Imagine, if you will, a payments experience with

- Instant settlement like Lightning

- Async payments like ecash

- Great privacy by default

- Onboarding as easy as a custodial product

but, all self-custodial and super-charged by Nostr.

That’s what we’re building.

I want to live in a place where convicted pedophiles are publicly executed, and I want that place to be the United States.

MANY SIGNED NOTES BEING BROADCASTED CLAIMING MEMPOOLS WILL ALWAYS CLEAR THAT WILL AGE HORRIBLY. 📝

Still havnt gone to pyro

Playing Star Citizen tonight with some new players. Anyone else wanna join us tonight after work? I have a referral code for new players who want a free space bike 🏍

#starcitizen #games

nuking all socials besides nostr has drastically reduced my exposure to online negativity. thankfully, reddit is still filling that void 😂

you’re average android phone is likely 100x worse than apple privacy wise. Apple makes money on hardware, not user data. They wouldn’t put so much effort into secure enclaves, e2e encryption, and private ai clouds otherwise, as all of this makes data collection harder.

Unless you’re using grapheneOS, the anti-apple pro-android privacy crowd is a larp and misinformed. Android is built by google, a company who could care less about your privacy.

We won’t condemn the ACINQ/Phoenix folks for leaving the US market. Yes, it’s disappointing, but we understand the position. We as US citizens need to fight the regulatory battle on our own grounds.

What we will condemn them for is building a closed garden product akin to something that will come out of Silicon Valley, with no ability to switch LSPs in app or open your own channels.

We’re building something with the complete opposite dynamics over at ZEUS, and we welcome all the exiled Phoenix users from the US with open arms.

Welcome. Things are different here.

Let’s be clear, if no one steps up and decides to run LSPs because everyone is worried about regulatory concerns, every bitcoin L2 system is toast - every one that has a reasonable security model relies on some kind of centralized or federated party that has similar concerns, even if they can’t seize funds.

Without any L2 systems everyone using bitcoin will simply use custodial platforms because that’s the only way to get reasonable fees and payment latency.

And don’t go yelling at ACINQ for deciding not to operate Phoenix in the US, the software required to run an LSP is open source, with only relatively minimal liquidity allocation logic required to get started. We need new entrants, and that means new companies who think the risk is manageable (I’m confident it is, but I can’t fault anyone for not wanting to take that risk).

If you see someone suggesting ACINQ should just keep running, the correct response is “well why aren’t you running an LSP”.

We’re going to destroy them. They will tell tales of our victory for generations. It will be beautiful.

They think they’re storied, accomplished, and just but that couldn’t be further from the truth. They think they’re more powerful. They think they’re more skilled. They have certain hopes for the future and they’ll do anything they can to bring that future to fruition, including painting us as villains.

But the history books will not look back kindly on them.

Not if we have anything to say about it.

The Philadelphia 76ers are going down.

Fixed a bunch of too-dark-to-see gifs.

Shrunk large images.

Half-ass organized them.

Who knew I'd be giving release notes for emoji sets? #KeepNostrWeird

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Member when people generally thought this?

*meme predates Xitter™️ purchase

I can’t declare what I don’t have and know nothing about…what’s Bitcoin?

What’s your favorite YouTube channel?

😂 how??

Sent!

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me:

nostr:npub1h50pnxqw9jg7dhr906fvy4mze2yzawf895jhnc3p7qmljdugm6gsrurqev : 🤦‍♀️

Any good vps that accepts sats?