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Felix
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Seeing stuff like this, previously with GameStop, really makes me wonder why anybody is left buying stocks. Seems if people like getting rugged.

There is a well maintained fork of Innertune because development stopped but seems like the original one just merged some PRs again.

https://github.com/Malopieds/InnerTune

What brought you back👀

Love the fresh air and silence on top of a 🏔

#GM Good morning, #nostr! Had a nice ruck early this morning and now ready to tackle today.

Had a thought:

nostr:npub1c4vv0nrfh0drcfchs2mndw4uvjkd9k393v20x4kme2txev9hhz0qw4cqk7 is an awesome bot that identifies and removes tracking links. Two suggestions:

1) Incorporate into Nostr clients to give option to warn or scrub the tracking UTM code from links

2) Integrate farside.link’s smart redirection code to give users the option to visit a #privacy respecting front end for shared links, such as Invidious.io

See:

https://farside.link/

https://github.com/benbusby/farside

Thanks, these are good ideas👀 Regarding 2) I like the idea but am not yet sure how to integrate it as I want to keep the user experience easy.

On mobile for example its nice if your YouTube app opens the URL (e.g. newpipe) which doesn't happen with alternative frontends.

Maybe as additional URL but then the reply could get confusing or cluttered for some.

Really hoping to see clients do this at one point.

Thanks, noted📝 Currently using regtest for onchain testing.

Mutinynet is also very useful with their faucet, but a bit more work to set up as you need a fork of core.

Technically its possible for sure but then you are building another standard nobody supports I guess. By relying on existing LSP standards its probably quicker to bootstrap as existing LSPs could just announce on Nostr. Maybe optional?

Maybe some spec even contains something like a fee credit, haven't looked at them yet👀

https://github.com/BitcoinAndLightningLayerSpecs/lsp/tree/main

Would be really cool, with LSP discovery via Nostr so there can be a real, transparent LSP market.

Maybe with an API similar to phoenixd to have it compatible with lnbits etc directly from the beginning.

But the fee credit thing will be hard to replace

You understand it correctly.

The way I see it is e.g. google images is essentially also a text search engine redirecting to the media hosts. I don't think the problem is nobody wants to host the memes but that discovery is highly censored and permissioned.

Not sure how much sense this concept makes but I think on Nostr everyone could publish a specific Event, identifiable as Meme Event, containing metadata to index (description, tags) and any amount of either URL endpoints to download or maybe a magnet URL. I think Blossom also works on media distribution (haven't looked at it yet, not sure), https://github.com/hzrd149/blossom

A meme client could then list and search these events and find every imaginable meme.

I guess the concept could be compared with what dtan.xyz does with torrents. https://dtan.xyz/

Multiple things, while not having 100% comparable usecases i see the following benefits in fedimint for regular user day to day use (e.g. circular economy, zapping, spending etc).

"decentralization": there can be way more fedimints while there is and will only be one liquid federation in practice, making it way harder for regulators to target fedimint users. Also brings the bank closer to the user enabling the user to physically complain in case the bank pulls the rug.

Scalability: With many fedimint federations and lightning gateways you can essentially scale without limits while liquid can't do micropayments, zaps etc, especially not for millions of users.

Privacy: liquid is still a public blockchain, while it has confidential transactions there is still better privacy with ecash based fedimint i guess.

Bitcoin native: Liquid is its own token, making it more complicated to do transactions to "real" bitcoin receivers, while possible with swaps (e.g. aqua/boltz) its still more complicated to understand/use as user, especially if you have a separate liquid balance. I really think we need wallets with just "Bitcoin" hiding everything (onchain, ln etc.) in the background, exposing just unified QRs etc. Mutiny seems to go in a really good direction here, which i think is more natural to do with fedimint as you have the close integration of lightning gateways and onchain peg outs. Also with fedimint its instant, while with liquid you would have to wait a minute to pay a ln invoice when doing a swap out in the background.

Only bigger downside i see that it is easier for a mint to steal trough inflation which would be visible in liquid.

Currently liquid is still more usable though as there is no fully polished wallet for fedimint yet imo (see recent DNS problems etc.) but i guess this changes in the months/year.

Yes, at least until fedimint is more mature and works well with bigger amounts/onchain