yeah i know think integrating cashu into signal is a really bad idea, no one should build this. you’ve totally changed my mind on this. thank you.

what’s your suggestion for how signal could integrate bitcoin with the same privacy guarantees and ease of use?

the name of the game is ship as much great design as possible and remain allergic to fame.

💯 . it has to make sense.

been reflecting on the bitcoin for signal campaign. i want to share why we designed it in the way we did. a lot of bitcoin projects try to get people to come to them. 'latest layer 2/ecash/ark/lightning/spark/liquid!' 'simple wallet!' 'frictionless onboarding!' i think that's not always the best approach. instead of promoting a new app or asking people to meet us, we should try to meet people where they already are and then make the case for bitcoin. millions already use signal everyday so why ask them to go somewhere else for private payments? bring bitcoin to them instead. i want to see more projects try to integrate bitcoin where people already hangout. cashapp nailed this imo. they didn't build a bitcoin app and ask people to come. they integrated bitcoin into a space that people already use to send $ to friends. try to follow that playbook.

bitcoin has been around for 16 years now which means there's a generation of designers who've been working through the core design and engineering tradeoffs for over a decade at this point. what excites me is that we're hitting this moment where there's a new generation who grew up using the tools we build. they didn't have to unlearn traditional finance ux or how money should work on the internet. crypto was always just a thing for them to use. the type of kids i think of are the ones from junseth's world. they met on minecraft and learned bitcoin early. figured out self custody, coinjoining, sim swapping, etc...there's other kids with that same native fluency pointed in a different direction. https://soundcloud.com/junsethsworld/episode-74-interview-with-a-social-engineering-hacker the stuff we build today shapes how the next gen of product designers will think. they will face problems we haven't even discovered yet. the choices we make now become the foundation for this next generation. let's do our best so they inherit better starting points.

a life spent building private electronic cash is not a life wasted.

can humans be like the demiurge?

If we succeed in building AGI, humans become demiurges and the gnostics might turn out to have been cooking all along

i like how this shader reveal and hover effect is turning out.

good job young men.

i want to speak to satoshi nakamoto and tell him i’m doing the best i can, but there’s simply so much to do.

minibits has shipped. one of the best cashu wallets is now on ios.

what do you think?