Fair enough, but it's not a matter of "nerds running nodes VS plebs spending bitcoin". Since we need bitcoin to be technically sound, we need infrastructure before everything else. Infrastructure means that Bitcoin needs to keep its properties through time, thus full nodes must enforce protocol rules.

If nobody enforces protocol rules, we are left with a new paypal technology, so what's the point?

Your experience is really matches mine...I've been running a node for a couple of years, testing different implementations, discrete liquidity and few tens of channels. Recentrly switched to automated channel management scripts and it kind of works better, but overally running a public node it's probably not worth the burdain. A private node with private channels is still annoying to manage if compared to all the other mobile solutions out there.

If you don't spend the bitcoin, the bitcoin economy does not grow. If you don't invest the bitcoin into real economy companies and startups, the bitcoin economy does not grow. I hope people will not be stupid enough to think that simply sitting on a bunch of sats will solve their problems. If you don't make the stuff, there is no stuff.

Let's see if there is even liquidity in the market for that bs, I'm just curious

The BTCPay Server documentation has an excellent introductory funnel to understand which solitution fits better your needs. I suggest you to take a look at that

Does the Casa app need Google Play Services to run?

Non sapevo Leopardi si fosse trangugiato 1/5 kg di confetti il giorno in cui è morto. Ora la mia vita non ha più senso.

Let's organize a roadtrip to all the closest meetups then

I don't think they would give up on the possibility to control both the transaction counterparties. As far as I can make out, the current main project relies on a system to blind only senders but keep somehow a way to unblind the receiver, thus controlling the financial transaction anyway. The Bank of International Settlements has something going on about it, even Chaum itself contributed in 2021 if I remember correctly.

Anyway my point is that the ECB ecash will exist, but as of now they didn't understand the right threshold between surveillance and 'political difficulty to push the project'.

I guess that political agreement would slow down a bit their work...at least it's what could help us having more time.

THIS!

Yesterday evening I was sitting in front of a pair of scammers that were trying to shill a metaverse project and its coin.

They are honestly full of shit, but they seemed in good faith UNTIL one of them dropped thw biggest bs I have ever heard of:

'The creator of this project is the same person that created Bitcoin in 2008. He has a company that does blockchain services and consulting amd he's all around the news every day! Believe us!'.

I started laughing and I really couldn't stop.

Today came out the final decision of the Judge and I though again about these two scammers:

welcome to Law, suckers!

Primal is my favourite #Nostr client by far! Well done!

Nothing should be banned...people should just understand that the tool is bad for them and switch to #Nostr

100% support for your move here as LNBits! Parasitical behaviours are not welcome, especially in demo servers, escpecially if people would probably point at you once something goes wrong with your node. Well done.

If somebody wants his/her mint they should run their own LN node, otherwise the systemic risk becomes unphantomly big and unnecessary.

XMPP (I suggest prosody) is way better for self hosting because of less resources needed and easier setup! Try it!

Yes! For some Bitcoin is take for granted, like oxigen, time or death. With Bitcoin money is just as it shoud be, the energy exchanged in the transactions between human beings. Bitcoin conferences are for the masses, tutorials are for the masses. If you got it, you'r on the new page of the Bitcoin standard, a page where nobody talks bitcoin but bitcoin is the underlying truth of society.

Don't even bother explaining them. They'll lear their lesson when time comes

Yes! Generative AI (in general) is such an overpriced trend...LLM models are probabilistic-bullshit-writers

Really well done! Won't regret it!

Ubuntu+Windows...I wonder what possibly could go wrong...