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A Tanuki node is a Lightning node with outbound liquidity of 0.615 BTC or more.

Giant sac of liquidity.

Do you happen to be running a Tanuki node, per chance?

This is a good point. apps should reject input strings that start with “nsec1”

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Pretty cool real life story…

My in-laws have a family business and they had a local guy as their web developer for a long time. They’re very non-technical but absolutely needed their website for their livelihood.

Their developer passed away suddenly a few years back and they were stuck - had no idea how to update their website, run their business or anything.

Then they get an email from some other guy on the other side of the world, reaching out to them saying he could help with their website. At first they thought it was a scam. Turns out their local web guy had been subcontracting to another firm in Ukraine that was actually doing the dev work. The new dev is able to prove he’s the one and they’re back in business. Things were smooth sailing for a couple years.

Then Russia invaded Ukraine…

The Ukrainian dev has been slower to respond (understandably) but is still maintaining everything. Recently, paying him has been more difficult. Not sure if he’s being cut off by payment providers or what, but my father in law asked me to help him sort it out. He thought I was joking when I said let’s see if we can pay him with bitcoin. He’s older and thinks bitcoin is a scam, but I know the Ukrainian dev is around my age so I figure there’s a chance.

Turns out, he doesn’t know much about “crypto” but he’s open to it, he just want to get paid.

So today, I’m assisting my father in law pay a his Ukrainian web dev in bitcoin. Possibly a double orange pill moment.

🤙🏻

Great story!

Oh wait. I jumped the gun and didn’t notice the Wikileaks part. unclenchingFist.gif

You never know which moment of your life is going to become part of history. And if you’re lucky you’re getting rich while it is happening. That 50% gain in a few hours was epic. Flipping the Image2008.jpg was such a rush, and I had no idea it was gonna be an epic moment in early Nostr history. 🤙⚡️🌶️🎈🔥🧡

Same. Jack being here revs up plebs’ morale.

YOY revenue drop of 40% is survivable if their costs are down by more than that by a good margin. It’s the combo of user departure and the debt that might be unsurvivable.

Good to create competition so we end up with more and better possibilities.

Nostr is not enabling just a social network.

Think about what GitHub and its centralized rivals enable. Then think about what happens when the centralized hammer comes down. This is why you need a nostr alternative to them.

Yeah, will someone pls clue me in too about what happened with NVK’s nostr ?

Nostr signing devices are a must. Current nsecs should be considered compromised.

Interesting take, Chris. I do disagree with it pretty much completely.

Fungibility is a highly desirable feature of money.

Physical gold is the closest we’ve historically come to having a trust less ledger, until Bitcoin. Intrinsic value is, if anything, an obstacle to how good a commodity can act as money.

And since bitcoins are just numbers, they have zero inherent value and function perfectly as the monetary units in the trustless ledger that is Bitcoin.

I really hope that’s all there is to it. Because if o was a fiatlord feeling threatened by Bitcoin, Gensler is the guy I’d hire and put in a powerful government position to help me deal with the threat. SEC chairs are appointed with good reasons.