Btw, if you think Mutiny/Zeus is some kind of weird bad actor issue, it's not.
It's yet another manifestation of deep issues with LN itself and it will be coming up in various forms again and again and will be bombarding all these shiny startups until they have no energy or users left and until WoS is the only thing left for obvious reasons.
We have recently disabled the ability to zap nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 wallet users from Mutiny. You may still pay their invoices or LN addresses normally but a big problem we were seeing was force closed channels due to stuck payments to Zeus due to their work arounds with locked payments. Which harm both the user experience and other lightning nodes on the network.
Since nostr users are mostly unaware if they're zapping Zeus users or not, we are taking this step proactively to protect users from having a 10 sat zap costing them serious on chain channel closing (and reopening) fees.
The approach we are working on for solving lightning addresses on mobile wallets is a fedimint hybrid approach where the sats end up at a federation if you are offline but get swept to your self custodial channel when you come online. Payments will settle instantly with the federation and it won't lock up unnecessary HTLCs on the network.
Ideally we get the ability to do offline receives normally on LN but that future is looking really grim with LND's continued priorities on shitcoins instead of features, and offline receives depends on a network wide upgrade.
We petition Zeus to move to a more responsible node implementation like LDK unless their plan is to add shitcoins or break LN further.
Guys, your devs were (indirectly) calling me incompetent earlier, but publicly dunking on your colleagues like this is not a sign of great professionalism. Go ahead and make those missing features instead like I was actually trying to do back in the day.
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How do you do fellow end-user non-custodial LN developers? (And no, don't try to scare anyone with rugs, no one gives a fuck if their pocket change gets lost one day).
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Oh, this was not meant to defend a complete scumbag regimes like Iranian one. Obviously I can't give you proofs, it's just a suspicion based on observations.
you aren't, russians are
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They already have a lot of pretty strong views like disdain to things raging from vegetables to democracy, imagine how would they behave if by some miracle manage to replace current elites?
Incentive to be a soldier includes a possible prison term if one is drafted and chooses to evade, so it's not entirely money driven, and death probability is not clear most of the time. It's safe to say that as long as state can provide supplies like food, equipment and munition, there will be enough fighters.
The question then is, again, which state will fail to do that first, the one which can inflate its currency or the one which can't? Historically states which can inflate has proved they can prolong wars just fine.
To give a bit more details, most of the money paid will be spent immediately for various equipment and expendables, then probably to support their families. At that point they won't care at all if it's bitcoin or fiat, no one cares about savings in this situation.
Soldiers are not free men and can't leave if they don't like something, so will be paid in whatever state decides to pay. And, given some experience, they will be fine with it.
A "bitcoin community" coming out as a group of tyrannical, elitist assholes who care about nothing but wealth and power will be hilarious if and once Bitcoin wins, won't it?
Generally, either you can say that funding a long war with bitcoin is just as good or that it's impossible, not both claims at once.
I think the idea here is that fiat can be made out of thin air while bitcoin can't, so you'll run out of bitcoin eventually and will not be able to get more while your enemy will be making more fiat without issues.
A serious question: what if your enemy uses fiat while you have switched to bitcoin, and as a result can sustain a war of high intensity for much longer than you can?
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"custodial nostr"
"layer 2 for nostr"
"not your server not your events"
what if you guys should just touch some fucking grass?
In this case, Seller can do atomic commit, then wait until expiry, then take all the money while doing nothing. The lock address is a multisig script, Buyer can't just close it unilaterally.
Indeed, they have done an easy job of enforcing rules in isolated and predicable virtual machine, but never wanted to get hands dirty with messy IRL.