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Nick Klockenga
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Don’t jump, we need you :)

I’ve started using this trick for all sorts of things with my kids. There is so much competitive drive in my kids DNA they can’t resist even when they know it’s a trick. šŸ˜‚

I’ve had the Milano cookies a multiple times in my life and I always walk away thinking they are overrated. All fancy packaging with dry and dull flavor. I’d honestly rather have a stack of Oreos and a tall glass of whole milk.

I believe it’s possible with bolt12 offers. Here is a core lighting plugin I remember looking at but didn’t try: https://github.com/gudnuf/bolt12-prism

I wonder what percentage of the US population thinks ā€œAIā€ and Visual Effects in commercials are basically the same thing. I’d bet at least 25%.

It was not on by default for me. I had to click activate in the Square settings > checkout > payments section on the iPhone app. This opened up an iOS Safari webpage with a setup wizard asking me some very simple questions. It took 60 seconds to activate.

I have an ancient square account I setup over 15 years ago and never use. Somehow it continues to exist; so I used it to generate this invoice and see what the steps were to turn on accepting bitcoin payments. So I haven’t found a true merchant to accept payments yet. I know a small handful of businesses with single employees who use Square. It will be trivial to step them through turning on bitcoin payments.

I’m a little sad the word ā€œsatsā€ isn’t used. Looking forward to making my first Bitcoin payment to a local merchant via square. I have a few in mind already.

I don’t know how to implement. I was just wondering what how much CPU time is spent on a tx that is seen by a node once vs twice (and what if any CPU time is spent on relay).

You can ignore this question. It doesn’t make any sense in retrospect.

I guess that is ultimately the calculus in question. The risk seems to be normalization of the networking lowering the node defaults of `minrelaytxfee` and `incrementalrelayfee`. I suspect this would lead to lower long term fee rates. Maybe I’m wrong.

Update:

I now see 4 out of 68 peers identifying as Knots. 7 of these peers are relaying sub 1 vbyte txs; that seems wild to me.

I wish there was more discourse on nostr about sub 1 sat per vbyte transactions being relayed and mined. Seems like bad long term thinking for mining pools. nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a mostly dismissed it as mining pool economic ignorance on a recent WBD pod. I find it hard to believe mining pools aren’t considering the economic consequences.

Lnurl via commando is brilliant idea. Love that you’re building this.

I can pay the invoice. There are no receipts.

It’s a shame more onchain wallets don’t support BIP39 passphrases.

I find myself using Zeus the most. I wish nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 had a proper onchain wallet not associated to any specific LN implementation. If it did, I’m not sure I’d have a reason to use any other mobile wallet.

Wallet choice is complex. So many trade offs it’s challenging to summarize.

Why not just use the name of the bill. BRCA (Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act). This is how nostr:npub185h9z5yxn8uc7retm0n6gkm88358lejzparxms5kmy9epr236k2qcswrdp refers to it.

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Today on nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wsqzq7q8pqp9qg6mz0y0keaw4u6q7fxr8pzmy3cw0hw8asx5psqxsfj9w2rsvz I'm talking with nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqy0hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwvf5hgcm0d9hzumnfde4xzqpq85h9z5yxn8uc7retm0n6gkm88358lejzparxms5kmy9epr236k2qtyz2zr about https://saveourwallets.org/ and the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act.

Let me know if you have questions for Matt.

LIVE STREAMED for #nostronly at 1:30PM US CST on nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qqsv73dxhgfk8tt76gf6q788zrfyz9dwwgwfk3aar6l5gk82a76v9fgfngn5a

ā€œSave our Wallets" comes off as a pretty stupid compaign. I certainly don’t want to see Open Source Bitcoin devs unlawfully incriminated for their contributions. I mostly just think that the ā€œSave our Walletsā€ is a poor way to communicate the proposed bill. Who picked ā€œSave our Walletsā€?

Interoperability of seed words is a superpower. Being able to switch wallets without moving funds on chain is huge part of self custody IMO.

I can't remember if I've posted on nostr my advice for making good coffee at home.

If you drink instant coffee, there is something you can do that is very inexpensive and barely much more work than boiling a kettle of water, and your coffee will be way better than instant.

If you have an espresso machine at home, this advice isn't for you, you already have good coffee I imagine.

Here is the advice: Get an AeroPress. Get a coffee grinder that uses burrs. Doesn't have to be expensive. You can get a cheap hand grinder like a Timemore, Kingrinder, or 1zpresso... or mayb you can find an old cheap electric coffee grinder. As long as it uses burrs and doesn't have a spinning blade. Then buy whole coffee beans at the supermarket (try different ones until you get one you like). Grind the beans right before brewing in your AeroPress. Grind your coffee while you wait for the water to boil, setup the AeroPress with a filter, then pour in the grounds, pour in the hot water, let it sit about a minute, and press it through. FAR better than instant, and almost as instant. Plus very cheap. You can get an aeropress for probably < US $50 and a hand grinder also for < US $50. I bought both in NZ for less then NZ $100 each.

Using roast coffee beans instead of instant makes a big difference.

Grinding those beans semi-properly with a burr makes an appreciable difference.

The paper filter in the AeroPress and probably other factors about how it works makes a difference.

Instant sucks. Upgrade. But IMHO spending tons of money on espresso machines and fancy grinders isn't going to make your coffee that much better than AeroPress is. Unless you really need espresso shots, in which case... ask someone else.

When I was single, this is what I did for years. Kind of pain making multiple cups this way.