grubles (@notgrubles) / X

grubles

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grubles

@notgrubles

making Bitcoin payments easy @secondhq

Joined August 2015

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grubles
@notgrubles
Mar 5
Excited to share I've joined the team at Second (@secondhq) where my goal is to blow the roof off Bitcoin adoption. Second's team of ex-Blockstreamers and other passionate Bitcoiners are working on Bark, an implementation of Ark that massively improves Bitcoin payment UX. I was
Second | Scalable Bitcoin Payments With Ark & Lightning
From second.tech
grubles
@notgrubles
13h
Love Boltz but it’s clear too much of the mobile wallet ecosystem was centralizing around it. An equal or greater amount of wallets are now centralizing around Spark for LN connectivity. More wallets should implement Bark.
grubles
@notgrubles
14h
Finally some good news for a change. Lots of great stuff in this release. You could say the Second team ships. Get it, because Ark is a ship. 🛳️
Second
@secondhq
20h
1/ Bark 0.5.0 is out, and it comes with one of the features you've asked for most: restoring a wallet's full off-chain balance from its mnemonic.
grubles
@notgrubles
14h
Awesome 🙌
Second
@secondhq
20h
Replying to @secondhq
3/ Lightning receives can now land on external Ark addresses. A wallet claims an incoming payment for another wallet, so the recipient gets paid while offline and the forwarder never has custody. That unlocks non-custodial Lightning address servers. Thanks @benthecarman!
grubles
@notgrubles
Aug 4
Peter says "we're pretty good at warning people" and posts to X, for the first time ever, a link to a YT talk he did on the topic that has 390 views. This has to be a joke.
Peter Todd
@peterktodd
Aug 4
The first time I visited Kyiv, back in 2018, I gave a talk about the dubious security of hardware wallets. Among other things, in that talk I specifically called out the lack of code review these wallets get, compared to, say, Bitcoin Core: youtu.be/Q65Jn0dEA8k