Quote from: Meuserna on March 15, 2024, 11:45:55 PM

Krux has undergone such huge improvements over the past year that maybe it's good to have a new thread for it? Maybe not. I don't know.

I'm a huge fan of Krux. I mean, come on now... look at this thing:

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/09/23/PU0Qz.jpeg

That UI is dead simple, which means it's easy to use. It runs on Maix Amigo hardware, which has a large touchscreen and can be found for as little as $50.

Air gapped.
Stateless.
Seed QR - with encryption!
Passphrase QR - no more typing!

It's easier to load a seed and passphrase on Krux than it is to enter the PIN to unlock a Trezor/Ledger/ColdCard.

Let's load a seed:

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/09/23/PUlf2.jpeg

Note that where it says "From Storage," they mean from a micro SD card. Not only can you save seeds to micro SD... you can save encrypted seeds. And you can scan a QR of the encryption key. Don't have a QR for your decryption passphrase? In the Tools menu, there's an option to make one.

Here's an encrypted Seed QR I made as as an example. And here's the key to decrypt it:

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hidden pass word inside

Krux can make and scan passphrase QRs too.

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/09/23/PaHeZ.jpeg

The Maix Amigo's large touchscreen makes everything you'd do with a hardware wallet so much easier.

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/09/23/PaMIN.jpeg

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/09/23/Pam7a.jpeg

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/09/23/PaPUo.jpeg

Want to make a SeedQR? It's easy, especially thanks to the large screen.

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/09/24/PaNfW.jpeg

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/09/23/Panf3.jpeg

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/09/23/PaCKw.jpeg

Does Krux do Testnet? You bet. "Network" means Bitcoin Mainnet or Testnet.

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/09/23/PaUAP.jpeg

I especially appreciate that the word "test" stays on the screen when you're using Testnet, to help avoid making any mistakes. Well done!

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/09/23/PauUG.jpeg

If somebody made high end hardware for this and released it for $200, the hype would be insane.

Krux is a fantastic project. Pair it up with BlueWallet or Sparrow as a companion app, and you've got a killer combo.

EDITED to add: Hopefully I don't come off as too much of a fanboy for this project... but I don't really care if I do. I'm a diehard Bitcoiner, and I hate seeing people lose their coins due to poor hardware wallet design. Some hardware wallets hide the passphrase feature. Others only show portions of addresses, or they expect the user to scroll through an address on a tiny screen, which makes transactions less safe. But having a huge screen that shows you everything makes safety easier. The ability to scan passphrases removes potential for typos, which makes safety easier. Encrypted seed QRs make safety easier. This stuff matters.

We really appreciate your enthusiasm to the project! Your picture thread last time was great content for us to share, so if you would like to do an updated one with all the new features that would be most welcomed. There is a lot to unpack from the first major release, and now this one, and we are going to try our best to produce content in the coming months, but any help is greatly appreciated. We are a FOSS project after all though with our own lives on FT-jobs, and don't have any budget for this, so we do our best to be present customer service-wise with our English and Brazilian Telegram chats, but we are definitely lacking content-wise. We're aware and would like to address it moving forward. Our docs are excellent, but most users appreciate visual content I feel as it's easier to digest and appreciate when you're learning something new which involves being hands-on with the new technical information.

Basically, if it's not clear already, we are open to community members joining our team whom have experience in content-production to cover all our great features and functionality. It's not a necessity, but over time as the project grows it will become one. Especially since we have a focus on having as much multi-language support as possible in order to help as many Bitcoiners as possible globally, eventually we will need community moderators of sorts for each community. Our Brazilian community is more active than our English one, probably because most of our devs are from there lol, but it's lacking solid content community members can share as an official source. Currently, there are many amateur content-educators in that community trying to make a name for themselves using our FOSS project. There's nothing we can do about it and we understand that's the nature of FOSS, but I think it stems from not having a solid source of official visual content on our site, github, and social media pages. Anyways, thanks for your content, and enthusiasm, so far!

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