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I've honestly had a lot of issues with it. I want to like it because I like the roadmap and ethos, but I have payments fail all the time, the fedimint integration hasn't worked once for me, routes constantly fail for the LN Address, etc. I pay for Mutiny+ to support development, but Zeus is my daily driver to self-custodial LN right now. Just works more reliably for me.

2024-05-11 01:28:45

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I was trying to test out Mutiny's LN address, but I guess it's not working. Swapped to a different one, so I think it'll work now.

2024-05-11 00:59:16

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😁

2024-04-30 00:27:31

meat sweats🫃

2024-04-26 03:27:46

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* @npub1cwn…raju
If you go the BTCPay route, I'd probably do it through @npub15kl…4m73 to reduce a lot of the friction.

2024-04-25 00:42:23

The Feds don't want you to know this, but you can just add scrambled eggs to whatever meal you want. It doesn't have to belong.

2024-04-16 03:13:27

Japan was beautiful
https://m.primal.net/HvjP.jpg

2024-03-27 20:22:11

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Still chasing that high

2024-03-20 20:40:52

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+1 on Arc. Mobile and desktop are great. The summarize and "browse for me" features are actually really useful.

2024-03-20 20:35:00

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Great explanation. Thanks for demystifying it a bit.

2024-03-08 21:27:56

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GM - still in the AM here in Hawaii 🏝️

2024-03-01 22:59:54

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Until what you want to purchase now is worth more to you than the potential upside later.

2024-02-13 18:18:50

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"Let's circle back to that" for eternity

2024-02-10 22:44:45

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Liquid is federated, but it's an interesting way to consolidate UTXOs cheaply before you settle on-chain. Aqua itself is a good tradeoff balance for some people - interoperable with Lightning without requiring liquidity management. I consider it a decent onboarding tool for people that aren't yet ready for self-custodial LN like Phoenix, @npub1mut…23vg , @npub1xnf…lpr5 , etc. Avoids the upfront liquidity cost to establish a new channel.

2024-02-04 08:31:11

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@npub1w69…zltw has some great content on this
https://graduallythensuddenly.xyz/pay-me-in-bitcoin-theory/

2024-02-04 02:38:45

“Like our stomachs, our minds are hurt more often by overeating than by hunger.” — Petrarch
https://media.tenor.com/_qVkYotde0gAAAAM/real-smartphone.gif

2023-11-17 00:11:04

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https://vimeo.com/731755923
Best simple explainer on the concept of Chaumian mints.

2023-09-23 22:29:06

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neat

2023-08-10 21:57:55

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@npub1tq7…xzxp has written some great articles on this very topic.
Check out the latest:
https://unchained.com/blog/bitcoin-signing-mass/

2023-08-09 23:42:35

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Definitely unlucky timing for your visit! Over here on Oahu, it’s been windy enough to cause some damage, but nothing too crazy.

2023-08-07 23:33:16

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@npub1evv…mf9f is a great example!

2023-08-07 23:30:10

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Have you checked out @npub13ql…qcg7's new Boostagram Ball music radio podcast? He highlights a couple other success stories on there!
https://fountain.fm/show/aQkLhuRJEITMaGtG5P40

2023-07-20 22:48:53

👀
https://www.kennedy24.com/becoming_a_defender_of_democracy https://cdn.nostr.build/i/217aafe9ad2efe64548617ae0bd33c5fea0a11a06fbe24652f0e54478843f760.jpg

2023-06-27 20:33:45

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Fat, lazy, rule-following tax cattle

2023-06-17 00:08:52

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Nice 🫡

2023-06-17 00:06:25

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How is it?

2023-06-15 21:50:06

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🙋‍♂️

2023-06-15 20:44:31

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Oof 10 min is tight. Good luck!

