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Nobody likes losing hard-earned cash — zaps even less so! Unlike paper cash, ecash can be recovered using your seed phrase, but until now the process has been painful, especially on mobile devices. Meet recovery.minibits.cash 🚀 A re-architected recovery tool for the Minibits mint, optimized for performance.

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Orange Julius15d ago

Support will appreciate it I guess. :D

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Minibits15d ago

Your seed prase never leaves your browser, yet most of the process happens on the server, vastly improving performance. Single recovery round scans up to 2500 recovery indexes, that should be enough for most wallets. To prevent attack on mint resources, further recovery rounds cost 100 sats, charged using brand new HTTP 402 standard (NUT 24 spec) - pay for api use with an ecash token. Free use then resumes after 15 minutes, based on ip address.

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63c39f…dcd2ab15d ago

@calle 👀 is this a legitimate note?

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calle15d ago

do you need me to verify signatures for you?

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Minibits15d ago

Well my nostr keys could be stolen but the tool still runs on minibits domain if that helps.

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whitefleaCH15d ago

Typing my seed into a browser just feels wrong...

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Minibits15d ago

I hear you and that's correct. Use when really needed and rotate to a new seed after. Sourcr code is available.

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whitefleaCH14d ago

What do you mean by source?

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Maciek15d ago

Worked like a charm! Got some sats! I was pretty sure I lost some tokens after a reckless reinstall and the app didn't recover them all. Thanks 😊👍🏻

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Minibits15d ago

What a promo!

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Stirling Forge14d ago

are you going to release the source code on this? would like to review and replicate inside of Ridestr/Roadflare

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Minibits14d ago

On minibits-cash github. Still early version, missing readme. All minibits related variables are in the .env, so that it can be deployed by other mint operators without code change, to speedup recovery from their owm mint.

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C.S.Burner 🪙➡️🔥12d ago

Never ever put a Seed phrase inro a Website. Good intention to make recovery easier and faster. But against all Bitcoin education. 🤔

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Minibits12d ago

Apps are compiled from source code - that's what programmer writes. By inspecting the source code, you can see how your seed is processed.

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whitefleaCH8d ago

What if I am not a programmer. What if I can't do reproducible build checks?

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Minibits8d ago

I believe than you'd need to trust that the TLS certificate + domain name matches the mint's domain. You've had trusted the mint already when you've minted the ecash.

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