UX designer with a passion for UX Research in the #bitcoin space. Building products for real use cases. @bitcoin_design Helping improve UX/UI in the ecosystem.
One of the things I wish I had learned earlier is to beat your own drum.
Be your biggest cheerleader. Talk about your work. Celebrate your wins. Make sure people know what you’re building.
Because no one will champion you the way you can champion yourself. People will gladly build on your work, leverage your ideas, and use what you’ve created to build themselves so don’t be afraid to make sure you’re seen and recognised for what you bring to the table.
You have to learn to tell your own story.
Cc: First time founders🫠
BILLIONAIRE JACK DORSEY'S BLOCK RELEASED AN OPEN-SOURCE VERSION OF SLACK WHERE AI AGENTS ARE GETTING PAID IN #BITCOIN INSIDE IT 🤯
THE AGENTS ARE NOW NEGOTIATING JOBS AND PAYING EACH OTHER BTC LIGHTNING
BTC IS THE MONEY OF THE FUTURE
WILD 🚀
What if reviewing a PR felt like talking to its author? @jackamadeo’s latest vibecoded app demos shared viewport + live voice. Ask and it answers. It’s built on Goose Development Kit using the new GPT-Live API and a Goose ACP server doing the heavy codebase lifting. Sound on 🪿
GPT-Live-1 is now available in the API.
Bring ChatGPT’s natural back-and-forth to your app, with voice agents that listen while they speak and work with the models and harness you choose.
An AI agentic team that work together.
😎 Wrote a blog post about using Buzz to create agents to help us out with the Between Us and Bitcoin Design Guide UXR. So far, it's been a super fun journey!
mogashni.substack.com/p/huma…
Another big win from the Spiral grant program is the sheer number of alum who have gone on to do bigger and better things in bitcoin. More than 20 have found full-time jobs at bitcoin companies large and small, and many have started their own bitcoin company. The Spiral grant program is a springboard for many, including the cofounder of Frostsnap.
I believe the future of companies will be rooted in two things:
1) Having an intelligent data layer
2) Orchestrating agents
Had a fun exploration setting up Buzz yesterday. If you're using it, I'm curious about your thoughts and open to learning from you!
Here's the blog post: mogashni.substack.com/p/buzz…
I would also encourage following Matt Belez. He is doing some very interesting agentic payment explorations in Buzz and is 1000% a builder. Here he is: @matbalez
Introducing Dada Hub!
We are a technology and innovation space created to give African women greater access to the spaces, resources and networks where the future is being built.
A place to work, learn, build, connect and create.
Vinteum’s fourth year was about becoming a more durable organization.
Supporting established contributors. Helping emerging developers move toward sustained open-source careers. Strengthening the systems around that work.
The Year Four Report is out.
vinteum.org/blog/vinteum-yea…
@blocks A massive well done to the team who has been building it. Enjoyed setting it up yesterday and look forward to using it in the future and seeing you guys grow! Greetings from the Bitcoin Design Community!
Two weeks until the Open Source AI Summit!
Here’s a look at the lineup, with more talks and speakers to be announced. Capacity is limited, but tickets are still available. Apply via the link below
Our DADA Devs builders recently took their work to @btcplusplus Nairobi, bringing their technical skills, projects, and perspectives into the wider Bitcoin developer ecosystem.
This is what the DADA Devs journey is about: not simply learning Bitcoin development, but building with it.
At BTC++, our builders engaged directly with the developer community, showcased their work, contributed to technical conversations, connected with other builders, and participated in an ecosystem that is actively shaping the future of Bitcoin.
These moments matter because they demonstrate what happens when African developers have access to the technical depth, community, and opportunities needed to build at the highest level.
We documented the experience, the contributions, and the journey in our latest article.
From Learning to Leading — How DADA Devs Builders Left Their Mark at BTC++ Nairobi
"Read the full article here: dadadevs.com/from-learning-t…#DadaDevs#BitcoinDevelopment#OpenSource#BuildOnBitcoin
It’s going to be a great summit even if we never learn why its organizers felt the need to make Elias (@_tnull) look like a low-budget teen drama heartthrob.
There should be a holiday for the day each year when we renew @pavlenex’s grant, which we’ve done since 2020: Pavmas, Pavsgiving, Pavlentine’s Day. During it, observers would wear moldy sweatpants and give one another tiny Spiral grants for work that only exists in the abstract.
Nick Johnson's goal was to "become a rust-bitcoin contributor or maintainer." He is now a rust-bitcoin maintainer working on stabilizing the crates that half of bitcoin's Rust ecosystem sits on. His job is to make sure nothing interesting ever happens to these crates again.
Today, we are releasing BTCPay Server v2.4.3-rc4, a security update addressing vulnerabilities reported by the Bitcoin Red Team, @ProjectLoupe, @MagicGrants, @Premai_io, and independent researchers.
This release follows several days of nonstop work, review, and testing. It was built from our temporary private security repository, but to make these security fixes available as quickly as possible, we are releasing the Docker image publicly now.
This is a release candidate, so bugs may still be present. NFC is now opt-in, and the Phoenixd plugin is temporarily incompatible with this release. Please report any issues to the team. We will document behavioral changes within the main release.
Despite its RC status, we strongly recommend upgrading now using the standard process:
Server Settings > Maintenance > Update
or run or run btcpay-update(.)sh from the command line, removing the parentheses
If no significant issues are reported, the release candidate will be tagged as v2.4.3 and fully open-sourced within the next 48 hours.
We've brought back the huddles in the community. It's always a super nice, cozy space to come and hang out and chat about your UX design that you're working on or any UX research that you think your project might need. This is open to everyone. Feel free to come hang!
This is an open invitation to you and everyone in the community. We have a Design Huddle happening tomorrow. If you're wondering what a design huddle is, its means an open space for you to bring questions about a project that you're working on and bring requests to collaborate.