shocknet_justin
Justin (shocknet)

Head of building shit | Lightning.Pub | ShockWallet.app | Lightning.Video/thecto

Public Key

npub1xvtwx6tduaxnn9v3y7uasskl277achgu0tu2qncmc7hdsz6y2zyqce64sa

NIP-05 Address

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsrx9hrd9k7wnfejkgj0wwcgt0400wut5w8479qfudu0tkcpdz9pzqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsla3cej

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relay.damus.io

nos.lol

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npub1xvtwx6tduaxnn9v3y7uasskl277achgu0tu2qncmc7hdsz6y2zyqce64sa

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2025-03-14 01:57:53 GMT

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You're right, muffed a ^M... it should be closer to a billion people, point remains we've no chance at being tx bound

2025-03-14 00:43:37 GMT

Great news everyone, the scaling debate is over, Bitcoin has ossified! https://image.nostr.build/4c63c249736ebc695b0a541a880522dbeb5a93bdfc4db40f131f2090512cc208.gif
#nevent1q…lnqt

2025-03-13 17:36:32 GMT

https://stacker.news/items/912374/r/justin_shocknet

2025-02-13 15:50:15 GMT

Bitcoin's "scaling" limitations are not a function of it's throughput, but rather how many people or organizations will actually be able to afford the 5-6 digits worth of sats needed to not have to trust anybody.

2025-02-11 15:29:42 GMT

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The role of a central bank is to provide a foreign power the means to steal from an otherwise sovereign nation without direct military conflict through seigniorage and usury.
You're referring to a state bank, which is different from a central bank.

2025-02-11 15:06:05 GMT

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By understanding our own capacity for darkness, we develop the wisdom to recognize and handle it in the world around us.
"The brighter the light, the darker the shadow."

2025-02-07 16:42:46 GMT

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We've got our own protocol that addresses things NWC doesn't, but could probably add an adapter for it in Pub

2025-01-03 00:43:42 GMT

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I'm focused on people that have no idea what nostr is and/or don't care, that's the 99.9% of people/companies on the internet not using it.
They don't necessarily want email/passkeys, but they expect it. They can't benefit from Nostr until they're met where they are.

2025-01-03 00:34:03 GMT

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What's a user? A unique key? An "install"? Visitor? Payment?
The only correct answer is not enough.
The only KPI is revenue

2025-01-03 00:24:19 GMT

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Bias selection, How many didn't use it at all? or simply lose their keys eventually? not return? not use nostr cross-device?
Nostr is still irrelevant, the status quo is nothing to celebrate

2025-01-03 00:08:58 GMT

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Dual use, regular users just want email/passkey auth and it can do that too

2025-01-02 23:48:44 GMT

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Signer apps miss the point entirely, its team members and external services need an access controller... Large companies and brands can't bring their value to nostr otherwise

2025-01-01 22:02:19 GMT

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Key based identity is inherently single key, just need to not be retarded with access control
auth.shock.network

2024-12-21 17:18:46 GMT

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Funny you should ask... this scavenges events proactively in the background and caches into SQL for usable performance across multiple devices
https://m.primal.net/NCfp.png

2024-12-08 23:51:42 GMT

If you look at all the centralized fake L2 scams on Ethereum, and the money "locked" in those scams, you'll begin to understand all the "covenants" astroturf
There's no technical justification for them, just the same combination of greed and stupidity that keeps Ethereum around

2024-11-24 03:28:22 GMT

The forker astroturf is back, and the timing is not a coincidence
These ego-centric crusaders can't accept that Bitcoin doesn't need them and their fragile ETH-lite scripting delusions are nonsense
Bitcoin is just fine and they're spiteful about it

2024-11-16 15:01:12 GMT

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It's a trusted shitcoin protocol affinity scamming lightning for resources
https://stacker.news/items/756225/r/justin_shocknet?commentId=756286

2024-11-04 14:59:18 GMT

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Ad hominem would be dismissing the case for ECash because it is made retards, that's not what I have done... I have said there is simply no case for ECash.
Maybe spend more time on vocabulary and less time on ways you can sign useless strings over to yourself.

