With Pi Zero 1.3 units beginning to re-appear, I've made some updates to our Hardware page for DIY builders. 🧡 seedsigner.com/hardware/

Full page feature article from my in-laws small town Illinois newspaper -- the world is seeing you El Salvador!

I get that people have reservations about @nayibbukele but damn, you have to be doing some things right for this sort of thing to be happening.

Full bitcoin + lightning integration.

Interesting take:

I am quite wealthy now. 🙂 I started buying in early 2013, and remember even buying some coins in the $60s that summer. And indeed I sold all of it, in *early* 2017 for a ~20x cumulative return. Those returns allowed my wife and I to fully pay off our mortgage, which paved the way for me to retire from a stressful job investigating crimes against children to be a stay at home dad with our three kids. People from average means like me aren't usually mentally equipped for the multiples that an "early" investment like bitcoin could provide, but the time with my children has been *invaluable*, and my weak hands moment also ultimately facilitated the creation of this FOSS project that has helped a lot of people get more comfortable with storing their bitcoin for the long term. I am indeed quite wealthy, despite my 2017 lettuce hands. 🙂

Good perspective from @LynAldenContact on Nostr:

Sponsoring my daughter's softball team? Was totally worth every sat...

Mind-blowing.

If this is what it takes to "10x to the next level", f-that. Banks becoming the primary custodians of bitcoin takes us back to all of the rehypothication, derivatives, and over-financialized bullshit that has brought us to where we are today.

Back from Nashville, and after a little reflection, I need to reiterate a message I frequently put out there: kill your heroes. Most of the people talking about the moon, laser eyes, power law, get on zero, digital energy, strategic national reserve, etc. etc., or who are telling you to buy this device or use that service are **buying and selling your attention to make themselves richer** -- they generally do not have your best interests at heart. Think for yourself and don't fall for marketing. Educate yourself about bitcoin, discuss it with people you respect, think critically about the risks, and then, if it makes sense to you, make a sensible investment in it with reasonable expectations, while keeping your larger financial situation and your personal priorities in perspective. I am a believer in bitcoin in spite of, not because of, all of the wild assertions, influencers and aggressive social marketing out there, and it has taken me 11 years to get to where I am. Be careful our there anon, don't buy the hype.

After a 15 yr career as a local cop, I knew I wanted to do something for bitcoin but had no idea what someone w/ a bachelor's degree in English lit, a minor in philosophy, and a background in digital forensics might have to offer... Keep going -- bitcoin needs all of us!

When you criticize someone's model as unrealistic and they block you, that's a bad sign about their integrity.

The fact that this tweet was followed by accusations that I'd agreed to become a Blockstream shill or that or some other arrangement was behind it says some sad things about how the larger bitcoin ecosystem operates, or at the very least about how many people suspect it does. I've never met Samson in person & can count on one hand the number of DMs we've exchanged; this unprompted tweet came as a total surprise to me, and was a very pleasant one at that. Not a lot of people with large accounts tweet about the project because we don't offer a referral program, don't buy podcast ads, don't sponsor conferences, don't host happy hours, and don't appoint influencer "advisors" -- SeedSigner is just a useful tool, built collaboratively by a small community of volunteers and provided for free, and one that can be very useful to individual bitcoiners all over the world. Some people, like Samson, see the value in what we're doing and are willing to help spread the word, and I immensely appreciate that. Gatekeeping by for-profit corporations, while not entirely pervasive, is a real thing in the bitcoin ecosystem, so I will take all of the help I can get.

I wanted to think carefully and respectfully about how I responded. Snarkiness can feel good in the short term, but you can only win people's minds and hearts with logic and love.

At this point, I'm guessing that Coinbase is operating as some kind of price-suppression-as-a-service agent on behalf of one or more third parties. It's the only thing that makes sense -- it would take conscious effort to be as incompetent as they are, for as long as they have been.

Pompliano is shilling yield products again; like clockwork.

I'm a simple guy, when I see what looks like a legit Bitcoiner account with no followers, I follow them.

Deleting tweets is also not a good look from a company that wants you to trust them with the keys to your wealth.

Had to do a double take on this one -- amazing how far bitcoin has come. 🙂

This really sums up so much of what is wrong with the world today.

