newtonick
Nick Klockenga

https://klockenga.com

seedsigner contributor among other things

Public Key

npub1rfd0hxdzcze6pzj29thuz34vur57wm9quje7w3edxjgusq6m47csnl7wrt

NIP-05 Address

newtonick@klockenga.com

NIP-57 Address

nick@klockenga.xyz

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsp5khmnx3vpvaq3f9z4m7pg6kwp608djswfvl8guknfywgqdd6lvgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0kuwkqq

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relay.primal.net

relay.damus.io

Author Public Key

npub1rfd0hxdzcze6pzj29thuz34vur57wm9quje7w3edxjgusq6m47csnl7wrt

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Last Notes

2026-05-10 12:09:56

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My experience with NWC is similar. Poor performance and less reliable than LNDHub. LNBits + LNDHub + Zeus has been rock solid for me years.

2026-05-06 00:34:40

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Funny how 3 hours of debugging a few years ago would have just felt normal.

2026-05-03 21:32:35

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I was discussing with a friend this morning about how omelettes are a challenging breakfast food to make (compared to other breakfast foods). They can be awful or delicious depending how they are prepared. Also such a wide range of flavors are possible.

2026-04-25 14:33:11

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I’d recommend staying away from any UX/UI that emphasize buying/exchanging sats. Any UI that makes Apple feel like it should/could get 30% will definitely get you rejected.

2026-04-25 14:33:11

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I’d recommend staying away from any UX/UI that emphasize buying/exchanging sats. Any UI that makes Apple feel like it should/could get 30% will definitely get you rejected.

2026-03-23 22:11:15

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I’m cool with snakes for the most part, but if I’m in the water and there is a snake. It’s a nope rope.

2026-03-23 11:59:06

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What I’d love to see for Cake/Spark is a fee breakdown like Phoenix has.
https://blossom.primal.net/15a3585831f2536b5e39fc99d69f010737f4eef45f529b4fc59dffff887d101c.jpg

2026-03-23 11:39:36

@nprofile…8j4q how do fees works with lightning/spark in Cake Wallet? I specifically want to know for deposits, withdraws, and lightning sends if there are flat fees or percentage fees (on top of on chain fees when applicable). It seems like withdrawals are the place with the most fees. I looked for documentation or blog post and couldn’t find anything.
https://blossom.primal.net/692adfff037d6f856612ac790a35cd20a5d2e7506c0f5183868ad6601155db9c.jpg

2026-03-23 02:33:32

I’m very happy with how my Hellbender Wallet project turned out. It’s basically iOS Sparrow Wallet Multisig only, air-gapped only. Had a ton of fun making it.

2026-03-22 15:44:00

BDK has really come along and is an amazing tool for building Bitcoin wallets.

2026-03-21 20:33:24

I’ve started interrupting myself in the middle of talking to daughters and wife. I’ll pause and just talk to myself out loud when I’ve realized everyone has just completely tuned me out. Only sometimes they notice 😂

2026-03-17 02:09:13

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Apparently I can’t paste a test flight link correctly.
https://testflight.apple.com/join/PuHVwJDJ

2026-03-17 02:08:17

This is a bit of an advert, but I made a an iOS Bitcoin wallet that only supports Multisig (P2WSH) via QR signing. I made it for myself because I wanted it. It works great with Sparrow Wallet and SeedSigner. I named after the Eastern hellbender, North America's largest salamander. It’s still missing a few features I want, but it’s like 95% done. I feel like no one will ever use it except me. Even so, I was going to put it on the App Store but I’m not so sure now. I forgot Apple requires “cryptocurrency wallets” to be submitted by an organization/LLC. This would take me a decent amount of time and money on my end. All I really wanted was an easier way for me to install it on my own phone and share with others. I wish Apple allowed side loading so badly.  Anyway, if you have iOS and your interested in trying it out: https://testflight.apple.com/join/PuHVwJDJ%E2%80%A8
Repo: https://github.com/newtonick/hellbender-wallet

2026-03-17 02:07:16

I made a an iOS Bitcoin wallet that only supports Multisig (P2WSH) via QR signing. I made it for myself because I wanted it. It works great with Sparrow Wallet and SeedSigner. I named after the Eastern hellbender, North America's largest salamander. It’s still missing a few features I want, but it’s like 95% done. I feel like no one will ever use it except me. Even so, I was going to put it on the App Store but I’m not so sure now. I forgot Apple requires “cryptocurrency wallets” to be submitted by an organization/LLC. This would take me a decent amount of time and money on my end. All I really wanted was an easier way for me to install it on my own phone and share with others. I wish Apple allowed side loading so badly.  Anyway, if you have iOS and your interested in trying it out: https://testflight.apple.com/join/PuHVwJDJ%E2%80%A8
Repo: https://github.com/newtonick/hellbender-wallet

2026-03-16 21:33:35

The iOS App Store is terrible. The greatest feature Apple could bring to iOS in June would the ability to side load apps (globally).

