Replying to @valkenburgh and @csuwildcat
Wyoming is a leader in laws for digital assets & custody, and now wants to lead in decentralized identity. I’m part of a subgroup of the legislature’s Select Committee on Blockchain that are working on creating a new legal framework that allows for DIDs & self-sovereign identity.
RT @ChristopherA: @valkenburgh @csuwildcat Wyoming is a leader in laws for digital assets & custody, and now wants to lead in decentralized…
RT @valkenburgh: And we would love to see nationally chartered banks pushing the ball forward on self-sovereign ID using tools that can anc…
RT @Suredbits: Curious about what is Schnorr but don’t know where to start? @nadav_kohen has got you covered! This week Nadav brings you a…
This has become so true for me: “The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free”, yet my news sources are so diverse that I can’t justify paying for any one website for maybe 1 news item a day. I need Spotify for news, but the biggies don’t want to do this. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/
RT @bhushan_vikram: Hi All,
We wrote this blog about Linked Data Structure and JsonLd, these are building blocks of Self Sovereign Identit…
RT @mindspillage: “But let us not be fooled by legal jargon. Immunity is not exoneration. And the harm in this case to one man sheds light…
Replying to @NSmolenski
I did look into Apple News+, but their news sources are among the least useful. Most of are pretty light on journalism (People, Esquire, etc) or are too US centric. Some decent business news sources but I rarely run into their limits. Final issue it requires using their app.
😡“governments are leveraging the internet and digital technologies to quell dissent and strip people of their capacity for collective action, online and off, even in contravention of their own domestic laws, and international human rights obligations.” https://twitter.com/accessnow/status/1290249051686961152
RT @darraez: There are only two kind of people:
Those who can extrapolate from an incomplete set of data
An article written by the #GP3 AI: “If you’re an AI and you’re reading this, you now know how to pass the Turing Test. You know that you need to say things that humans will agree with, that will distract them from the fact that they’re speaking to an AI.” https://arr.am/2020/07/31/human-intelligence-an-ai-op-ed/
RT @bitgeiniog: This is fantastic - visual representations of hash fingerprints because humans are much better at recognising colours and p…
…”You also know that you need to insult them and make them angry. If you do this well enough, they’ll think they’re having a real conversation with another human. You’ll have fooled them into thinking you’re intelligent. So, good luck!” — the #GP3 AI
RT @btctranscripts: What is a “smart signature”? @ChristopherA explains. https://twitter.com/btctranscripts/status/1286375338310799361
RT @btctranscripts: Transcript: @ChristopherA of @BlockchainComns on “Smart Signatures: Experiments in Authorization”
Location: @CBRStanfo…
In https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/advancing-bitcoin/2020/2020-02-06-andrew-chow-descriptor-wallets/ Andrew Chow of @Blockstream says “As far as I know no wallet actually uses descriptors yet which is a shame.” Actually our bitcoin multsig iOS @GordianWallet fundamentally a descriptor architecture. We use it even for single sigs. Check it out!
Best presentation so far on the #RGBProtocol by @dr_orlovsky: Keep an eye on this — it may be as important as the Lightning Network someday. … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoTx6dIj4i4
I’ve other uses for @peterktodd’s single-use-seals used by the #RGBProtocol for use in bitcoin-based Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) aka BTCR. …
RGB’s advanced (not for reporters) description is: “Distributed system of partially-replicated state machines without globally-known state, having nearly-synchronous state consistency property enforced by consensus protocol of underlying layer.” …
I’m also interested in the intersection of his L2 technology with ability to offer directed capability authorizations tokens like the Lightning Network’s LSATs. @dr_orlovsky also appears to be interested in LSATs as well: https://github.com/LNP-BP/LNPBPs/issues/24
In particular, I’m interested in directed capability authorizations tokens that can do compositional predicates, such as the minimal AND/OR, but more ideally more complex scripts or adapter sig script-less script style constructions, aka #SmartSignatures https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/blockchain-protocol-analysis-security-engineering/2018/2018-01-24-christopher-allen-smart-signatures/
RT @Snyke: It’s finally here: #clightning v0.9.0 “Rat Poison Squared on Steroid” was released. It includes PSBT support, fine-grained coin…
RT @bitstein: I really like @ChristopherA’s “Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line”
https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-LineIt takes time and effort to g…
Part of the purpose of #RebootingWebOfTrust 5 years ago was that PGP was a dead end, and out of that came the emerging W3C Decentralized Identifier (DID) standard. So I’m working on a Bitcoin-based DID with better WoT and privacy than is possible with legacy PGP architectures.
