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2025-09-29 00:03:19 UTC

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Yeah I just think a bit of give on the core side would go a long way. Mike Schmidt started doing this by putting up a pr to un-deprecate datacarriersize and it’s a good start.

2025-09-29 00:00:37 UTC

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The issue is these guys had good reasons to get people riled up. Could have been defused quickly if there was a consistent, logical argument coming out for changes but there wasn’t for a while. Instead we got gaslighting, “paternalistic censorship” and actively antagonizing comments.
It was a shift in thinking, communicated poorly, and the worst part was otherwise smart respected people dipping to unnecessary lows due to open source bad blood.
The outcome is instead of having a somewhat hard conversation about the reasons for core wanting to nuke mempool policy, we’re now having the conversation about whether people are going to run core at all. Much worse.
The solution isn’t more Luke bashing its core building trust with people again. Arguably the easier thing, the hard part is eating a bit of humble pie.

2025-09-28 21:06:17 UTC

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Lola I like your work and I’ve donated to the rage many times. If you’re feeling defensive about the signal message thing, 🤷🏻‍♂️. You’re not usually the one I’m thinking about I write this.
I’m more concerned with the general tack of “Luke is bad” because it’s pretty well known and sort of ignores what people are actually upset with.

2025-09-28 20:45:27 UTC

Does Luke suck to work with? Clearly
Is he out over his skis on the csam stuff? Yeah I think so
Is Luke the reason people are running knots? Not really. People are mad at core, and core can fix this with one simple trick.
Literally just bring back datacarriersize and let people do the thing that everyone says does not matter.

2025-09-28 20:35:41 UTC

I’d like to repeat that no amount of nytimes hit pieces will make me think that Luke Dash Jr is a bad dev who is bad for bitcoin.
And people who think this is a good strategy do not understand the problem

2025-09-28 00:17:00 UTC

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Yeah not sure if he was ever here

2025-09-28 00:11:54 UTC

Oh Nick Szabo’s back 👀

2025-09-26 16:28:17 UTC

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Yikes

2025-09-26 13:40:09 UTC

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Why say this?
Why have people who worked for bitcoin magazine put so many words in other people’s mouths?

2025-09-25 23:30:16 UTC

It seems like core thinks that if Luke just goes away everything will be fine, but I don’t think people really are following Luke as much as they’re reacting to how core was moving.
The nice part is that it’s much easier to smooth things over with your users than to make someone disappear

2025-09-25 23:17:10 UTC

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DEV WRONGTHINKS ABOUT BITCOIN

2025-09-25 23:14:52 UTC

Idk I think people should be free to have bad ideas in private

2025-09-25 16:05:54 UTC

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Sad

2025-09-24 01:28:51 UTC

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Ah I grew up there. The contrast is much, much more stark post covid.

2025-09-24 01:22:04 UTC

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A lot honestly. Biggest for me is the personal freedoms, and they’re growing over time instead of shrinking. The FSP pushes that along, but people in NH were already freedom loving before. No sales / income tax, no seatbelt / motorcycle helmet laws are like hardcoded here.
Nice nature, lots of things to do.
Good, outdoorsy, freedom loving people. Low concentration of busy bodies. Feel very normal doing a bit of homesteading, growing apples, raising chickens, tapping for maple syrup. Only wanted to raise my kids here.

2025-09-24 00:28:11 UTC

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Well if it wasn’t coinbase. You didn’t change the world with bitcoin.

2025-09-24 00:22:53 UTC

I moved to NH with the free state project in 2013.
That has a certain connotation to it now, because a lot of people who moved really sort of just flailed their arms around and made a performative scene. Still do.
What made me come back, and stay, were the people who got in deep and changed things. A lot of freedoms here the loud ones talk about that were unlocked by the quiet ones.

2025-09-24 00:13:00 UTC

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Was it coinbase?

