Oddbean

# I'm leaving Foundation and joining Cake Wallet It's time for a new chapter in my journey building freedom tech, and I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be jumping in to help Vik run Cake as VP of Operations starting in September. ## Why Cake? I've known Vik for many years in the space, and have been watching from the sidelines as he's worked hard to bring together an amazing team to build out a wallet that prioritizes ease-of-use and powerful privacy no matter what cryptocurrency people prefer. That all started with being the first Monero wallet on iOS, and has rapidly grown to being a cross-platform, multi-cryptocurrency wallet used by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. The best part? Cake Wallet has been paving the way in the privacy space for many years, including the latest push to be the first mobile wallet to include Silent Payments for Bitcoin and MWEB for Litecoin. My vision for Cake is to carry this privacy-first vision even further, continuing to push the envelope and let users access powerful privacy features with an intuitive, beautiful user experience that makes privacy easy. The first three objectives I have will be improving and expanding Silent Payments support (especially improving the sync experience!), building out an amazing (and privacy-preserving) Lightning experience, and fine-tuning and improving the existing Cake Wallet that you all know and love across the board. I can't wait to step into this larger role, especially with friends that I've already gotten the chance to meet and get to know over the years. I'm also thrilled to be able to dedicate a bit more time to expanding access and ease-of-use for Monero, especially in the wake of the takedown of Samourai Wallet and the broad attacks against Bitcoin privacy. Monero is a more important tool than ever, and Cake has been a key part of making Monero more useful over the years. ## Grateful for Foundation I have nothing but amazing things to say about Foundation and the incredible people I've gotten to work with so closely over the past two years. We've gotten the chance to build the best Bitcoin hardware wallet out there in Passport, and turn Envoy from a simple companion app for Passport to a powerful standalone mobile wallet with the best coin control in the space. I especially wanted to shout out Zach Herbert and @qna, as they have been close friends and allies, giving me the chance to get started in the space and grow into what became a much larger role than originally planned with Foundation. Zach has gone above and beyond to empower me over the past two years, and his tireless efforts to drive Foundation forward and ensure we ship the best possible products has been inspiring. @qna is the reason I'm even in Bitcoin in the first place, and was the key voice of reason that helped me understand the how and why of privacy in Bitcoin, as well as the power (and necessity) of going no-KYC-only. We've built a great friendship over the past two years and I'm honored to be able to have learned so much from him. This has to be the most bittersweet move of my life, but I'm thrilled with the new prospects at Cake and know that those taking over in my place at Foundation are going to bring a unique approach to help them take the next step forward as well. Now let's get back to building 🫡 P.S. - Keep an eye out, Cake and Foundation will be working closely together in the near future 👀

You have to add their repo to your F-Droid app: https://fdroid.cakelabs.com/ You can also download from source and manage updates with Obtainium. https://github.com/cake-tech/cake_wallet/releases/tag/v4.19.3 https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

Supporting alts complicates the UX and diffuses available resources. Ultimately, that reduces the quality of the product. Better to just focus your time and resources on the one with the largest market. https://image.nostr.build/32ea4845c3a1f3ab55e72d46da5a92b6a494b51ace61317e22483fe956233153.jpg

Cake is the best wallet I've used, even though I don't exactly have a lot of experience with crypto wallets. Aside from a bug that I'm going to have to message support about, it has been a completely positive experience. Congrats and best wishes for this new journey!

Awesome move! I like cake a lot especially having it pointed to own full nodes. With BTC in cake an electrum service for the BTC node is reqired, it would be cool to have the option to use the peer port with bloom filter like Bisq is connecting to BTC nodes as well.