I talk about it a bit at the end of the show today, but I was doing (and receiving) so many #Lightning transactions over the course of the day that I stopped to be in awe at how frictionless and seamlessly everything was working and to the degree.
So I decided to count and completed more than 53 transactions today with only 1 that required a channel opening but I'd have never known if I hadn't gone to see. That included two $500ish payments.
This is #Bitcoin working, this is #Lightning as a global , insanely fast payment system, and this is us winning.
Using the funds I've received from streaming sats, boosts, and #Nostr zaps plus some other savings for a really cool project that I think is finally getting off the ground. And I'm excited.
Epic being a part of the revolution with you guys. 👏🏻👏🏻
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6NIXNUvCuMXHwp8kX6xzCP?si=f754f11bd66541ab
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Of course! Always happy to give feedback and my thoughts on the stuff I'm really excited about. 👏🏻
I have no idea what is going on but I feel like I should participate.
⚡️⚡️Zaps sent your way and anticipation award acquired.
#[0] the color lightening of threads, even with the still very thin indent, does a lot to make the threads easier to understand.👏🏻
It took me some time to even notice it while i was rolling through a thread. It was feeling far less frustrating for some reason and all of a sudden it popped out to me.😆
Potentially, but I think just having a block list recommendation or trusted filter is not really censorship unless its being forced on someone without their desire to.
If you want to understand censorship then just think of it like an in person conversation:
• Me and you are talking... you are being a belligerent asshat and screaming at me. I walk away or shut the door so I don't have to listen to you anymore. [mute/block]
––– not censorship. I have no olbigation to listen to your bullshit.
• Me and you are talking... we want to have a conversation about something controversial but we are at a dinner party in someone else's house. They ask us to leave. [banned from relay]
––– not technically censorship, but getting into an area where an outside party is controlling the conversation. Unfortunately the architecture of the internet makes this an increasingly difficult grey area.
• Me and you are talking... 10s of millions of people have all gone to the same "house" with millions of conversations & where each person explicitly chooses to receive messages and posts from a self-curated list of people. The state, funded by all of us and external both to any and all conversations being had, plus not an owner or stake holder in the house, threatens the host with shutting it down or fines if they do not put tape over our mouths so we cannot speak... specifically we cannot speak about how corrupt this external party is. [Social media censorship]
––– this is censorship. This is a problem. And this is why #Nostr exists
If you are moaning about someone blocking or muting you, then cry harder. 😁
shit, shift-enter accidental post. 🤦🏻♂
Need undo button, lol
If you want to understand censorship then just think of it like an in person conversation:
• Me and you are talking, you are being a belligerent asshat and screaming at me. I walk away or shut the door so I don't have to listen to you anymore.
Always important to keep the conflicts of our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents alive & well even though we had nothing to do with it. I mean its not like we have any other reasons to dislike each other, so why not hate you for what someone who looked like your great grandfather did to someone who looked like my mom?
Sounds like a recipe for good vibes and lots of getting along 😄😉
We win by building and implementing faster than they can regulate... keep going 🔥
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/btcpay-server-adds-coinjoin-plugin
I try to make a habit of saying or posting something every couple of months that I think most of my followers/group will specifically *not* like.
Although I did it often enough that I think I’ve largely eliminated that side of the crew, lol. Now when I say things I think people will get annoyed with most just like the post. 🤣
I’m less filtered than I used to be and can’t decide if that’s good or bad 🤔
Replace it with “white” and you have your answer.
Missing my favorites: 210, and 2100
Verifying my Nostr Nests identity: RmKS46KMQGlth3ep2ngGgjmIngBnQ_vcaeJipUoF2fQ
In 8 more years that’s what all these 1,000 sat zaps will feel like.
“Hey babe! I just found an old WoS account with like 10 zaps from 2023! We’re going to Hawaii!”
“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.
But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.”
― John Adams
Anyone else using Nostrgram & seeing it on the struggle bus today?
Paging #[0] , are you seeing issues or just something going on at my side?
This is still what crypto people think 🤣🤣
What about both at the same time? 
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Facebook has become useful for a single purpose, localized eBay. I sell my old stuff on there and it gets picked up really fast. Other than that, I stay way away from that place
Thinking that Damus (and all Nostr apps) should support markdown.
I’ve legit become a Markdown Maxi since I started building a note taking system about a year ago with Obsidian (which has an API) and Hookmarks (universal links to files on your computer).
It’s totally changed how I navigate my digital life and I will be posting a lot of markdown formatted notes either way. So just letting you know 🤣🤣
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Since Wallet of Satoshi has gone down a few times & I saw people asking, I felt it would be good to have a dedicated thread on options for a **receiving** [[LNURL]] address. Save this thread and add others in the comments if you have one not listed.