I brought this home from El Zonte for my son last fall. He likes rocks. It's a really good rock.

As someone who has personally helped execute search warrants, keeping a copy of your private key on a bitcoin-related hardware device makes it significantly easier to locate and immediately recognizable. And governments are now actively looking for ways to exploit your HWW.

This just gets better and better. 🤣

This is from an account that most of you are familiar with. A ton of money is being insidiously spent, behind the scenes, to influence how you think and what you want to buy. Be careful out there anon.

.@bitkite was kind enough to give me this @bisq_network promo shirt last time I was in Nashville. Wore it out to a bar with family today. Overheard someone say "What does the guy have against KFC?"

This question is asked somewhat regularly. We are a bitcoin-only project, now and forever, amen.

”Free men don't ask for permission.”

An ♾️ amount of "paper" bitcoin derivatives is the biggest threat to bitcoin's success. Companies offering non-bitcoin-settled exposure to the price of bitcoin are actively harming the network's potential. Self custody may be our only defense against this attack.

Pretty clever 3d printed seedQR template concept shared in our Telegram community...

If you don't want to trust a hardware wallet company to keep your details private, not to spy on you with proprietary software, if you don't agree with their technical decisions, or if you don't feel like they reflect your values, there are other really good options out there.

My sister has solar panels and was telling me how frustrated she was that credit for energy they contribute back to the grid did not carry over month-to-month. It piqued her interest when I told her that she could theoretically get paid in bitcoin for that extra energy instead of giving it back to the electric company for nothing. A mining rig that could integrate into her power setup and turn on when their panels are generating excess power seems like a product that would appeal to a lot of people out there in similar situations.

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Assembling a SeedSigner in El Zonte with the waves crashing in the distance -- what a strange and wonderful world. 🧡

SeedSigner's third birthday came and went earlier this month and I totally missed it. Amazing how far we've come -- a big thank you to all of our contributors that have brought the project to where it stands. 🧡

It's been some time in the making, but our latest major release, SeedSigner v0.6.0, dropped last night and it's a monster... More details to follow in a brief 🧵...

Myself and our user base would *love* to see the @Raspberry_Pi Foundation produce a version of the Zero 2 without WiFi/Bluetooth!!!

Too many entities trying to quietly accumulate bitcoin without triggering any price action...

This probably goes without saying, but SeedSigner won't be adopting the Swiss Travel Rule Protocol. coindesk.com/tech/2022/01/27…

🤯 bitcan.world

Such flex... 🤣😂🤣

This is hands-down the most luxurious SeedSigner enclosure I have ever held; gorgeous design and pristine machining by @MoneroTime, who was kind enough to share his work with me. No idea if/when they will be made publicly available, but so far am thoroughly impressed.

You source the parts. You build the device. You verify the software. You create the keys. You got this anon.

Absolutely fucking legendary opening to a Github readme.

Our project is unarguably making an impact in the bitcoin cold storage space and it has been interesting to observe how different corporate players have reacted / interfaced with what we're doing. In no particular order, here are some of my observations / impressions: . Blockstream: recognize stateless & QR exchange workflows as compelling; incorporate several SeedSigner features into Jade; offer our project a small grant . Ledger: Too big, and too busy shitcoining, to notice . Coinkite: Aggressively criticize SeedSigner/airgapped computers as dangerous; quietly incorporate core features into current and upcoming products (MK-series: "ephemeral" mode, Q1: QR exchange, SeedQR, "ephemeral" mode) . Trezor: Not engaged, doubling down on statefulness and implementing an SE . ShiftCrypto: Claim air-gapping is security theatre; also claim statelessness as a current feature

Super proud of this guy. . First time on an airplane . First time visiting Europe . First bitcoin conference This has been a trip both of us will remember for the rest of our lives. 🧡

Trying to pull together a list of bitcoin events in 2023 and this is what I came up with -- please let me know what I'm missing:

Politician trying to normalize the idea that actually possessing your assets should not be legal. They want to be able to take EVERYTHING from you if you run afowl of their system. Permissionless / DIY cold storage tools are extremely important.

