Absolutely mind blowing what just happened
#[0] just got zapped over 1000 USD by lightning in a matter of hours on Nostr. My bullishness on Nostr and Bitcoin knows no bounds. Successful experiment?
This is becoming an unexpected lightning payment success rate experiment
I tried to pay the first 4 and failed because someone was faster,
have bad internet at the moment so eventually I gave up
"New York is dead and they are raping the corpse" - Michael Malice
Nostr is exploding with growth. The total amount of pubkeys writing events has passed 2 million. We're fast approaching 20 million total events published.
https://void.cat/d/AoniwoWd79pqbwQx4JdmNc.webp
https://void.cat/d/HaHsnHhwhqbEKbzz545ogd.webp
You can view all of the statistics yourself here: https://nostr.band/stats.html#total_users
Holy shit. It's happening
Holy crap that's og. And from the very beginning, there were those of believed in the possibility of bitcoin being freedom money for the people, and those pessimists who said it would never work and refused to even consider it. 14 years later, these two distinct groups of people are very much still visible!
# ⚡️ Nostr zaps - a guide 💜
Time to get you zappin' with LightningTipBot (https://ln.tips). This is my personal setup. There are other ways and services to do this. Do you own research. This is just a suggestion.
## 1) Set up LightningTipBot wallet
- Click here: https://LN.tips 👈
- You're done.
## 2) Sending zaps
Let's start with sending. You don't need much. Any Lightning wallet will do. I will describe how to use LightningTipBot to zap with.
### Sending zaps in the browser
- Get the Alby brower extension at https://getalby.com/
- Go to LightningTipBot and enter "/link"
- Copy the details and go to Alby and add a new "LNDHUB" wallet
- Enter your details
- Your LightningTipBot wallet can now be controlled from your browser
- Click on the ⚡️ zap icon for example in iris.to and you'll be able to send zaps.
### Sending zaps on mobile
- You can also "/link" your wallet to BlueWallet
- Get BlueWallet from the App store
- Import a new Lightning wallet
- Enter your credentials from LightningTipBot
- You can now control your LightningTipBot wallet from Bluewallet
- Click the ⚡️ zap icon for example in Amethyst or Damus and open BlueWallet.
- Pay and zap on
## 3) Receiving zaps
You can receive zaps with pretty much any Lightning address provider. There are many options. See: https://lightningaddress.com/
However, if you want the zaps to appear under your posts in Damus or Snort.social, you'll have a few less options (still). Here is how to do it with LightningTipBot:
- Go to LightningTipBot. Enter "/help" if you don't know your Lightning address.
- See your address? Mine is callebtc@ln.tips
- Optional: Enter "/advanced" to get an anonymous address if you don't want to doxx your Telegram username.
- Put your Lightning address into your nostr profile
- In LightningTipBot, register your nostr pubkey with "/nostr add
- You're done! You'll receive zaps and they will be shown under your zapped posts!
## 3) NIP-57 support
Zaps (those which appear under a note) are formalized in NIP-57. Currently, they are supported by the following services. This is probably not a complete list and tomorrow there might be even more:
### 💜 Sending (Nostr clients):
- Snort.social (https://snort.social/)
- Damus (http://damus.io/)
### ⚡️ Receiving (Lightning wallets):
- LightningTipBot (https://LN.tips)
- VIDA (https://vida.live/)
- Stacker.news (https://stacker.news/)
- strike.army (https://strike.army/)
ZAP ZAP ZAP
Wow this is very useful, thanks Calle 👏👍🏻
This is quite interesting, thanks for sharing
Yep, multiple times for me as well. Timeless classic
"He is beginning to believe" - Morpheus
Big if true
Update: See this feature on nostrgram to recover your follows at a specific date https://iris.to/post/note1cgs2e2ym2h24epctydfugyg76yzgj3lpe8pfwn27vtucxe08lswqlzf0fm
"Every Nostr private key lost is a donation to all other nostr users - or something like that" - Satoshi Nostrmoto
They can try, but I wouldn't bet on them
I noticed some follows vanishing from my timeline as well. Nostr will change everything. I see comments from plebs on Twitter asking for peoples pubkeys to follow them on nostr, and they get hundreds of comments, every time. it's so impressive to see
Happened to me as well, came back after a while. Try to connect to more relays too
Brian Armstrong is now recommending Bitcoin. 🤣
https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1617313528901439489
It's amazing how well Nostr embedded the tweet format into the feed. I wonder if Twitter and Nostr can have this kind of cross-linking in the future, benefitting from each other
"And so they fire out digital chaff frantically in every direction. They play whack-a-mole with high engagement nodes that are or could be threats. The enemy is now reactively defending themselves, not proactively steering the course. This is the titanic - and we are the iceberg." - The Chaffening, Aristophanes
#[0] just listened to your Nostr podcast on Damus. Well done! So many possibilities
#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "FilipeMartinh10"
Hey nostr