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Sir Brian of London
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I run v4v.app a Hive <> Lightning bridge. https://peakd.com/@brianoflondon

Let me tell you what the Jew hater(s) at Alby did: I was a significant developer of parts of the Sat Streaming system. Through 3speak I put value blocks into thousands of rss feed podcasts.

Alby have BLOCKED me from sat streaming from my own sovereign Alby Hub because I'm a Jew living in my indigenous lands refusing to be murdered. You can't use YOUR Alby hub to stream sats without authentication via their Alby servers. Not very sovereign. They geo block me because they don't like Jews who fight back.

I'm rebuilding the back end to my Hive to Lightning infrastructure right now.

Boosts and sat streaming will not be part of the rewrite because Alby killed it. I can't test apps so keysend and all the information will die.

Can I use these features if I pay?

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nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm if I wanted to pay to subscribe to your “Pro” account with my Alby Hub and retrieve my lightning address (which you still send me emails about) am I allowed to?

Stuff nobody seems to know about Lightning....

How do you clear a stuck In-Flight payment which failed 1002 days ago?

Seriously? I'm working on some new code for my node and both the LND nodes I have have stuck payments like this. Obviously this node has been rebooted and upgraded numerous times in the last 1002 days!

⛱️ Payment: 16397 amount: 99,933 sat pre_image: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 in flight time: 1002 days, 1:47:06.093676 created: 2022-04-04 14:11:24.390480+00:00 status: IN_FLIGHT

Unfortunately nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyw8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytf39ehxymewv9hxwctwdyhxxme0qy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wshsqgzx2l0739jmazvq4yc8908mtev6v5fygpkmp7qey90w0zay0y6t8ccf9mzc appears to be geo blocking Israel.

This renders a lot of the functioning of the so-called self sovereign Alby Hub very hard to access.

Full details on my blog. https://peakd.com/hive-110369/@brianoflondon/breaking-the-ethos-of-bitcoin-avoid-the-alby-and-getalby-project-4ov

Are you having trouble withdrawing Lightning from

@binance

? I am but I know the reason and its not your fault.

For the last few weeks any attempt to withdraw Lightning from Binance to my LND based Lightning node would tell me "no route".

I could withdraw to another node: one which was ONLY connected to the rest of the Lightning network via my primary node but not to my primary (obviously withdrawing to this secondary node meant sats passing through my primary so route wasn't an issue).

After asking at LND Labs I found out that there is an issue with the current LND 0.18.3 version which inserts a whole lot of extra feature bits in the invoices.

This upsets Binance's withdraw system. The only answer is to use another system to receive sats that isn't running LND 0.18.3.

This has been fixed in the pending LND 0.18.4 release.

Anyone ever seen a Lightning payment on an Invoice with a 1 hour expiry that confirmed 3 months later?

Binance sent a payment, they marked it as failed, refunded it and 3+ months later it shows as settled and they want the refund back (given because they have the Payment Hash).

How would a normal user with a Wallet of Satoshi account know what to do about this?

If I wrap a 0.5 BTC at $40,000 and deposit $40,000 HBD, and a few weeks later the price is $42,000 and I have to deposit another 0.5 BTC, I believe the plan is that I would have to deposit enough to make the collateral up to 84,000 total.

But these numbers will be altered by the reliability of the wrapper. For example my Hive reputation (with all the revenue streams it gives me) ensures that my reputation on Hive is worth many times more than these figures.

Wrapping and unwrapping will be an organic process. So in effect this will inject a form of dollar cost averaging into the amount held as collateral.

But highly trustworthy wrappers will also develop to the point where the absolute value of the collateral is less important.

It’s a pity that Lightning is so deeply controlled by ideological Bitcoin Maxis instead of open minded technologists who can think outside a box.

Stable coins on a rapidly centralizing Lightning is a very bad idea, there are better, more decentralized systems but they involve another blockchain.

Pity, Lightning is a mess.

https://peakd.com/developers/@brianoflondon/btc-wrapped-on-hive-will-be-better-and-less-centralised-than-btc-on-the-lightning-network

Sad reality of #LightningNetwork today.

@binance implements it but (after initially allowing larger amounts like 3m) has now set a limit on 1.999m sats.

They also don't allow @MuunWallet or @Breez_Tech wallets and I know why: both of these solutions offer non-custodial storage but it is too slow and unreliable.

So you have to send to either your node or a wallet on a custodial centralized provider like @getAlby or @walletofsatoshi . Both fine products, but not what BTC is supposed to be.

If you’re looking for a privacy focused Hosting which accepts Lightning, take a look at https://privex.io

I’ve been a happy customer with them for almost 2 years.

If you want to, you can give my name brianoflondon as a referral code.

Why grant the SEC any legitimacy?

And WHY does anyone submit to the idea that the SEC should be allowed to "regulate" securities when they've done such a shitty job for so long at actually protecting investors from "regulated" investments like Madoff, FTX or any of the the long list of frauds which they failed to take action against BEFORE the little guys lost their money.

https://peakd.com/@brianoflondon/why-bitcoin-is-not-enough-all-these-coins-stealing-market-share-from-bitcoin

If you believe there even is such a thing as an "unlicensed security" you are granting your government the right to decode what you can invest your money in.

Do you hate Jews having self determination and security in our indigenous homeland?

Have we ever agreed on a simple symbol for sats?