2024-11-04 14:29:13 GMT

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Lightning doesn't have to be perfect for ECashers to be complete morons, but that said it does scale sufficiently and trust is optional.
Whatabout Lightning all day if you want, it won't change the fact that ECash doesn't improve anything. Just another retarded custodial shitcoin that skates by on privacy virtue signaling by the same retards that think they're private behind Tor and their CIA run VPN.

2024-11-04 14:06:31 GMT

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Some people are retarded.
Is an LSP trusted if you pay it out-of-band in hopes they open a channel in return? Absolutely.
Fortunately, LSP is just a made-up term by some company, that is now reselling blockstream cloud nodes. Coincidence? LSP's aren't a real thing in the protocol, you don't need one... you can just open a channel like you would make any other chain transaction.
Whataboutism doesn't address the fact that circle-jerk-coins don't improve anything... just mindless cope for pedantic fetishists that were too dense to bother understanding the profundities of Bitcoin.

2024-11-04 13:42:14 GMT

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I don't care about any crypto nonsense, it's not interesting, it's completely useless in any trusted or custodial context... total distraction for tinkerers that can't stick to a long term vision like real Bitcoin

2024-11-04 13:40:14 GMT

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Eventually, I think Start9 is still going through some changes for bundling
Old laptop is perfect or even a cheap VPS

2024-11-04 13:26:48 GMT

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A channel per device is wasteful, it'll be too low volume to be sustainable and will get closed
For kids, share a family node over Nostr with lightning.pub and ShockWallet

2024-11-04 13:17:58 GMT

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I work on LN because it is useful
ECash is just retarded virtue signaling

2024-11-04 02:41:18 GMT

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Woosh
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3504944/hackers-are-cloning-yubikeys-via-new-side-channel-exploit.html

2024-11-04 02:02:22 GMT

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Yubis are meant to have backups, it's a perfect fit

2024-11-04 01:47:21 GMT

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Circle-jerk signatures all you want, Bitcoin is the only goal post
Bitcoin in has metadata, Bitcoin out has metadata, if you don't trust a custodian with that then no crypto-wanking can help you

2024-11-04 01:00:27 GMT

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False premise, no transfer of anything is actually taking place

2024-11-03 18:34:03 GMT

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Crypto theatrics don't matter with a small anom-set and countless other forms of metadata
Small brain thinking to equate cryptography with privacy

2024-11-03 14:13:40 GMT

The privacy properties are a hoax too
#nevent1q…kw34

2024-10-19 16:17:35 GMT

NIP-69 fixes this
https://m.primal.net/LbGP.png
note1862y00r383q3mge0lkl7jat40p65kamhx0znfpy7lmmpuhlxuj9sgu396r

2024-10-16 14:07:53 GMT

Relays are no different than any other hosting service in terms of incentives, they're a CDN for notes.
Some hosting services cater to illegal content, like seedbox services for torrents.
Others, like business tier S3 with a terms of service, do not.
The only difference vs. traditional hosts is that Nostr uses keys/signatures so that data is verifiable and therefore can be easily distributed across redundant hosts (exactly what torrents do by using redundant trackers with hashes to ID files).
Unlike torrents though, there's a reputational lever available in Nostr because of author keys. This will allow it to become more email-like, where servers generally drop everything that doesn't pass some checks.
Email and traditional file hosting is enured to legacy DNS/IP4 limitations, and therefore not as simple to have provider redundancy, which makes service offerings less commoditized than is possible with Nostr relays.
So, while Nostr is an improvement over legacy hosting services in terms of censorship-resistance, there's no magic that makes it a different animal in terms of incentives or how it evolves service hygiene.

