Just before the new year, I resolved to finally learning about Miniscript. With limited wallet choices for doing so, it took me into a dive to see what could be accomplished with bitcoin-cli, a qr-code encoder/decoder for cut-n-paste, and a DIY air-gapped stateless signing device. After getting through all that, realizing I'd bitten off more than I could chew, I thought I'd step back from the Miniscript dive to get more comfortable gluing the above tools together (this time in a python session) and performing simple signing operations -- learning as I go. Yesterday's exploration: the simplest of necessities w/ limited tools.

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Bitcoin Core Watch-Only Single-sig Native Segwit

Bitcoin Core Watch-Only Single-sig Native Segwit. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

More to follow? I'll do my best to share "W"s if and when they emerge.

Hmmm, What's going on here?

The Mempool Open Source Project®

Explore the full Bitcoin ecosystem with The Mempool Open Source Project®. See the real-time status of your transactions, get network info, and more.

Go ahead, touch it! The paint is finally dry.

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Release The "Low Time Preference" Release · SeedSigner/seedsigner

SeedSigner v0.8.0 It's admittedly been a minute since our last release -- we've always built carefully and deliberately, and we continue to refine ...

Because YOUR attentive eyes DO matter: * for yourself and for your loved-ones, present and future, * and for your fellow peers, known and unknown, * and for the beautiful future we're building together. Who the hell is @jdlcdl (Jean Do) and why is he fiddling with embit? You may find the answer to the second question below:

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diybitcoinhardware/embit.bip39.mnemonic_to_bytes() speedup

diybitcoinhardware/embit.bip39.mnemonic_to_bytes() speedup - mnemonic_to_bytes_speedup.md

A crowd has been waiting for 50m already, and 6 new blocks have been mined since then. Stand up, Walk out? Tik Tock Next Block. Wait for no man's empty promises. Onward!

I repeat: My never ending gratitude to all you good folks who support developers. Whether you do so indirectly through great foundations like HRF and OpenSats, to your favorite project fund, or directly to individual devs, you're playing a real part in making the projects we love become reality. Developers cannot thank you personally, but when they put their noses down to provide solutions, they're doing it partially because you make that possible. Together, we're going leave this place better off than we found it... and our children deserve every bit of that. Thank you!!! 🙏