Just a friendly reminder that this will block SSH access instantly when you enable UFW, so should be careful doing this on a VPS etc.
Good for very specific use-cases (community custody in the Global South, for instance), but generally still will recommend going full self-sovereign.
It's an interesting middle-ground between WoS/Strike and fully self-sovereign, though, with a distinct privacy advantage!
Yup, just chime in there!
And love to hear that, need more people standing firm on things like this.
that’s annoying though. Still waiting on commando support so it can connect directly like https://lnlink.app and https://sendsats.lol, https://clams.tech
Currently being worked on and seems pretty close!
Has for a very long time via c-lightning-REST!
https://github.com/Ride-The-Lightning/c-lightning-REST
That's how I've been using mine.
Not sure what Seth means by zaps can’t be done non-custodially. My CLN node is non-custodial and sends zaps. You just need a CLN node, a small zapper script, and a zaps enabled non-custodial lnurl service like my https://sendsats.lol
Forgot about your script!
I should have been more specific.
Friendly reminder that there is a ~2m sat bounty (~$460) available to whoever implements NIP-57 (Zaps) for BTCPay server:
https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/discussions/4642
Sadly there isn't a way to do Zaps non-custodially right now, so I'll get the sats (they go straight to my Lightning node via my own BTCPay server!) but it won't show on Nostr yet.
Waiting on this to be implemented: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/discussions/4642
I will never take it easy or give Bitcoin companies the benefit of the doubt if they fail to do things the right way.
Bitcoin is about a self-sovereign financial revolution, and if we implement all the broken shit from the legacy system (KYC, tracking, surveillance, censorship) I won't hold punches.
We have the chance to do things the right way from the ground up, and us (Bitcoiners!) caving to the same broken incentives for the sake of convenience could doom this revolution from the start.
A core mantra of mine is "hard does not mean bad," and Bitcoiners (myself included!) need to learn to deal with things being a little harder to preserve our ultimate freedom.
He's been pretty clear this is a course he wants ("If you want privacy, just use another app" is a direct quote), but he's always welcome to chime in.
Picking them out because they're extremely popular, widely used, and should be held to a higher standard as they're supposedly helping bring freedom through Bitcoin.
Implementing all of the broken practices of surveillance capitalism under the guise of bringing freedom is malicious, IMO.
They will have complete visibility into:
1) Who every user is (via KYC ID/photos)
2) How every user uses Bitcoin (there is no privacy in Strike when using Bitcoin, they see all sender/receiver/amount)
3) How every user uses their phone across all apps and browser usage
Even if well-intentioned that is putting their users at *massive* risk if there was ever a data breach.
Doesn't matter, Bitcoin is supposed to be about us breaking the norms, not reinventing all the problems that got us here in the first place.
I don't mess around with surveillance, and that's exactly what that is.
Combining their aggressive KYC policies with holistic activity tracking (like they do in their app) means they can combine your identity with the entirety of your digital persona by tracking you across other apps and browsers.
There is definitely no requirement to track activity across all of your app and web activity, and no requirement at all to track *any* activity.
It will be sold as a way to help them improve the app, but there are other ways to learn from your users then to spy on every one of them.
For sure, and I prefer Zeus but it's a much bigger leap to own node + Zeus from Strike/WoS than to something like Phoenix.
Ultimately everyone should be on something like Zeus for the most sovereignty.
Gotta love how we're just making all the same tragic mistakes in the most commonly used Bitcoin Lightning wallet 🙃
If you're still using this malicious, KYC, data-harvesting app for "Bitcoin" it's time to ditch it and help others do the same.
If you're looking for an alternative, try out Phoenix Wallet instead.
Probably someone has a list of domains registered each day and they roll them off after a set time period.
Honestly not 100% sure!
Yeah, was messing with my relays and noticed about half had errors, whitelisted them and voila!