2025-09-23 14:27:42 UTC

As a poor startup founder I’ve been using desktop Linux and the worst part is manually updating discord every day

2025-09-23 14:18:19 UTC

My most controversial bitcoin opinion is Dennis Porter made the best use of the Bitcoin engagement farm by flexing it into state level advocacy that’s led to more state level legislation than dedicated Bitcoin think tanks
And most of the influencer hate against him is jealousy / envy. It’s a countersignal.
There are people out there engagement farming as much as him and ending up on the wrong side of many bitcoin “issues” du jour

2025-09-10 20:14:22 UTC

Gotta hang on to the freedom tech

2025-09-02 19:04:32 UTC

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Make more videos!

2025-08-24 19:40:35 UTC

The miner previously famous for announcing they were only going to mine ofac compliant blocks has launched a private txn submission product whose main feature is easily bypassing mempool policy.
Pieter Wuille in an interview with optech said “[Out of band payments and private mempools are] our biggest enemy. Among the top contenders of the biggest threats to Bitcoin in the short to medium term”
If private mempools become more attractive than the p2p mempool built into core, Bitcoin will have a serious centralization problem. Now imagine the company running that private mempool also has a press release out that they only mine ofac compliant blocks. See where this is going?
So much of this conversation has been caught up in jpeg this and censorship that, when in reality this is the real problem.
Literally the ofac block company is standing up the service that could actually seriously harm Bitcoin. Knowingly? I don’t know, and honestly I’m sure the core devs had something to say about it, but I’m surprised the social media hornets nest did not.
Instead of hearing this very compelling message in support of core’s actions, I’ve been reading all this shit about this core dev actually isn’t very smart and mempool policies are censorship Actually.
It is such a missed opportunity to align actual significant efforts to maintain bitcoin’s decentralization and neutrality with the social immune system of the Bitcoin community. I wish I had put it together sooner.
Core is supposed to write good code, but there’s this secret other thing that needs to be done, and that’s making sure people run it. I don’t think it’s entirely the Core devs’ jobs, but I think the bit would have helped a lot. Code is law but it’s nothing if no one runs it.
I feel like no one wanted to stir the pot? But every core dev is adjacent to a professional pot stirrer. What are the influencers good for if not this?
And now, instead of being a little mean to one of the literal worst miners, core has to deal with people questioning whether they’ll even run their code. It’s a shame because I think the threat is real, and the actions are justified. Being a little clearer about the reasons why would do a lot.

2025-08-18 21:17:41 UTC

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(Many cases)

2025-08-18 21:17:26 UTC

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One shotted by Nic Carter

2025-08-13 22:59:34 UTC

David Bailey really did it
All the buckling up was worth it 🥹

2025-06-11 15:32:22 UTC

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🔥🔥🔥

2025-06-09 20:06:45 UTC

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That’s great, now more 🙂

2025-06-09 19:53:02 UTC

If I were wanting to make a big impact on bitcoin payments and I was working with big fintech apps with Bitcoin capability.
I’d ship Pay to lightning from fiat. Buy / send out in one step (after confirmation of course)
- no btc exposure for people who don’t want it
- maximal compatibility globally
- further shores up the access argument. Big fintechs can make this happen for many users

2025-06-05 22:11:16 UTC

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So many examples

2025-06-05 22:09:14 UTC

Ideas are meaningless without execution and the ability to follow through.
If you’re only able to copy someone else, you’re always a step behind.

2025-05-29 20:10:22 UTC

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Gottem

2025-05-29 18:53:19 UTC

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Bitcoin.

2025-05-29 17:28:03 UTC

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The APR comes from payments that aren’t from c= / Block. I don’t know how you don’t call that routing. Those are other nodes using that liquidity and paying for the privilege. You can copy c=‘s strategy if you’d like.
You are correct there is more value in running a business that assists or directly does lighting payments over running a “pure router.” There’s room for the latter but it can be tight.

