thanks. apart from breez has very bad force closure, i also wont support apartheid product.

bye

i had a brief encounter with an israeli startup in 2022.

the ceo was like the electronics shop guy in "Don't Mess with the Zohan". Sony Guts, it's got Sony Guts.

not surprised that mossad is behind most of this nonsense.

btw, keep in mind that breez is also israeli. just sayin'

i had my first encounters with israelis back in byron bay in the psytrance days circa 95-98.

chutzpah is a word that springs to mind when i think of the character of the people i met.

they weren't horrible people but pushy af.

Phoenix have the same function but are more discreet about it.

So they know all your channel and the final recipient of all ur coins.

and when u close those channel w them the know the onchain wallet.

Breez doesnt talk at all about it but its lightning so its like other LN wallet.

So if i summerize in general in LN the wallet provider record all u do.

I still search about why WOS and not the other wallet. Maybe i miss some connected people ?

Am I wrong to say it calls home to Google? I never said tracker I don't believe.

Seems it works without but still calls home to them.

i think a nostr podcast app should leverage nostr events for comments to share between clients. right now comments for boosts on fountain or breez live and die solely on those platforms

I have been using #breez for a long time now. And now all of a sudden it stopped working? How is that?

I just got around to watching an interview of Roy Shenfield from Breez about how he feels the future of lightning is integration into apps that have other primary use cases like Uber or Netflix.

He said his dream app would be Tik Tok, but I feel like that’s exactly what Nostr did. Am I crazy or don’t we already have tik tok and lightning combined with the added benifit of data privacy and decentralization? Sure it’s not perfect yet, but the foundation is there.

Nostr and lightning will win.

Sorry for being impatient i see now you guys are working hard on solving these issues. We are still early. Glad that you are here on Nostr.🤙

Its a difficult problem to solve. 😕

Bolt12 offers would make it easier to be self sovereign because you only need to run a lightning node and then have a static adress which then queries the node for an invoice. No need to run a separate server.

sent 25600 sats to each wallet here is what arrived:

Noah ……………… -> 25600 (0.0%)

Wallet of satoshi -> 25,472 (0.5%)

Phoenix wallet …-> 22,600 (11.7%)

Breez …………….. -> 20,625 (19.4%)

Co-Founder and Creator of Breez doesn’t want others building Lightning apps?

Reminds me of NVK saying he would like to see others build other Bitcoin products besides hardware wallets. “do something new, do something different.”

Competition is good.

The last point you made quoting Roy from Breez is Adam’s thesis and he’s the originator of the whole thing so it would be worth consuming some more of his ideas about it.

I’d also point out that your examples of things like podcast overheads don’t consider the the first part of the V4V equation - there is a shitton of content out there, do you really have something valuable enough to say to warrant the overheads? Because most people do not so are they aren’t producing enough value to warrant sufficient value in return to make these things anything more than a hobby.

I like Breez channel creation fee. Less than Phoenix. The wallet reminds you often to open it and go online (as you should do with all self custodial wallets). The cons is that it doesn’t connect through TOR (as Blixt and Zeus offer).

I dont like the warning they give you when you first open a wallet lol "this is in beta use could possibly lose funds or something a long those lines.. basically saying if breeze don't work out yo shit is gone.. but I have not used in a long time so that message might not be shown anymore..