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Wrapping up the great blinded path catchup, I hit a snag. Paying an invoice where we ourselves are nominated as the head of the blinded path. I solved this case elegantly for onion messages, but actual payments are not so easy.

In an ideal world, our code would have been written so we could have either the RPC or an incoming HTLC trigger this code. But unwrapping and forwarding are only written for incoming HTLCs, and reworking all that is a major task. I may revisit this one day, as such code would transparently allow self-payment which currently has a special path.

So instead we are going to have another special path for this case :( I thought about simply unwrapping the onion inside the pay plugin for this, but it requires ECDH using the node key which we don't expose through RPC (and I'm reluctant to expose).

Hoping to finish soon as this is a large part of getting offers to production ready (vs the current experimental config option).

I paid my first BOLT12 offer in 2021… C Lightning already had it back then.

What’s with the recent hype?

Still not available in the US though, right?

Someone I love wrote to me with a Kickstarter project, asking me to back it

I wanted to, but then was hit with the permission wall: sign up, create an account, give us all your information, credit card info, all this stuff

The current web is built in an infuriating way where you can only support those you like through permissioned walls built by rent-seekers posing as "connectors"

So, I didn't proceed, and didn't back them, which sucks

I hope they will join us on Nostr soon so I can back them effortlessly with sound money and no-rent seeking

I think it's just a matter of time ⏳

The HOA is escalating because our Internet cables are black instead of beige.

What makes you think I write comments and tests? 😳

Amethyst just passed 160,000 lines of code. #help

don't need to, it's Google. every product they make is either something posing as a benefit but aids in data scraping or it is a way into something so they can gain a foothold. do not trust them, do not be naive.

they are very good at pretending to be something they are not.

Smokey the bears saying is now " only you can prevent wild fires' I coulda swore it was ' only you can prevent forest fires"

Am I losing it?