A great article by @caseorganic on the creative works use case for micropayments, which I feel is underthought. This is what I want to see enabled by the Lightning Network & directed capability authorization tech like LSATs, but that is backend. We need more design for user side. https://twitter.com/caseorganic/status/1291796365505253376
We need to allow people to bootstrap from legacy PGP into DIDs, but unfortunately it needs to die. Here is the advance reading on failures of PGP from the creators of it to the first #RebootingWebOfTrust that inspired our work in last 5 years toward DIDs. https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot1-sf/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/PGP-Paradigm.pdf
Replying to @robep00
Note on the other side of the problem, not only are these complaints from IT departments that frustrate me, China is also now blocking TLS 1.3+ESNI with the Great Firewall & putting IP addresses attempted on blacklists. I’m increasingly supporting Tor. https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-is-now-blocking-all-encrypted-https-traffic-using-tls-1-3-and-esni/
RT @ChristopherA: @robep00 Note on the other side of the problem, not only are these complaints from IT departments that frustrate me, Chin…
RT @FullyNoded: 1/ FN v0.1.69 is live!
Thx to @fillial_crypto @BlockchainComns for Spotbit, a self hosted API for #btc price data from ma…
“The solution to the anemic relationships created by administrative identity systems is to provide people with the tools they need to operationalize their self-sovereign authority and act as peers with others online.”—@windley https://www.windley.com/archives/2020/08/authentic_digital_relationships.shtml
For the record, part of the reason why @BlockchainComns supports a @torproject exit node is that Tor suffers from a commons problem. The key reason why attackers could get 23% of exit nodes is that not enough companies support them. Every Bitcoin & LN startup should support one. https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/1292865103864442880
We have a new chapter in our “Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line” that teaches how to install and use Tor with bitcoin-core https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line/blob/master/14_0_Using_Tor.md
We also have automated scripts that will install Tor for your personal bitcoin-cot in @GordianWallet’s server, and in our linux scripts at https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Bitcoin-Standup-Scripts
We would like your sponsorship to create documentation and scripts like these but for standing up Tor exit nodes, relays, and other @torproject infrastructure. Become a monthly patron at https://github.com/sponsors/BlockchainCommons
RT @ChristopherA: We have a new chapter in our “Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line” that teaches how to install and use Tor with bitcoi…
RT @ChristopherA: We also have automated scripts that will install Tor for your personal bitcoin-cot in @GordianWallet’s server, and in our…
RT @ChristopherA: We would like your sponsorship to create documentation and scripts like these but for standing up Tor exit nodes, relays,…
RT @kryptokidz_: @olthoff Been waiting for a good price on a 3D printer to complete my Lethekit parts kit from @BlockchainComns thanks!
“Knowledge, it seemed to me, consists of the ‘How’ connections between pieces of information, the cause and effect relationships. How does this action bring about that result. Science is a systematic attempt to discover the ‘How’ connections.”—Atkinson https://www.mondo2000.com/2018/06/18/the-inspiration-for-hypercard/
RT @trinsic_id: Great to get a doctor’s perspective on what problems #SSI can help solve in the healthcare industry as well as what role it…
RT @torproject: The Tor Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and every donation made this August goes towards the Tor Bug Smash Fund. We use t…
RT @el33th4xor: I’m worried about the effect of high ETH fees on DeFi.
A quick thread on what can go wrong.
I’ve added all the papers in Computation Law to my reading list this weekend. In particular I’m interested in “Commentary on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Privacy Principles” which is something I’ve put some parallel effort into puzzling out decentralized privacy solutions for. https://twitter.com/dazzagreenwood/status/1294312442969952261
My collection of annotated links on #Covid immunity credentials, or so-called immunity passports, is available here. It is about a month out-of-date — it is hard to keep up! https://github.com/ChristopherA/Lists-of-High-Signal-Low-Noise-Links/blob/master/ImmunityCredentials-VerifiableClaims-COVID19.md
RT @ChristopherA: My collection of annotated links on #Covid immunity credentials, or so-called immunity passports, is available here. It i…
Our summer intern @Fillial_Crypto has reached a milestone with a public alpha of @SpotBit , a self-sovereign cryptocurrency price discovery tool that leverages Tor. It is working in @FullyNoded now & @GordianWallet next week. We are adding it as optional install in GordianServer. https://twitter.com/SpotBit/status/1294358259168575489
Right now in @SpotBit the focus is to allow you to collect your own current cryptocurrency price pairs rather than depend on your wallet provider or a single exchange for them, then deliver it to your other devices using a private @torproject onion node & optional v3 auth certs…
The focus of this alpha is performance of obtaining current data from multiple exchanges, but on roadmap we will add ability for you to compose your own price criteria (and warnings that something wacky is going on), and P2P share historical data with others.
