Podping on Hive is the most important non financial use of a blockchain in the world.
Any plans to expand to other countries?
Which "stable coins" will be left by the time Taro is launched?
P.s. Hive Backed Dollars are holding up nicely.
I use Redis all over the place. Its especially good if you run it from the Docker in the same docker compose stack as your main app.
I'm glad I run full nodes for three blockchain projects I use full time.
This is the problem with #nostr and anything else which doesn't have a viable business model baked into the core protocol.
https://podverse.fm/episode/EQra_C2y3
#VC capture. Today it's gifts from sugar daddy #[0] ... what next? All the VC's from failed "crypto" pile in because #Bitcoin?
There's no reputation cost here!
https://www.walletofsatoshi.com/disclosure
Yeah we don't charge anything for Lightning, neither sending nor receiving. Zap away! Any fees you see there occasionally will likely be extremely minimal, and are charged by other routing nodes, not ours. Our node really doesn't make much from routing fees from other people's payments either, it's not our focus.
We charge for on-chain transactions (swapping in and out of lightning to on-chain), and make some from the fiat conversions.
The reason we don't need to charge for Lightning: Lightning is the proper retail payment system we've been waiting for ever since we discovered Bitcoin wasn't really suitable for this purpose. It has genuinely brought down the cost of individual retail payments to the marginal cost of sending a bit of data across the internet (LOL) and the cost of having liquidity available, which becomes less with scale.
Some of us worked at banks and credit card companies and were disgusted at how much small business especially are placed at the mercy of payment providers. Visa and Mastercard fees are excessive, but there is limited competition to fix that, because you need a privileged licence to compete in that market. Lightning changes all that.
We want to bring Lightning to the world, and that is our first priority. ⚡
How do you forsee coping with the business costs associated with regulatory compliance?
I genuinely think you provide a great custodial service but if I am not paying for it I can't help thinking I'm the product.
If you're on an expensive mobile data plan you might want to restrict Damus to wifi.
Talking to multiple relays for everything is a data hog.
I've received sats for being a guest on Podcasting 2.0. Months ago. We've had the whole system going 2 years.
Bitcoin is clearly the worst tech blockchain for storing NFTs or trying to do rollups of other chains.
But because sound money bitcoin maxis are so adamant that Bitcoin is the ONLY use of blockchain as a permissionless decentralised database which can succeed, their precious chain will be mutilated by use cases which should live elsewhere.
It's almost too delicious to believe my friends.
Btw #[2] this post lays out the process for Zaps and I think you'll see how much less efficient this is than our streaming payments systems.
Here's why I won't be implementing NIP-57 and zaps on my LNURLp system.
I'm advising all my users to use a custodial lightning wallet like #[0] or hello@getalby.com because of the inefficiency of using my service for Zaps.
Will zapping yourself make you go blind?
If you take a look at my profile you'll see I'm using brianoflondon@v4v.app as my NIP-05 identity but then I have a walletofsatoshi Lightning address.
This means you can tip very small amounts.
If you then want to gather up Lightning and send it to Hive, I have big channels with Wallet of Satoshi so there should be very low fees.
Hive users on #Nostr:
I've had a good look at the Zap system and it's not fully appropriate for me to add it to the Hive Lightning Bridge.
I suggest you get a Wallet of Satoshi account and use their Lightning Address system.
Still use v4v.app for NIP-05
Reasons: Zaps are often too small, I won't deal with zaps below 1000. It would also force me to join two systems which I don't want to join.
It also puts a big load on the receiving system, Let #[0] handle that.
Anyone needs more explanation let me know.
Ahh no, simple CORS issues.
Access to fetch at 'https://bitcoin.ninja/.well-known/lnurlp/matt' from origin 'https://snort.social' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
Is your LNURL system blocking me in Israel?
Perhaps the experience here isn't very good compared to what we have elsewhere like Hive?
I'm supplying NIP-05 addresses and non-custodial lightning receipt to anyone on Hive and so far I think 20 have tried it.
And frankly when you can earn proper money for popular posts on Hive and convert that to sats if you want, there is very little incentive to try posting here.
Nostr is still not really useful except for talking to Bitcoin fans.