Just have it aggregate the hashtag #nostrleaks and search/sort

I already built this. It’s just under a nym. We’re not ready to come out yet.

nostrleaks needs to happen

Massive helicopter money from Blockstream, I smell... Ton of #Bitcoin influencers, startups, projects are suddenly shilling #Liquid at same time.

Well it’s not highly rated in the first place

anybody see the napoleon movie?

What are the best ways to generate #bitcoin passphrase ?

Only reasons taproot yet is because we are not ultra confident yet. It's a massive change, new cryptographic primitive. The more ppl use and test the Edge release the faster we will be confident about it.

When it comes to money, Move slow and don't break things :)

Grandmas will die anyways soon. So don't bother too much teaching them to use Bitcoin.

Grandmas just tell them: "'Ma, please give me your money from the bank and I will take care of them, converting into Bitcoins, for my own future and your grand-grandkids"....

Focus on the young ones. They are the future.

Everyone should use Bitcoin. If that's your response, I'm sorry you don't share the same vision that is global freedom money.

What if something happens to me? Grandma would care when her money stops working/is gone and no one is around to fix it.

good point. But you must trust the mint, no?

Also, no good solution to swap from eCash back to mainnet without involving lightning at some point in that chain, no?

Maybe the second issue can be abstracted although I'm weary you could do it trustlessly anyway, but this still leaves the first issue.

You can imagine custodial lightning as people with guest passes to the lightning Network. People with memberships (i.e. node runners) All know exactly what membership costs. It's a lot of work. It's opening channels. It's paying the fees to open those channels. It's paying routing fees. It's managing your software. It's managing your hardware. Even people with nodes in the phones are well aware of the fees involved. Just ask them.

Cheap Bitcoin payments with membership passes that cost the same as a guest pass are the proper way forward. Lightning will never be able to achieve that because of its architecture.

I don't hate lightning, I think it's incredible. But it is not a silver bullet. Do not mistake my criticism as a call for total abandonment of the protocol. I simply think people need to be a little more honest and maybe start looking at other solutions for what is the best way for your grandmother to self-custody Bitcoin and not pay 100 stats per vbyte for transactions, or have to learn the underlying architecture of a protocol.

Losing someone young, or losing an older person while you are young, is always hard.

When my father passed away from cancer while I was in my early twenties, it wasn't surprising at all. This fact had been coming for two years, slowly. But when it came, it hurt just as bad. And till this day it still hurts.

I was at work and got a call; it was a hospital. They said my father had been suddenly transferred to hospice, and it wasn't looking good. He probably had a week at most. He was in another state. The doctor transferred my father to me on the phone and my father was weakly like, "hey...." and I said hello, and I said I'm coming now. He said, "No don't... uhh.... don't worry... you are far and have work... I'm fine...." I asked then why was he transferred to hospice if things were fine. He was like, "uh well... well you know.... uh.... it's fine...." And I was like, "holy shit I'm coming right now."

So I went to my boss and looked at him. I had previously told him that there might be a moment where I would have to just immediately leave without notice, no matter how important the meetings and such, because of my father. So in this moment I literally just looked at him in the middle of a busy day and was like, "I gotta go" and he was like "of course". So I drove there, two hours away and went straight there. My father weakly said on the phone not to go, but he never sounded like that, so I went immediately.

I got there, and my father was in a hospital in the death ward, and the guy who greeted me was a pastor rather than a nurse, which was not a great sign. I asked what was going on and he told me straight up that this was not good, that my father was likely dying within a week. So he brings me to my father. My father is barely awake. His memories and statements are all over the place, but I just hold his hand and tell him that it's fine and I love him. I'm just there. He kept fading out and I was like, "it's okay, just relax". He could see me and talk in a rough sentence or two and thanked me for coming, but started to fade away.

And then after like 30 minutes, he went fully unconscious. He was still roughly gripping and shaking the bed headboard and so forth but wasn't conscious (and I was like, "Are you all giving him the right pain medicines, this doesn't look good", and even the pastor was like, "yes I have seen many and this is not comfortable" and I was like an angry 23-year-old so I went out in the center area like, "what do all of you even fucking do here?! He is shaking the bedframe and looks in pain, and even the pastor agrees. Holy shit." So I went and got medical attention to deal with this, but felt slow and ineffective at this. They gave him more morphine and it calmed him down, but while it relaxed him, he ultimately didn't wake up again.

I spent the next couple hours there, and then left and called various family members for my second round when he was unmoving. I said if they want to see him, come now, in the next day or two.

But a little while later after I left, I got a call and was told he had died. Only I (and the nurses) saw him while he was still briefly conscious.

During that call itself, I was stoic. I was like, "Yes, I understand. Okay." and then hung up. And then I sat there for like five minutes in silence... and then cried. I got over it quickly and we did the funeral in the following days. My father had been struggling with cancer for years, so this wasn't fully surprising.

But what lingered was the memory. It has been 13 years now, and yet whenever I am in my depths I still think of my father. The memory never gets weaker. I think of his love, or I think of how attentive he was, or how accepting he was, or what he would say about my current problems.

People we love, live on through us. We remember them so vividly, and we are inspired by them.

If he was a lame father, he wouldn't have so many direct memories 13 years later. But because he was a good and close father, he does.

All of those memories are gifts. All of them are ways of keeping aspects of that person alive in our world. It's how we remember them in the decades that follow. Their victories, their losses, and everything in between. Virtues they quietly did that you find out later. Virtues you realize only in hindsight how big they were.

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