If @SeedSigner had a touchscreen...

Six months ago I started building a solo mining pool for myself, friends and customers - ckpool with a proper web interface packed with stats. GoBrrr Pool is the result, and it's now available in the official @umbrel App Store! 🥳⛏️

Kern dynamic UI taking shape. And it's getting unique and beautiful under the hood too.

June 5, 2021 (5 years ago) First Public Presentation on @SeedSigner The Bitcoin 2021 Miami FOSS dome was poorly air conditioned. Wynwood hit 80 degrees with full sun. Inside, a brand new DIY hardware wallet was being presented on for the first time. Brief thread... 🧵👇

Going to brag a little on our UI/UX designer @easyuxd -- I consistently hear wonderful things about the @SeedSigner UI. Built with love and given away for free for the greater good of the bitcoin community. 🧡 x.com/bitcoin_design/status/…

I’m so proud of this work, and of the @SeedSigner team. The coolest project I’ve ever worked on, with the best group of people. Thank you to @bitcoin_design and especially @GBKS for the idea and the help publishing it. I hope others find it meaningful.

Huge contribution from @pythcoiner to Kern: Simulator 🚀

I’m very grateful to the @HRF for their ongoing support of the @SeedSigner project, and for this grant to help me improve the onboarding experience. 🙏

Making all these breakthroughs on the @SeedSigner microcontroller port has been amazing, but now... I'm backporting the NEW stuff to our original hardware! This is all deep tech nerd stuff. But trust me, it's a BIG f'n deal.

Starting to harden kern. In the first phase, the creation of a PIN, which also uses OTP memory to generate a hardware related tamper detection "identicon" and words. This will later pair with OTP based secure boot, flash encryption and air-gapped SD card updates.

Kern multisig Experimenting with smarter and smoother flows

This is what I've been working for the last several days; it is easily my favorite signer enclosure of the ones I've created in terms of the aesthetics, the form factor, and the usability of the controls. Read on if you'd like a little more "inside baseball" on this design. 👇 I heavily borrowed from the compact "Push Case" that @Kayth21 shared in the @SeedSigner github repo (github.com/SeedSigner/seedsi…) and of course have to credit the nym called "Black Coffee" for the idea to incorporate Nintendo-themed design elements (Black Coffee created a similar design a few years ago that was available for purchase for a brief period of time, and is still frequently asked about). Kayth really refined the idea of a fixed-position thumbstick topper in his push case design, as well as masterfully handled board spacing and the microSD card port. His button design is also very clever, with the lower button covers fitting around the circuit board buttons. Because of the fine tolerances between the components, I had to make some adjustments for the parts to render properly on my printers, and also modified his clamshell-style assembly to work with my drop-in approach. The DPAD topper works surprisingly quite well, especially for an FDM-printed part. The right button stack are snug with hardly any play. The memory card can no longer get lost inside the enclosure and can still be grasped with your fingers for removal. And Kayth's handling of the camera holds it perfectly centered in its respective port. This is also the first time I've offered a protective case with a printed-signer, and the grey/red color combo makes for a great initial presentation. I'll eventually also be offering a non-themed version in different colors but wanted to get this one out there immediately because it made me think of Christmas mornings when I was a kid. I was 8 years old when the original 8-bit Nintendo became available in the states, and spent many hours at a friend's house in front of a huge console TV playing the original Super Mario Brothers, before getting a system of my own a year or so later. Designers inevitably leave little bits of themselves in their work, and I'm particularly proud of this model. ❤️🩶🖤

ESP32P4ing

#DIYbitcoinhardware past, present, and future. The OG @SpecterDIY. @SeedSigner, @selfcustodykrux, @BlockstreamJade. Sprinkled in a bunch of failed dead-ends (my specialty!!). And some absolutely killer coming soon™️ new options. The revolution is MUCH closer than you think.

🎉 On July 14th, it was officially ONE YEAR since my first merge into the @SeedSigner codebase! What a journey it has been. A year full of learning, building, and connecting with incredible people. Here’s a quick recap 🧵

Y'all! @alvunchained has just unlocked right-to-left language support in @SeedSigner! This means we'll be able to support Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Hebrew and more!! 🔥1 billion people use a RTL language! 👀🌏 This is such a cool bitcoin community-spanning story. 🧵👇

A-freaking-mazing. 🧡 (apologies for the framerate issue, the screen renders beautifully first-hand).

It turns out that SeedSigner will indeed have a static presence at @TheBitcoinConf, thanks to an anonymous donor with seeming close ties to the event. 🧡 This event & the people that build it deserve to be acknowledged for all they've done to shine a spotlight on FOSS.

🚨 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…

Why does the privacy space struggle with wider adoption? @sethforprivacy stresses the key role of graphic designers, marketers and UX professionals to move beyond the "technical experimentation" or "developer-focused" phase.

¡Feliz Navidad! ¡SeedSigner en español! We've opted to first put this out there as a release candidate. Please, especially Spanish speakers, thoroughly bang around on this and help us move it towards an official release. 🙏🧡 Notes & release at: github.com/SeedSigner/seedsi…