Fun fact from #hcpp24: I asked one of the crew how many payments during the conference she would estimate have been done via #LightningNetwork vs #Monero. She said about 30% XMR, but that she wished everyone used Lightning, because of how slow the Monero payments are. Point of Sale is just bad UX for anything taking longer than a few seconds. Only really committed merchants will tolerate that, and even then it's rough for them.

GM

Booted up an old MacBook Air from 2014 using an external drive bay for the SSD chip, because that part of the mainboard had died. It still has bitcoin-qt, dogecoin-qt and namecoin-qt installed. And I found a glorious 2 NMC on there. 😂

BUT WHO WILL BUILD THE ROADS

Anyone else here going to HCPP next week? Finally got all the things booked (except for onward travel, naturally).

This is what happens when you send a PGP-encrypted email with Memory Hole encryption for the subject line/header to Werner Koch (of GnuPG fame): 😂

👀 https://deadsuperhero.com/2024/09/swf-icky-feeling/

To my surprise, someone had actually registered the NIP-05 well-known URI with IANA. It was just missing on the Wikipedia page, so I just added it there, too.

Well-known URI - Wikipedia

It's kind of crazy that the El Salvador government is bitcoin-cost averaging instead of dollar-cost averaging. Next-level stacking either way.

Embarrassing typos are the worst on a protocol, where a lot of clients don't properly deal with delete requests. :/

The German federal police just executed a major, concerted crackdown on non-KYC exchanges: "The operators of the now shut down exchange services are accused of knowingly concealing the origin of criminally obtained funds on a large scale through inadequate implementation of legal requirements for combating money laundering (so-called know-your-customer principle), and thus of having made themselves liable to prosecution for money laundering and operating criminal trading platforms on the Internet in accordance with Sections 127, 261 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 No. 2 and Paragraph 4 of the Criminal Code." https://www.bka.de/DE/Presse/Listenseite_Pressemitteilungen/2024/Presse2024/240919_PM_finalexchange.html And they're actively threatening all past users of these exchanges: https://www.finalexchange.de/en

What's the current state of NIP-17 support? I'm considering implementing it for Kosmos account notifications, but AFAICS the client I use (noStrudel), which is jam-packed with other features, doesn't support it yet. 🤔 Feels wrong for a new implementation to use the deprecated NIP-04 with zero metadata privacy.

"These results suggest a lack of physical reality to both the anthropogenic radiative forcing attributed to rising greenhouse gases and the positive (amplifying) feedbacks hypothesized by the greenhouse theory and simulated by climate models." https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7418/4/3/17

A certain someone sent a mainnet Ark payment to a @Kosmos Accounts Lightning address today.