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Just for the record, SeedSigner does not have a "social media guy"; designating one of those is something a company does. It's still just me, the guy who started the project, who's still engaged and working on it. I'm human, and you're stuck with the worst, and the best of me. 🙂

If you love bitcoin and freedom, even if it is not your cold storage tool of choice, you should want SeedSigner and tools like it to exist and flourish.

I've been saying from the beginning that I don't believe storing private keys on HWWs is a good idea; my opinion on this is one of the primary reasons why I created SeedSigner. I earnestly believe we will see more and more wallets exploited w/ gov't tools over time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

OMg, can't wait until this ETF stuff is over with, what a huge distraction.

Anyone have any ideas how we can get invited on some of the upper-tier podcasts in bitcoin? As much as the project has grown over the last 3 years, feels like we're up against a kind of glass ceiling when it comes to podcast / conference exposure. Flummoxed...

Sooo close to the final version of this, just a few minor details to adjust.

Bitcoiners need to get over this tribal nonsense; influencers just use BS tweets like this for engagement. Holding your own keys is the important part.

Was alerted by one of our contributors that our development fund received a ~22 million sat donation on Christmas day. What a wonderful gesture -- to whomever sent this, we immensely appreciate it! 🧡

If you want to scam people, pay attention to "crypto". If you want to change the world, pay attention to bitcoin.

"NEW:" "JUST IN:" "HUGE NEWS:" "BREAKING:" "BIG BREAKING:" "HUGE BREAKING:" If you filter out tweets that begin with these phrases it will dramatically improve your experience here, LoL.

No podcast ads, no influencer promotions, no conference booths, no referral program -- just proof of work and love for our fellow bitcoiners.

Now that's some funny stuff right there... 🙂

The war on privacy is escalating. 😕 justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/fou…

Can't tell is he is naive or being intentionally deceptive, maybe it's a bit of both. This is worth a minute or two of your time.

DiY iS sTuPiD aNd iNsEcUrE, jUsT bUy A hArDwArE wAlLeT.

Can someone let IBM know that we've already created a "hyper protect offline signing orchestrator" -- you can build it yourself for less than $50. And we even came up with a better name. 🤣

I frequently reference being a stay-at-home dad for multiple reasons. One reason is to acknowledge that this is a gift that bitcoin has given to me -- the appreciation from my early bitcoin savings allowed my wife and I to escape what would have been a lifetime of debt, and paved the way for me to leave my career to be more present with our children & experience more of their young lives. This has been a blessing for myself, and my family, whose value I cannot overstate. A second reason is to highlight that fiat money has stolen this same experience from millions of other families. It's one of those "WTF happened in '71" things -- a definite consequence of our fiat economies is that many, many families are forced into a financial situation where both parents have to work to make ends meet. This is detrimental to our society for obvious reasons. Another reason is to emphasize that we all can find ways to contribute to bitcoin -- you don't have to be working for a startup, podcasting, or helping to drive bitcoin adoption in developing economies to push this movement forward (not that there's anything wrong with those roles either!). Even those of us living out relatively mundane lives can find ways to leverage our talents to meaningfully move the ball forward. A final reason is as a plea for patience; I can sometimes be slow to respond to emails. fall behind on some tasks, or have to decline some invitations. Family really does come first, and thankfully my work with SeedSigner and with cold storage more broadly is able to fit into the remaining parts of my life. 🙂 So that's why it's typically mentioned in my bio!

Translation: "You seem to have found a way out of our debt slavery program, we would appreciate it if you did not utilize that escape route."

If I'd told people 1.5 years ago I was starting an open source project to build a hardware wallet that didn't store private keys, people would have thought I was f'ing crazy. Unconventional ideas sometimes just have to be tried to properly assess whether or not they make sense.

Maybe with enough visibility we can get on @Raspberry_Pi's radar... Please LIKE and RETWEET if you'd like to build a SeedSigner but can't find a Pi Zero. 🙏

Just encountered this guy outside my accommodations In El Zonte... Has to be some kind of sign.

Kill all of your bitcoin heros.

"...SeedSigner is, I think, a better security model than most hardware wallets because you CAN build it from scratch on off-the-shelf hardware..." 🧡

Don't fall for this kind of cult stuff. You may actually own enough bitcoin for your personal situation. Do the work, learn about it, and then invest what is sensible for your knowledge level and financial circumstances.

