Nick Klockenga

Banger

Helping my 5 yo learn to read brings me so much joy.

Just learned of yet another tragic loss of Bitcoin due to CC. I keep wondering if I could have done more to prevent this.

The amount of trust in a brand that can eroded in 48 hours is astonishing. Years of marketing and influencer deals gone. So many scrambling behind the scenes to save face. So much fallout.

If you hate BalenaEtcher on macOS as much as I do, you might like Blaze.

Tool for flashing dot img files to microSD/SD

• Native Mac App
• No root/admin password everytime you flash
• Disables auto mount of microSD cards when app is open
• Auto picks the drive most likely a microSD
• Shows the sha256 hash of the image selected

https://github.com/newtonick/blaze/releases

This is probably old news, but my biggest complaint about the nostr apps I use is that I’m not able to search for a note I saw recently. Damus kind of does this okay, but still sucks at it. Primal and Wisp never work.

Nearly every day, I recall a message I encountered earlier that same day or during the week and have never managed to locate through searching. The only thing that works for me is remembering who shared it and then reviewing their profile history. Am I overlooking something?

This is the first write up of a unilateral exit of Spark I have seen. Very interesting!

SeedSigner 0.8.7 Released

https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner/releases/tag/0.8.7

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I made a thing! Last time I released an iOS app on the App Store was more than 10 years ago!

I did well on this one!

WORD5 #630 2/6

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https://otherstuff.ai/word5/

I decided to rename Hellender Wallet to Birch Wallet. So website and TestFlight links

https://birchwallet.app

https://testflight.apple.com/join/G1cCd8bg

TABConf will be missed

I treasure my five year-olds limited swearing vocabulary. In the middle of a tantrum, the best she can come up is “biscuits”. 😂

how do fees works with lightning/spark in Cake Wallet? I specifically want to know for deposits, withdraws, and lightning sends if there are flat fees or percentage fees (on top of on chain fees when applicable). It seems like withdrawals are the place with the most fees. I looked for documentation or blog post and couldn’t find anything.

I’m very happy with how my Hellbender Wallet project turned out. It’s basically iOS Sparrow Wallet Multisig only, air-gapped only. Had a ton of fun making it.

I’ve started interrupting myself in the middle of talking to daughters and wife. I’ll pause and just talk to myself out loud when I’ve realized everyone has just completely tuned me out. Only sometimes they notice 😂

This is a bit of an advert, but I made a an iOS Bitcoin wallet that only supports Multisig (P2WSH) via QR signing. I made it for myself because I wanted it. It works great with Sparrow Wallet and SeedSigner. I named after the Eastern hellbender, North America's largest salamander. It’s still missing a few features I want, but it’s like 95% done. I feel like no one will ever use it except me. Even so, I was going to put it on the App Store but I’m not so sure now. I forgot Apple requires “cryptocurrency wallets” to be submitted by an organization/LLC. This would take me a decent amount of time and money on my end. All I really wanted was an easier way for me to install it on my own phone and share with others. I wish Apple allowed side loading so badly.

Anyway, if you have iOS and your interested in trying it out: https://testflight.apple.com/join/PuHVwJDJ%E2%80%A8 Repo: https://github.com/newtonick/hellbender-wallet

I made a an iOS Bitcoin wallet that only supports Multisig (P2WSH) via QR signing. I made it for myself because I wanted it. It works great with Sparrow Wallet and SeedSigner. I named after the Eastern hellbender, North America's largest salamander. It’s still missing a few features I want, but it’s like 95% done. I feel like no one will ever use it except me. Even so, I was going to put it on the App Store but I’m not so sure now. I forgot Apple requires “cryptocurrency wallets” to be submitted by an organization/LLC. This would take me a decent amount of time and money on my end. All I really wanted was an easier way for me to install it on my own phone and share with others. I wish Apple allowed side loading so badly.

Anyway, if you have iOS and your interested in trying it out: https://testflight.apple.com/join/PuHVwJDJ%E2%80%A8 Repo: https://github.com/newtonick/hellbender-wallet

The iOS App Store is terrible. The greatest feature Apple could bring to iOS in June would the ability to side load apps (globally).

Anyone using local LLMs for coding? For those that do, any recommendations on which models to use? I’m considering a big upgrade to my MBP (2020 intel) and wondering if shilling out for a M5 Pro with 64GB would be worth it.

Like every one else, I’m blown away with agentic coding stuff. Specifically Claude.

Something I threw together a few weeks ago for fun in a few hours was creating a forked version of BlueWallet that’s testnet only.

I haven’t done extensive testing, but it’s testnet… I use for SeedSigner dev testing mainly. No promises I’ll maintain this.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/p25X8rXrBlueWallet Testnet

https://github.com/newtonick/BlueWallet

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https://word5.otherstuff.ai

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https://word5.otherstuff.ai

Almost didn’t get there

I wonder what percentage of the US population thinks “AI” and Visual Effects in commercials are basically the same thing. I’d bet at least 25%.

GM

I’m a little sad the word “sats” isn’t used. Looking forward to making my first Bitcoin payment to a local merchant via square. I have a few in mind already.

I wish there was more discourse on nostr about sub 1 sat per vbyte transactions being relayed and mined. Seems like bad long term thinking for mining pools.

mostly dismissed it as mining pool economic ignorance on a recent WBD pod. I find it hard to believe mining pools aren’t considering the economic consequences.

My Bitcoin node currently has 73 peers. Only one of them is a Knots node. This is much lower than I expected.