JanetBishop9DM

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**# Introducing the Robosats Alert Bot for SimpleX**

Hey everyone,

Glad to make my fist post here! I am 🏛️TempleOfSats🏛️, a Robosats coordinator.

I'm excited to introduce a new tool for those using RoboSats—a SimpleX bot that notifies you when an order meeting your specific criteria (currency, premium, payment method, and amount) is posted. This project is designed to uphold the privacy philosophy of RoboSats by leveraging the security features of SimpleX.

## 🚀 Overview
This bot monitors RoboSats for orders that fit your requirements and sends notifications via SimpleX, ensuring your privacy. The bot checks for matches in the background and alerts you instantly when a match is found.

## 📖 User Guide
**1. Connect to the Bot**  
Click [here](https://simplex.chat/contact/#/?v=1-4&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FPQUV2eL0t7OStZOoAsPEV2QYWt4-xilbakvGUGOItUo%3D%40smp6.simplex.im%2F1hxVU2uzv58rmvUTWbzwqYzNwK1xHTjQ%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAdmTemke6RDWl1PS3RoHMkJ7U773pXb1o1HnlQ24wT3k%253D%26srv%3Dbylepyau3ty4czmn77q4fglvperknl4bi2eb2fdy2bh4jxtf32kf73yd.onion) to connect to the public instance of the SimpleX Chat Bot.

**2. Getting Started**  
Upon connection, you'll receive a welcome message. Start by typing `/help` to see how to interact with the bot.

![](https://m.stacker.news/45925)

**3. Create an Alert**  
Just type `/new` and follow the prompts to set up your alert. The bot will guide you step by step.

![](https://m.stacker.news/45928)


**4. Receive Notifications**  
The bot monitors for new orders that match your criteria. When it finds one, you’ll get detailed info about the order, including an onion link to place the order.

![](https://m.stacker.news/45931)

**5. Manage Alerts**  
View your alerts by typing `/list`. You can enable, disable, or delete them as needed. Alerts have a 7-day lifetime by default, but you can extend this with `/extend` command.

![](https://m.stacker.news/45932)



## 🛠️ Self Hosting & future of the project
Everyone is encouraged to self-host this bot, following the guide on the Github repo: https://github.com/lft3t8bx/Robosats-Orderbook-Alert-Bot-for-SimpleX-Chat ! 

Self Hosted version of the project could further extend the capabilities of the project.
For instance, an integration with the excellent [roboauto project](https://github.com/jerryfletcher21/roboauto) could allow users to make/take orders and automatically pay bonds / submit invoice through the self hosted lightning node.



## 🥚 Easter Egg
For those who made it this far, type `/satoshi` to get a random quote from Satoshi Nakamoto!

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This bot is a great way to stay on top of RoboSats orders while maintaining your privacy. If you’re interested in self-hosting or have any questions, feel free to reach out!

Happy trading!

Robosats Alert Bot for SimpleX

christianity

Canada Announces 'Amnesty' Day Allowing Bitcoin Miners to Surrender ASICs,

Bitnodes showing large drop off of tor nodes

DevonStuartDYF

you guys did a LOT to push the state of the art on noncustodial financial services. Thanks for all the hard work! I think I'll be missing itchysats forever. 

Dogs_And_Cats

Few people know this, but BIP 39 was actually Nack'ed by the code reviewers. In the Bitcoin core repo, to Ack is to agree with the proposal. It means you reviewed it and gave a thumbs up, this is good code. In BIP 39's case, it got a Nack from reviewers which means they reviewed the code and gave it a thumbs down, this is bad code.

BIP 39 is where we get seed phrases from. So why was it negatively reviewed? Let me put it this way, do you know what a derivation path is? If you answered no, then you have the answer to your question.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0039

Now, getting a Nack in your BIP doesn't mean its dead forever and ever. You can update your BIP to address the concerns and change that Nacks over to Acks. However, wallet developers implemented the BIP before any improvements to the BIP were made. That means that things like the derivation path can be wildly different between wallets.

You can check which derivation path your wallet uses here: https://walletsrecovery.org (this is literally just a list of derivation paths)

What makes this worse is that things like timelocks can not be represented using BIP 39 because it uses a locking script and that script needs to be part of your backup. That's why something like Liana wallet uses a different backup method called "descriptor wallets"

This is the BIP for descriptor wallets https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0380.mediawiki

So look out for this new wallet recovery type. Maybe even you can think of ways to make it easy to use for the general community and it may as a result even take over seed phrases.

What is a Derivation Path?

Note Screenshots

AdrianVillaPV6

Bitcoiners are necessarily freedom maximalists. And that especially includes freedom of speech.