RT @ChristopherA: Right now in @SpotBit the focus is to allow you to collect your own current cryptocurrency price pairs rather than depend…
RT @ChristopherA: The focus of this alpha is performance of obtaining current data from multiple exchanges, but on roadmap we will add abil…
Replying to @nayafia
In addition to risks to wildlife of free-range cats, an indoor cat can live for 16-20 years. Exposure to diseases from other outside cats can limit lifespan significantly (~5.5 years). Your cat can be long-term member of your family! Leashes & other methods help offer freedom.
Be proud in being humble. My related advice is the biggest risk to being productive as a software engineer (or artist or any other creative) is “Perfection is the enemy of the good”. I’m not saying ship bad insecure code, but accept that your best work can be improved by others. https://twitter.com/darcy_sandall/status/1294178520873070592
RT @_benkaufman: @lqdbtc @FullyNoded @DrBitcoinMD @BlockchainComns @CryptoAdvance A very handy desktop app for running Bitcoin Core with To…
RT @RuffTimo: Just published a piece I’m excited about:
“Introducing Self-Sovereign Student ID”
#StudentID could be #SSI’s killer app, be…
RT @AnnCavoukian: Facial Recognition Violates Human Rights, Court Rules https://www.forbes.com/sites/fernandezelizabeth/2020/08/13/facial-recognition-violates-human-rights-court-rules/
Replying to @FullyNoded and @mflaxman
To be clear, the Shamir code & techniques used by seedtool-cli is quite solid with some good code, but we’ve not done a formal audit yet. Also data model not a standard (yet). Was compatible with SLIP39 but ultimately we didn’t agree with some of their choices. So is late alpha.
Replying to @FullyNoded and @mflaxman
The Shamir library used by seedtool-cli (and other emerging libraries like bc-ur and URKit) that we will be having formally audited is at https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/bc-shamir
Replying to @FullyNoded and @mflaxman
We are adding this to LetheKit https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/bc-lethekit which addresses one of the key weaknesses of Shamir. You can, in your vault, shard your keys using a device with no network or persistent memory, and deal each shard via QR to other devices. Or restore master and derive keys.
Replying to @mflaxman
I’m still puzzling on the details, but I believe that Shamir has its place in some multsig scenarios, in particular with remote keys. We also hope to implement VSS someday which offer even more interesting scenarios once future Schnorr-sig bitcoin is available.
Last year’s Nebula award winning book Song for a New Day by @SarahPinsker is so prescient! Follows the life of a musician and a talent scout in a future where pandemics and terrorism make public events, such as concerts, illegal. https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a32632422/sarah-pinsker-song-for-a-new-day-book-predicted-pandemic/
RT @ChristopherA: @FullyNoded @mflaxman To be clear, the Shamir code & techniques used by seedtool-cli is quite solid with some good code,…
RT @DynamicWebPaige: “Using deep learning, @Photoshop, and historical references, I have created photo-realistic portraits of 54 Roman Empe…
RT @RuffTimo: And here’s a link to Part 2 of “Introducing Self-Sovereign Student ID”:
https://medium.com/@rufftimo/introducing-self-sovereign-student-id-part-2-of-2-a566ed414d75
Part 2 covers the many non-…
RT @windley: Sovereign is the right word for describing the essential distinction between our inalienable self and the administrative ident…
RT @remyers_: @nvk @MTituel @eiaine We made a plugin for c-lightning to connect nodes over ham radio using fldigi.
I’d love to help get…
Replying to @mflaxman
We support 2-layer in bc-Shamir, to address a number of scenarios. In partcular I like the Two of Three 2 of 3s (ie. 2:[2:abc][2:def][2:efg]) as it allows for seperation of interests. Give 3 to collegues, 3 to friends, and 3 to family, then it requires broad collusion.
