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Justin (shocknet)
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Head of building shit | Lightning.Pub | ShockWallet.app | Lightning.Video/thecto

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Thinking about starting a pod exclusively for relentless pro-Lightning propaganda

Who's in?

No, a nostr native successor to LNURL is the correct way because the real need is to bridge lightning to the web.

Tor adds fragility and slowness by onion routing, and makes it harder to reach the web.

Fortunately the Nostr answer is here: Lightning.Pub

The script kiddies that want Bitcoin to be something ETH-like are the same people simping for ECash mints and Federated custody

That correlation is not a coincidence

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nice! I don't get why LND doesn't prioritise BOLT12 https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/5594 and spends a lot of engineering talent and time putting "assets" on Lightning 🤷‍♂️

Because it's a shit reimplementation of Tor, slow and unreliable, only being pushed by ECashers

ECashers are scum

Smash ECashers

Destroy ECashers

Roundhouse kick a ECashers into the concrete

Slam dunk a ECashersr into a trash can

Banish filthy ECashers

Launch ECashers into the sun

Trap ECashers in quicksand

Vaporize ECashers with a space laser

Probably giving priority to ECash bribes from NGOs

You don't run an email server on your phone, or any other kind of server, because that's retarded.

And Matt suggesting that Lightning's path is mobile is gaslighting bullshit

Mobile nodes are DEAD. Phoenixd, Breeze Greenlight, even mutiny-server, are your pivot signal.

And now Lightning.Pub is the p2p Nostr overlay for servers.

nostr:nevent1qqs2tpp5mql0m9eqalny63tdkhntmzkmwgj83fvgm2rctafau5s2faqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43z7q3q85h9z5yxn8uc7retm0n6gkm88358lejzparxms5kmy9epr236k2qxpqqqqqqz5ypmxr

It's Tor all over again, slow and unreliable, will leave new users thinking UX is naturally terrible

It's being pushed by the cloud-focused implementations who can own all the communications traffic

In fairness I think a lot of ECashers are for the Uncle Jim model

They're just naive and can't read between the lines to see how it's an attack against that

* privacy

Equal, identity is ephemeral keys, and the anonset is the common limiting factor

* centralization

Better, Pub is designed explicitly to be light and easy to run and more p2p aligned where cashu is more client-server aligned

* custody

Better-ish, it's part of a larger stack to bootstrap self-custody and the nevents can function as an audit log. It's equally ruggable, but less fragile without an ECash gateway handling swaps

* immunity from state attack

Equal to better, this is ultimately downstream of centralization. Pub is Uncle Jim tech where mints are institutional tech

* etc?

The more comprehensive stack is to solve a number of issues with lightning tooling, not just throw a shitcoin over it. Pub enables a bi-directional nostr-native successor to lnurl, a performant and reliable alternative to a Bolt12 dystopia, and presents a divergence from flakey and expensive mobile nodes

Pubs design is wholistic, built along side other parts of a comprehensive platform including ShockWallet, LightningVideo, Sanctum, and more to come: shock.network