The amount of Bitcoin you could stack by building a SeedSigner instead of buying a retail airgapped signing device: 200,000-500,000 sats The feeling of not dox'ing yourself & building an open source signing device from off the shelf components: Priceless

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Why can't I accept bitcoin in my @Square online store?

I am open to this friendship, it's going to take a variety of tools and approaches to get as many people holding their own keys as we can. 🧡

Have said it many times before and I'll say it again -- kill your heroes.

Once one of the major HWW manufacturers implements definitive personal ID verification & balance tracking into a purchase/onboarding/custody flow (likely in response to a given jurisdiction requiring asset registration) it will put tremendous pressure on other cold storage market participants to do the same so as not to cede market share in a given locale. In response to the availability of these tools, other jurisdictions will in turn put their own digital asset registration rules into place -- realistically the dominos for this sort of thing could come down very quickly. We got a preview of this with ShiftCrypto's implementation and advocacy for AOPP (address ownership proof protocol) when Trezor made a move to implement the same toolset. Thankfully social pressure from maxis was able to limit market penetration of AOPP, but it is only a matter of time before similar initiatives surface and governments attempt to leverage HWW industry capture to take another shot at widespread digital asset registration. Other factors to consider with the HWW makers is that they are for-profit ventures with a need to cover costs and, in many cases, return profits to external investors. They have employees, advertising commitments, supply contracts, leases and other practical reasons to prioritze survival & profitability over cypherpunk principles. Manufacturer businesses may also be domiciled in hostile jurisdictions where legal pressure can be applied. Time will tell whether this call is correct, but in the meantime it's extremely important that convenient, private & permissionless DIY cold storage tools like Specter-DIY, SeedSigner, Krux and other projects be supported so these tools can be freely and easily available wherever the hardware to build them can be acquired.

Something helpful shared in our Telegram community earlier today...

Have thought a lot on why I got so irked yesterday during SE-related discussions; this is where I have landed. Not interested in discussing any further. If you feel I am wrong, keep using & building what you believe in. My apologies if I offended anyone interacting in good faith.

I try not to assign too much value to follower count, but wow, 30k, you guys rock. I immensely appreciate the follows & your support for our project, despite my many, many rando tweets. ☺️

Today's the day, so excited for the final version of SeedSigner 0.5.0 to be officially released: github.com/SeedSigner/seedsi…

Have no idea what this was for, but I'll wear it as a badge of honor.

🚨 Announcing SeedSigner 0.8.0 ! 🚨 Our release notes have gotten so good that one of my release announcement threads doesn't make sense! Just go and check out all of the details for yourself: github.com/SeedSigner/seedsi…

We may only have *one shot* at immaculately conceived, decentralized open source money before the establishment wises up. For that reason, I have zero tolerance for anything else in the “crypto” sphere. It’s a waste of focus and deleterious to the adoption of bitcoin. Full stop.

Leaving a total of 87 SeedSigners in El Salvador. May a thousand (or more) private keys bloom. ☺️

Very cool!

SeedSigner was the only cold storage tool recommended by all five guests... 🤩🧡🙏

🚨 Announcing SeedSigner 0.8.5 !!! 🚨 Our first multi-language release, featuring Español! Keep reading for a brief thread with additional details. 👇 github.com/SeedSigner/seedsi…

Proof of work... (working towards filling an order for 50 Open Pill SeedSigners)

Not sure a ton of games will be compelling on a SeedSigner 🤪 but can confirm that the original Gameboy version of Tetris is a little addictive...

Super disappointing to see this FUD towards our project being blindly retweeted by @stephanlivera. I wonder who sponsors his podcast and has done so for a long time.

SeedSigner kits are now available in my Square shop! Hopefully this is a big step forward in making it easier for anyone who'd like to give our signing device a try. btc-hardware-solutions.squar…

SeedSigner is not a company.. it's an open source project. We all win when bitcoin signing becomes decentralized.

If only there was some kind of decentralized, uncensorable, permissionless, seizure-resistant digital money...

Earlier this year sold 3 signers to a guy in EU. Shipped them & they got lost in the mail. He asked for a refund & I gave it to him. He bought signers elsewhere. Months later, signers finally appear. He sold them locally & sent me the sats. Bitcoiners are the best kind of people.