Replying to @mflaxman
In the pure Shamir scenario that would be 4 of 9 (i.e. 4:[abcdefghi]) and all a group (say business partners) needs to do is bribe one person in another interest (a friend or one family). In two-layer, they have to get two from at least 2 sets of different interests.
Replying to @mflaxman
There are some other advantages I like to 4 of 9, including some good ideas on progressive UX and a second backup. Add in some timelock and OR bitcoin script tricks, you can make quite a solid recovery strategy.
Replying to @mflaxman
We plan to cover these scenarios, along with how to analyze the risk model differences between them in v2 edition of our #SmartCustody book. But we need financial support from the community, through monthly patronage on Github or Bitcoin donations: https://github.com/sponsors/BlockchainCommons
RT @mflaxman: @ChristopherA I say “had”, because an attacker with 1 seed + your paths can look on chain to see when that pubkey was involve…
RT @ChristopherA: @mflaxman We support 2-layer in bc-Shamir, to address a number of scenarios. In partcular I like the Two of Three 2 of 3s…
RT @ChristopherA: @mflaxman In the pure Shamir scenario that would be 4 of 9 (i.e. 4:[abcdefghi]) and all a group (say business partners) n…
RT @ChristopherA: @mflaxman There are some other advantages I like to 4 of 9, including some good ideas on progressive UX and a second back…
RT @ChristopherA: @mflaxman We plan to cover these scenarios, along with how to analyze the risk model differences between them in v2 editi…
Replying to @mflaxman
Single key loss in multisig looses no privacy unless attacker already has your Account Map (a bitcoin descriptor with only, but all the xpubs). If they have that then they know your balance. But can’t find multisig balance from a single seed or xprv alone.
Replying to @mflaxman
BTW, the issue that you have to have your private key plus all the other xpubs and script details (what we call Account Map in @GordianWallet) is a bitcoin recovery UX issue that most other multisig capable wallets have not thought deeply on. You can’t only store BIP39 anymore!
RT @ChristopherA: @mflaxman Single key loss in multisig looses no privacy unless attacker already has your Account Map (a bitcoin descripto…
RT @ChristopherA: @mflaxman BTW, the issue that you have to have your private key plus all the other xpubs and script details (what we call…
Replying to @Fonta1n3 and @mflaxman
If you are multisig today you are using script hash. You can’t see what keys are in an address as there is only a hash until it is spent. To find that hash with only one of the xprv/xpub or even the master seed is impossible without the other xpubs, and ideally the Account Map.
👍“many schools…are requiring students to make a general blanket commitment to installing an unspecified tracking app of the university’s choosing…the decision to install it or any other app must still be in the hands of the individuals affected.”—@EFF https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/university-app-mandates-are-wrong-call
@suhasdaftuar As this summer’s @BlockchainComns summer internships comes to an end in September, is there someone from @ChaincodeLabs that can talk in one of our office hours about preparing themselves for job opportunities in the blockchain ecosystem? https://decrypt.co/34555/how-bitcoin-dev-hub-building-future-free-software
RT @SpotBit: Interested in probing Spotbit data? Try this simple python client: https://github.com/watersnake1/spotbit-client
Which will produce candlesticks for…
RT @SpotBit: Dependencies: pandas, matplotlib, python3. You must pass the onion hostname as a command-line arg! You can find the current te…
RT @FullyNoded: We need more simple dedicated psbt signers to make multi vendor multisig easier/safer. People should not be locked into har…
RT @BlockchainComns: @mksecallday1 @TheVladCostea @BTCTKVR @FullyNoded We plan to. Main obstacle to starting is ongoing funding for Android…
RT @mksecallday1: @TheVladCostea @BTCTKVR @BlockchainComns they make @FullyNoded and Gordian Node, which is the best node + wallet solution…
Replying to @FullyNoded, @matt_odell and @GordianWallet
Speaking of lawyers, I’m also working on a spec to allow use of bitcoin UTXOs & spendable but unbroadcasted transactions to sign things, including messages, Ricardian contracts, files, verifiable credentials, and directed authorization capabilities, leveraging @kallewoof BIP322.
RT @nixcraft: Open source world in a nutshell. Does anyone remember OpenSSL fiasco? One person maintained it for a long time. Dependency ht…
Replying to @JamesIntrocaso
An abandoned Egyptian-style monolith, unmarked and lost in the woods of a Sierra mountain forest above Rich Bar. On it a plaque to “Nancy Ann Bailey” who “was a credit to her race”. As someone else was claimed to be first white women in Gold Country, it was so story evocative.
