Was looking at lightning.pub for the first time. Seems pretty cool. I think NWC is under used within bitcoin as a way to make subscription payments. Think an API that can take a NWC string input and pull a payment from it to pay an invoice or lightning address would be super helpful for businesses to use NWC for monthly payments. Does lightning pub offer something like that?

Thanks - keep up the great work. Appreciate you

You are definitely the superior app for Bitcoiners and the one I recommend. Their limits are super restrictive while yours are fully open. They do beat you on fees for cash balance to lightning payments with their new announcement. If I pay a $25 lightning invoice (~27k sats) - from Cash App, it takes exactly $25 from my cash balance. Strike looks like it’s adding a fee of some kind and taking $25.31 from the cash balance.

Strike has always been competitive on fees. With Cash App launching no fee cash balance to lightning payments, curious of strike will match.

Cash App taking the lead again in bitcoin development is huge! I think limits are still too restricting and would love to see Cash App pay online allow bitcoin payments! Keep up the incredible work!

Thinking something like this. If I run a web app that I want to incorporate lightning subscriptions into. I could collect NWC strings. Then through a lnbits API, be able to pull a payment from one of the NWC strings. Can handle the payment timing on the web app, but the ability to pull payments from a NWC string with lnbits API could be powerful.

Lnbits is the Swiss Army knife of lightning and nostr! One nostr API I’ve noticed missing though is a way to pull payments from a NWC string. It exists as a funding source and the NWC service provider pulls funds from a wallet, but there is no way to pull payments from a NWC string to a lightning address. I think this would be a huge feature for things subscriptions!

Doesn’t this already exist?

Hi Matthew, keep up the great work! Looking back, it seems taproot was what caused a lot of the issues. Instead of taproot being rushed, do you think this is the conversation that should have happened back then? And thus it wouldn’t have gone through being this contentious?

Understandable not to rush a soft fork, but curious of you think it actually makes bitcoin better money or not. The taproot soft fork seemed to have brought all this mess. Why not fix some of it?

I think it was a 1/2 punch. SegWit made it cheap; Taproot made it possible for data to be large.

Without the discount from SegWit, the fees for large images would likely be prohibitive. Without Taproot's relaxed limits, the full image wouldn't fit in a single, standard transaction. I could be wrong

True, but I believe taproot enabled larger images to be stored on the chain and at a cheaper cost, which is why we saw ordinals and the likes take off

Really? I’ve never heard that. Why was it not done before the taproot merge?

The taproot soft fork brought inscriptions into existence, unintentionally. Why not patch it up?

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Exactly why I moved from cash app to strike. Cash app was leading in bitcoin features but has stalled. You keep pushing forward where it matters. Keep it up!

Decentralized Digital Scarcity. Bitcoins value prop. Nothing else does these 3 things together as good as bitcoin

This is awesome! Is it possible to make the USD payments in decimals? It seems to round the payment to the nearest whole number even though you input it with a decimal

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Dr Jeff would make a good one haha the influencers being put on these companies is such a fiat move. People just need to stick to bitcoin purchases

Been looking for this feature for a while in lnbits! One thing I think would be helpful. Ability to also request recurring payments. You set it up through extension, send link to payer, they input NWC string. LNbits automatically pays your lnaddress with their NWC string. Great for things like bill shares and broader reach for those that don’t have lnbits as NWC seems to be gaining traction.

NWC service provider is amazing! Would love to see NWC api for the client side. Ability to take a NWC string and pay an invoice from it

Bitcoin being decentralized makes it hard to market/advertise bitcoin values. Bitcoiners should be more willing to pool money to do this. If there was consistent bitcoin messaging outside of the bitcoin community bubble, it would help make shitcoin advertising less effective.

Awesome Jack! Would love to see cash app continue leading the charge on btc. Feel like innovation wise strike gold and river are now leading on innovation

Cash app was a great bitcoin innovating app for the longest time then just completely stopped a couple years ago. They used to offer bitcoin rewards and stopped. The limits are really bad and make it impossible to recommend to people. Don’t know why they stopped innovating on the bitcoin side. Wish they would start again. If would be great given their scale. Strike and fold are beating them on every bitcoin feature.

Anyone know if they are keeping the bitcoin they receive in bitcoin or are they converting to USD? Awesome either way, but just curious.

Just finished The Stand by King. Harold Lauder is a good example of this.

It’s pretty mind blowing that one of the core devs in your debate said that bitcoin is better off with non financial data included. Bitcoin is the best money and decisions should harden that status. Arbitrary data doesn’t make it better money. A little concerning that was said.

Do you think no cap gains would get more businesses accept it?