Cashu is amazing.

I don't see lightning be used for very small payments in a bit so distant future. This things is the closest thing to actual cash in an actual wallet.

Analogies.

Cashu is everyday wallet + prepaid card.

Lighting is your bank account, for salary and larger expenses and recharge cashu.

Onchain bitcoin obviously is the store of wealth.

he was not playing along and knew too much 🤪

I'm putting my money on that is someone that lost their wife or child and had procedures/medicines denied and/or were financially ruined to boot.

I would guess it’s either a disgruntled former employee or someone with a gripe against a drug or its price.

Is there anyone who is *strongly* interested in being an early round beta reader for my sci fi manuscript?

Near-future sci-fi, crime/thriller/cyberpunk. A blend of action and multi-character depth, and moral analysis. The action is key and all, but alpha readers thus far cried at the character aspects; that's what hit them hard enough to care how they would engage with the action.

Strict Requirements for first-stage beta readers:

-I need to know/trust you personally, either in person or very well online with high reputation, to the point that I'd send an unfinished manuscript to you. There's no strict requirements, but if you know, you know.

-You like sci fi and/or fantasy books, and would be happy to read and offer objective (even brutal) feedback on a sci-fi action/crime thriller novel within the next month or two.

-You can comment or DM, for privacy sake.

That's a small group, but I'm putting it here on Nostr first for what I consider my pre-beta or readers. I will then expand 10x on Twitter and elsewhere for my full beta readers.

Meanwhile, I'm in the early revision stage. Manuscripts won't be sent out immediately. I'm still doing revisions and working with alpha readers, but I'm at the stage where I can start *planning* for the next step to see who might be interested to be early beta readers. Nostr folks get the exclusive early notice here.

I do tend to move pretty fast, though.

All pre-beta readers that provide meaningful input would be mentioned in the acknowledgement section, if the book were to be published, which of course I cannot guarantee will happen. I will only publish good books, one way or another.

But like, the alpha readers do like it. ;)

i'm mostly just skeptical of DMs at this point, especially automated ones. but air quality is regional, so i could subscribe to a bot in my area.

DMs no, a bot npub yes.

Basically I fetch the LNURL service params from their LNURL service provider and swap out their callback with my callback. My callback sends an anon zap request to their LNURL service to generate the invoice.

The payment fails if they don’t have a lightning address on their profile. My service is just an LNURL service proxy that requests a zap invoice from the user’s LNURL service provider.

Wrote something up after seeing this: naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzp978pfzrv6n9xhq5tvenl9e74pklmskh4xw6vxxyp3j8qkke3cezqq2nskt2w9vx6dznfdvj64rpw4mk5nmxf3v9xsd0gdy

Let me know if it suits the purpose, or whether it's too technical.