as this was mostly American I haven't switched on to learn it much... so far...

So Lightning rails but fiat settlement... right?

Consistency is not possible or desirable. Consistency is a bug of centralized systems.

Testing one-tap zaps on a plane. Looks like it works!

Benchmarking Nostr event parsing in JavaScript ("leaner" means a very simple and performant binary format):

If these results are right (I'm not sure they are) that means JavaScript is very not-great-at-all dealing with binary things and if Nostr events were designed to be binary from the get go that would entail a massive performance loss for web, react-native and JavaScript clients of all sorts.

The secret ingredient is time

Walking that fine line between training my body to be stronger and not being able to walk or raise my arms above my head.

Had a funny thought last night:

You have some transaction you want to make on bitcoin.

Separate from that, say you have a brc-20 token. You inscribe a transfer message.

You take the bitcoin transaction you wanted to make and you attach one additional input and one additional output: the input is the brc-20 transfer and the output is an anyone-can-spend.

What happens when you throw that transaction into the mempool? Anyone (at least anyone who has the software to look for it) can construct a transaction that spends that brc-20 output to make a new transfer message and send it to themselves. If many people see this, then they have to outbid each other in the descendant transaction and have the highest cpfp included.

Maybe a miner is able to see it and just includes their cpfp package at zero fee. In fact maybe the original tx is sent to miners paying no bitcoin fee, and they include it with their descendant that claims the brc-20.

You have now paid your transaction fees in brc-20. (btw, i am not sure about the mechanics but in principle this would work with rgb or taro too?)

So you could either attach a low bitcoin fee and relay the tx through the mempool and everyone can fight over it. Or you can send it to miners with no bitcoin fee and pay them in-tx with your token. In either case, the only people who can extract this value are people who have the software to capture it. If miners deploy the software, then they can capture it.

One last funny thought: brc-20s are all meme coins. What if one wasnt. What if it was pegged to a token on another chain? So what if you had a WETH brc-20, and now you can pay bitcoin transaction fees with it, but only to mining pools who can accept it?

I dont think the economics make sense for a pegged token. For a memecoin? Maybe but then again why not just sell it for bitcoin. Still kinda funny that mechanically this works. I wonder what conditions would have to be true to have it make economic sense to pay your tx fees in another token.

Companies supporting CSW's coin is infuriating.

Los Angeles Unified Teachers Ratify Contract With 21% Pay Raise over two years. If only we knew where all the red hot inflation was coming form...

At the moment Im zapping directly from my node but receiving to ln.tips wallet.

Can someone guide me to setting it up so I also receive on the node?

Is LN Bits the solution?

I know that I need a lnurl address but not quite sure how to do it.

I’m running LND on Umbrel.

The Microstrategy conference was outstanding, and also reminded me how few people really understand #Bitcoin and #Nostr but are willing to learn in an open and constructive environment.

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“life will drive you down to the ground, like squatting”

- Tom Platz

If you run a Lightning node, technically you are being paid to download it.

What am I supposed to do with this is image?