grandma-friendly is doxxing herself and her friend accidentally with a permanent on chain transaction.
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111 sats \ 2 replies \ @timechain 29 Oct 2022
I wanted to say that as far as Bitcoin wallets with browsers:
Bluewallet has a built in browser for "Lapps" (Dapps but with lightning) kinda like what Alby does, but on mobile. Links to some LN gaming (gambling), Polofeed (the OG lightning/meatspace use case), and microlancer (microtask job board, mostly similar to sats4likes), etc.
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @thrown 29 Oct 2022
You know, I sort of wrote that app off because some of their stuff is custodial. Maybe time to dig back into what they’ve been up to
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2 sats \ 0 replies \ @timechain 30 Oct 2022
Yeah, i think they started out that way (at least the LN part,) but you can connect your LN node to it these days. Also, I like using their "watch only" wallet for my cold storage.
I will say i feel like the browser and "marketplace" hasnt gotten much work on it lately, I think they have been doing more with connecting to nodes, connecting to electrum, coldcard, and multisig stuff. Their desktop wallet is pretty good too.
Theres a BTCSessions tutorial on doing a Bluewallet mobile multisig, and another one connecting bluewallet to an umbrel.
But check out this page, where they list how (suprisingly) interesting this wallet is: (Payjoin, coin control, RBF, CPFP, etc...)
https://bluewallet.io/features/
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31 sats \ 2 replies \ @0330830bf9 29 Oct 2022
A war chest of shitcoin funding they launch a less useful knock-off of LNURL-Auth...
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @super_testnet 30 Oct 2022
Slashtags has portable profile data, lnurl-auth doesn't. That's a pretty neat feature. E.g. instead of signing in with lnurl auth and then typing in your username and email and uploading a pic, slashtags can autofill that stuff for you since it stores that data on your device and has an API for presenting it selectively to a server.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0330830bf9 31 Oct 2022
This seems like a very contrived usecase and distinct from Auth.
Any password manager users generally default to offers to enter such information automatically, so what are we automating with this p2p theater?
Those same password managers could enter a nostr key for brevity, if we absolutely must decentralize storage of such metadata.
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13 sats \ 0 replies \ @Arvydas77 29 Oct 2022 freebie
Going to try it for sure!
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @KingZing 30 Oct 2022
Very cool, waiting on more widget
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1 sat \ 3 replies \ @SHORT_TSLA 30 Oct 2022
It's looking like an on-chain only wallet for me. Is that because I'm in the US?
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @go 30 Oct 2022
Yeah, there's a message for US residents that the lightning function isn't there yet
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SHORT_TSLA 30 Oct 2022
There goes a huge chunk of their market.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DeezSats 30 Oct 2022
That just means you are not cloaking your IP address. Imo a really bad idea anyways.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitdov 30 Oct 2022
Nice! Looking forward to testing it
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