So in the past 2 weeks I’ve cycled through connecting each of these to #Nostr:
- [Alby](https://getalby.com/)
- Great LN wallet and extension, has custodial option plus can connect numerous other noncustodial to it. Can use to login to LNAUTH websites as well as with your Nostr keys to protect from copy/pasting (honestly it's a need-to-have for Nostr until everyone else integrates the Nostr sign in). Easy & cheap to withdraw
- [Wallet of Satoshi](https://www.walletofsatoshi.com/)
- Custodial, very fast adoption of Nostr and zaps. Just always seems to work and has been reliable for me for years... (until you Zap⚡️Junkies broke them). Easy to withdraw but has much higher fees on bigger payments - I think there's a set percentage.
- [Zebedee](https://zbd.gg/)
- Works great! BUT it freaking emailed me for every zap. It says I can easily change the settings but i searched through the whole menu and got 2 more emails *while* I was looking for how to turn it off and just immediately disconnected it 🤣 — if you can figure that out it seems great otherwise (but custodial). Easy & cheap to withdraw
- [BtcPayServer](https://btcpayserver.org/)
- Setup is a lot more involved & requires you to connect your own web domain, but it's incredibly valuable to have. I use BtcPay for all sorts of crap and it's insanely valuable despite a less intuitive interface when you first get into it. Non-custodial, you hold the keys.
- [Fountain App](https://fountain.fm/)
- Podcasting app, custodial Lightning. Easy and instant setup basically, LNURL is right in your profile. Only headache with them is fixed sized withdraws. Most you can do in any invoice is 200k at a time. Great way to get a fast LNURL though.
- [LN.tips](https://t.me/LightningTipBot)
- My current zap LNURL source. Run by @callebtc, it connects to the (custodial) LightningTipBot on Telegram, so it gives you all your zaps in a scrolling Telegram chat feed. Honestly I just like the interface for viewing zaps more than anything. Easy to withdraw to any non-custodial.
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Wallets I've used that support *sending* to LNURL but don't seem to have support for an address of your own:
- [Phoenix Wallet](https://phoenix.acinq.co/)
- [Breez](https://breez.technology/mobile/)
- going to have a big overhaul soon, I'd keep an eye out
- [Blixt Wallet](https://blixtwallet.github.io/features)
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Other wallets that have LNURL support of various kinds (send/receive/both) that I have on my list to test eventually:
- [LNpay](lnpay.co)
- Looks like yoy can send and receive via LNURL – I use this for a lot of other stuff, it's a custodial and/or non-custodial wallet manager with API (kind of like an LNbits as a service to connect to your other apps). Great for webhooks, connecting to code on a website, etc. Looks like you can use own domain for LNURL (though I haven't done it yet).
- [Bottlepay](https://bottlepay.com/)
- [Lifpay](https://www.lifpay.me/en/)
- (don't know much but looks interesting)
- [Balance of Satoshis](https://github.com/alexbosworth/balanceofsatoshis)
- install it on your LND node instance like btcpay, voltage, umbrel, etc. Here it's really useful but haven't gotten time to fully explore.
- [Bitcoin Beach Wallet](https://www.bbw.sv/)
- custodial but will give user an LNURL
- [Simple Bitcoin Wallet](https://sbw.app/)
- [Clams](https://app.clams.tech/welcome)
- Looks like an LNlink sort of app for Core-Lightning. Both are about controlling your LN node *over* the Lightning network, so its direct comms using "empty" payments over other LN nodes.
- [Machankura](https://8333.mobi/)
- Blowing up in Africa from what i read, send directly to phone number or LNURL. Custodial.
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I'm sure there are others but these are teh ones I have saved in an ongoing note and what I've had more hands on experience with. Hope this is helpful. 🙏
Just testing something...
- [Alby](https://getalby.com/)
Which they can currently do for free
I've got a new one coming soon. First one I've tackled with Davinci Fusion.
Then I've got a ton of short ones lined up before the next bigger meme to tackle. I'm trying to migrate me memecrafting to mostly Nostr and see the best way to share it. Is it Youtube? Nostr.build? Some other embed option? What feels the best in the feed? What gives the largest image? Etc
How (in Damus) can I see which relay is “seeding” a message or user to me? I’d prefer not disconnecting ALL of my unpaid relays if there are only a couple that are forwarding the bulk of the spam in global. But I can’t find a way to tell which relays are responsible for feeding me the posts when I get spam.
If there is a way let me know 🙏🏻💜
A person’s savings is their ability to choose. It’s their security in making an ethical or moral choice, in opposition to an employer or corporation.
It is no coincidence that the moral fabric of society becomes a rotten corpse at the same time as it is overwhelmed with debt.
The plans that were never the plan but you fall into anyway are almost always the best plans. 😆
It’s probably the difference between number of users and people paying for premium and/or paying sats for clips or ads.
Finding a balance there I’m sure is crazy hard, and paying people to listen is probably an ever falling margin.