2026-03-04 13:52:36

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Good info. This is what I’m worried about.

2026-03-04 13:47:39

Anyone using local LLMs for coding? For those that do, any recommendations on which models to use? I’m considering a big upgrade to my MBP (2020 intel) and wondering if shilling out for a M5 Pro with 64GB would be worth it.

2026-03-04 13:24:18

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Is Cake Wallet on nostr? If not, why? :)

2026-03-04 13:13:20

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Why is Sparrow not on this list?

2026-02-17 03:05:44

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https://testflight.apple.com/join/p25X8rXr

2026-02-17 03:03:15

Like every one else, I’m blown away with agentic coding stuff. Specifically Claude.
Something I threw together a few weeks ago for fun in a few hours was creating a forked version of BlueWallet that’s testnet only.
I haven’t done extensive testing, but it’s testnet… I use for SeedSigner dev testing mainly. No promises I’ll maintain this.
https://testflight.apple.com/join/p25X8rXrBlueWallet Testnet
https://github.com/newtonick/BlueWallet

2026-02-14 02:02:17

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2026-02-07 12:55:16

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2026-01-11 05:29:04

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Line of sight or through walls?

2026-01-10 19:21:21

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Here’s an example of what I mean. Call it what you want. The feeling I experienced is laziness.
I’ll run into an error or bug when testing app. I don’t want to read the logs or error message because I know the AI agent can for me. I just want to copy and paste the entire log with a description of the issue to the AI agent to tell me what is wrong and how to fix instead of just reading the log, identifying the specific relevant error messages and troubleshooting with AI in a more targeted (less tokens) route.

2026-01-10 18:57:17

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As a developer I’m slowly ramping up my use of AI for development. At this point my concern is mostly that AI is making me lazy.

2026-01-06 01:49:30

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2025-12-22 13:22:48

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Same here. I hope not more than 2 years.

2025-12-16 13:18:31

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Can confirm. Blink and you’ll miss it!

2025-12-09 21:27:01

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Don’t jump, we need you :)

2025-12-06 14:31:29

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I’ve started using this trick for all sorts of things with my kids. There is so much competitive drive in my kids DNA they can’t resist even when they know it’s a trick. 😂

2025-12-06 14:25:43

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I’ve had the Milano cookies a multiple times in my life and I always walk away thinking they are overrated. All fancy packaging with dry and dull flavor. I’d honestly rather have a stack of Oreos and a tall glass of whole milk.

2025-12-04 13:06:36

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I believe it’s possible with bolt12 offers. Here is a core lighting plugin I remember looking at but didn’t try: https://github.com/gudnuf/bolt12-prism

2025-12-02 22:22:05

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Nativity!

2025-11-27 16:47:49

I wonder what percentage of the US population thinks “AI” and Visual Effects in commercials are basically the same thing. I’d bet at least 25%.

2025-11-23 02:58:34

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I’ve always enjoyed life aquatic. Something about it keeps me engaged and entertained. Strange, beautiful and funny.

2025-11-20 17:26:29

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4/2/26

2025-11-11 12:51:58

GM
https://image.nostr.build/ed0d0e4716ac4b47cf64ec5c50c1b1ec4a36d84a37a6b0977b344484f0b9caa1.jpg

2025-11-10 14:06:37

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It was not on by default for me. I had to click activate in the Square settings > checkout > payments section on the iPhone app. This opened up an iOS Safari webpage with a setup wizard asking me some very simple questions. It took 60 seconds to activate.

2025-11-10 14:03:58

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I have an ancient square account I setup over 15 years ago and never use. Somehow it continues to exist; so I used it to generate this invoice and see what the steps were to turn on accepting bitcoin payments. So I haven’t found a true merchant to accept payments yet. I know a small handful of businesses with single employees who use Square. It will be trivial to step them through turning on bitcoin payments.

