Wishing Samourai Wallet all the best in the days ahead with appearances in court again tomorrow & Tdev's next appearance on September 10th.
They can use all the help they can get, chip in on their legal defense fund: https://p2prights.org/donate.html
GM
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Disgusting. — This is a comment on: https://yakihonne.com/flash-news/
You can download it from Fdroid or with Obtainium using their GitHub releases page: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases
How do you log into Primal with Amber? I'm not seeing the option.
iiuc, Alice & Bob can send the bearer tokens amongst eachother intra mint with no Lightning tx but to send inter mint; the token has to be redeemed by the Alice's mint, sats sent via Lightning tx to Bob's mint, and there new bearer tokens are issued to Bob.
If Alice has tokens issued from Minibits and sends them to Bob who uses enuts, can he redeem the tokens from Alice? He would be trying to cash in tokens that enuts did not issue.
Ah, thanks, that was my confusion; I thought the ecash was the token being stored on the device. Didn't realize ecash was an IOU held by the mint operator. The way it's presented on the website is: "Ecash is a digital barer token that is stored on a user's device, very similar to physical cash."
Check out this guide, it's incredibly helpful. relay.tools makes it easy to spin up and customize a relay. You have to install the Kiwi browser and then add the Nosx2 extension to it to sign into relay.tools with your Nostr profile. But once you do that, it's a12k sats/mo invoice and you're on the downhill run.
I'm still figuring it out myself but from what I understood the differences were that the Zeus Lightning address has a time limitation if the user is offline for more than 24-hours then the payment is returned to the sender. Where as the Minibits Lightning address doesn't. Also, the Minibits wallet can handle ecash along with sats seamlessly, which might be a plus if the user is into ecash. What I'm not so sure about is what happens if the mint operator's server goes down; the ecash is stored on the user's device and any user can run a mint themselves to connect with their client so I think it's easy enough to recover in the event a mint operator gets taken down. I went through the recovery process for good measure by funding the mint, uninstalling/reinstalling the app, and I am in fact in control of my keys/sats so I don't think it's custodial. I suppose a better test would be to restore in a different app altogether.
Unfollow everybody and tell me the experience doesn't go to shite.
I started using Nostr about a year and a half ago. NGL I struggled with it, I wanted it to be that Twitter replacement I was searching for but there were several roadblocks:
• getting content to load
• self-custodial Lightning is a pita
• little to no interaction
• getting a mix of content beyond just Bitcoin
Therefore, I found myself stuck choosing between battling an algorithm or a miserable UX for social media. But that changed when I saw this dude's posts about making a few simple adjustments and that was exactly the unlock I was looking for.
In the last 24-hours I went from totally frustrated with Nostr to operating my own public relay, running a local private relay on mobile, & getting content to load quickly on my 3 favorite clients - first bullet point ✅.
I continued following his suggestions and funded Zeus to manage some inbound/outbound channels which is made easy with their new LSP. With that setup, I installed Minibits to create a mint and get a Lightning address. I topped off the mint from Zeus, then I configured the NWC secrets for my 3 clients and removed the friction to zaps in a self-custodial way - second bullet point ✅.
But then I figured out being an introverted lurker on Nostr doesn't bode well here. I started following more accounts, boosting, posting, liking, commenting... The more I use it, the better it gets - third bullet point ✅.
Finally, YakiHonne was the key to curating the content I was seeing. There are options to choose a number of topics beyond just Bitcoin-related stories and I recommend checking it out - fourth bullet point ✅.
All in all, Twitter is a dumpster fire as you probably know since you're here reading this and if you have hit some friction switching to Nostr hopefully some of this info helps.
GM! New POD256
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Full video of the Samourai Wallet panel discussion at Bitcoin24 with Diverter, Tor, & Zack. Moderated by yours truly:
