I suspect it‘s only a matter of time until encrypted messengers and bitcoin wallets disappear from app stores.

I hope for push back on the policy front but I‘m not hopeful here. There are a growing number of boogymen to invoke, and there seems to be little to no political incentive with a lack of awareness and public discussion.

I suspect the only way to use Signal or wallet apps will be using open source mobile OSes and app stores. This is one area I‘d love to see more grants funding for.

Re PWAs … they are a nice short term backup to get your funds out in case of an app store ban of wallets. But they are not the answer longterm as they rely on trust of web servers and SSL CAs. nostr:note13m6sh5tggy6uk4gntnhfu6zkz45ekxq9c3qphw5pfurzy82j22gseu5lv4

We just limit invoices to 200k for Fedimint. If you want it to not open a lightning channel just need to structure your payments

Ok, this is getting ridiculous.

Yep right now that’s expected. I am using the blink API as a wrapper invoice to leverage on-payment webhooks. I am currently working on background polling service that will allow me to remove that.

It’s a hot sauce type of day.

What hot sauce is your favorite Nostr?

Let me know some good ones.

#asknostr

Wondering what Cashu-Address is? It’s a Lightning Address accessible to all, merging the strengths of Lightning and Bitcoin eCash. 🥜💜⚡️

No sign-up needed, and setup is almost effortless.

Thanks to its foundation on Cashu , Cashu-Address offers numerous advantages over standard custodial Lightning Addresses:

Your financial activities remain private from your custodian, and you’re free to select or change your custodian anytime.

Moreover, custodians cannot single out or censor individual users, while received payments will be locked to your public key, making Cashu-Address a forward-thinking choice in the world of custodial Lighting.

Because Cashu-Address is built with nostr in mind, your nostr public key is already a valid Cashu-Address. 🥜

⚡️npub1…@ cashu-address.com

Get a NIP-07 extension and give it a try: app.cashu-address.com

But please keep in mind, Cashu-Address is still evolving.

I encourage you to explore its features, but remember to proceed with caution and to not be reckless ⚠️💜

Oh cool!

I’ve never heard of OneKey. Are you sure the problem isn’t on their side?

regular reminder that lightning *is* a “shared utxo” protocol that uses covenants (and multisig) to scale bitcoin payment tx thruput

most of the commentary against it points out that it does not scale number of holders in relation to # of utxos. in my mind this is a good sign of the protocol’s success (it shipped and people use it and they found drawbacks with the MVP). It’s also a sign of bad messaging around the applicability of 2-party accounts to certain payment situations (venmo for example)

sometimes it is useful to have multiparty channels; i’d argue that liquid is one such example of this.

federated mints are another one; note that both of these multiparty systems require consensus algorithms to function. fedimints were using BFS, (iiuc they just changed to a new one). liquid uses “nakamoto consensus” aka a blockchain to keep track and agree on shared balance states

Lightning was shipped as the minimum viable product to scale tx thru-put and it succeeded at that. it did this with minimalist, 2-party design as consensus from 2-parties is the simplest case. this meant it could avoid tricky consensus questions and focus on privacy + throughput instead

shipping multi-party utxos at scale will require a solutions for managing consensus amongst stakeholders in the “shared utxo”; see Ark and already existing federations for examples of contending with this problem 🫡

A nuanced post based from practical experience and knowledge, not written in capital letters and genuinely offering the reader the ability to weigh up the pros and cons of Lightning.

One of the best posts I have read in a long while......why not originally directly posted on Nostr?

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