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What are your plans for New Year's Eve?

I've updated my list of Lightning wallets that support receiving Zaps:

NIP-57 Zaps compatible wallets:

strike.army

vida.page

stacker.news

Bitcoin Jungle

ln.tips (LightningTipBot)

Geyser

Bitcoin Beach

Current (Client+Wallet)

Wallet of Satoshi

Zebedee

Alby

AnonSats

strike.me

Zeus

Primal (Client+iOS wallet)

Self Custody:

BTCPay Server

nostdress

LNBits

If you have any additions, please let me know.

Are you prepared for a high chain fee environment?

Liquid has been undervalued for a long time, here are the advantages:

- You forget about incoming liquidity problems.

- Confidential transactions

- Used in the same way as bitcoin, you forget about being "online".

- No known security flaws.

- Possibility of cold storage.

As disadvantages:

- It is federated, even so it is much more secure than an exchange or a lightning custody wallet, and if you use cold storage it is more secure than a hot wallet.

- In terms of scalability it is not a panacea either, it is just that now few people use it and that is why it is viable.

Some blockstream people advocate moving the ordinals to Liquid but if we do that then it will be Liquid who will suffer a high fee environment...and it will be Liquid functionaries who will earn that money in fees.

In short, it pays to know how to use and move in Liquid as well as Lightning to successfully deal with a high fee environment, but neither is a panacea.

Liquid is simpler to use than Lightning and has fewer bugs, has good privacy for both the receiver and the sender from an outside observer, on the other hand Liquid is federated and is not as scalable as Lightning.

And one of the points why I think Ligthning has had more adoption, is that with lightning you work directly with Bitcoin, it's not a sidechain, with Liquid you work with a token until you do the pegout, it's a sidechain.

That said, you need to use both, right now we don't have anything else.

A much needed release is underway!

The fee for channel opens is now dynamic based upon the current fee rate estimates. Previously it was hardcoded and needed to be updated manually when we had huge price fluctuations, but now it'll always be based on current chain fees.

Right now it's about 15k sats. A huge drop from the 40k the LSP previously set it to. Get your channels while they are hot!

We also do web caching for the PWA version and will notify you when a new version is available. This gives you a chance to decide to upgrade later or refresh immediately to apply the new change.

We have much more changes later this month but let us know what you think of these! 🙏

Looks like Wallet or Satoshi just got removed from Google Play and the Apple App Store.

Storm’s a brewing.

Tell me if you can see this post

Njump now has RSS support!

It works for profiles and relays, just smash the URL in your feed reader, and you are ready to go.

Why?

It is an additional jump-in channel, for example you can use it as a trojan horse to nostr-pill your old nerdy colleague.

Or you can pick it up as a temporary tool to curate some personal feeds, while waiting for your preferred client to implement lists and a good relay-centric view.

Maybe more creative uses?

Hoy es mi primer día en nostr , estoy totalmente emocionado por esta red social , espero tener un saludo de todos y pronto estaré subiendo cosas de valor.

you walk into a bar and three guys are looking at you like this. what do you do?