But they don’t support Lightning.

Is there any service to register a website domain using Bitcoin?

#asknostr

I’m here for you if you have cooking q’s today or tomorrow.

It seems to only support electrum unfortunatly not bitcoin rcp.

Why can't we just have thin-client wallets that can use our own nodes as a read-only source of truth?

Does anyone know the best strat for finding public peers to get compact block filters (bip157). Just using the standard DNS seeds seems to kinda work but is a bit flaky/slow.

#bitcoin

This Christmas it’ll be 2 years since I took a leap and started an Eclair Lightning node. I had a few difficulties along the way, but I’ve never felt that my funds were at ready unlike when I made a mistake of trying LND. I am still amazed that such a mature and reliable product that is FOSS is available to mere mortals at no cost. I may write a second year overview of my experience with Eclair if there is interest.

Hmm, I’m not seeing the “spend bitcoin”. Maybe state dependent?

Where can I access this map without any account?

Go pay for something with #bitcoin today!

May 5, 3026: the next Murderbot novel, Platform Decay, will be released as a hardcover, ebook, and audiobook. 🎉

#bookstr #reading #marthawells #murderbot

Do all 3 of these things still exist btw?

I know Nethack does, never heard of bitnet and I *think* Usenet still exists(?)

#IYKYK

We're excited to award nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnrv9ekzv339eehqctrv5q3camnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wveexzcm5v9kxj7n9vshxuet59uqzq65vtslngsuu34mpvw0s0uf2e24gn02u9rwa0pvesuyzym8u6y3fl4sez6 a year long project grant for his work on integrating Floresta, a Utreexo-powered node implementation, with BDK, through the bdk-floresta crate.

A huge thanks to nostr:nprofile1qyf8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn6vfjzuem8qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsqgyvraskxpjj8svmnjaxuhrj6luwl42egp3q7s8jff037ff6eysm5gzdpp2c or their early support for Luis and his work through their Vinteum Fellowship program.

GM ☀️ PV 😋

It’s pancake day. 🥞🍑

I don’t disagree at all, would just like to read what you are. Source?

They are spending a lot on surveillance and robots - they won't need paying...

Predictions for Coming Decades. 🤔

1. AI and robotics will rapidly, on the order of one or two decades, displace most careers, even as new vocations emerge, and higher education comes into question.

2. The population will be dialed down by a factor of 10-100x. Most of this will be indirect and has already been accomplished.

3. The white race will join the jews in becoming a small, international minority. Sponsorship of American blacks through welfare and social justice will, by all practical measures, be abandoned. Tech Asians and Indians will pivot hard into AI but be late on Bitcoin, setting them back dearly. Hispanics will return to LatAm which will be more desirable in terms of freedom. Indians in healthcare will be replaced by automation and Indians in call centers will pivot to AI scams before ultimately returning to poverty before being phased out to reclaim India's natural habitat.

4. What remains of the useless/welfare class will continue to be monetized/productized by the ruling class, whether as lab rats, organ donors, sex slaves, and as insurance against extinction. Many will be employed in the vocation of 'terreforming' the world back to a green, natural state under the guise of environmentalism before they are ultimately phased out. Weather warfare and vaccines will be used to covertly sterilize, maim, and kill poorer population's using a broad, impersonal brush. Cancer centers and other exploititive industries will loot these populations on their way out.

5. Political rhetoric will abandon the far leftism of the last 150 years, shifting back to moderatism (as internationally cooperative populist factions), which will temporarily feel 'far right'. Nothing about Gov agendas in the greater sense will change, just the marketing.

6. Micro states, for the elite and scrappy freedom minded, will mature on the political stage. Federalism in the US will provide relief for crafty families seeking refuge from an unlimited police state.

7. Nuclear power will finally begin advancing again in large and small capacity. Batteries will become better and more ubiquitous. Solar will become the poor man's decentralized energy. Efforts to propagandize carbon fuels will be abandoned.

8. #Bitcoin will replace gold and at least half of all capital will find it's way into the network, but probably more. Families who move now will ultimately join the ruling class. Wealth will be measured in money, privacy, and relative freedom to the norm. Natural rights will become 'pay to play'.

9. Governments will continue copying Beijing's high tech, surveillance society under different marketing in order to prevent an uprising as this era ends. The wealthiest people on earth will enjoin themselves into the reset of governance.

10. Social media will finish usurping the mass media as the preferred platform for government information. State sponsored podcasters will drown out most authentic voices. #Nostr and other platforms will survive on the fringes but noise will still be so high that it will be difficult to track the advance of reset. Productive families will find sanity in small worlds where signal can be cultivated and defended.

11. Private payment tech on #Bitcoin will be slyly introduced into some fringe economies at real scale for the first time. #GrapheneOS or a project like ir will break out of Linux/Android/Pixel using a Rust based microkernel, eliminating much of today's attack surface and eventually shipping their own hardware which will become ubiquitous with families who still have money. Open source chips and a freeing of the entire computing stack will be well underway.

We've had the internet for 30 years. Why are Western democracies suddenly deciding that it's too dangerous for the public without filters?

For what it's worth — and Christ knows the worth of anything in this silicon carnival — I'm programming MORE with AI, not less. The doom-peddlers have it backwards, these merchants of technological apocalypse who see every new tool as humanity's coffin nail.

If I'm any indication, and I'm just one poor bastard stumbling through this digital labyrinth, then more human coding time will be spent. Not death but resurrection, multiplication, the orgiastic explosion of creation itself. It's the inverse of everything they're selling us.

Programming becomes more fun — more intoxicating than absinthe, more addictive than the finest Parisian whore — so naturally more time gets spent doing it. Simple arithmetic for those who remember what joy feels like.

Today I needed test files. Told my silicon collaborator to fill them with something funny. Got cheesy Dad jokes ... the stupid things made me laugh until my belly ached. There's beauty in this marriage of man and machine, something that speaks to the cosmic joke of existence.

People think coding is like coal mining, bound for technological obsolescence. These ignorant souls have never felt the electricity of a perfect algorithm, never experienced the orgasmic rush of solving the impossible. It's the most direct application of knowledge creation there is — pure thought made manifest through the alchemy of syntax and logic. Not only won't it die, it'll be the final thing we are doing when universal constructors automate everything physical into oblivion.

NEW: 🇺🇸 President Trump to sign the crypto GENIUS Act into law today.

America is embracing Bitcoin and crypto 🙌

My side of the story is first I tried to send a bolt-11 invoice in a PM but it failed for reasons unknown. Maybe too big?