#106 Napoleon's UTXOs
Like water.
I spent a decent amount of time with Bitcoin Core App this week. Goal was to help push the design for send and receive along, something we’ve been in discovery on for a few weeks. Here’s a video on the receive flow (prototype).
And one for a matching send flow (prototype).
And an exploration of how we could visualize a transaction. Sparrow has something like this and everyone really likes a more visual view.
The design crew seems to like this latest iteration of send & receive so we’ll try to flesh it out more to see if it really holds up (especially with all that layered complexity in sending).
We had our second reading club session for the Open Design Guide. The group was OK with recording this time, if you’d like to peek in. I found it super productive and interesting again. I started a PR for implementing feedback, but that will need some more work to be in good shape.
The new home page for Saving Satoshi I mentioned last week is now live on the dev site. Was a bit intricate to ensure it looks good on across many different screen aspect ratios. Here’s a graph I put together to identify the required breakpoints and respective images.
The bitcoin script editor has also come together really nicely (try it out on dev here and here). The dev gang really poured a lot of love into this.
Something fun I tested out were the new audio summaries (fake podcasts) of Google’s NotebookLM. Here’s an example for the Open Design Guide. It’s really nice to throw some document in there and get a lightweight ~10 minute audio version to listen to. Even if it’s not 100% accurate, it’s close enough and can provide a gently intro to complex information.
Lots of conversations and planning this week as well. I am helping Bitshala organize their design fellowship program and trying to rally mentors, projects and Summer of Bitcoin students around it. Fingers crossed it all pans out.
We’re also trying to lay some tracks for the second year of the Bitcoin Design Foundation. Nearing the end of year one now, we have certainly gotten a decent feel for operational requirements and all that. Things have gone well, I’d say, but we still have some areas that really need improvement - especially if we want to step things up. So there are conversations with various people around operations budgets, application process, education funding, legal structures, etc.
I also managed to push out some changes to Nosta that I think I had on my to-do list since beginning of the year and tinkered on here and there with long breaks in between. You can now follow and unfollow people on the site. What a breakthrough innovation. While pushing that out, I realized (again) some of the fragile bits of Nostr. Various relays I had baked in as defaults have since quietly disappeared. Other relays often don’t consistently connect. Smoothly paving that over in the UI is not so simple. Growing pains, I suppose.
And as always, shout-out and thank you to all the awesome people chipping in on all these initiatives and making this ecosystem not just work, but also fun and fascinating. Stay magical.
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