From: Nostr

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 @Carman 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.

GitHub

NIP 67: Nostr Wallet Auth by benthecarman · Pull Request #851 · nostr-protocol/nips

There are a lot of technical and UX problems with NWC connection strings, this defines a better way to establish a wallet connection. Naming and wo...

Their blog post about it here

Mutiny Blog

One step wallet connect with Nostr Wallet Auth

"Nostr Wallet Connect Connect" was too confusing.

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.

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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

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. View quoted note →

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

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

Saylor Medium Of Exchange maxi confirmed

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

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

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.

Gm nostr

Damn vibe coding is real

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

I was sad to see Nick Szabo sign off in 2021. It’s good to see him back in the fray somewhere. Don’t take the old heads for granted. Many have come and gone 🫡