2023-06-11 04:36:38

“As Americans today, we are truly privileged people in a privileged land. But with our blessings come responsibilities, and with responsibilities come risks. The challenge of our time is that we must accept both the responsibilities of our blessings and the risks involved in defending them for ourselves and for future generations, and we must do this without hesitation if we are to be worthy benefactors of that precious heritage of freedom passed on to us through the epic sacrifices of those who have gone before.”
Fantastic new (and free) documentary about communism, encroaching tyranny, and the globalist agenda.
https://plandemicseries.com/

2023-06-11 01:24:15

https://nostr.build/i/dec80e48bd27d41cfdf921ae4d1f2324e6abc15438af30f4737c7b92023425f2.jpg

2023-06-11 01:16:34

It’s so easy to waste a ton of time messing around with Midjourney https://nostr.build/i/94687d99a009d43ef7a5ecf2300b233e0e77babdb4d7035781cfc4ce12883d1c.jpg

2023-06-10 09:55:04

https://nostr.build/i/83f21b9ca682a7953ca008006bc78263d8913024ded311c5c961bd933f482750.jpg

2023-06-09 04:09:58

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npub1m72pdynrlmrpstrxu49k828r5xjlqc9hgtz9zfmy4m30u40uqxgsgkjxux
primal.net/robby
🙏🤙

2023-06-03 09:05:38

https://nostr.build/i/4e83c1c676b7dbf66379d2f2c7616fe7929eae9431f8c284b50c10fe3fa44f09.jpg

2023-05-30 20:33:25

How long until I can generate a podcast transcript and share highlights from it on nostr with links back to the specific timestamp of the audio? #note1wza…dyr7

2023-05-30 20:30:42

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Next step is to plug the transcript into some LLM and get auto-generated summaries on-demand.

2023-05-29 08:44:54

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This was great. Thanks! 🙏

2023-05-28 03:08:05

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Perfect!

2023-05-28 01:17:37

Reading through Burak’s www.arkpill.me again trying to prep for HNL BitDevs https://nostr.build/i/466bee4defdaa1e4eaaa9f6cb6b740a99a9d8dd28dddd86c574c1de496088b1d.jpg

2023-05-27 02:05:27

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I can’t wait to test out an MVP of this. Sounds so cool

2023-05-26 03:02:01

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I think data-intensive stuff like video and decentralized apps will move to Holepunch, and punch links will get shared around via nostr.

2023-05-26 02:23:49

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Why even ask? Did he expect anyone to prefer closed source?

2023-05-26 02:20:22

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Surprised I’ve never seen that one

2023-05-24 19:53:23

Who needs a Pomodoro timer when you’ve got a pet that cries for attention every 20 minutes anyway?

2023-05-17 22:47:34

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Everything’s about trade offs, and it sounds like your team is working hard to balance them. I’m sure it’ll check the boxes for quite a few people, and I’m excited to try it out myself!

2023-05-17 21:35:32

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Setup multi-vendor multisig, and then you don’t have to worry as much about each hardware wallet. One could be compromised without you losing everything.

2023-05-17 21:32:53

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I thought Jack had reposted their article from yesterday about seed phrases (https://bitkey.build/seed-phrases-are-sharp-edges/) and responded before I saw it was a new article about hardware device screens.
I don’t agree with all the reasoning in that seed phrase article. Ultimately, someone has to control the seed. If the user doesn’t keep a copy themselves, then they’re deferring trust somewhere else.
“Seedless” custody generally puts a lot of trust in the device securing that seed. Without a seed backup, hardware failures are catastrophic for singlesig setups. I would never do seedless unless it were multisig. But even with seedless multisig, losing a device means you have to deal with a more complicated key rotation process, rather than just recovering the same seed into a new device.
In Block’s Bitkey setup, it sounds like it’s seedless multisig “until you need to export the seed”. It’s yet to be seen how sovereign that recovery can be or if you’ll have to ultimately get permission to access a seed or move to a different multisig coordinator. It sounds prone to lock-in, but I’d need to read more about the technical details to know.
There are trade offs to various approaches, and I don’t think their seed phrase article properly highlights those trade offs.
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But like I said, the article Jack linked in the OP is a different topic - hardware device screens. It seems pretty well reasoned, but I only skimmed it. I don’t know if I agree with all the listed attack vectors and risks associated with over-reliance on device screens. I prefer a screen on the device, but screenless might work well enough in their setup, since it’ll have a server-side component to help verify data.
Regardless, it’s a unique approach, and I’m interested to see how it develops. Will probably be a good onboarding option for less technical people.

