Fun fact: I’ve never once used a stable-coin.

We dont really get jaw dropping sunrises too often in my neck of the woods 🙂

gm ☕

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Use ecash to send/ receive sats for better privacy instead of zapping. OxChats approach is a great example, their client has a built in ecash wallet. Can be made just as easy as zapping and far more private.

Then once you have a stash on your ecash wallet, drain the mint to green lightning for self custodial lightning amd increased receiving privacy ( green lightning receiving doesnt expose your phones node as it uses wrapped invoices with the LSP).

Then, once you have a large stash on your green lightning wallet, do a swap on robosats or boltz to your bitcoin on chain wallet. Dont reuse addresses.

I think this is a good approach for most 🤙

#bitcoin #lightning #ecash

NOSTR is growing in number gradually but not exponentially. Lots of APP has come online

Any technology is mostly useless non-tech masses buy into it.

What is preventing NON-TECH, NO-COINER to come to NOSTR ? #growstr #plebchain

Lacks Content diversity

Too much Bitcoin noise n propaganda over killing

High technical dev propaganda for non-computing folks

(some folks not interested in any crypto or finance or tech at all)

Somewhat pro technical atmosphere

User higher learning curve – Primal Amethyst gocurrent MINIMIZED this a LOT in past 6months – it getting better

Only stuff success notice was #foodstr (#footstr #dogstr #travestr #cookstr is yet 2 grow)

add + …

Telling ordinary users to VPN/Tor/CLI tools DONT HELP them2learn.

where 99.999% such folk revealing IP/email/biometric to AWS/GOOG/APPLE everyday – 2% worldwide desktop run-on-linux

Custodial service is convenience for that perfectly fine so long warning is given when UPPER LIMIT is hit.

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Use ecash to send/ receive sats for better privacy instead of zapping. OxChats approach is a great example, their client has a built in ecash wallet. Can be made just as easy as zapping and far more private.

Then once you have a stash on your ecash wallet, drain the mint to green lightning for self custodial lightning amd increased receiving privacy ( green lightning receiving doesnt expose your phones node as it uses wrapped invoices with the LSP).

Then, once you have a large stash on your green lightning wallet, do a swap on robosats or boltz to your bitcoin on chain wallet. Dont reuse addresses.

I think this is a good approach for most 🤙

#bitcoin #lightning #ecash

Any videos you can point one to on using ecash?

GOOD MORNING NOSTR, WAKING UP EARLY IS A SUPER POWER 🫡

General question to you, anon! When someone helps you or answers your question do you reward them with a larger zap amount, or do you take it for granted? I am just curious and inquisitive 🐶🐾🫡

There is no amount of changes that bitcoin can do that will make Lightning scale to visa level payments.

Lightning is cool, kinda works now, I use it all the time. But doesn't scale. Maybe it's how we clear ecash.

We need something else.

Eye on the prize.

It uses SSO. What exactly is the problem? What are you using as a node! LND? I know you still have one channel closing and it is not lost. You can check what channels are closing and what TXID they have, and check their fees. If fee is too low you can either wait or bump it using cli. BTCPayServer gives you access to lncli- bitcoin-lncli.sh 🐶🐾🫡

Transactions have gotten a lot cheaper since we've moved from electricity to water. But my whirlpool is empty again.

I'm pretty damn bearish on X these days.

Pretty sure it will either die out completely or become mainly a centralised "everything" app nightmare for governments and cantillionaires to surveil.

Am I missing something?

Hey, Nostr…

This is an #introductions post, but it’s not my first npub.

I’ve become quite close with many of you over the course of 2023. I consider a number of you to be real friends.

But I haven’t found the courage to open up some of the personal struggles I’m facing. Partly out of shame, partly out of the fear of validating my failings by putting them in writing.

But what I do know is the love and support and kindness that exists among this crew, and I’m feeling like I could really stand to lean on that energy a bit right now. I’m hopeful that, even through this anon account, there’s room for friendship, freely given.

I’ve struggled with a range of compulsive/risky/addictive behaviors for a long time, but it’s gotten harder lately. It’s the devil I’ve danced with since my teenage years, and it’s been especially difficult lately to align my active behavior with my heart, intuition, and personal goals.

I believe I “trained” my neural pathways to lean on various dopamine/reward pathways in times of stress during my adolescent development - or, to be honest, from a much younger age - and these mental habits have become deeply ingrained.

It’s not one specific “addiction” the way that people often struggle with, but my tendency to fall into patterns of substance abuse and other ego-inflating activities goes through cycles, which I’m just beginning to understand come from very deep, old parts of myself, and it feels like things have been escalating farther outside of a level of baseline acceptability lately.

I can point to various moments of trauma or conditioning that led me to try to self-soothe in these ways, and I’ve developed compassion for the parts of myself that are “trying to help” even in self-destructive ways.

But I’ve had a harder time with everything lately than I have in a long time. I don’t feel able to share this with my partner, but I am recognizing that it may be too much to handle on my own. Because I’ve tried for years. Self-imposed rules aren’t enough, because they don’t heal the broken parts. And I’m afraid that I’m risking the things I hold most dear, including my loved ones and my own self-worth and self-respect, if I don’t find a way through this.

I know some of you have faced things like addiction, trauma, loss, and personal failures. And I’ve seen the beautiful people that you are. I know and recognize that beauty in myself too, but I’m continually undermining my own happiness and fulfillment. I’m learning to pray again, to turn inward and connect with myself. But I’m also deeply stuck enough that I keep ending up in those patterns that hurt my heart and betray my soul.

I don’t even know if anyone will see this. If the default relays on this client have wide reach. If my VPN is effective or if I’ll dox my identity here.

But man… I sure could use a few kind words, advice, or encouragement from others who have been in a similar place before. If you’ve read this far, I already deeply appreciate you. You’re probably one of the friends I’ve made this last year 🫂

A must read, learn about money.

This book should be in every school library.

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