Nice beard.

https://arke.cash/

New Arké version is up on TestFlight, with a roughly estimated 1,000,000,000 improvements to the Send flow. Goal is that you can throw all your bitcoin/ark addresses, lightning invoices/offers/addresses, BIP-21s and BIP-353 in all kinds of combinations at it, and it will try to make sense of it all and present whatever comes out on the other end in a simple way. Quite intricate. It's a good iteration, with some more to come. Definitely feels like the most intricate part of the app.

"Beyond the GUI: It's Time for a Conversational User Interface" from 2013. https://www.wired.com/2013/03/conversational-user-interface "Why conversational design is the future" from 2016. https://medium.com/intercom-inside/why-conversational-design-is-the-future-2c05f65aa68e Will AI make it happen this time?

Chuck Norris’s public key was his private key. Nobody dared to use it. RIP

Arké looks, feels, and works differently than other wallets. Wouldn't be much of a contribution to the ecosystem if it was like all the other ones. Some experiments will work and some will fail. But if we want more people to use this stuff, we need to try things.

Some interesting research by Anthropic on what people want from AI, and whether they are getting it. https://www.anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews

Considering writing an Arké case study for the Bitcoin Design Guide. Here's a first issue to invite conversation. https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Guide/issues/1220

This looks great. I'll investigate Passkey Login for Arké as well.

First Arké push notification ever! The text obviously needs work, but very cool that it works now (this was an intimidating piece of code for me to work on). The bark mailbox system makes this very convenient to implement (those Second people seem to know what they are doing). Privacy-wise, this requires a relay to connect the app, Ark server and Apple push notification servers. The relay can connect your device ID, mailbox ID, and incoming Ark payment VTXOs. Don't like it, don't turn on notifications. I'll have to see how I can only store the least amount of data possible, since I really don't care to know what people do. The only interesting thing to know maybe would be a simple counter that tracks how many payments were made. That would at least give some broad insight into activity.

Nosta uses Umami. You need some basic insights, and there are privacy-respecting options out there. The dashboard is public: https://cloud.umami.is/share/Jmc84OrAe0BFvHB8

From yesterdays Plan B Masterclass, one of the key ideas about user experience. At the start, no-one knows about your product. Then they hear about it and an initial idea forms. Maybe they get interested and learn a little more. If it sounds good, they give it a try, etc. You can imagine a person at each of these steps. Who are they, what do they know at this point, and what is the most useful information for them? You an apply this at a product level or a feature level, and for different types of users, and is a really useful mental framework. Also covered in the Bitcoin Design Guide: https://bitcoin.design/guide/designing-products/usage-life-cycle/