2023-05-17 20:50:36

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Not a fan of the seedless approach myself.

2023-05-17 20:40:46

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https://nostr.build/i/4f00deb66fa5566a09b78f361357124adbe27367a700007e4e251f38cafe5022.jpg

2023-05-17 20:35:18

Flush niacin is the best preworkout

2023-05-17 03:32:24

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I’m really gonna give those telemarketers the runaround now

2023-05-17 03:30:23

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The interoperability is what blows my mind. Totally different micro apps can all tap into a shared data stream of all your Nostr interactions to create really personalized user experiences that all build off of each other 🤯

2023-05-15 01:23:14

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I keep waiting for projects other than Keet to pop up, but I haven’t really heard anything. I’d like more concrete examples of how to use Holepunch for different use cases.

2023-05-11 20:42:59

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Not officially. I’ll get invites up soon though. It will probably be 10/23 because I’m going out of town on the 30th.

2023-05-11 04:00:56

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I took some creative liberty to make it a bit more nostr-esque 😁 https://nostr.build/i/e2520a2f0e141123e2a1a614ad1da83ca15a7292880bee91ff2ada34ba0218ea.jpg https://nostr.build/i/b240645df12c7995a6b8ede7e398d69532a99d4fdb16b1b2e907d8755a84a123.jpg https://nostr.build/i/52beedcc9e5c6cd23a7095ae957f18786ad04957a4e3bd8de1c50a050fc0ac5b.jpg https://nostr.build/i/e24ac1205937a02327adc7f22ea8fc237dc121dfb15dee44c57b8a5120639701.jpg

2023-04-21 19:45:21

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Guy’s reading of Gigi’s Purple Text, Orange Highlights. His commentary discussed a lot of the same note-taking tools I’ve tried, and I’ve had similar complaints. And Gigi’s article itself has been turning around in my head for days.
https://fountain.fm/episode/14970529440

2023-04-21 04:11:07

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https://nostr.how/en/get-started

2023-04-20 07:20:44

#[0]‘s Purple Text, Orange Highlights and #[1]‘s #[2] have really got my mind spinning.
It’s a no-brainer for existing reader apps to integrate #nostr, especially once we have value splits in place to give them a cut of the sats.
Now I’m trying to think of how I could build an Obsidian plugin to pull in these highlights as part of my typical note-taking flow 🤔

2023-04-20 04:30:31

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Guy Swann ASMR

2023-04-20 04:03:53

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This is peak aesthetic

2023-04-20 03:56:59

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https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_4b08b9223855daf64913760f9f1c06b34c6d3f755d36990d948d1d2c7362bcbe.jpeg

2023-03-19 01:06:44

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I think he’s more of an engagement maxi

2023-03-18 02:32:02

Can’t imagine how big of a doomer I’d be if I hadn’t found bitcoin

2023-03-17 02:20:47

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Which card is this?

2023-03-16 22:35:33

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_21a13099c9dc019797236f6265fae9bb6fd8621b359d8e63b3ffcfb8033d942e.jpg
Post-#Zapathon vibes for the quiet nostr lurkers

2023-03-13 19:05:32

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https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_3b99514c3e2d9a42c3bce182f4512f1c9c16d3f1da8c876f5955e235fdd70c74.jpeg

2023-03-13 04:38:39

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#[2]?

2023-03-10 20:17:58

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Would love to test this once it’s ready for an early beta. Looks slick

2023-03-09 21:05:15

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Worked fine for me just now.

2023-03-09 06:33:12

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Challenging to click through several links in longer posts. It's like it's caching the previous post, and I have to back up and try a couple times before it goes to the right note.

2023-03-08 22:22:32

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Been reading a book about memory techniques, and the main idea is that imagery/storytelling is the key to recalling information. The more vivid and absurd of an association you make with some concept, the easier it is to remember and synthesize later.
Preliterate civilizations would form elaborate stories/lore to encode important information and insights about local food, geography, tradition, etc because those stories are easier to remember and communicate between generations.