2025-05-29 17:05:05 UTC

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Yeah but fincen did, and lightning nodes like c= are non custodial

2025-05-29 16:56:32 UTC

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https://www.justice.gov/dag/media/1395781/dl?inline

2025-05-29 16:55:00 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/342fea132a6a4cf4572ebfcfa34e528f04d45ecca2c5fae01dd2217acd6d1e1e.jpg

2025-05-29 16:43:21 UTC

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Tyler was likely the one that pulled that data. This was all outside of Cash transactions.
Theres still a lot to be made out there if you know where to put your liquidity, but that edge fades over time (as word gets out that we were doing well!)
The most will be made by being a real economic actor on the network. But there are still plenty of places that need liquidity and that is a constantly growing and changing need.

2025-05-29 16:25:04 UTC

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I put it here for you Matt #note102n…6yxv
Tyler was the goated data scientist running the management on the node. There are only a few people who “get it” like him.

2025-05-29 16:23:48 UTC

How can c= generate such a return with just routing?
Lightning liquidity is the most underestimated part of the network.
It’s part of what we solve at moneydevkit, but here’s a bit about how we did it at Block
1. Real transactions.
Cash is one of the biggest lightning services on the network. It connects millions to lightning, and as Miles pointed out, more and more people are using it everyday.
By nature of cash being custodial, we had insights into what people were using lightning for. This was part of the original thesis of c=.
There are some big players out there that node runners have no idea about 🤷🏻‍♂️. Lightning privacy works very well. Apologies monero trolls.
2. Liquidity in our favor
Most people buy bitcoin on cashapp and withdraw (based)
That transaction flow is ideal for lightning, and in the right hands, you can flex it to pay for and make a handsome return on your own payments and operations.
For the plebnet inclined— c= is an inbound generator. For its capacity it’s typically had 1-3X+ more inbound than outbound. This is a very unique position on the network.
3. Strategy
The management the team did not only improved the experience for Cash users, it compounded payments and fees going through our channels.
We expected to get some return, but we were pretty blown away by the volumes and takes.
The ROI we collected was not from Cash.
This was just step 0.5. The next steps were to flex our position and liquidity to bolster bigger and higher value things. One of those was Square.
In the end, the real value comes from real people making real payments. It’s why I’ve always harped on this:
We don’t need X protocol or Y L2. The technology is there. We need to do the hard part of bringing it to real people now.
For you nostr folks consider— on-chain fees were never even a thought in our minds. Our margins were fat.

2025-05-28 20:21:00 UTC

Huge shout out to the c= team, I wish I could be there celebrating with you.
10% ROI on Block's bitcoin and building the first Square lightning integration are huge accomplishments and hard won. Both unprecedented, I am so proud of all of you.
We put together an amazing team and did exactly what we set out to do. I am so happy some of this work finally gets to see the light of day. Teams that start from nothing and put out the results you did are rare and extremely valuable. Most startups only dream of hitting $1M ARR.
This is the work that makes the dream happen. Considering what it took, you guys are miracle workers. It's my sincere hope that work like this can shine through more often at Block unimpeded.
https://image.nostr.build/104b8c1fd6aa1b872e3730fc28b3e4a2e7fe8d5b5dbfa2abb22a5aaa9ee79c7d.jpg

2025-05-27 17:34:53 UTC

Congrats to the team that built this. A huge accomplishment. This is how it starts.
#note1xsy…gl9j

2025-05-22 22:05:22 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/505b9a8c0f599c7d57360c6403590a50b280b4b9531d1f2b4f35b1999ebcae03.jpg

2025-05-22 11:55:48 UTC

People do not want to “be on chain” they just want to do normal things.
There is no UX path that starts with “well first they will learn crypto with stablecoins and then…”
The first part of that statement is already garbage.

