SeedSigner

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This is a great way to support Keith and some of our other technical contributors, AND to get a little SeedSigner swag for your Christmas tree. ❤️💚

Just follow the link to the gist for more details, and then reach out to Keith directly on Telegram or Signal.

https://gist.github.com/kdmukai/dd076101ed8c4e9012ac98aba2c7fc9c

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SeedSigner v0.8.6, the "Bigger Picture" release is out!

TLDR: . Support for larger displays . 7 new language options

Link to the full release notes & binaries:

https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner/releases/tag/0.8.6

Support for larger displays means on-screen text is easier to read and makes more efficient outgoing QR communication possible. The new display hat shown below incorporates one of these larger screens.

Seven new languages -- French, Chinese, Catalan, Dutch, German, Italian and Japanese -- mean many more people can now interact with a SeedSigner in their native tongue. The map below gives an approximation of what our updated language coverage looks like.

More languages are coming soon, including right-to-left languages (e.g. Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, etc.) that will add significant additional global coverage. If there is a language you would like to see in an upcoming release, there are relevant instructions in our release notes.

As usual, you don't have to take our word on what makes up the release binaries; our releases are reproducible and instructions to build your own binaries can be found at:

https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner-os/blob/main/docs/building.md

SeedSigner continues to be the work of a core group of volunteer contributors, as well as a growing collection of auxiliary technical contributors who engage with the project when their time/interests/skills align.

If you are getting value from the SeedSigner project, please take a moment to send some sats to our core technical contributors -- all tips, small and large, are greatly appreciated and go a long way to incentivize continued development:

https://seedsigner.com/donate/

Our project embodies what volunteer, collaborative, low time preference, open source, bitcoin-only, building "out in the open" looks like.

We continue to improve on our core concept of trust-minimized, self-sovereign cold storage out of love for bitcoin, & our fellow bitcoiners.

🚨 Announcing SeedSigner 0.8.5 !!! 🚨

Our first multi-language release, featuring Español!

Keep reading and please see the attached images for additional details. 👇

First off, how to activate the Spanish UI -- just update to this latest version, navigate to the "Language" option in the signer's settings, and from there you can now select Español as an option. 🧡

Work on this release has taken a meandering FOSS path, with

starting the initial effort more than 2.5 years ago --

kept the flame burning for some time…

We immensely appreciate the instrumental help from Ronny Avenando, Max Apogee and

, two of whom also made their first PRs!

More western and English-similar languages should quickly follow (e.g. Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Czech, etc.). Other languages may take more time but work on them will continue...

Some translation teams have already been assembled, but if you would like to see if an effort to add a specific language has already been initiated (see image below)...

The comment below shared in our dev chat by our Project Manager nostr:npub1d9vusz3zdd3cp2nqfdhqv932a2e20nvkhnkngjmjepzs0fr72s2qdlzk2u says a lot about how we view the importance of this release. 🧡

A big thank you to our core contributors, and to ALL of the other people that played a role in this effort. 🙏

If you'd like to financially thank our most active contributors, you can visit http://seedsigner.com/donate

To learn more about our vision for a community-built, secure DIY FOSS bitcoin signing device that's accessible to people all over the world, check out http://seedsigner.com, our GitHub repo (https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner), or visit our Telegram user community (https://t.me/joinchat/GHNuc_nhNQjLPWsS).

And last but not least, a teaser for what we're working on next... 👀 https://image.nostr.build/8e65c8264b80d305a0045268b31b8ce985f6c60748ccd707e5767a1f29467963.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a906b68b9086f216960d50a31a980ad3cf0b34dbd06721076b26097ca3e8db7b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1cd082cefd7e0bdf4d9912aef0717ff7705285489b69c13a7b17bec04804a702.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1fa8317f29d2e90d34733ddfa81409798c15b25038057d9da7f580f37bafb6ac.jpg https://image.nostr.build/31c588a0cfa109762efe041c68f8ced5b67866e5e54a4fc86acbdaf169b09e15.jpg https://image.nostr.build/efc858bfef2b252f2ca553c576dc89a5732b70aecfb3b502493bb28dbcde14a3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f178c3475ce207b97b8f452a986a524b8696376a73c34c32337e5144de6a9470.jpg https://image.nostr.build/327d08997167028deccae504a8dbba1c1b1d3fd76f2edf6f9566744dfc9aebad.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0d38115446b3724ef1b9256150df75d3883232c14c2817d54d0085a80e63ba23.jpg

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Are you funking bullshit on SeedSigner anon?

Love it. If it works, it works. 🙂

This is the way. 🧡

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Our contributors have built a top tier tool set for permissionless, self-sovereign saving, provided at no cost for the global bitcoin community.

The majority of the bitcoin industry is not incentivized to share what we've built -- please help us get the word out! 🧡 🙏 https://image.nostr.build/98fb6b3b30f59921121f7cd786a45ea55a8757a148575aa3deb0d9a678b1dbf0.jpg

Easy == bitcoin UX 🐐

I will be sharing personal takes and other non-SeedSigner related items using this account.

Bona fides for this new identity can be found in the note below.

Easy is an amazing designer, contributor to our project, and a solid dude besides. Can’t wait for this.

Appreciate Max having me on the

pod for a chat. 🧡

https://ungovernablemisfits.com/podcast/confab-09-bitcoin-paradise/ https://image.nostr.build/49698d3b214b0ded8f807b84c3682103aa126308323f77dfd0b45b516eeb7da6.jpg

I just created a brand new Nostr account with Primal, selected “bitcoin“ as my interest, and the new account was automatically configured to follow 56 people, which included Pavlenex (who is an awesome dude). It’s good to be in the club if you’re in the club, but I'm also left wondering if Primal can be or is used to de-emphasize some voices or topics as well.