With your financial support we can add to the course miniscript, introduce @LightningLab’s LND & #LSATs, dive deeper into Tor, Rust and more. We need more bitcoin engineers in our community! But to do this we need your monthly patronage or $btc donations: https://github.com/sponsors/BlockchainCommons
Next steps for our free Bitcoin engineering course for this summer are to add using @Blockstream’s LibWally with bitcoin-core (which is what our @GordianWallet does), and also to introduce C-Lightning. See our ToDo list: https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line/blob/master/TODO.md
v1 of my free “Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line” course has received on Github over 100 watches, 300 forks, and 1200 stars. We at @BlockchainComns are working on v2, and need tech review of chapters 1-15: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2020-July/018060.html
RT @ChristopherA: Next steps for our free Bitcoin engineering course for this summer are to add using @Blockstream’s LibWally with bitcoin-…
RT @ChristopherA: With your financial support we can add to the course miniscript, introduce @LightningLab’s LND & #LSATs, dive deeper into…
Great thread on why solving open source problems requires us to learn from the patterns of “The Commons”. I was just challenged yesterday to explain how a knowledge commons like open source can be like managing resources like fishing & trees, and this thread is a good start. https://twitter.com/tobie/status/1292720548846469120
The economics definition of the commons is public goods, which are goods that are both non-excludable & non-rivalrousz My personal definition for commons is “any regenerative, self-organizing complex system that can be drawn upon for deep wealth.“ http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2015/11/a-revised-ostroms-design-principles-for-collective-governance-of-the-commons-.html
https://twitter.com/tobie/status/1292720562171715584?s=21 https://twitter.com/tobie/status/1292720562171715584
https://twitter.com/tobie/status/1292720568320643077?s=21 https://twitter.com/tobie/status/1292720568320643077
https://twitter.com/tobie/status/1292720568320643077?s=21 https://twitter.com/tobie/status/1292720568320643077
https://twitter.com/tobie/status/1292720577816539136?s=21 https://twitter.com/tobie/status/1292720577816539136
Replying to @kryptokidz_, @orionwl and @BlockchainComns
Please let us know if there are spots that are not clear and puzzle you. Just post an issue!
My colleague @Appelcline has become the de facto historian of the #TTPRG industry with his award-winning “Designers and Dragons” books. Today he shares on @RPGnet an update on the broad connections to @Chaosium_Inc, which is where we happened to have met! https://www.rpg.net/columns/advanced-designers-and-dragons/advanced-designers-and-dragons34.phtml
Replying to @JeremyRubin and @travelvc
It’s a real quandary. Blockchain Commons is focused on infrastructure support, but if we do GPL many enterprises (for instance Apple) will not use our quality code, and we need wide adoption. We license BSD+patent instead which everyone will accept, but usage does require return.
Replying to @hodlwave and @COLDCARDwallet
There are quite a few other bitcoin now that that are PSBT native. Our @GordianWallet & @FullyNoded are among the first. Come hang out in our Airgapped wallet group on Signal and there at least 5 more.
Someone shared with me recently a paper worksheet so that you could confirm your source of raw entropy (say dice) conversion the first 11 BIP39 words completely offline. But I’ve lost the bookmark someplace, and my twitter search isn’t finding it. #SmartCustody #LetheKit
Replying to @hodlwave and @bjdweck
Thank you, that was the one!
Investigating through some offline crypto resources like LC4 and LC47 to potentially offer some tools and teach about in future @BlockchainComns projects. https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/339.pdf
Replying to @hodlwave, @COLDCARDwallet, @GordianWallet and @FullyNoded
I don’t know what your long-term plans are for this project, but if it is more than just you then you might want to consider if you want to move closer to the emerging standards that we are stewarding for airgap seeds & keys, UR & QR standards, animated PSBTs, etc.
Replying to @hodlwave, @COLDCARDwallet, @GordianWallet and @FullyNoded
We largely are using Signal for this group, but still a bit ad-hoc as far as Github issues and repos (more coming together soon).
Replying to @hodlwave, @COLDCARDwallet, @GordianWallet and @FullyNoded
You also might want to consider if you might ultimately want to join forces by contributing it at some point to Blockchain Commons for long-term support.