2025-05-22 09:42:44 UTC

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Our first iterations will be focused on taking payments, but our goal will be integration on your side being as easy as possible.
Your users will need to have Bitcoin / lightning enabled wallets. People who have coinbase / cashapp will have a relatively easy time for example.
A really nice experience that some are working on is the ability to buy and send out bitcoin in one fluid motion. Imagine you’ve scanned a lightning QR from your bank account and it just works. When more catch on to this, there won’t be much of a difference.
If you’d like to chat through ways to make your game happen feel free to DM me.

2025-05-21 14:37:48 UTC

From: Nostr
https://image.nostr.build/5272d1733a0104029dd6202a349b2f11d50b24e50d9abe096e8814c0a38409e7.jpg

2025-05-21 13:55:32 UTC

The death of Nostr Wallet Auth is a tragedy, can we bring it back?
Mutiny had taken NWC and made it the best way to do "pull" style bitcoin payments for subscriptions and other things.
Reading through the NIP proposal where @npub1u8l…turz tried to share this nice bit of UX with the nostr community was a trip down open source spec hell and it has ended in it withering on the vine.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/851
Their blog post about it here
https://blog.mutinywallet.com/nostr-wallet-auth/
Everyone expects pull when they pay. An entire industry of SaaS apps is built on users putting in their cc info and forgetting about it for months. We need the same if bitcoin payments will be a thing.

2025-05-21 13:27:21 UTC

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Very cool!

2025-05-21 11:03:40 UTC

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For now devs can price in dollars but all payments are in bitcoin

2025-05-20 16:47:51 UTC

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Thanks Super Phat Arrow
This tech can build a lot of stuff, we’ll see what the future holds 😁

2025-05-20 16:22:13 UTC

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They have moved over to the blip repo now for the most part.
Mdk will take care of all of this in the background anyway so no need for the user to know. Just some fun behind the scenes stuff

2025-05-20 15:08:43 UTC

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2025-05-20 15:02:37 UTC

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Man Monero guys stay coping

2025-05-20 15:00:39 UTC

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Soon™️ 😄

2025-05-20 14:23:34 UTC

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The user will have all. Serverless SDK they add to their app. Ldk-node + LSPS2 for liquidity. LSPS5 to wake it up.

2025-05-20 14:16:26 UTC

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It’s a cool idea, our goal right now is not to mix with cc’s to keep to no onboarding, but some sort of opt in cc solution could be in the cards eventually

2025-05-20 13:44:27 UTC

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Just plain ole lighting :)

2025-05-20 13:28:28 UTC

Hi Nostr,
Launching soon— https://moneydevkit.com
Stripe is the de facto payment solution for developers but theres entire swaths of the globe that aren’t served by it.
Similarly, everyday people with legitimate businesses get their payments turned off by stripe because the traditional financial system doesn’t want to serve them.
Money Dev Kit is the easiest way to get started taking payments online. Easier than stripe. No onboarding or approvals. 170 countries. Your payments are yours.
Under the hood, it’s self-custody and lightning. None of the headache, nodes channels etc. The interface will be truly stripe level and better.
After working in lightning for the past few years, the hidden alpha on the network is there are plenty of people sending and able to send payments, but there’s a shortage of people receiving them.
Underserved devs are using AI to make the future of the internet, and this will be by far the easiest way for them to receive those payments.
Sign up for the mailing list for early access when we launch

2025-05-06 18:01:54 UTC

Stablecoins being denominated in $ does not make them easier to use or for people to pick up
Stablecoins have the same friction of Bitcoin, if you want real $ that you can buy groceries with, you have to buy / sell them. And don’t get me started on all the different chains, bridges, gas fees etc.
Taxes are another thing, but I doubt people are sitting around saying “if only I didn’t have to use bitcoin.tax I would be spending Bitcoin right now”
Similarly, very few people are saying “I would spend in crypto if only there was something just like dollars” they are just using dollars. For those who are not able to use dollars, bills like the genius act are adding kyc to make sure they can’t use stablecoins for payments anyway.
Long term, Bitcoin is more universal, has more liquidity, and with improving tools and applications, will be easier to use than even dollars and bank accounts, let alone stablecoins spread across multiple chains each with their own peculiarities