Giving people the opportunity to put less trust in centralized third parties is not "UX regression".

When a commercial HWW verifies firmware/software at power-on, users are trusting they're using authentic hardware, and they're outsourcing the verification process to the same entity that produces both the hardware and the software.

For many users these choices will make sense, but for some they won't -- it's good for people to have options to choose from.

The read-only CD backup is a clever idea. The shelf-life of optical discs isn't terribly long but could be a good fit for this use case. 🧡

TLDR for those who missed this:

. RPi 0, 0W, 02W, 2 & 3 have permanent ROM that is burned in at the factory . "Firmware" is split between the Pi AND the microSD . Verifying the code on the microSD is authentic is vital, but simple . Sharing a signer is not ideal, but can be viable w/ trusted 3rd parties

Nominal amt of sats to post seems like it would go a long way to resolve the spam issue. Pretty painful right now.

SMH, LoL. https://image.nostr.build/f554f7113daf33260c985f16ebab8d700649dcf20d54713237365f0be35c1916.jpg

Yup.

And we will continue to be here with a compelling alternative model, that requires much less trust in manufacturers and distributors. https://image.nostr.build/ac3742a377e7691e41c3bf207faf4cb235c2bbf9641d1e1e0fb60ea1cc993df0.jpg

A FOSS tool built by bitcoiners, for bitcoiners, shared one bitcoiner at a time.

It is an exceedingly simple process to verify and write new firmware/software to your SeedSigner, and it takes at most a couple of minutes. Users with any concern about their device can easily re-deploy to put those concerns to rest. The messaging put out there by both the Dark Skippy researchers and Odell/RHR was unfortunate, but those who have learned about our security model and been through the process know better. Myself and our contributors are as confident and bullish as ever on our project, which serves both those who may have difficulty acquiring cold storage tools, and those who are seeking more trustless cold storage solutions.

This is the way....

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File this as posted under the umbrella of my personal opinion, flowing from my "exorbitant privilege" as the creator and public face of our project, and not necessarily representative of the opinion of all, or even any, of our other contributors.

The tone of this note is not constructive will only cause more people to question the motives behind the rejection of Peter Todd's grant application.

A constructive response would at least make some reference to the specific proposal's faults, or the specific shortcomings in the applicant's credentials, but instead he childishly makes fun of Peter without even having the courage to mention his name.

It is absolutely detestable that this individual, who operates a company that profits from bitcoin products that are not open source, and that had to be publicly pressured to take down marketing claims of those products being open source, is in a position where he influences decisions on literally millions of dollars of funding for other, legitimate, open source builders.

OpenSats will continue to struggle with credibility and public perception as long as nvk has a role of influence there.

Perspective worth considering from our project's Telegram community.

https://t.me/joinchat/GHNuc_nhNQjLPWsS https://image.nostr.build/6db7a948263520064c4a8b979712fda4976b54d151de07f54920734cf0f33c3a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7f3d913a1aea0d403c1b5f668f9410f407616cb1e136d88be589aedcaaa640a1.jpg

After witnessing several orange-pilling sessions in Curaçao last week, am thinking that cashu.me with a solid mint like minibits is one of the lowest friction ways to quickly get some sats into a noob's hands.

I cosign this.

Continue to appreciate every seller who donates back to our contributors. 🧡

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If you purchase SeedSigner-related items, please buy from sellers who commit to donate a portion of their proceeds back to support our contributors.

And if you're a seller who does this, please let us know! 🧡

The "Cult of Jack" is just as bad as all of the other cults in bitcoin.

Kill your heroes. It's just you, your keys and the protocol; and that's okay.

YubiKey has a larger security budget than your favorite HWW -- hardware security is a never-ending cat and mouse game.

Better to put your trust in functionally unsolvable math problems rather than "unhackable" hardware. https://image.nostr.build/4fac5912deb2f6f8387a9d6fba217b7158ac1e2a4dbcc46b45ef2971b8dc3544.jpg

Multisig w/ geographically distributed analog keys. 🙌 https://image.nostr.build/47fe7206c9b9e398e1c558fefbd8436149ac2a7ad78ae7c3ddcc68d66e00a53b.jpg

A few of our contributors were disappointed by how SeedSigner was characterized last week during RHR. I agree with Nick's comments here and am reposting for visibility.

Proud that our project has continued to reflect the ethos of bitcoin -- volunteer driven, collaboratively built, distributed at zero cost, permissively licensed, and highly accessible; while cultivating deeper understanding, personal responsibility & self reliance.

Love to see it. 🫶

This, sooooo this. For all of the anal retentive timeliners out there -- we're following the people we're followong for a reason.

I really enjoy these conversations with Printer. 🙂

In addition to being an "I can't buy hardware wallets" option, SeedSigner is also an "I'm not comfortable trusting hardware wallets" option.

"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other."

Matthew 6:24

"I had a few similar donations in the last week or so. Personally find it very encouraging."

(a quote from one of our contributors)

Now that we're about a week after the 0.8.0 release, if you're a SeedSigner user and you're getting value from the project, or if you just want to support freedom tools, please donate to our most active contributors. We have a lighting-enabled workflow that you can use to directly support those who have worked to build SeedSigner into the amazing tool that it is.

Even if it's a small amount, each donation gives these contributors a little bit of encouragement to keep going. 🧡

https://donate.seedsigner.com https://image.nostr.build/7cdd1b8c7101baaac98e8a2fe7c71de14d0644766a6f5aae1b34797334d413eb.jpg

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