2024-10-12 21:25:51 GMT

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There's comparison to Bolt12 in the PR comments, Nostr-native offers feature better performance, portability, web-friendliness, and privacy than Bolt12 offers

2024-10-11 00:16:39 GMT

Go outside
https://image.nostr.build/f9f612b86f34792cad769a5c0832ed19e144f2af45aaef3c374a84a864767227.jpg

2024-10-09 13:39:46 GMT

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Unfortunately not, love TAB but I've got a conflict locally

2024-10-09 13:21:53 GMT

Nostr is natures way of healing the Lightning network

2024-10-08 19:44:50 GMT

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Review the PR!
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1529

2024-10-08 19:44:20 GMT

I'm pleased to announce that we've finally opened the pull request for NIP-68, Lightning Debit Requests.
These ad-hoc debit requests, when combined with NIP-69 offers, provide a more intuitive, secure, and scalable successor to NWC that actually leverages Nostr for identity of Apps and Services.
Pairing an app is now as simple as entering a Lightning-enabled NIP-05 address and clicking Approve or Deny in your wallet.
The implementation is live in ShockWallet's PWA and Android build with iOS coming later this week.
A temporarily forked nostr-tools is also available for ease of integration.
Check out this UX sample: https://m.primal.net/LPAk.mp4

2024-10-08 19:38:42 GMT

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Reject bolt12, embrace nip69

2024-10-08 14:37:08 GMT

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Stick Caddy on a cheap VPS, can then do lots of other things with it too

2024-10-07 16:54:56 GMT

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Yea and I actually recall someone making the point it should have been binary
Ultimately it's the implementations that make the rules, the idea of bouncing signed data off webservers is as old as the web itself... Nostr just made it simple for midwits to understand so they could feel like contributors... that came at the cost of a larp army obsessed with retarded specs, not implementing shit that actually works
Nostr can only succeed if there's a broadly useful SDK, which imo has to have commercial motives

2024-10-07 16:26:01 GMT

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Both nostr-tools and strfry have less stars than the NIPs, that's the inversion to watch for, because they are what provide actual utility
Specs are meaningless without implementations, particularly nostr specs where they're generalized json and websocket schemas that are indistinguishable from every other app on the Internet

2024-10-03 22:21:35 GMT

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I believe that's a limitation of their node software not nwc itself, we so things differently with lightning.pub so each user wallet can have there own or multiple nip69 offers/lightning addresses

2024-10-03 21:13:05 GMT

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That's how we use it in ShockWallet, but it makes NWC redundant, the lightning address bridge server uses it to get the invoice from the node
Example implemented here:
GitHub.com/shocknet/bridgelet

2024-09-26 21:26:23 GMT

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Thanks, investigating...

2024-09-26 20:17:25 GMT

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It's supposed to but is also very new, what are you experiencing?

2024-09-26 15:19:38 GMT

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actually looks like there was a nav regression... just merged a fix, will have a build shortly

2024-09-26 14:56:40 GMT

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Under notifications there will be a reminder to back up credentials once you receive sats, click this it will take you to auth... otherwise there should be an auth link in the hamburger menu
You're not the first to point out this is unintuitive... trying to design something cleaner...

2024-09-26 13:29:51 GMT

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Yes, use the backup/recover screen to auth and that will enable sync over Nostr

2024-09-21 11:52:56 GMT

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ShockWallet.app
Can use it to onboard noobs to your own lightning.pub

2024-09-20 15:44:31 GMT

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Relays are no different than postgres in a traditional stack, they "relay" data across time in (conjunction with middleware)
Ditto is right because it introduces proper middleware rather than clients speaking equivalent to SQL directly, and relegates the relay back to its core database functionality.
The mastodon influence im not a fan of, but it's directionally correct to have application middleware between clients and the database (relay)

2024-09-19 12:56:02 GMT

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performance and scalability are coming
https://m.primal.net/Kumk.png

2024-09-18 15:47:05 GMT

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Nostr is literally websockets and json, things that make up the web already.
Relays are just databases, things that make up applications already.
Just because you don't know how to scale them doesn't make them not scalable, and as far as I know there's only one developer actually working on scaling it @npub1yxp…qud4
Scale will come quickly ones its made a priority.

