1/ Back in '23, @BitcoinBay did something huge for Denver’s Bitcoin scene. Instead of keeping their Bitcoin Games winnings, they incubated local meetups including Denver BitDevs, a small group back then with only a dozen folks showing up. That decision changed everything.

Working on an article with @SimplestBTCBook regarding dice roll method trade-offs! What’s better, 16 and 8 sided combo rolls or casino grade 6 sided single rolls? Manually generating a 256-bit Bitcoin seed by rolling two plastic 16-sided dice and one 8-sided die 23 times, followed by one final 8-sided die roll vs. rolling a single casino-grade 6-sided die 100 times. The combo method drops your total required actions from 100 events down to just 24 total shakes, cutting human fatigue by 76% to protect you from catastrophic miscounts, typos, and focus errors. Additionally, because 16 sided and 8 sided dice natively map directly to binary and hexadecimal, this combo method allows you to easily look up and choose your final seed words directly from a printed paper list rather than manually typing a tedious string of 100 ones and zeros into a hardware wallet to generate them. While the molded plastic shapes suffer an estimated minimum physical bias loss of 0.091 bits compared to a perfect casino die, the setup still yields a net safety margin of 255.909 bits of real-world entropy, which remains 100% cryptographically unbreakable. Regarding entropy loss with either method, even if your dice were so deeply flawed that you somehow lost a massive 50% of your total entropy to manufacturing bias, you would still be left with 128 bits of true entropy, which matches the cryptographic security of a standard 12-word seed phrase used as an industry standard by millions of hardware wallets today.

₿itcoin clubs, around the world, and I know some have already been doing this, (I’m looking at you, @DenverBitDevs …) should absolutely be allocating at least one session per month/quarter to hosting a “dice” night (or some entropy-generating equivalent) to teach people how to create their own unique seed phrase… 🤔😊😎🧡✅💯🎯

makes me sick so terribly sad

If you're new to dice rolls etc, we did a workshop and video breakdown of the many seed generation methods we tested at @DenverBitDevs 3 years ago piped.video/oxDGgVt0lgk

I am planning to travel to only two more events this year. There is important work to do, and not much time to do it. First, I will be giving a talk in Kansas City on 9/5: bitcoinpartykc.com/shop/p/so… Use discount code LOWTIMEPREF for a hefty discount!

Check out the work that @ProofOfKeags is doing and come hear more from Keegan this Thursday at our monthly BitDevs meetup at @SpaceDenver ! RSVP to the event below. luma.com/21c3ickl

Amidst all of these security research conversations, a helpful tool are rigorous cryptographic proofs. I would like to draw attention to some work that legendary researcher @ProofOfKeags is doing. First, read his post here: groups.google.com/g/bitcoind…

Thank you everyone who joined! I had Grok make a summary of everything discussed, if that helps folks: grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5LWNvc… Feel free to fork the conversation and ask @Grok questions, and if you do, please share your insights!

Love it! Lightning can be made BIP 110 compliant. #knots #bip110 #rdts

Excited for @DenverBitDevs tonight at @SpaceDenver! @robertwarren will be talking about the death of bitcoin mining. You won't want to miss it! And as usual, please come an hour early if you want to socialize. luma.com/yj1xgw3q

It is confirmed: verify.simpleproof.com/SP/P-… @TIMECHAINSUMMIT @realSimpleProof @carlostoriello @SpaceDenver