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BenWestgate / Bails

Bails is a Bitcoin solution protecting against surveillance, censorship, and confiscation. It installs Bitcoin Core on the encrypted Persistent Storage of Tails, creates and recovers Bitcoin Core wallets from Codex32 (BIP93) seed backups, and creates backup Bails USB sticks and shareable blank Bails USB sticks. Learn more in README.md.
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tails-screen-locker just sort of appears on the screen without any explanation during descriptor importing #57

Closed BenWestgate closed 1 month ago

BenWestgate commented 11 months ago

This step can be either really fast or slow depending on the blockchain progress and how busy the node is.

I should say more obviously, this will be slow, lock your screen if you have to step away from the computer. BEFORE showing the dialog for tails-screen-locker. Otherwise it just sits there and the notification with explanation expires.

BenWestgate commented 11 months ago

Lets make a file called "remind-lock-screen" that checks if the user has a screen lock passphrase set and notifies them every 3 +/- minutes if not, else clears its notifications and exits. This is for chainstate-preload.

Press the lock screen keys to lock your computer if you need to walk away from it.

BenWestgate commented 3 months ago

This also defines the scope of bails-wallet for seed recovery, it should build the descriptor and stop there. (This means in L2, we can also let it display a QR of that descriptor.) That way Bails can offer some entertainment during long steps like descriptor importing, as well as me not need to worry about teaching bails-wallet how to detect and import descriptors.

BenWestgate commented 1 month ago

We can't kill notifications anymore. But we do try to set the screen lock password during each boot. If this needs to be reopened we will replace it with a dialog since notifications create spam that reduces privacy on the lock screen.