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Justin provides a six-month update on the Fedimint project, discussing its features and developments in bitcoin payments.

Justin, a prolific contributor to the Fedimint open source project, returns for a six month update. Fedimint is an open protocol providing easy to use, private, programmable, and offline bitcoin payments using bitcoin powered federated chaumian ecash. Justin on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqspg8fq209jj56663d2n6r9ehkyjffy7rkqqejfdwvtwzva426avkqxtxxuv Fedimint Website: https://fedimint.org/ Fedimint on X: https://x.com/fedimint The Ecash App: https://ecash.love/ Fedimint Observer: https://observer.fedimint.org/ Bitcoin Mints: https://bitcoinmints.com/ Iroh: https://www.iroh.computer/ EPISODE: 198 BLOCK: 944073 PRICE: 1466 sats per dollar (02:06) Justin on Fedimint updates since last visit (03:20) Ecash App vision as a Fedimint reference client (04:18) Wallet features: on-chain, lightning, ecash, and nostr integrations (06:01) Fedimint 101: federations, guardians, and multisig trust model (07:55) Uptime vs. rug risk and Byzantine fault tolerance in practice (09:18) Making guardianship easier and raising operational reliability (10:14) Ecash App status, platforms, backups via nostr, and seed UX (13:16) Mint/federation selection challenges and web-of-trust ideas (15:39)…

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