The more I actually try to use Bitcoin Lightning, the more I hate it. I just want to send and receive digital shekels. All of this shit about channels, inbound/outbound liquidity, etc is a pain in the ass and gets between me and what I want. The fact that channels can arbitrarily get closed, leaving money in limbo for days is even more shit.

AlbyHub closed a new channel I opened after 13 fucking minutes... now I need to fund another one if I want my wallet to work, but I can't the funds in AlbyHub because they're too few and stuck in closed channels anyway.

I have an embedded node Zeus wallet on a phone with enough sats to do the job, but oh no! The channel's stuck as Inactive, and even if it does activate properly, there's too many zombie channels so any attempt at payment times out and goes nowhere.

I won't pretend Monero hasn't given me headaches and borderline heart attacks in the past, but it's got nothing on this Lightning shit. When it works well it works well, but just one piece out of alignment and it all goes to shit. Lightning fucking sucks, and I'm not willing to pretend it doesn't.

This is the correct answer for 99% of people. Talk is cheap, I ran a pretty good sized meetup for years and the amount of people willing to use Bitcoin is dismal.

Every time I send an email using PGP, I feel like a weirdo, and I love it.

#Privavyisahumanfight

NGOs are all scammers.

If you need help you open a Nostr account and tell your case, the community decides whether or not to send to your Lightning wallet.

No censorship, face to face, no commissions, this opens a new paradigm.

Although you know, there are many bad people who take advantage of the goodwill of people like the NGOs themselves.

If you could buy whatever you need on nostr marketplaces, would you use it?

Samourai Wallet was way ahead of the curve on privacy features and UX and now Ashigaru wallet is.

#FreeSamourai #Ashigaru

Source, court listener isn't keeping up

POSIWID (Purpose of a system is what it does)

LN works fine noncustodially if you can deploy resources.

So not appropriate for end users unless you have a lot of time.

but its true it failed to scaling the core principles of Bitcoin

LN is just a different settlement layer between large entities.

its only "failed" if you expect something else from it.

and if ecash provides BTC denominated custodial txs on top it isnt a problem.

They always find some reasons to get anything.

Right, but do we have a central database to share branding information across the globe with hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers monitoring world wide cow compliance programs? I dont think so

What are some topics where we are all a little, or a lot brainwashed?

#asknostr

Bad news guys we're gonna need to KYC all the cows