2025-05-05 20:47:57 UTC

https://youtu.be/qmVeQEysvtk

2025-05-05 18:04:10 UTC

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The DOJ, which is the executive branch. It is currently being reworked by Trump including undoing all this BS

2025-05-05 17:58:23 UTC

If someone asked who I was voting for I made it a point to tell them that the Biden administration was specifically putting people in jail in my industry because they didn’t like it. It was a vote either for people who were actively putting people like me in jail, or the ones that actually were throwing us a bone.
#note1vaa…fvff

2025-04-18 14:50:42 UTC

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So much easier to set up. I know nostr users handle nsecs etc. but normies have no concept of copying / pasting codes across apps

2025-04-18 14:27:45 UTC

What happened to Nostr Wallet Auth?
Why do I see the worst open source dev hell when I try to find out if this is a nip now?
This was the best way to connect with nwc by far, and it looks like the spec was nitpicked to death for no reason

2025-04-08 14:37:46 UTC

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Cement this with the blockchain regulatory certainty act and its gg

2025-04-08 14:37:03 UTC

Icymi
DOJ saying it won’t be trying to stretch the definition of money transmission anymore
https://www.defieducationfund.org/_files/ugd/84ba66_4278778963f14119be0ef1c7976bc3b2.pdf
https://image.nostr.build/3434114ff75db719fd0d0626bab28b300d3a6b5ffa5226776f3ed13c53bd33f9.png

2025-03-11 13:13:59 UTC

Saylor Medium Of Exchange maxi confirmed https://image.nostr.build/dfff902396dd8212cc921f1b467035ec00adc432a4ce216a5dc39f74dfa1c380.jpg

2025-02-18 22:03:35 UTC

What bugs me about the van eck guy
He just wants to know what’s going to happen to satoshis bitcoin?
Uncover satoshi so we can shore up the prospectus?
Unhinged

2025-02-18 17:05:46 UTC

> Spend hours telling an AI what to do
> Talk to my two year old
It’s all just carefully asking for the right thing

2025-02-18 16:25:46 UTC

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Skinner boxes all the way down

2025-02-18 15:48:50 UTC

I don’t spend a lot of time in the libertarian meme of picking your exact genre but I’m pretty sure at this point I’m not an ancap.
Don’t get me wrong I have friends who are, and I love everything about the ideology, but it’s hard for me to get behind the real end goal, which appears to me to be burning it all down and replacing it with ~not much~
I rarely pick the “mid” option but I think I’m much more of a minarchist. Or rather I’d love to see ancap work, but I’m not going to let that prevent me from trying to influence our institutions today.
What I see right now is a huge push of the Overton window towards liberty. Doge could very well be the minarchist dream and it seems to be driven by the same sort of thought.
To have many libertarians say “that’s not good enough” and “I’m not aligned with any politician,” …while I understand the sentiment, I think it’s a bit of a shame.
The bitcoin community could stand to get a lot out of the current US administration. I’ve seen x posts about going back to the gold standard, negativity around debanking. Questioning regulatory overreach.
I’m going to do my damndest to try to push these conversations, and at this point I have no shame in working within the current political system.
I half think ancap is a psyop to get libertarians locked in a “I’m more anti state thou” loop instead of actually doing something. It’s performative, and to let it get in the way of changing something at such a prime time would be a mistake.

2025-02-09 13:21:32 UTC

Gm nostr https://image.nostr.build/e06a5b408713deef9bfae38dabf9b49d9dfd79adcec061e4c4398b8ce3ec8ba0.jpg

2025-02-08 19:39:40 UTC

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Yeah it’s more real than I thought

2025-02-08 16:38:54 UTC

Damn vibe coding is real

2025-02-06 14:29:21 UTC

Writing calls on etf btc for every month we don’t get sbr— not a bad strategy

2025-01-30 14:19:56 UTC

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Makes sense. Matt is right that phoenix handles offline payments pretty well even pre-async payments.

