I greatly appreciate the work that nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg and nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 are doing to make self sovereign Lightning easier for the masses.
Building a traditional node and running a traditional node that doesn't run on your phone isn't overly complicated, but it's definitely not easy when problems arise. Troubleshooting is extremely technical and hard for most people.
I've helped a dozen or more people over the past year by connecting to their node or doing remote support and fixing a problem for them. I don't mind providing this assistance, but it's a screaming reminder that Lightning still has a long way to go where it's "plug and play" easy.
We haven't entered the "no-brainer" territory yet, but we're getting there, thanks to these two teams working hard for all us us.
Zeus and Mutiny are brilliant!
What do you think about other mobile solutions like Phoenix? Do you think that such a product could be one way to solve the adoption problem? Thanks
Really funny to see the darwinian evolutionary process at play. I guess that the genetic material of those ancient humans that looked directly at the sun just for fun didn't propagate so well in the mankind genetic heritage.
Absolutely total negative before Nostr.
Hi #Nostr!!!
I would like to echo this project that I found here on Nostr
https://primal.net/e/note1468crxa4u0yd99h5g76uavn0h0y3vlma5ctxnnvf8np5g69sstdq9evukf
The project is a wrapper of the new born phoenixd that enables you to set up a lnaddress with your favourite domain and username....and you can even deploy a minimal webpage that shows your lnurl and a few info like nostr pubkey and the lnaddress.
Really, in 5 minutes you can deploy an lnaddress in your website and receive zaps 24/7 thanks to the phoenixd server!!!
Well done Angus!!
What could possibly go wrong?
Even the employers, the birds, dogs, cats and maybe also vegetables
What happened with XZ got me thinking again about the tendency in Bitcoin to "just update Core to the new release".
Yes, Bitcoin is a wildly big open source project with a ton of clever people looking at the code...but shit happens.
Just don't update Bitcoin Core in a compulsive way whenever a new version comes out, keep challenging the backward compatibility of the software. Use old versions, be conservative with the Bitcoin implementation that you use.
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That woul be a burdain for devs to implement the shitshow of compatibility for all the shitcoins. I'm not going to become a shitcoiner, but I welcome shitcoiners on here to see how good bitcoin is for tips.
Usually ECB is like the dumb guy in the classroom that always manages to copy from top students'...buoyancy is ECB's top skill.
So I guess US will do the first step, but let's see
Had a great conversation about mind maps with nostr:npub17svn7u8mgwjnp4s0hpaxnl2caxzj6qsw9jsz6zsvd77qypq5pzqqqr7n6f last night.
Does anyone here use mind maps? How do you use them, and what do you use them for?
Do you want a collaborative mind map nostr client?
🔁🔁🔁Repost please, want as much feedback as possible!
That would be awesome! Mind maps are truly a clever way to exploit spatial memory, definitely very very useful!
Stolen coins are still valid coins, thus I would not run the fork code.
Yep technically forks can happen, you're right. The problem behind hard forks is that once the opportunity of changing the rules is given, eventually people form lobbies to change other rules. If we just forked away because of government 6102 order, why can't we also include in the fork a supply increase? or a blocksize increase to 32GB? Or a dynamic blacklisting of adresses by miners? Or the seizure of Satoshi's coins? etc.
If you think I'm just riffing, look at all the other protocols that hard forked in the past...that is the issue. Once the immutability is broken, you're done with the "immutability" narrative.
> Bitcoin is not gold because Bitcoin can fork.
Yes, but the only "gold-like Bitcoin " is the Bitcoin that technically respected the status quo...all the others are just shitcoin.
Given that if the government steals coins, that means Bitcoin's legitimation, which is a win in itself.
Anyways, stolen coins are still valid coins because...they're just coins, such as stolen gold bars are still gold bars.
The fact that a lot of coins are sitting in one's priv keys, being the keys of a government or an individual, is somehow a natural evolution of how capital works. Bitcoin is not a Maoist dream in which every user holds the same amount of coins...so we must accept the existence of big coin stacks, like possibly a government's stack.
Honestly, the path taken from the mining industry was unavoidable. Home mining is a burdain that not anyone would jump on willy-nilly and the scale helps to reduce costs.
Home mining is not the future of bitcoin mining, because given the same computational power per cm2 of chip and given the same marginal profitability, it's always better to stack a ton of asics rather than having one.
Before jumping into Nostr, I though that social media were fated to eternal damnatio because of bots, fake people showing fake stuff, all the algorithm bs.
Nostr really changed my perspective on human interaction online. Everyone needs Nostr
Thanks for the suggestions!
Yep, I'm moving towards that direction.