2025-11-10 13:26:16

I’m a little sad the word “sats” isn’t used. Looking forward to making my first Bitcoin payment to a local merchant via square. I have a few in mind already.
https://image.nostr.build/a57b3611dd998f7ad30192b5590ed17cdc3090d0efc088a12835ea7cf100e364.jpg

2025-10-28 21:57:32

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wondering how much*

2025-10-28 21:56:50

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I don’t know how to implement. I was just wondering what how much CPU time is spent on a tx that is seen by a node once vs twice (and what if any CPU time is spent on relay).

2025-10-28 21:51:09

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Have you considered adding CPU time?

2025-10-17 23:26:12

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I also like the YYYMMDD date style. I also like the full node subver string for Knots node cause it lets you know what its core base is (e.g. /Satoshi:29.1.0/Knots:20250903/) and the date time of the release.

2025-10-17 00:46:15

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Maybe try a @npub17ty…3mgl next time?

2025-10-03 12:29:30

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You can ignore this question. It doesn’t make any sense in retrospect.

2025-10-03 12:19:44

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Can this Sparrow release be used with Frigate?

2025-09-28 20:12:04

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I guess that is ultimately the calculus in question. The risk seems to be normalization of the networking lowering the node defaults of `minrelaytxfee` and `incrementalrelayfee`. I suspect this would lead to lower long term fee rates. Maybe I’m wrong.

2025-09-28 18:12:34

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Update:
I now see 4 out of 68 peers identifying as Knots. 7 of these peers are relaying sub 1 vbyte txs; that seems wild to me.

2025-09-28 18:09:09

I wish there was more discourse on nostr about sub 1 sat per vbyte transactions being relayed and mined. Seems like bad long term thinking for mining pools. @npub1exc…n72a mostly dismissed it as mining pool economic ignorance on a recent WBD pod. I find it hard to believe mining pools aren’t considering the economic consequences.

2025-09-28 12:36:30

My Bitcoin node currently has 73 peers. Only one of them is a Knots node. This is much lower than I expected.

2025-09-28 12:33:51

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A great summary of the core position as a whole

2025-09-05 12:48:39

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https://image.nostr.build/b607907a311552edb0830d0d3fb1eef764d688c1f792273f5fd01a26dd4b5ae0.gif

2025-08-10 19:59:07

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Uptime issues?

2025-08-06 20:53:14

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Lnurl via commando is brilliant idea. Love that you’re building this.

2025-08-06 20:49:56

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I can pay the invoice. There are no receipts.

2025-07-05 12:24:34

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The 1996 version, yes.

2025-07-03 11:55:48

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2025-06-23 19:47:14

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64k to 3k is not 40%

2025-06-18 22:24:27

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One trick you can try... If your email is say dirtdog@proton.me; you can setup your second primal wallet/accout with dirtdog+primal@proton.me. The “+primal” part can be whatever you want. Emails would still go to dirtdog@proton.me.

2025-06-10 15:51:53

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It scales Bitcoin custodial use cases

2025-06-07 14:46:09

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It’s a shame more onchain wallets don’t support BIP39 passphrases.
I find myself using Zeus the most. I wish @npub1xnf…lpr5 had a proper onchain wallet not associated to any specific LN implementation. If it did, I’m not sure I’d have a reason to use any other mobile wallet.
Wallet choice is complex. So many trade offs it’s challenging to summarize.

2025-06-05 20:27:55

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https://media.tenor.com/lSuMfDoSSwAAAAAC/pitch-perfect-cut-off.gif

2025-06-05 18:01:40

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Why not just use the name of the bill. BRCA (Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act). This is how @npub185h…wrdp refers to it.
https://image.nostr.build/068199133b573813a4ba0e9554c45671656cf43bb571502d300b6fef7f71f55b.jpg

2025-06-05 13:29:03

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“Save our Wallets" comes off as a pretty stupid compaign. I certainly don’t want to see Open Source Bitcoin devs unlawfully incriminated for their contributions. I mostly just think that the “Save our Wallets” is a poor way to communicate the proposed bill. Who picked “Save our Wallets”?

2025-06-05 08:04:49

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Interoperability of seed words is a superpower. Being able to switch wallets without moving funds on chain is huge part of self custody IMO.

2025-06-05 07:51:03

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When I was single, this is what I did for years. Kind of pain making multiple cups this way.

2025-06-05 07:45:34

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Could you share what command(s) used to pull that from CLN? I’d love to do the same.

