This wasn't on my 2023 bingo card, but I'll take it. Time to teach Peterson some lightning, self custody, and perhaps plant a seed regarding Nostr given his many forays with censorship.

This wasn't on my 2023 bingo card, but I'll take it. Time to teach Peterson some lightning, self custody, and perhaps plant a seed regarding Nostr given his many forays with censorship.

That would be awesome!

Can someone help me out with a test?

In the reply I make to this note below I am going to place:

1.) a picture of a hypothetical item I would like to sell.

2.) a Lightning Network invoice for 100 sats.

I need someone to:

1.) place a hypothetical mailing address in the comment section of the invoice you are paying: DO NOT USE YOUR OWN ADDRESS. Make one up

AND

2.) pay the invoice.

To my fellow feathered friends: Good Night and Pura Vida.

Have lovely but frightfully inspiring dreams.

Wake to the loves of your life.

Enjoy only the very best brewed poison bean juice (coffee; I mean if we're going to drink poison then we might as well brew it right, no?).

Kick ass all day long.

Tell us about your triumphs here when you're done.

We won. They just don't know it yet.

Done and zapped.

You should go on snort.social. They have a “follow all” button that I find quite useful.

Usually left with much less to unfollow than follow.

I had to refollow > 700 plebs in nostr today . . . twice. I hit a 'Follow' button 1,500 times today. That's how much I love you guys.

Once again I'm asking that my follow list is treated as immutably as a note I am furiously trying to delete.

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Are Paid Relays a Shitcoin?

Last night on Nostr Spaces, we discussed potential implications of paid relays. I believe we Nostriches all understand that paid relays are needed for 1) to pay for the service that we're using as nothing should be free 2) relay operators need funds to pay for relay hardware infrastructure and 3) to thwart spammers.

#[0] said that he thought that paid relays were Shitcoins. What did he mean?

With a Shitcoin, anyone can create one. There is no Proof-of-Work in this process. The creator makes promises about their current offerings or future offerings. And lastly, they want payment and take user's money.

#[1] mentioned that he believed paid relays should operator on a Web-of-Trust model. What does this mean?

Do you know the relay operator? Do they have an older or well known Nostr public key? Did they previously run a free relay? Do reputable people use and recommend this relay? It's fairly easy now to form a Web-of-Trust with well known actors in this space and community.

As we move forward, we do need to watch for scams. A relay and operator could appear out of nowhere. A relay could promise the moon on speed and resources. That relay and relay operator could also disappear in a day or a week or a month, after they've reached their fund raising goal.

Right now, using Nostream to operate a paid relay at least requires a ZBD developer account. This is right now behind a gatekeeper. #[2] needs to approve relay API access. This will get easier in the future. In the future, Nostream will work with other providers and I would assume even end up working with your own node. In the future, we'll need to be more diligent when choosing paid relays.

Start building your Web-of-Trust now.

Global financial crisis

Bitcoin had 2008

Nostr has Twitter

Bitcoin and Nostr have each other.

That was my lightning transaction ever.  Thanx for being part of it.

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