2024-09-18 14:55:27 GMT

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Yea thats fine for short-term rate-limiting defense against DoS, but doing anything reputational with IP's beyond that will hurt new users even worse in the long run
Tiering works well in many environments, for example you can still allow new users with no friction but also impose a basic rate limit (or kind restrictions), with upgrades to those permissions achievable either via a PoW flow, WoT-invite flow, or just good behavior heuristics over time

2024-09-18 14:38:25 GMT

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IP filters will eventually block new people as well, those using popular VPN's, ISP level IP4 gateways, Tor exit relays, college campuses, the list goes on... attackers can unfortunately get their hands on IPs just as easily as they can generate new keys
Soft forms of WoT via invite links or PoW seem more promising

2024-09-18 13:33:19 GMT

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IP level protection is counter-productive outside of rate-limits, has to be native reputation

2024-09-16 13:57:43 GMT

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Teams functionality WIP
Auth.Shock.Network

2024-09-14 18:41:23 GMT

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Architecturally very similar to what we do with ShockWallet and Lightning.Pub so it's nice to have the validation, and honestly I always kinda felt browser extensions / WebLN were retarded 🤣

2024-09-14 15:06:26 GMT

My comments re: the recent Lightning wallet shutdowns
https://stacker.news/items/684367/r/justin_shocknet?commentId=684580

2024-09-14 14:04:18 GMT

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Thanks!
Wallet is the client and has a node manager built in yes, the Nostr RPC comes from the lightning.pub repo, if you look at the methods there on GitHub you can see all the calls we make over Nostr... It's just like a regular http API, but we built a proto generator that takes the API and spits it out as Nostr interface code
We also recently PRd NIP69 to enable static payment codes over nostr without the full interface, debits coming next in a companion nip

2024-09-14 10:44:04 GMT

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Hell yeah, busy next week but week after def 🤙
Is the time selector UTC?

2024-09-11 15:41:39 GMT

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I'm fairness that's only because it's trash engineering that doesn't work, and is only being propped up by a few salaried devs funded with opaque objectives.

2024-09-11 14:12:01 GMT

https://m.primal.net/Kmql.png
#note1862…396r

2024-09-10 20:52:01 GMT

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ty sir
https://m.primal.net/KmOu.png

2024-09-10 20:23:23 GMT

New in ShockWallet and Lightning.Pub: Static payment codes over Nostr provide a more performant, private, trustless and decentralized replacement to LNURL and Bolt12
Play around at demo.nip69.dev
https://cdn.lightning.video/bd926eaa77a9a1046afb12faabb268be925b01d952edc3ce19d092f258ea3572/4WyiE6SuFQ.mp4

2024-09-10 11:09:28 GMT

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3, Tor is crap

2024-09-09 12:02:10 GMT

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The codes themselves are not (bec32, similar to an nprofile) but they provide an easy upgrade into Lightning Addresses

2024-09-08 19:14:56 GMT

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There's comparison to Bolt12 in the PR comments, Nostr-native offers feature better performance, portability, web-friendliness, and privacy than Bolt12 offers

2024-09-08 16:58:43 GMT

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If you have an old laptop you can dedicate to throwing linux on (or $5/mo for a VPS), you can set up a Lightning.Pub by pasting one line of code
That'll will set up a Lightning node that allows you to connect ShockWallet to it over Nostr, it also provides for inviting friends/family etc to share in your liquidity
Pub will give each user a noffer string, and the wallet will use it to get a shockwallet.app lightning address
Lightning.Pub instructions on Github: https://github.com/shocknet/Lightning.Pub

2024-09-08 16:52:48 GMT

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It would be a feature of your wallet that allows others to request an invoice over nostr, it's a replacement for lnurl

