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senior software engineer at some big tech company btc ⚡️

you can connect to sockets over tor, it's just very very very slow 😝 and nostr is a firehose, it sends way too much data. if you have a lot of relays, it's even worse

please use a VPN when using nostr. actually, you should really be using a VPN all the time, no reason not to (even banks and stuff now have been more lenient with them)

if you're an apple user, apple literally provides a free one (iCloud Private Relay) that is actually quite good. it's not technically a VPN but it does mask the IP -> site visit mapping

what if you needed emergency cash, and needed to sell some btc. is this easy in JP? is it highly liquid?

to my followers in JP:

what does lightning adoption look like there?

a) do many merchants accept lightning in big cities?

b) is it easy to convert back and forth between JPY and BTC?

i really wish more merchants accepted lightning. I need it like, tomorrow 😞

i will be patient, though 😊

a lot of paid relays will say you already signed up once you put in your npub and try to create invoice

mine is Damus too, but i'm on the beta version of it. you can use a few others, like snort.social or iris.to on web

it has a zap button on posts for me. also, since i'm on the beta (test flight), it also shows i zapped you on your post!

depends on the client, but if you're using damus there is a "bitcoin lightning tips" field

we always knew #[5] was king.

it's the fastest mobile zap wallet for me too

yep! open WOS, go to receive, get your lightning address (the one that looks like username@walletofsatoshi.com), edit your nostr profile on whatever client, paste that and save, and done!