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chronic early adopter of decentralized tech :)

Man, the whole “balancing” thing with lightning is so confusing.

It would be cool if there was a lightning app that didn’t hide that functionality, but instead displayed it in a really intuitive manner

Yeah I’m wondering if there is any research into new ways to fix this problem. Or if the solution is just layer 2

I’m trying to get people to use this for Nostr instead https://webxdc.org

But that’s something that is limited to just chat contexts. In a feed I think it would get chaotic as hell.

They need a Farcaster app that is dead Simple though. Like just Bluesky functionality. Something people understand. Warpcast is everything and the kitchen sink. Unusable imo

Makes sense to me. I’m trying to figure out what the best practice user flows are for regular people then.

Like can we think of lightning channels like bar tabs? Isn’t the cost of opening and closing a channel small enough to be considered “dust” as well?

Idk what you’re referring to, but I’m really NOT looking forward to that.

Farcaster frames are spammy, confusing trash. There is no consistency of user experience there, they just look like pop ups. I honestly think Frames is a big reason why no one uses Farcaster. You open the app and it just looks like spam.

Are there any solutions to Bitcoin dust (unspendable UTXOs)?

There has to be thousands of people that are amassing large amounts of Bitcoin in “small bills”. Is there a solution to this at all? Just don’t spend small amounts of Bitcoin ever?

Has anyone heard or read up on Polycentric protocol?

Similar to Nostr but I think it uses more of a bittorrent thing for sharing posts around. Big inspirations from SSB.

https://youtu.be/QUH2XGr-B0I?si=auiiapOuRxkIj9y5

Not to be a hater but what did Jack Mallers actually do? Made a custodial Bitcoin wallet where nobody ever touches the Bitcoin?

He was clearly ahead of his time. E-cashers no doubt think that he is a visionary god 😁

Replying to Avatar tuco

I found gift cards (nostr:npub1j9qyxka5lck4tw50v7qfrs6gdwczz5ydt7ugqy6nhuva9p6dpy5q8rs2yg or nostr:npub1m7r9aayrqjtt2q0whkyrwlys75s5d828c5uewvqwyfd2kxefkfjqgeny2w) very convenient. Filling the tank or some shopping has less friction than going thru a “contract. And no banks involved. Of course not always. I’d like to read more opinions and solutions

It’s certainly better than the alternative (which is nothing).

In terms of gift cards, the more generic, the better. Like a plain visa gift card would be amazing. But Amazon/walmart would be good secondarily. Even then though, you can’t take 20 of that and give it to a friend etc. it’s just limiting.

It would definitely make people more frugal / responsible with their money.

Many people consider deflationary currency as having profoundly positive moral effects on the economy writ large. For example, people are more frugal and thus are more prone to “buy it for life”. Companies start competing on who makes the longest lasting product instead of the trendy thing with planned obselesence. Etc

Replying to Avatar vinney...axkl

A good mental model to have is AWS Lambda or other "serverless" cloud functions - you don't have to worry about the setup and security of the host server itself because it isn't the server itself you care about, it's the result of a particular run of code or data access that you're concerned with. The hardware is slightly abstracted away.

The short answer for both of you for the moment: most security risks are about unwanted access or OS vulnerabilities.

For the latter, the flippant answer is "our OS will just not have vulnerabilities". That sounds like a bullshit answer, but our entire stack from the kernel to userspace has a very contained footprint, no dependencies on external code or libraries, our compiler binaries are human readable so nowhere for exploits to hide, and the privileges/access of any additional applications you install will be transparent to the OS and auditable by you. When you have typed, pure functional programming up and down the whole stack, deterministic guarantees like that are feasible.

Re: unwanted access: Our OS should be thought of like a VM. So either a slightly technical person takes the most rudimentary steps to insure a host machine they fully control has access control handled (this isn't that hard. SSH settings + firewall); or a totally non-technical person has a hosting provider (or friend or family member!) handle that detail for them on mamaged hardware.

Kind of vague response for now, but as the weeks and months roll on we'll have more authoritative technical documentation to link to in place of my blathering.

Would Vaporware have issues with this for example? https://x.com/qualys/status/1807693619161133539?s=46

I don’t think Bitcoin has ever claimed stability. What it has claimed is deflation instead of inflation. Where did they talk about stability?