2024-09-08 16:51:15 GMT

Live for testing on ShockWallet and demo.nip69.dev
#nevent1q…ad03

2024-09-07 15:32:02 GMT

Privacy focused products generally spread through virtue signaling, not substance... Unless you really know what you're doing, privacy tools are just honeypots

2024-08-27 17:54:11 GMT

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https://m.primal.net/KQKO.png

2024-08-27 17:53:57 GMT

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https://m.primal.net/KQKO.png

2024-08-26 16:14:33 GMT

On pace for a big Pub dashboard drop this week
https://m.primal.net/KOFp.png

2024-08-23 16:31:14 GMT

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Only the coins encumbered by it, they basically become bcash tokens

2024-08-23 15:04:50 GMT

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Vaulting and spending a compromised shitcoin is already possible on any other chain

2024-08-23 14:02:10 GMT

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All these shitfork proposals enable externalized consensus to pervert the incentive structure
They're funded and astroturfed by the same cabal that uses shitcoins to muddle the industry.

2024-08-23 13:58:07 GMT

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CTV is an attack on Bitcoin.

2024-08-23 13:55:54 GMT

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Ugly nips

2024-08-23 13:48:07 GMT

Nostriga was like a hackathon gone wrong.
We must save Nostr from the Nostr developers.
https://m.primal.net/KJUr.png

2024-08-22 13:40:03 GMT

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In that case I would recommend reading and watching anything written or presented by Alex Bosworth over the last 5 years
Good starting point, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlPIB6jt6ww

2024-08-22 11:39:12 GMT

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Open just a couple channels for your own/family use to save yourself chain fees, don't expect to earn routing fees and go overboard. Routing isn't for casuals.

2024-08-16 01:40:44 GMT

Just pushed a fix to get ARM installs working
#note1uw9…ew2f

2024-08-15 23:00:38 GMT

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If you're the node operator then its self-custodial, with the option to add custodial guests. The goal is to let people who prefer a custodial solution keep that as close as possible. Most people share a house/fridge/car with people already, and they'll share a node / channel too.
There's no benefit in Cashu as it's the same scenario with either... if you run your own mint then its self custody, else it's custodial.
ECash is worse UX because there's fragile gateway and settlement layer between it and real Lightning payments, and on the client side you're reintroducing bearer shitcoins thus making the worst combination of trade-offs: a custodial solution that still requires key management.
It's not that Pub is more private, it's just not less, the overall point is that you shouldn't use either for privacy as both are limited by the nodes anonset. Since a node operator has countless ways to deanonymize activity, you simply shouldn't use a custodian you don't trust and ECash doesn't make a custodian you don't trust anymore trustworthy. ECash's privacy benefits would only come at bank or government level scale which is even more dangerous because of how much oversight those mints would have into the flows of the Lightning network... this is why it's so important we make custodians small... ECash is for governments not families.

2024-08-15 17:26:04 GMT

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I should caveat that we have NOT automated watchtower setup yet, so something to consider if you'll be offline regularly

2024-08-15 17:19:21 GMT

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Most of the benefits come from it being always-on 24x7 but it won't hurt if it goes down from time to time
It'll run on Windows/Mac too but would be a manual installation
I personally recommend an old laptop with clean *buntu install, the built-in battery makes it much less likely the node gets corrupted. Since it uses neutrino a 4GB of RAM clunker with ~20GB of free disk should be adequate (would suggest an SSD at least though)

2024-08-15 16:58:29 GMT

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Cashu/ECash is a bad design choice for this usecase imo, it makes tradeoffs incompatible with fluid mass-adoptable UX because its just layering the management of a new shitcoin as opposed to direct RPC access
Save for enterprise-scale environments, Pub isn't any less private either as it uses ephemeral keys that are blind children not tied to a given identity. A user could have one or many, rotate them, etc. Also with friends/family nodes nodes the anonymity set is so low that becomes the common limiting factor... whitelisting keys would also negate any privacy benefits
If however you are already running a mint, it could conceivably serve as a backend for Pub... while we built on a single implementation to focus on security (LND) we did so in a way that adapters should be relatively simply to implement