2023-03-06 04:39:22

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Looks awesome

2023-03-06 02:13:08

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Grilled pork chops 🐖

2023-03-06 02:09:13

It’s getting a little too easy to zap all my sats away 🪫
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_4b1edd6ffa9022bfb64e81dbefbdacf8e4f9ac9baf95efd955a042ca6dcd5a7a.jpeg

2023-03-05 03:00:50

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npub1m72pdynrlmrpstrxu49k828r5xjlqc9hgtz9zfmy4m30u40uqxgsgkjxux

2023-03-05 02:58:21

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npub1m72pdynrlmrpstrxu49k828r5xjlqc9hgtz9zfmy4m30u40uqxgsgkjxux
💩 🛡️

2023-03-04 23:54:03

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Thanks for popping my badge cherry 🍒
So I goes anyone can create them but they’re ultimately tied to an npub when you award them to someone else. 🤔

2023-03-04 01:38:37

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https://stacker.news/items/145707
^Here’s a good discussion about paid options.
I scanned through https://relay.exchange/ and looked at the operator profiles.
You can compare latency on https://nostr.watch/relays/find#paid

2023-03-04 01:33:11

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Meanwhile I’m experimenting with fewer, mostly paid relays. Definitely seems a bit smoother and way less noise in Global, but hard to know what I might be missing.

2023-03-03 00:17:32

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Not really a bot solution - just a crowdsourced paywall instead of per-person paywall.

2023-03-02 23:06:06

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Along these lines, I'd love something similar to the "crowdwall" concept John Carvalho uses for his podcast. (https://thebiz.pro/about#crowdwall)
Basically nostr notes with hidden content until some cumulative number of sats have been zapped, and then the content is revealed to everyone going forward. Because the zaps are nostr messages themselves, even if the content itself were hosted on a separate blog or something, it could pull the list of zaps and show a section for all the people that donated to make the content available, like a sponsorship leaderboard.

2023-03-02 21:51:33

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I just want a simple interface where I can choose a subset of relays for different views of my timeline. E.g., geographically local relays, paid relays, personal/private relay events, relays dedicated to specific content/topics, etc. Relays haven’t really specialized in that way yet, but it seems like many will eventually. Right now, I pretty much just get a massive feed of everything.

2023-03-02 21:46:28

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Holepunch would probably serve this use case better. Designed for P2P data streams.
https://holepunch.to/

2023-03-02 05:57:21

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Sir set an LN address so I can zap you

2023-01-08 02:39:32

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Start here: https://river.com/learn/what-is-the-lightning-network/
TLDR; Bitcoin uses a blockchain to maintain a ledger of all transactions that have happened - new blocks are mined every ~10 minutes, and only a limited amount of transaction data can fit in each block. This means that as adoption grows, it’ll be harder for global commerce to happen on the base layer of the blockchain. Too many people will be competing for space in newly mined blocks, so fees will be expensive.
The lightning network is a payment layer on top of the bitcoin blockchain that increases the throughput of bitcoin payments that can be done and reduces transaction fees paid. 2 users establish a lighting “channel” via a special type of bitcoin transaction. After creating and funding the channel with some BTC liquidity, those 2 users can send payments back and forth trustlessly and nearly instantly without having to settle back onto the Bitcoin blockchain each time - but each channel participant has the ability to close the channel and settle on chain whenever they want. It’s kind of like going to the bar, ordering several drinks, and only paying one bar tab at the end of the night instead of paying for each drink separately.
Lightning channels connect two people to make payments with each other. However, Lightning nodes also route payments between channels to form the entire, connected lightning network. That means if Bob has a channel with Jill and Jill has a channel with Paul, then Bob can pay Paul by routing through Jill - even though Paul and Bob don’t have a direct channel between each other. It’s basically a giant network of connected channels where no one ever has to trust anyone else to make these off chain payments.
Lightning is a payment layer, and bitcoin is a settlement layer.

2022-12-21 23:05:50

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Muun, BlueWallet, Breez

2022-08-03 08:25:58

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This is cool.