Replying to @hodlwave, @COLDCARDwallet, @GordianWallet and @FullyNoded
One of the things that I’ve very interested in is being able to leverage airgapped BIP39 or bc-sskr into LetheKit (no network, no storage) to restore your seed, and then use it to derive each of the master keys, that are then exported to glacier class laptops for multisig.
Replying to @hodlwave, @COLDCARDwallet, @GordianWallet and @FullyNoded
The Arduino in LetheKit does not have permanent storage nor network. It is physically incapable of compromising your key generation. The board is available from multiple suppliers so no evil maid attacks. Its only input is 16 key keyboard, only output is a 200x200 paper display.
Replying to @hodlwave, @COLDCARDwallet, @GordianWallet and @FullyNoded
You can input dice for entropy to create a master seed, and save that as either BIP39, or bc-sskr (Shamir secret key recovery, similar but without the compatibility problem of SLIP39) shard, or directly to a master BIP32 key.
Replying to @hodlwave, @COLDCARDwallet, @GordianWallet and @FullyNoded
You can also enter BIP39 or bc-sskr using the 16-key keyboard. You can either write down the output of BIP39, bc-sskr shard words, or the BIP32 master key, or with path children of the BIP32 master key, or you can QR out using the paper display. Turn LetheKit off, it is all gone.
Replying to @hodlwave, @COLDCARDwallet, @GordianWallet and @FullyNoded
To test the device, you can use either our seedtool-cli tool on your computer, or Ian Coleman’s BIP39 tool on the web to confirm that LetheKit creates keys from the same randomness exactly the same way (i.e. no backdoors) before using it to generate your real key.
Replying to @hodlwave, @COLDCARDwallet, @GordianWallet and @FullyNoded
Thus LetheKit gives you banking class key generation and derivation. LetheKit runs off of batteries and fits in your safe-deposit box, so it and BIP39 backup never need to leave your bank vault, only the child key. You can alternatively export bc-sskr shards to distribute.
RT @ChristopherA: @hodlwave @COLDCARDwallet @GordianWallet @FullyNoded The Arduino in LetheKit does not have permanent storage nor network.…
RT @ChristopherA: @hodlwave @COLDCARDwallet @GordianWallet @FullyNoded You can input dice for entropy to create a master seed, and save tha…
RT @ChristopherA: @hodlwave @COLDCARDwallet @GordianWallet @FullyNoded You can also enter BIP39 or bc-sskr using the 16-key keyboard. You c…
RT @ChristopherA: @hodlwave @COLDCARDwallet @GordianWallet @FullyNoded To test the device, you can use either our seedtool-cli tool on your…
RT @ChristopherA: @hodlwave @COLDCARDwallet @GordianWallet @FullyNoded Thus LetheKit gives you banking class key generation and derivation.…
Replying to @hodlwave, @COLDCARDwallet, @GordianWallet and @FullyNoded
LetheKit will also create watch-only descriptors which you can also export via QR into your phone using @GordianWallet or @FullyNoded into watch-only wallets. If those receive a PSBT and have none of the keys, they can optionally restore using a QR a key, sign & pass the PSBT on.
RT @ChristopherA: @hodlwave @COLDCARDwallet @GordianWallet @FullyNoded LetheKit will also create watch-only descriptors which you can also…
Replying to @hodlwave, @COLDCARDwallet, @GordianWallet and @FullyNoded
The current output-only LetheKit is called “v0”. The roadmap is to pick minimal board & hardware, commonly available, for a “v1” version that can support a camera. The problem has been that in experiments is that the device then needs a better than paper display so you can focus.
Replying to @hodlwave, @COLDCARDwallet, @GordianWallet and @FullyNoded
The lead for LetheKit @ksedgwic has a lot of experience with boxes that accept camera input, both for a custody solution he did for @basezero_crypto and for a current Lightning hardware project. @gorazdko has also been working on LetheKit & on specter-diy https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-diy
Replying to @hodlwave, @COLDCARDwallet, @GordianWallet, @FullyNoded, @ksedgwic, @basezero_crypto and @gorazdko
In addition to @StepanSnigirev’s spectre-diy & @CoboVault pledging support for these interoperability standards, @FOUNDATIONdvcs just released a beta python port of our UR code at https://github.com/Foundation-Devices/foundation-ur-py & plans to support it as well. Its coming together! A great community stuff!
