This marks a new step forward in Lightning UX. No need to generate a new QR code for every payment. No need for payer/receiver to interact.
Phoenix Android (soon iOS) also supports contacts. Send money with a click, and associate payments to your known contacts.
Zaps now accepted directly to my Phoenix android wallet here: 
New major release! Phoenix Android/iOS/Server now supports BOLT12:
- reusable, non-expiring payment requests
- contact list (Android for now, iOS soon)
- attach messages to payments
You can now receive payments to a static bolt-12 offer via Phoenix and keep a list of offers in your contact list! 
See also bolt12.org
Thanks for getting to the bottom of this nostr:npub1m0n0nautpnk0jntmg89kgjucfwygrsppcpf963um5eqkjehqwess7rd0un
"OKX started a major consolidation operation about 4 hours ago, at a more sensible ~53 sats/vb.
but since then they've been gradually bidding against themselves, until now they're trying to pay 350+ s/vb"
"It's not the first time this has happened"
https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000004cac9261f0304ecbe1bf19606e8d4668903356b5e2ef8
Can anymore explain why these txs are doing? Seems like they are consolidating 2 of 3 multisig outputs at a crazy high feerate. It makes no sense!
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I manually fuzz test my code by making lots of implementation errors along the way...
How about international?
The legal defense fund for Samourai Wallet is now open and accepting donations: https://p2prights.org/
This particular fight is important because the precedent set in this matter will either reinforce the principles that non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters or it will put targets on the backs of all wallet developers.
If you really came here for the freedom tech then get in this fight and show your support. There will not be a second chance to repair the damage done if the DOJ is not stopped here and now.
this blog post also asks that you add as the purpose:
"U.S. v. Rodriguez & Hill (Samourai Wallet)"
Marvel has been on a downward spiral for awhile now. Check out the "Invincible" cartoon series to cleanse your super hero pallet.
Note also that this is typical ninja KYC after they've got their exchange fee and your btc.
RE: privacy, "Let a thousand nodes bloom." Bitcoin and Lightning were *designed* for this fight, centralized implementations have been an efficient way to popularize and bootstrap the network, but expect something like the transition from Napster to Bittorrent going forward.
Bitcoin has forced the banking system to make same day bank-to-bank transfers possible. Would this have even happened if Bitcoin had not shown this was possible in practice for large transfers? Would the banking system have felt compelled to make it possible? I honestly don't think so. Think about that when someone natters on about how governments will somehow stomp out Bitcoin. It's too late.
It is not reasonable to expect a small group of individuals developing critical Lightning technology to put themselves at risk of criminal charges from the global hedgemon. Better to avoid conflict for now and continue the mission to develop the technology. Once the LSP model has matured I can imagine an end game where a thousand small LSPs bloom. That's how we fight back. "Let us proceed together apace."
"On May 3rd, 2024,
@PhoenixWallet
will be removed from US app stores.
Users from the US should empty their wallet:
- Settings > Close channels (Android)
- Settings > Drain wallet (iOS)
We highly recommend *not force-closing* channels, as on-chain fees could be significant."
Aren't dual funded channels / splices essentially payjoin for Lightning?
Reposting from bird site post by Laurent MT. "Here we go again"
"...the defendants, developed, marketed, and operated a cryptocurrency mixing
service known as Samourai Wallet (āāSamouraiā), an unlicensed money transmitting business from
which they earned millions of dollars in fees. Samourai unlawfully combined multiple unique
features to execute anonymous financial transactions valued at over $2 billion in cryptocurrency
for its customers. While offering Samourai as a āprivacyā service, the defendants knew that it was
a haven for criminals to engage in large-scale money laundering and sanctions evasion. Indeed,
as the defendants intended and well knew, a substantial portion of the funds that Samourai
processed were criminal proceeds passed through Samourai for purposes of concealment. Indeed,
during the relevant period, Samourai laundered over $100 million dollars of crime proceeds
originating from, among other criminal sources: illegal darkweb markets, such as Silk Road and
Hydra Market; various wire fraud and computer fraud schemes, including a web-server intrusion,
a spear phishing scheme, and schemes to defraud multiple decentralized finance protocols; and
other illegal activities."
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68467223/4/united-states-v-rodriguez/
Name the Libertarian paradise with these policies:
- privatized 1st class mail delivery
- voucher system for private grade schools
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Exciting to see Bitcore 27.0 includes Topologically Restricted Until Confirmation (TRUC) Transactions policy (aka v3 transaction policy) for test networks!
When TRUC gets adopted on mainnet this will increase the safety of Lightning and other L2s that have to worry about txs getting pinned.
Agree. Really look into Phoenix - it's a cross platform Kotlin multiplatform library battle tested by ACINQ.
By the time you get it integrated they should have bolt-12 working with dns pay names. I assume you could even connect to their LSP if you don't want to run your own, since it's all protocol based.
#lazyweb
TLDR sound like it needs ~$300M to convert to modern useful commercial space, but also that commercial RE is having a meltdown post COVID due to WFH etc.
I like when for-profit companies encourage their devs to spend time reviewing, fixing bugs and shepharding improvements in the open source code that the company relies on.
For long term support of critical infrastructure like Bitcoin, ideally a broad base of the user community would provide enough funding to devs directly.
I think Saylor's point is a bit more nuanced then that.
The TLDR I got out of his interview with Livera was that he does not think we should make protocol upgrades that create controversy among stakeholders (miners) or which might antagonize governments (currency monopoly). This makes sense in the context of someone who simply wants their stack to increase in value and who believes his stack will not be threatened by the state.
The more I come to understand his position the more sympathetic I become, and it seems likely his views will be shared by a growing number of normy tradfi investors as their involvement increases.
I think he's taking a stance that in 2017 people would have applauded: don't change Bitcoin to make your VC funded buisness plan viable.
That said, I think he does not understand Bitcoin at a technical level very well or share the cyberpunk's opposition to state control and surveillance of money.
If Saylor is going to be the official Bitcoin villian for 2024, he's at least a much more nuanced and interesting version than Jihan Wu, Ver or Faketoshi.
nostr:npub1r8l06leee9kjlam0slmky7h8j9zme9ca32erypgqtyu6t2gnhshs3jx5dk interview with Saylor in December gets into his belief that Bitcoin should not become a transactional currency that threatens states. Related?
"You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain"
Interesting project from Moxy Marlinspike to create a user friendly way to recover key material:
I wonder if this could be used to simplify #nostr apps?
They don't work for their consituents, they work to preserve the system they are a well compensated part of.
Exciting news from ACINQ team just dropped on bird site, see below:
All the goodness of @PhoenixWallet, available to developers!
- self-custodial, no signup
- lightweight, native binaries
- NO configuration
- fully automated liquidity
- easy http api
https://phoenix.acinq.co/server
#Bitcoin #LightningNetwork
FULLY automated liquidity
Get "infinite inbound" from the largest and most liquid node in the network. No headaches for merchants or other receive-heavy use cases.
Effective receive fee is as low as ~1%
ā”ļø All details here: https://phoenix.acinq.co/server/auto-liquidity
Absolutely NO configuration
no channel management
no peer management
no liquidity management
no firewall configuration
ā”ļø Get started in seconds: https://phoenix.acinq.co/server/get-started
Lightweight & native
phoenixd is compiled to native binaries for linux, mac (x86 & arm) and windows (wsl).
Phoenix was already fast on mobile, but on server it flies!
It's hard to believe EU citizens want their government working on this (or anti-crypto legislation). So who *is* pushing it? and why?