**Lightning is the hidden killer feature of Nostr**

Yes, being censorship resistant and decentralized are both incredibly important, but most people won't realize why those two aspects are needed and important until it's too late. That's why I keep saying that the Bitcoin Lightning network and how it's tightly integrated into various aspects of Nostr are *the* hidden killer features. It's a way to micro-dose orange pill users onto Bitcoin in a friction-less and stress free, and fun manner.

I've had dozens of Nostr Plebs customers reach out to me over the past 5 weeks and tell me that they've never used Lightning, that they've never downloaded a Lightning wallet, or that they've had a Lightning node, but never opened channels. These Nostriches are now setting up their nodes, they're opening channels, and they're sending sats from their Lightning wallets to strangers around the globe - in seconds, with minimal fees, and no third parties are involved!

Keep the Lightning "Tips" are "Zaps" flowing. It's a great way to on-board new users. Even if it's just a few sats, it's always appreciated and always welcomed. It brings smiles to the faces of plenty of Nostriches.

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I have not touched my lightning node in a while, but looking to reallocate stale channels to nodes that are active on nostr.

My Lightning node and #[3] 's Lightning node are on fire. It's so absolutely fun to see the amount of tips and payments flowing through our nodes. It just makes me so happy and excited to have them truly be used non stop throughout the day. More importantly, it's fantastic to see them actually be USED. Instead of a dozen invoices a month, this is now happens over the course of hours.

What is your LN node pubkey?

02fe4a482d38a9c68f0750e0f1992381713173ba2c6e75697abf9037a588bb5028

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*The killer zapp*?

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Is the perspective of businesses using nostr & lightning for commerce something we can expect soon?

I think right now the most obvious use case is creating a value4value economy inside the nostr community.

when lightning first blew my brian nearly 2 years ago. I said that peeps would be using it before they knew what it was. It's a great way to onboard communities giving them a micro economy, social network and the ability to separate different parts of their life. The NOSTR protocol does this and has much more to come.

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Agreed. I wonder how long until zaps on Amethyst?

The best part is that you can orange pill people without them even knowing what’s under the hood if they use a custodial app wallet.

Very true. We'll see clients integrate custodial wallets for tips and zaps at some point. Though, I hope those clients also remind users that it's best to self custody.

Agree. I think they will because they’ll be most likely done by bitcoiners.

+ 21 sats from Alex Jones. The Great ReSat

Keep up the good work Infowarrior!

Agreed

Suppose I have a node with open channels and inbound liquidity. How do I configure Nostr to receive tips direct to my node without 3rd parties?

This is very doable, but takes some time. I don't have a good guide to share and I also don't have the time right now to write one. You can do it with BTCPay Server or LNBits.

Its early. This is the grassroots of the revolution. Wanna follow up on this, as Im routing sats on my node for the benefit of all. Any leading node tapped into the stream of sats from nostr? Wanna participate.

I took a stab at enabling "domain features" to mynode...didn't quite get it to where I wanted it, and just hard coded well knowns 😅

Satdress is good. Honestly the first node that adds domain features in a non clunky way will get my 👍

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I miss being able to save or archive notes like this. I don't know if it is something that has already been implemented in other clients.

Being able to bookmark or save notes is a feature that I'd love to see too.

I was thinking this yesterday. I had to scroll down global 1-2 days to find a note that came to mind. I didn’t remember who posted it, and didn’t follow the user. A bookmark would be great

Wow, scroll global back to 2 days ago... You are my hero 😂

“Today I will do what other's won't, so tomorrow I will do what others can't.” - Jerry Rice

Dedication in finding these notes that resonate with you lol

I've designed this for Nostros, but not implemented yet. Is think that is something possible in nostr right now, right?

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It's definitely working, although I do hold BTC since 2017, I never used LN, until now.