2024-08-15 16:47:30 GMT

I heard nostr likes bush pics https://image.nostr.build/847b52281dba7579634510a7572ec1c2ca735a9d04fd2c53535c4b654cba340e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/03bd39df612a322025c9dc9ae8c6f6e55b80b5cb65de4f90f61692b32e2e4b07.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7d88b6e280921d0b4fd2b742c79bbd46ffcaa92217265ff17fadd7aead8ac581.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ab843ee47377c1891a486e68852df32037dfeb90a99c9a89b9e91e8fad6ec114.jpg

2024-08-13 18:54:11 GMT

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Yea we built Lightning.Pub around LND but in a way it shouldn't be too difficult to create adapters for other backends

2024-08-13 11:22:54 GMT

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Connects to a remote node over Nostr, can optionally start custodial and upgrade when you have enough sats or set one up from scratch in 2 minutes
#nevent1q…g052

2024-08-12 21:33:57 GMT

Still alpha, but ShockWallet is already the best Lightning wallet as a daily driver by far imo
Super fast and reliable, its not a mobile node so no waiting to boot or graph syncs that cause failures
Using Nostr real-time sync is a handy flex too, one wallet on desktop phone 🤌 https://video.nostr.build/fd3ab3cd55bed1337cf1361e14cc8dd18de279a8a2724b6a9a15244ae222d5ad.mp4

2024-08-09 02:19:33 GMT

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Kdenlive for video but it deserves the KDE desktop (Kubuntu)

2024-08-06 20:54:48 GMT

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Kinds > NIPS

2024-08-05 23:48:20 GMT

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Kinda, I think the first page you see (discover) when you land there was a waste of time for us... we did it because it's what people expected to see when visiting a video site not because it adds any real value. The overwhelming majority of our traffic is direct links to content or channel pages.
I plan on replacing it with a landing page that better explains the value prop of the site.
My long range thoughts on the direction of discovery is that ultimately everyone is a curator, who you follow should ultimately dictates what you discover, and that apps will support bring your own algorithms that recommend stuff from your extended social graph.
This won't be possible in a performant/scalable way with existing nostr clients that directly talk to the relays unfortunately. I'm hoping we'll get time to work on a indexer with reproducible results that would enable it... Once we do we'll inject it into LVa and finally get that fully Nostrfied

2024-08-05 22:11:42 GMT

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Yep the death of advertising is my thesis in lightning.video, the incentives of users paying for hosting are a micro level are much better.. nostr as the overlay for that transaction metadata is going to reshape the Internet

2024-08-05 20:43:48 GMT

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Not very familiar with SSB but im assuming it doesn't use web relays, that's the key feature inherited from our use of GUN
Enabling apps that work in any browser and solve the networking issue is and ultimately what enables distribution where lightning can't reach.. keys and data only matter where they can be delivered to

2024-08-05 18:56:09 GMT

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Obligatory contrarian Lightning Maxi take coming in hot...
Nostr's roots are as an iteration on how GUN was used in ShockWallet and Lightning Pages, as a means to have a web-friendly overlay network to connect Lightning to WebApps
This continues to the primary usecase for Nostr today even as a leaner and more flexible successor to GUN.
Users are funneled through the Lightning ecosystem for connecting LN to WebApps: Zap Signaling, NWC, kind 21000, accessing sat monetized services, and and more, is why any users are here to begin with. Heck, even these notes are about Lightning.
Without the network effect of Lightning as a native payments layer, Nostr its just another combination of websockets and json.
Anything that it's capable of is only in context of it making better Lightning Apps, because key-based identities, webservers, and json aren't otherwise novel.

2024-08-03 13:37:19 GMT

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Docker that makes sense... but ill have to look into why the script is prematurely exiting, otherwise manual install should work

2024-08-03 01:17:11 GMT

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Haven't tested it myself but it should work, LND and nodejs have arm64 builds so pub should run fine