nostr:nprofile1qqszmxrnkfdl9hdxzstgf4zdt6mk4avlzemc3fvwxcatzeclalhg0uspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuhstf84zs there's something more than that in all these payment failures. I tested a lot and did a lot of control-tests with blixt wallet with same channels. There's something wrong in how zeus do payment in last 0.9 beta that makes them fails more often.

it is, I used it some years ago as "hot potato money" to transact with lower fees and clean my utxos. Today, as I see developments on layer 2, I think monero is an obsolete tradeoff that is not useful anymore. In general layer 2s on bitcoin are here and mostly works, and no more shitcoins are need to scale, have privacy, have more programmable money, even nfts...

from great powers comes great responsabilities. Its the same fear you can have when you broadcast a bitcoin transaction.

Its a spectrum, even when electrum created the concept of what we call today a "light wallet" there was problem regarding not validating yourself the transactions and delegate to a third party. But light wallet are an immense scalability solution and a tradeoff that can be useful in most cases. Nothing is really black and white, and I think that good hybrid solution are what we realistically need to scale. Ecash for little payments I think is really a cool tradeoff, I dont care to have a 100% security to not loose 50 bucks and delegate custodial. Privacy is more important for this kind of use, and with cashu you have it.

Is like entering the cinema and pay the ticket 1 hour prior. Nothing assure you to not being rugged, you have an abstract custodial asset redeemable at cinema entrance. I dont see no problem with having a custodial cinema ticket if I decided I'll want to see a film today.

with ecash you have the "how to start", you can have your first private money (with a bit of counterparty risk associated) and then when you have your 50 bucks you can use a non-custodial lightning wallet like zeus. There is a lot to do to make the ux better, I agree on this. But I also think that even today lightning makes monero obsolete.

And in the future we will see a lot greater gap from the two solutions, cause lightning can scale better with new solution as a layer (see splicing channels or bolt12 for example) while monero is a dead end, it cant scale without making impossible for most to verify txs.

or zeus if you want private payments also.

I use it non-custodial mostly, everyone is responsible of their stack and do wath they want. Lightning enable a lot of txs sub 100 sats, like zaps, that have much sense to do custodially because who cares of so little stack. Also with ecash we now have private way to do totally private custodial txs with 1 sat fees, perfect for this use case.

For higher stacks I assure you that non-custodial ux is fine, maybe need a lot of improvenent, but I use it and theres no particular skill you need to have to start with something like phoenix.

I dont trust custodians with lightning, it works well without custodians. Also its just better then monero (instant finality of payments, possibility to have complex structure for invoice that can be "locked" for some time, like the one used in robosats for trading without escrows, simply dont need to attend 20 minutes to trade the utxo like on monero, security about being able to obtain bitcoin onchain much higher) and it will become better. Its a payement layer that can scale its features and possibility in a very fast and smart way, without caring of "the blockchain".

Its also really able to scale, with new nodes and liquidity that comes are net-positive and add benefits for all. On the blockchain every new person that arrive to transact is a scalability problem, and monero is even worse than bitcoin because dont disincentivize txs raising the fees, but let people spam the utxo set until monero become unrunnable and txs impossible to validate.

or just do your bet, everyone will behappy with their own resources in future. Just dont scam noobs, or at least, its important that the also hear the truth from maxis

and the fact that people use it custodially is not an argumentation, even bitcoin onchain is probably mostly used custodially. I use lightning non-custodial and the experience I have is very good.

if the only thing that have sense to keep is bitcoin because of his monetary property, then the spending path could be:

bitcoin ---> atomico swap ----> txs -----> atomic swap ----> bitcoin

or, better

bitcoin ----> channel opening ----> lightning ----> txs -----> atomic swap in you want new utxos decorrelated -----> bitcoin

lightning is more efficient (1 atomic swap instead of 2). Lightning is the bitcoin tradeoff for spending, and dont add the risk of have a newly printed utility token with any economic sense.

noo, its like a little cent in your pocket but digital, and I dropped here

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because after invented/discovery absolute digital scarcity, if you just replicate it, you have digital uncapped aboundance that cant sustain economic value. Also the tradeoffs are bad, but the no-go start when we recognize its a shitcoin.

If the front door is really locked by a tech implementation that actually works, then yes.

But internet makes things scale in a hardly to imagine way, and a "mostly locked door" easily become equivalent to an open door.

Imagine exchanging offline paper messages using some sort of Ceaser Cypher to crypt them. In most cases, if you are not an high target or someone is motivated to see the messages, you have a mostly closed door that can work for some situations, protecting messages from accidentally leaks.

Put that exchange-scheme on internet and you have an open door, you can consider your flawed encryption as exchanging cleartext.

cool, I've been in Sofia and I think I know the cafe you are referribg. Very strange city, I saw degrade and feel the sofference of people around caused by communism but still I percived the city as "highly secure" as nothing wrong could really happen, like a sort of forced fake peace.

Like mostly no shutters down for commercials at night, or how all the city seems so "clean".

Agree, if something can be performed as an "attacker" then you cant just standardize non-forceable good behaviour in participants.

When online-status on nostr based on recent connections to relays!?😋

bitcoin has no ceo, everyone that can provide value is immedietely recognized by peers based on what is done. A lot of devs are anonymous, so no gender involved. I think she (the podcaster I mean) cant provide any value to the space and, in her totally fiat-driven psyop, want to try steal value from other. She wants more recognition without provide value, ignoring that who receives recognition, mans and womens, receive that because they actually are good and provide value.

She's bullshitting demonstrating how retarded and/or ipocrite she is, no matter how government would pay me to give her a job "for inclusivity", I'd hire everyone else instead.

This measurment is more an "how information we can extract and understand from sperm cells" than "how information is contained in them".

It mesures us, not sperms (that are also us...)

what??? This app could have numerous positive things, but definitively NOT a clean UX...