Snowboarding with the family was fun, here’s a photo.
While I was out, a proposal for human-readable payment addresses came out. It’s been a really interesting conversation the past week. I spent some time today mocking up various ideas, visualizing what that experience might be look (and what it should not be like as well). Just ideas, we’ll see where things land.
We still have these UX exploration initiatives around silent payments, covenants and FROST. Would love to get hands-on with those as well and throw some ideas and concepts out there.
The day after I got back, we had a call about a new (non-)proposal for a satoshi symbol. That was also a really interesting conversation.
Mo is on a well-deserved vaca, so I handled the latest newsletter this time.
For the guide, the Stabilizing bitcoin value page is now live. A very complex topic, I’m glad we have an explainer for it now. Best practices for design would be great as well. I also finalized the draft for the contribute page, got some feedback, and created a pull request (preview) that is now open for the whole galaxy to review.
The community call this week as nice. We had along discussion about organizing another design track at hack-day for BTC Prague. Lots of interest, and with our experience from last year, we should be able to make something cool happen.
Design and implementation on several Bitcoin Core App things are moving. Nice to see wallet creation and import design taking shape, peer and nav implementation making progress, and also the Lottie animations and web prototype iterating. I spent a bunch of time updating the design docs and keeping the design file orderly.
Netlify complained that Nosta is going over the free limit. I enabled analytics to get a better idea of what is going on. The site got 190K page views and 8,200 unique visitors in the last 30 days. I have no clue if these numbers are good or bad in the bigger picture of the Nostr ecosystem, but I find them great and motivating. I have not taken time to work on it much the past weeks. I have the roadmap pretty much laid out, but time is scarce. I’ll try to set aside a small amount of time regularly to make step-by-step progress over time. Would love to see this service flourish, even just in a small way.
Have a good weekend. You’re the best.
Peace ✌️