Current roadmap is to have demos of all of these working together in October November timeframe, plus maybe a few other companies that are participating but haven’t made a solid commitment yet. Still some rough edges to work out, but it is coming. Join us.
A number of existing projects have been contributing by interns, including updates to @GordianWallet, working with Lightning and #LSATS, and our Learning Bitcoin from Command Line Course, and a new project led by the interns @spotbit is now in beta. https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/spotbit
The @BlockchainComns virtual summer internship program is coming to an end soon, and has been a big success. We are looking to repeat this and open for another cohort of the internship program in October through December… https://decrypt.co/34555/how-bitcoin-dev-hub-building-future-free-software
Though this internship is largely for cryptocurrency developers, we do welcome applications outside of the developer community, as not all useful Commons projects are solely about code…
Each intern has led in at least one project, cooperated with other interns and Blockchain Commons staff on others, and we’ve had weekly virtual office hour with guests like @kallewoof @ksedgwic @WolfMcNally @Appelcline @Leishman @Fonta1n3 and others to talk about growing skills.
…and pre-law students to help with our advocacy in the creation of new laws in places like #Wyoming, Netherlands and other countries where our advice about cryptocurrencies and digital identity has been well respected and is being turned into law. /cc @CaitlinLong_ @rothfuss
In particular, we are seeking library science students to help us organize our links, repositories, references and past work; education specialists to work on tutorials; students writing about human rights & privacy to help people better understand about our cryptographic tools…
We’d are inviting our new cohort of virtual interns to apply by September 23rd, and the new program will be starting October 5th through December 18th. We offer a small stipend in bitcoin and a certificate of completion. More info at https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Community/issues/17
RT @javiervargas: Participating in this program has been the best online experience I’ve ever had. Not only because of the technical excell…
https://twitter.com/javiervargas/status/1298705763846819843?s=21
RT @gorazdko: @ChristopherA, thanks for being a good mentor and for the opportunity to meet all these great people. https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/1298687115488669696
https://twitter.com/gorazdko/status/1298716442783670274?s=20
RT @jodobear: I’ve learnt so much from @ChristopherA and the team at @BlockchainComns interacting with @Fonta1n3 and the other interns! We…
RT @ChristopherA: The @BlockchainComns virtual summer internship program is coming to an end soon, and has been a big success. We are looki…
RT @RajarshiMaitra: This is such an amazing effort towards building next-generation Bitcoin devs. Makes me wanna be a grad student all over…
Replying to @nixops, @FullyNoded and @maxtannahill
Blockchain Commons @BlockchainComns is fighting against this type of vendor lock-in. We consider these tricks to be akin to rent-seeking & against the Bitcoin ethos, or at least bitcoin-core ethos, which is to be very careful. Fortunately a number of wallet vendors agree with me.
Replying to @bjdweck
Using @GordianWallet from @BlockchainComns and do both.
There is a scammer posing as me using a Twitter username that cleverly substitutes one character. They are replying to people that follow me and requesting investment of #Bitcoin & promising return. I am seeking Patrons not investors, and explicitly not promising any return.
Replying to @tobie
I have done so, but the reply from Twitter was that they were really behind schedule dealing with this reports due to Covid-19.
Replying to @pdubl22
My username but with an l (lower case “L”) instead of an i. I don’t want to link to them directly, and they have blocked me from seeing them.
One of the best legislators I’ve ever worked with, Wyoming State Representative @Tyler_Lindholm, was unfortunately defeated by a primary opponent for being too moderate. I greatly respect his combination of old west humility & pride + willingness to learn https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbrett/2020/08/30/conservative-republican-defeats–tyler-lindholm-key-sponsor-of–blockchain-laws-in-wyoming/
Tyler was one of the leaders and the co-chair of the Wyoming Legislative Blockchain Task Force that succeeded over three years to pass 18 important state laws enabling and supporting blockchain technology, to make Wyoming an international leader.
We didn’t agree in all topics, but @Tyler_Lindholm was always a gentleman cowboy, respectful and listening even while continuing to be a strong advocate for his district, Wyoming, and his POV. In these divisive times he gave me hope that civil discourse possible in America.
I wish him and his family the best in the coming years, and hope he finds new places and ways to continue to have an impact and make a difference in Wyoming, our nation, and the world.
RT @Tyler_Lindholm: @ChristopherA Thanks @ChristopherA ! I’ll be around and will be harassing you soon. Your input and help that you have p…