I used to teach a bitcoin programming class, organized Austin Bitdevs meetup for the past 4 years, contribute to Fedimint and co-founded Fedi (https://fedi.xyz/). Ask me anything!
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I used to teach a bitcoin programming class, organized Austin Bitdevs meetup for the past 4 years, contribute to Fedimint and co-founded Fedi (https://fedi.xyz/). Ask me anything!
Here we have Justin Moon Teaching classes in the afternoon Austin Bitdevs, meetup in June I hope you enjoyed my little tune
😂 😂 😂
Bullish Song, you should record this.
On Fedi’s homepage one of the features of the Fedi app is “Humane design”. Can you elaborate on what that means?
It’s short for human centered design which is a product development process that aims to involve real user perspectives and emotions at each stage of design and development process.
How are you going to do that in practice?
The most used/influential Design process is the Double Diamond:
You can read the original paper here: https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/fileadmin/uploads/dc/Documents/ElevenLessons_Design_Council%2520%25282%2529.pdf
How does Fedi make money?
Having taught bitcoin programming, what's the most important thing to learn about bitcoin programming?
I think the most important thing to learn is how to contribute to open source projects -- how to find one, how to run the code / tests, how to find a foot-hold in the codebase and start making small improvements, etc.
That's where you'll really learn the most.
Favorite Sci-Fi novel?
Probably Dune
Excellent. It's my favorite too so far.
Good taste.
Where did you hear about SN?
I think I heard about SN for the first time when I visited PlebLab's tiny first office. SN and PlebLab have grown a lot since then!
Oh wow. I didn't know this. Very cool.
Hi What should be my programming background to learn BTC PROGRAMMING ?
Base58 is a good place to start. Their "transactions" class doesn't require any programming background IIRC. I used to recommend people take the python codeacademy class. Have seen a lot of people start there, and now have jobs at bitcoin companies we know and love.
TABconf or Bitcoin Amsterdam?
Tabconf
what under-appreciated bitcoin projects do you wish more bitcoiners knew about?
Have you ever been to PlebLab_ I hear it's a really cool hacker space in Austin? Maybe Fedi needs an office? There's only 1 left 👀!
Love ya bro!
Selling like hotcakes!
Can fedimint can be somehow combined with lightning so in case of disagreement it would be possible to sort of force close the channel?
it's my understanding that the FM token will be transactable on Lightning. Learned that in this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4iclApJL0c&t=43s
wen justinmoon federation (in minecraft)?
Sometimes finding good partners to work with can be difficult. What was it in the team members that launched Fedi that helped you feel that you could work together and be successful?
We all share a vision of how normal people can start participating in the bitcoin economy, have complimentary skillsets, and histories of acting with high integrity.
Cool, thanks for the insights and doing this AMA
Is there eventually going to be a version of Fedimint where guardians can't run away with the money?
(I really appreciate your work! Thank you for bitdevs!)
Fedimint is custodial so theft is always a possibility. It's important for users to choose guardians who are least likely to collude and steal.
Federated statechain (https://github.com/fedimint/fedimint/issues/585) doesn't really help prevent theft, but it would allow users to get their bitcoin out if the federation shut down permanently for some reason.
What about locking the guardian funds for longer times - is that not possible? I.e. what about using some PTLC type of scheme that guardians can spend only with some delay and some supermajority of users could "outvote" them if they collaboratively spend before?
Wasn't Fedi generally known as the abbreviation for Fediverse? Does that ever confuse anyone (other than me ... back when I first saw it used for a bitcoin project)?
Yea we've heard that a couple times now. Naming is hard 😅.
Whats your favorite non-bitcoin open source software project?
What's your favorite text editor?
The most inspiring open source project to me is https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity. A single guy built a functional OS from scratch. His livecoding videos on Youtube are a lot of fun.
Vim.
serenity looks neat. thanks!
When will you shave your mullet?
Mullets until 100k!
"Ladies and gentlemen the god father", wanted to know what your bitcoin story is?
What's something you believe about bitcoin's future that no other bitcoiners agree with you on?
What's the most surprising thing you've learned working on Fedi?
Hi Justin. I took your class. Thank you sir for all your contributions 🧡
Hope you're well White Rabbit!
Do you want to play a game?
Aside from Rust, what are your favorite programming languages and why?
Which Trailer Park Boys character do you most relate to?
Why the xyz domain?
What is Fedi, and what is its objective?
Fedi is a company whose mission is to help communities hyperbitcoinize
What's the biggest risk to Fedi succeeding?