Are Swan or Cory even on #nostr yet? Does Cory want to win the race to avoid the war or what? Pacific #Bitcoin is happening right now, but I haven't seen nearly any talk of it around nostr. Why is that?
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More signal here than noise.
You saying swan is noise?
Yea. But a lot of the culture/macro/philosophy stuff I find to be noisy and mainly consume technical content. Which I’ve never gotten strong technical signal from. Probably just my biases. 🤷♂️
Swan not being bitcoin only with their custodian was the first noise. Switched to River which is still KYC but they own their whole tech stack. Which I admire as a technical bitcoiner.
I was a swan customer. I thought about switching to River while they changed custodians but bought from cash app in the mean time. I think I'm just going to stay with cash app now. They have lightning support and when I buy it's instant settled. Which means instant from purchase to lightning self custody. I can't get to self custody faster anywhere else.
That’s a fair point. I think I can do the same with River. I’ve just opted automate it on a schedule. Three times a day. Different dollar amounts. I could see myself having enjoyed Cash App if I went that route first.
As an aside, My local gun dealer was on cash app and he agreed to take some bitcoin from me just to see. They took him to KYC and he spooked. And then I got to tell him about no-KYC bitcoin and lightning and sovereignty. He’s a cash business mind of guy.
Thank you Cash App. For giving me the tools I need. (This is not an ad, just love what they’re doing)
Hell yea. As a former swan customer, set it and forget it, auto dca and withdraw are great. But instant cash to self custody is huge benefit for me. And with boltz I swap between layers for privacy. It's all so quick.
Idk what boltz is??
I do almost nothing for privacy on the KYC front. 😬
I probably should.
Omg. Brother. Utilize liquid and lightning for privacy. nostr:npub1psm37hke2pmxzdzraqe3cjmqs28dv77da74pdx8mtn5a0vegtlas9q8970
Install as a pwa. Try it out. Flawless atomic swaps from ⚡ to 💦 and 🟠
Are the checking out Fedimint? If they aren’t. We should chat.
Fedimint is very promising tech. I personally love ecash and cashu nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg as well
I've been thinking about doing simple guides for this stuff.
PB ended last week. Swan is not really on nostr. Swan's media arm is aimed at nocoiners and newcoiners, nostr is all bitcoiners.
Followed. Swan is good top of funnel for people outside the #bitcoin echo chamber. They recruit a lot of HNWI, business, and lately a strong push for pensions and institutions. New multi custodial vault programs. You are right about some of their public facing podcasts. They are bitcoin only company.
Except for their custodian...