Experimenting with GitHub-hosted Discussions!

[martindale]

👋 Hello again, old friend!

We’ve decided to try the GitHub-hosted feature, Discussions, to open a more public forum than Grove for corralling community content — it's a little more easily accessible as a boost, so let's give this a shot.

How to use Fabric's Discussion Board:

• Ask questions you're curious about
• Share your ideas for disintermediating centralized markets
• Participate in discussions with others
• Welcome your peers and be clear with your words. Nothing sucks more than to have to re-explain a point 💪.

Who am I?
I'm @martindale, the original author of the Fabric Protocol (2015) and primary software contributor for its reference implementation, @fabric/core. I've been slowly experimenting with the products I want to build since about 2017, adding support for the things I need to Fabric while thinking carefully about how to expose otherwise complex cryptographic functionality in simple, easy-to-use APIs (see #1).

Now that we're approaching some semblance of an initial release, it's time to engage our community more fervently — API design, example applications, and as many tutorials and guides as possible is our focus now. We need to more deeply understand how downstream developers want to use decentralized technologies like Bitcoin, Tor, and even a possible comeback for BitTorrent within their applications. Now that we have programmable money, let's make it easy for developers to program the money.

On the Horizon
We've got a few things coming out of R&D soon including Taproot support for Fabric-based contracts, working support for Lightning in both the CLI and desktop apps, and something we'll be announcing soon™️ that we think will excite the privacy advocates in the Bitcoin community. Obviously much work remains between now and a production-ready release, so we're focusing internal resources at Fabric Labs on improving test coverage, overall design and security reviews, and the aforementioned API design discussions that we're bringing here, to you, the community.

This year is going to be so incredibly full of world events, economic strains, and public discourse. No matter what happens, remember — we fight for the user! ✊ Stay focused. It's gonna be wild.

Now, go forth and open that discourse!