I am inclined to agree. However, the list is useless without a list of recommended alternatives that are an improvement.
It is my understanding that KYC is only on the side of Apple, and only when PURCHASING sats. You can load the wallet from any other wallet without any KYC. You know... Just like you can do with Fountain for boosting podcasts, or streaming sats.
Adding the ability to zap from another app would likely give them the same issue that Damus ran into, which required nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s to remove zapping from Damus entirely. We'll see what Primal ends up doing with the Android app, where there is more freedom to do whatever they would prefer.
To that point, the current version of Primal's Android app has no built in wallet, and requires the user to connect with either Alby (custodial) or Mutiny (non-custodial) to zap. Still not the ideal, but better than what I suspect they have been forced into on the iOS side.
It is my understanding that KYC is only on the side of Apple, and only when PURCHASING sats. You can load the wallet from any other wallet without any KYC. You know... Just like you can do with Fountain for boosting podcasts, or streaming sats.
Adding the ability to zap from another app would likely give them the same issue that Damus ran into, which required nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s to remove zapping from Damus entirely. We'll see what Primal ends up doing with the Android app, where there is more freedom to do whatever they would prefer.
Even if we look at what it means to have sovereignty on Lightning, that in some way means having shared custody of a UTXO with a channel partner, so I am not sure if we have any solutions for end users to have monetary sovereignty as Bitcoin scales to 8B people.
The main solution I keep hearing about right now is ecash, which in the best of cases would involve federated custody. Effectively monetary sovereignty for small local banks, but not for the end user.
That said, we often innovate solutions as the problem becomes more immediately painful. As we reach the breaking point where it becomes near impossible for individuals to hold and transact Bitcoin in a sovereign way, unless they have very large amounts, we will naturally have more people with motivation to come up with a new solution.
I don't have any ideas about what that solution will look like, but it will likely be different from what anyone today has conceived, or else we would have it in the works already.
Define "monetary sovereignty," particularly in the context of what that practically looks like on Bitcoin.
Some purists would say it means the ability to self-custody your own UTXO and transact on the base-chain.
I get it, but nothing that comes free will stick around for long, unless those who develop clients and run relays FOR YOU can find a way to justify all the time, productive energy, and money they spend.
That is... unless they do what most of the big tech guys do and turn YOU into the product to serve ads to.
You can either show your appreciation to the devs and relay runners who make this thing possible by ensuring they get to keep doing what they are doing, or else it all will go away and fade into obscurity because it was unsustainable from the jump.
Hello #IdaHODLers!
We're having an informal hangout in Post Falls to toast to Bitcoin's 15th Birthday on the 3rd. Come on out if you can.
By the way, these types of transactions aren't hard to find using these goggles. All you have to do is have the goggles highlight consolidation transactions, and look for large transactions that didn't get highlighted.
It's even worse than you can see using the Inscriptions filter. Many of the larger transactions that don't contain inscriptions are essentially doing the inverse of UTXO consolidation, with one input and HUNDREDS of small outputs that are nearly dust, in preparation of using those smaller UTXOs for individual inscriptions later.
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#asknostr nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft
I have something to report on this as well!
Turns out that a command-line lightning management app called Balance of Satoshis has this functionality, BUT you need to be using a wallet on the sending side that allows you to create a signed transaction without broadcasting it, because your node needs to broadcast the transaction via Balance of Satoshis for the channel-open to work.
Yeah, that's not awful and could work, then I'll just send the on-chain funds I have to cold storage. 😀
This would not surprise me in the slightest. 🤣
Right? I mean... I already have to generate an address to send the sats to my node. Why can't that address just be the address for the new channel?
This seems inefficient to me. Can someone correct me if I am wrong?
I would like to get channels set up on my new Start9. It seems like it requires at least 2 on-chain transactions to do so. One to get sats onto the node and a second one to fund the channel.
Shouldn't there be a way to get the channel prepped and then do a single transaction to fund it from wherever I currently have it, rather than needing to send it to the node first?
#asknostr
Bookmarking this to refer back to later, but here are the ones I use all the time:
Web Clients
- Nostrudel
- Primal
- Coracle
- Snort
Specific Content
- Zap.Stream
- Wavlake
- Flare? (Haven't checked it out much yet, but looks good)
Tools
- Advanced Nostr Search
- Shipyard
- Highlighter
- Listr
I know there are way more that I need to try out. Flockstr comes to mind and NsecBunker, though I never could get it to work for me.
Merry Christmas #Nostr!
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