What’s the deal with nostr:npub1ajlrwgfj4yerhqf7ady03h7wmtk2qr3gs7h3sxcx83k05yld36sswpzx3q and why does anyone like it?

I’ve personally seen two people in the past month attempt to pay a Lightning invoice with it and it failed both times. The worst part was it said the payment had completed on the sender’s side but the recipient never got paid. After the invoice expires, the sender eventually gets notified and the sats are returned to their wallet, but it can take 24 hours. Meanwhile, the merchant either loses a sale or the customer has to pay using another method while waiting for their automatic refund.

This is a frustrating experience both for retail customers and merchants, and it’s things like this that are going to kill Lightning adoption.

Fwiw, I like Aqua for consolidating small non-kyc amounts.

I don't want utxos under 2M sats, and I also want some form of privacy.

So I send my small chunks of non-kyc coin to Aqua where it's swapped into liquid, and then once I have enough sats, swap it back to L1 and move to cold storage.

This way the relationship between utxos in and utxos out is obfuscated, and I like to think it preserves some privacy, breaks the traceability for those I've acquired the sats from, and allows me to keep my utxo sizes responsible.

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LBTC (L2) on Aqua is a good middle-ground between L1 and LN. It should not be considered equivalent to either.