2025-01-30 14:16:01 UTC

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Based

2025-01-30 14:13:52 UTC

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I don’t want to be dragged into any of Roger Ver’s BS, why are you so involved and going around calling me dishonest and a liar? I literally just screenshotted what someone said and said it was silly, and it is.

2025-01-29 21:02:15 UTC

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I’m not on a custodial zapper.

2025-01-29 19:49:18 UTC

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I’ll update, Fiatjaf told me that yesterday

2025-01-29 19:30:33 UTC

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It would be a shame, nostr is built on owning your voice, your identity, shipping the money part off to shadow custodians so quickly doesn’t feel right

2025-01-29 19:19:49 UTC

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Async receive takes that need away. The payment goes through from the pov of the sender and is held trustlessly at their lsp / wallet provider. When the receiver is available, they sign and receive it. No need to be online at the same time

2025-01-29 19:18:09 UTC

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#note1m67…nmdj

2025-01-29 18:58:17 UTC

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Just out here posting :)
Okay okay I’ll build I’ll build!

2025-01-29 18:56:43 UTC

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Have to deal with async receive yes
👀
https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3440

2025-01-29 18:47:24 UTC

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There are exclusions for low amounts in some regs. There’s just little to no way to hold small, dust amounts of bitcoin yourself. Not a lawyer but there would be a clear upgrade path and threshold, there really isn’t an alternative 🤷🏻‍♂️

2025-01-29 18:40:13 UTC

Hosted channels were originally thought of as being custodial all the time, which probably explains why proponents of them went on to build ecash (and why they weren’t taken up much by self-custody wallets)
But I think hosted channels do have a place among LSP assisted self-custody wallets, because simply, you can’t self custody 20 sats of bitcoin.
The biggest benefit of hosted channels is to provide a lightning native experience that upgrades easily to self-custody. An LSP just needs to not broadcast the on-chain txn
The wallet client operates as normal. When you have a big enough balance, you can upgrade.
Hosted just for the period of time you need it. It’s a real path from zap onboarding to full bitcoin ownership.
Products for real people need to pick and choose from what we have for the best experience. More on that here
https://sats.build/self-custody-lightning-2025/

2025-01-29 18:35:29 UTC

I miss the old @npub12rv…85vg
Though easy to see how this morphed into cashu https://image.nostr.build/5179cb9833377041c87535220f958015ef3fe3944cf349a72e1aacf0f54eefdf.jpg

2025-01-29 18:28:38 UTC

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We can change that Calle :)

2025-01-29 18:08:55 UTC

Trust is a spectrum 🚩
You own it or someone owns you.

2025-01-29 18:08:03 UTC

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(You were using a custodial wallet the entire time)

2025-01-29 16:42:34 UTC

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What if I never unlock

2025-01-29 16:40:39 UTC

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Let’s lock in on why you don’t lock in

2025-01-29 15:42:31 UTC

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Can’t get the ammo for dirt cheap anymore

2025-01-29 15:39:02 UTC

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https://youtu.be/p0dfxvMd-lw

2025-01-29 15:00:16 UTC

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This is referring to Greg Maxwell

2025-01-29 14:33:20 UTC

Oh olas is very cool

2025-01-29 14:25:01 UTC

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Core is not the whole ecosystem, because real people will rarely use core directly.
There will always be things in bitcoin to fix, and they are being fixed, but overly focusing on the engine when there isn’t a car is how you start focusing on theoretical problems instead of real ones.

2025-01-29 14:06:10 UTC

“We need more bitcoin core development to make Bitcoin work / popular.”
It’s like saying we need to change HTTP to make the web popular. HTTP did not make the web, websites did.

2025-01-29 14:02:33 UTC

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Big word big smart