I strongly suspect that the bitcoin experience, even for veterans, will be quite different in ten years. BIP 353 brings names: ACINQ have a spec for supporting contact lists too. I expect vanity addresses to follow as providers get onboard. Silent payment addresses should replace all other on-chain addresses, especially deposit to exchanges. Though you'll probably just send to e.g. <acctname>@client.river.com (will this allow probing of account names? Will they use random ones instead? Or accept anything and if they get typo payments sort it out in customer service?) And BOLT12 provides reusable lightning addresses, which provide the off-chain analog of silent payments. Doesn't matter to you if the recipient is using some weird layer 2, either. BIP 353 returns both this and a silent payment address, so the sender wallet chooses.

It's been two years since the twenty-weeks-of-friends-coming-over that was Pandemic Legacy. Now the second edition of Gloomhaven has arrived, and we are planning another epic: If you haven't played this kind of thing before: the game is a progressive cooperative affair, designed to be played in two(?) hour long sessions. Obviously there are weeks you miss, but the overall experience is a season or two of regular game play. There are highs and lows as things twist and turn, and I always feel the discomfort of doing something complex and unfamiliar, but overall it's about shared experience. Must get the script BIP drafts published *before* we start this!

Don't suggest a developer resign unless you're the one who will shoulder the load. And if any bitcoin developer is thinking of stepping down over the current drama, *please * reach out to me: I've been a FOSS dev full time for over 25 years and I've been there! I'm not going to judge, but I may have a useful perspective. ❤️

I love BIP 93, with its ability to store any secrets with super-high redundancy and natively handle multiple shares by hand. But I also love BIP 39 for the simplicity of 12 words, and the universality of the standard. I want a word scheme for BIP 93. It would be 20-23 words(depending on what scheme is used), but highly redundant. You could recover with 3 or 4 unknown words. Ideally the word list would avoid near-miss words, and be distinct from BIP-39 enough that it would likely be distinguishable, rather than relying on the strange number of words. Should this exist?