Lightning is difficult for onboarding (online requirements, liquidity, etc.) and its usage has an inherent cost to it (opening and closing channels, rebalancing...) which results in many users choosing a custodial lightning provider.

Ecash is a better way to do custody, because it works without acounts and balances

Understanding how a #cashu ecash mint works.

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Animated slides coming soon TM, as part of my explorations into unidirectional channels connecting to ecash mints.

I doubt most of the people getting excited about this even bothered to read how it works. It's a software quality nightmare, in my opinion, as it adds asynchronous transactions, architectural and code complexity, an entire network of servers with redundant (but potentially inconsistent) data, etc.

Relays on top of mints on top of lightning nodes on top of Bitcoin nodes, and always tied to your npub. (Theoretically, you could tie it to a different npub, but that would be completely retarded, as the whole idea is that people are zapping your npub. And forget trying to use the same zap wallet with multiple different npubs.)

Even worse than e-cash wallets on top of mints on top of lightning nodes on top of Bitcoin nodes, which is already a transaction maze that takes occasional money-loss for granted.

1. Relays can't even get follow-lists right, as they are only eventually consistent.

2. Mints can just walk off with the money. They are wildcat banks that can disappear from one moment to the next.

3. Your financial information gets passed around to wallets from developers you might not trust to deliver the quality required for banking services. As far as I can tell, you get auto-logged into their wallet, as soon as you make the mistake of trying out their app.

Every time people around here try to obfuscate novel architecture too hard, rather than putting the effort into making the connections smoother and explaining/guiding better with something like a wizard, it ends up looking like something that's a preface to the next edition of "Software Disasters".

Hard pass.

I had bought domains on Namecheap in the past and paid with Lightning using their Bitpay integration. They also have a BTCPayServer but I never used that because it didn't support Lightning.

Today I went there to pay and Bitpay required me to do full KYC just to pay a small Lightning invoice.

Pays dogon 🇲🇱dans le village de koundou goumon un grimpeur dans la falaise. #nostr

#bitcoin

#zaps

#nostrfr

Yo! Gm ☕️ ☀️ 🥶

Je parle surtout des fluctuations sur les prix, des institutions qui se gorgent de BTC et des regulations qui deviennent de plus en plus restrictives

N'est-ce pas en totale contradiction avec les valeurs défendues par Bitcoin ?

Est-on finalement dans une forme de schéma où c'est le serpent qui se mord la queue ?

Hmm... Yeah I tried and it failed to established

Do they automatically block the call?

Yeah, I almost never get spam. Their AI is pretty great in this regard.

Do I have to get a new phone number to stop getting spam phone calls? It’s gotten real bad lately. #asknostr

Bitcoin is more important than A.I

We banned some IP addresses that the attacker was using. You may be using the same VPN as them. Please DM or send your IP to support@coinos.io and we'll look at unblocking it for you.

I’m often tempted to list all the “conspiracy theories” out there and put a percentage on how likely I think they are to be true.

Like covid came from a lab (too obvious) is 99.99%. The moon landing was faked (20%), etc. We don’t know very much for sure, and these percentages would change as more information comes out.

Of course, putting numbers on it creates a false impression of precision when there is none. My take on the moon landing being fake is “plausible but not likely.” I just made up 20 percent. It might as well be 5 percent or 30 percent. I would be surprised if it were ascertainably verified as fake. But I would not be shocked — at least not anymore.

You will take criticism from both sides for doing this too. The normies will be like, LOL, you nut job, you really think there’s a 20 percent chance the moon landing was faked!

And then other people will be like, LOL, you credulous normie, you think there’s an 80 percent chance we had that tech in 1969 and haven’t been back since!

I don’t claim my numbers are correct. The only thing I know for sure is it’s not zero percent and not 100 either.

⚡️🇩🇪 NEW - German sports scientist and sports historian calls to make the country's national youth fit for potential war.

What do you think? #asknostr

they're building giant solar farms with batteries.

why? because it's fastest to build and easy to scale. for other options, only regulatory bullshit takes longer than building the whole thing on solar.

it's not my speculation, this is their current plan

Bonjour!

Vous avez embarqué sur Hello Quitte X, et nous vous en remercions. Comme nous l’avons expliqué lors de la soirée HelloQuitteX du lundi 20 janvier, nous ne sommes pas encore passés à la phase 2 (activation de la reconnexion).

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Nostr is essential for health information.

Uncensored, I can openly tell you:

Sunlight is good for you.

Red meat is good for you.

Eggs are good for you.

Grounding is good for you.

Sunbathing is good for you.

Ultra-processed foods cause metabolic dysfunction.

Vaccines might have detrimental effects.

Liver is good for you.

Energy saving bulbs are not good for you.

Big Tech isn't interested in your health.

Big pharma isn't interested in curing people.

A plant based diet must include animal foods/seafood.

Glyphosate is not good for you.

Wifi, Cell Phones and Bluetooth are not safe.

LDL Cholesterol isn't the main driver of heart disease.

Seed oils are bad for you.

Experts are not always right.