That actually makes a lot of sense, thank you. My Jade doesn't have a microSD slot, so I'll have to look into enabling animated QR on both sides next time. Good to know, and good to hear USB wasn't the wrong call either.

That's a fair correction, thank you very much. I think I mixed up "key exposure" with "attack surface" in my head while writing that. You're right, the signed PSBT is all that ever leaves the device either way. Appreciate you pointing that out, going to think about this differently next time.

Update from yesterday. I tried the other laptop first. Better camera, I thought. This should fix it. Still nothing. Tried again. Adjusted the angle, the lighting, the distance. A few more attempts after that. At one point the QR code actually scanned. Small win. Then Sparrow threw an error anyway, for a reason I still don't fully understand. I don't know what was actually wrong. Not the device, not the software, not entirely sure. I just know I'd been sitting there long enough that staying fully air-gapped stopped being worth the time it was costing me. So I stopped trying to be a purist about it. USB it is. Something about that decision felt anticlimactic after all the internal debate. No dramatic trade-off in the end, no compromise I had to live with. Just USB, doing exactly what it was designed to do, without ever exposing the signing key itself. I read that part twice before I let myself relax about it. The connection method changes. The thing that actually matters, the key never leaving the device unsigned, does not. Then I did the part I've been building up to since April last year. Sent a transfer from the exchange. Watched it land in Sparrow, watched Sparrow talk to the Jade. No confirmation prompt showed up on the device itself, and for a second that worried me. Turns out that's expected. Receiving doesn't touch the private key at all. The Jade only wakes up for that when I'm the one sending something out, not when something comes in. Small relief, learning that the quiet way. It's sitting there right now. Unconfirmed. Still moving through the mempool, waiting for a block. I don't think I've ever refreshed a screen so many times over something with a status that plainly says nothing has changed yet. But it doesn't feel like waiting for bad news. It feels like watching something finally leave one system and enter another. One I actually control now. Two years of DCA. Months of reading about this exact moment. A sealed box that sat on my desk for days because I wasn't ready to open it. All of it led to a small unconfirmed transaction sitting quietly in a mempool right now, doing exactly what it's supposed to do. I'll update once it confirms. Though honestly, the hard part already happened. This is just Bitcoin doing its job. 🟠 #Bitcoin #SelfCustody #Nostr #TheKeys #Medicine

There was a session on the main stage about using Bitcoin for disaster relief. The speaker leads a Bitcoin community in Aceh, and years ago, when flooding hit the region, they raised donations using Bitcoin directly. No banks. No delays. No cut taken along the way. I listened to the whole talk, but what stayed with me most was the conversation we had afterward, just the two of us. I told him about NTT. About the earthquake. About standing there just days before it hit. About wanting to help but not knowing yet what that actually looks like. He explained it clearly. How donations moved faster than anything routed through traditional channels. How transparency mattered just as much as speed, people could see exactly where funds went. How the hardest part was never the technology. It was building enough trust, beforehand, that people believed in the process. I left that conversation with a much clearer picture, honestly. Though now I'm thinking through the practical side. Who actually holds the wallet. Who posts the updates. How to keep it transparent without losing the privacy I've kept here for over a year. I have someone in mind already, someone I trust in NTT who's been distributing aid there for a while. He doesn't know much about Bitcoin yet. Maybe that's the next thing I teach, slowly, one step at a time. And in the meantime, I'll continue to help in any way I can now. 🟠 #Bitcoin #NTT #Aceh #Indonesia #Nostr