2025-06-05 07:41:16

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Thank you for sharing

2025-06-05 02:26:31

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You’re not the first Bitcoiner I follow who has a Chevy Volt.

2025-06-05 02:23:52

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Another vote for Ubiquity.

2025-06-02 14:47:35

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Which iPhone and OS?

2025-06-01 15:34:27

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I should have said, Bitcoin is in trouble.

2025-06-01 15:33:57

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I agree that it’s sad, but I don’t think it’s a problem for at least near term (next decade or so) as long as NGU. If NGU stops increasing over 4 year period of time, then we’re in trouble for a lot of reasons.

2025-06-01 13:58:21

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My assumption is that your followers would not be included in my WoT unless others I follow (with less that 2000 followers) have the same followers.

2025-05-30 23:26:10

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I believe you can add the fees/cost to the original“purchase price” of the coin when reporting.

2025-05-30 22:11:34

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It’s a display option in Zeus

2025-05-24 16:45:17

Air frying sockeye and using @npub172m…5p3q as a glaze for lunch
https://image.nostr.build/aa04718c37c0081a3471a8a6d8f72dd41ef0851c413a31333b17666d42c3daf2.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/b6e2b403c7b25a64112c5ffe2b99872f9ab94709afb0eef49f8d7fa61a1c0065.jpg

2025-05-21 02:17:12

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It’s fascinating to learn about these kinds of odd things that were socially normalized less than 100 years ago.

2025-05-19 00:37:48

NGU is the best confirmation that none of the drama matters.

2025-05-18 01:45:40

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Starlink is my secondary failover internet. My neighbor really wanted it so I went halfsies on it with him. Fiber in my area is cheaper and faster. My neighbors aren’t big internet users; but they stream their TV watching, have smart phones and use a laptop rarely. They never complain about issues.
My internet has failed over to starlink for hours during main working hours and I never even noticed. I do zoom/webex/teams calls all day and it works perfectly for me when I do use it.

2025-05-18 01:35:53

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My limited first hand experience is that crap weather, like a typical thunderstorm with rain or average snow fall (2-3 inches), it works just like normal. The main thing I see is a significant drop in available bandwidth during peak usage times.

2025-05-16 19:56:27

Nostr has me craving a burger, fries and shake.

2025-05-06 17:30:35

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I guess muting didn’t work as I expected it would. I had to just unfollow…

2025-05-06 17:29:11

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I just muted for 24 hours

2025-05-06 12:48:53

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I believe none of this 🤣

2025-05-05 17:56:13

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Is this a new thing? I’ve heard/seen smashburger a few times in the last few weeks. I’m glad I wasn’t the only one that didn’t know what it was.

2025-05-05 17:39:20

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I’ve been asking myself what is blossom and why should I care for the last few days. This note answers my questions perfectly. Thank you!

2025-05-03 20:37:03

My daughter asks me every morning if today is Saturday; knowing she’ll get to spend the entire day with me if it is. I look forward to each Saturday more than ever. Today is no exception.

2025-04-24 20:46:49

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The App Store guidelines have changed quite a bit since I last looked at them closely. Ultimately it doesn’t matter what the guidelines say but how Apple enforces them. Glad to hear it’s not a problem. Maybe it’s okay since it’s probably JavaScript executing from WebKit.
Here is a snippet of the guidelines I thought would be a problem.
https://image.nostr.build/82c5271b58d213735acdc8c937c0c98506c191c5c78ed5ae0add8ee9f743b310.jpg

2025-04-24 12:33:55

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I didn’t think Apple allowed in app updates not through the App Store.
https://image.nostr.build/f7a93376f3a1d7d2777c15e7fa7992710f1b46659742d12702337dbd0f9b96a7.jpg

2025-03-20 01:52:50

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I’m ready as soon as you are!

2025-03-19 22:02:33

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Glad I moved to Jellyfin about 6 months ago.

2025-03-17 13:23:23

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It’s back!

2025-03-17 11:42:29

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I went to update the app this morning and got the same message.

2025-03-17 11:29:19

Did @npub1mlz…2t6p get pulled from the iOS App Store?

2025-03-05 17:50:02

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Same. I’ve had it for like 5+ years. Printers terrible quality prints but I don’t care 😂

2025-03-05 16:45:18

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Is it possible to use a testnet or signet electrum server and wallet in Keeper? I don’t see a way to change the wallet derivation path to m/84'/1'/0'
Is love if this feature could be added