They are a pointless waste of sats in my opinion but they are paying customers so they can do as they wish. I hedge by mining at home to offset my higher transaction fees.

Also, a number of shortcomings in Lightning have been exposed thanks to the high fees. I look at the whole inscriptions thing as a tool to further harden #Bitcoin

You can certainly feel them trying to program you.

I would like to dump it completely but I do feel like there is good value in the macro content as well as the diet and fitness content. Not too much in the way of quality #Bitcoin content like there was several years ago.

What about a "crypto" reality show? Best (or worst) of both worlds.

Ah, i didn't get the IM from the test npub I setup so DM probably works. Someone please send me a test DM.

It worked for a Zap with my own NTFY server! I found that it didn't work for a direct message.

If people have access control setup on their NTFY personal server they will need to run something like this to allow the notifications:

ntfy access '*' 'up***********' write-only

Very likely you will have to allow write all for the Amethyst topic. I've set this up for my Synapse Home Server and that is the recommended approach for a locked down personal NTFY server. This guide is very helpful for a personal NTFY server:

https://docs.ntfy.sh/config/#access-control

This is outstanding! Thank you for adding this. I run GrapheneOS with no Google Play services. I install the X app via APK and without Google Play services there is no possible way to receive notifications (I'm fine with this actually). Now with Amethyst I am able to receive notifications. Amethyst is more of a 1st class citizen on my anti-Google phone than the X app! Great work!

While I would hold #Bitcoin all day every day over gold, be nice to Larry. He's a good guy and readily admits that Bitcoin has more upside than gold.

Yeah, I don't feel like he is a grifter like most altcoin folks. He ran a business that helped a lot of people stack early on, went to prison, and when he got out #Bitcoin had moved on without him. I think he was just trying to get back in and altcoiners will welcome anyone with own arms.

Charlie has a really interesting past with #Bitcoin. He is a true OG. Too bad he went the altcoin route in recent years.

Any chance you could implement Unified Push for us non-Google services users?

https://unifiedpush.org/

Very cool, I'll check back later to see if the payment completes successfully.

This is because the fee is too high as a percentage of the total payment. I can Zap you via the Core Lightning CLI. I suspect I can put something in the Core Lightning config to have the small payments be reliable as long as I'm willing to pay routing fees that are greater than the actual invoice amount.

And then after all of that I can't Zap you! Looks like I need a channel to StackerNews as well. Jeesh!

I have no idea why Core Lightning won't bother to try more than 1 route.

You've done the hard stuff so you can get there if you want to. BTCPay server is like magic and does so many things well. Getting up and running with BTCPay takes some work but once you have it running and have a Lightning Node connected the LN Address and Nostr parts are easy.

I'm a fully self sovereign Zapper! I don't rely on any 3rd party to send and receive Zaps!

Several months back there was a lot of discussion about how the vast majority of Zapping was custodial. There is no need for that, it's easy to be fully non-custodial!

Here are the quick and easy steps if anyone is interested:

Run a Bitcoin Node

Run a Core Lightning Node on clearnet with good liquidity and a handful of channels

Connect BTCPay server and configure a Lightning Address

Install the BTCPay Nostr Plugin

Update my Nostr profile appropriately

Great, it works, but not reliably so I also added some channels:

getalby - minimum channel size 10,000,000 sats

WalletOfSatoshi - minimum channel size 5,000,000 sats

Now it all works reliably, easy!

I hope you could catch my sarcasm because I was laying it on pretty thick! Unfortunately there is no way that even the vast majority of Nostr power users can pull this off. I'm a Bitcoin Nerd (masochist?) who sets this stuff up because I think it's really fun. Maybe someday there will be an easier way to set up non-custodial Zapping but for the time being Zapping will be fully custodial and I think that's okay. We need more more "Zapping Providers" and more diversity in usage of these providers so that if a given provider rugs the entire Nostr Zapping community doesn't get wiped out. Happy Zapping Nostriches!

On the plus side it looks like your email alert worked.

Thanks for the sats!

Congrats and boosted!

Regardless of the recipient's ability to solder the proper etiquette is to provide the Raspberry Pi Zero with the headers already attached IMO.