Kicked back, watching Nostrica livestream, such great conversations. Massive fomo

If merchants could easily sell bitcoin over the counter for cash, it would - add new revenue stream (small commission for sale) - bring new customers who want to buy bitcoin - incentivize merchant to accept bitcoin for goods & services (replenishing bitcoin stock) - offer kyc-free bitcoin to customers - make bitcoin more easily accessible in more areas Anything else?

If you were curious to learn about what we do at Galoy and the stuff we work on, my amazing team mate and friend Andrew went on a 4h rip with DJ Satoshi on the legacy bird app

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Andrew Begin (@agbegin) on X

Longest space I've ever been on. TY @DJSATOSHI18 🙏 Rough breakdown: 1:00 – Nostr w/ @CriptoZorro, custody w/ @MrHodl 2:00 – : About me/my ...

Unpopular truth: Many (most?) zaps on nostr aren't even Lightning transactions.

Looking at the Lightning addresses of folks on nostr, it seems the preference is for closed source lightning wallets. Why?

This long Techcrunch article about #[0] Twitter, BlueSky and Mastodon does not even mention Nostr once. Have we isolated ourselves from mainstream tech reporting or are they omitting intentionally? 🤔

TechCrunch

Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits the App Store as an invite-only app | TechCrunch

Where Twitter asks "What's happening?," Bluesky asks "What's up?"

Very soon, Bitcoin Beach Wallet users can display their holdings and create Lightning invoices denominated in their fiat currency of choice. We'll keep on removing barriers to using Bitcoin as money and make it easier to start circular bitcoin economies. Already now, users can choose to keep their money either in Bitcoin and/or US Dollars, all while preserving the ability to transact with either instantly over Lightning for unfairly low fees. All that's needed to get started is a phone number for account creation. We've also added the option to verify the phone number via WhatsApp in addition to regular SMS verification. Nostr Zaps work, too. Over the next weeks, we'll be releasing more features. Try it out and drop a line what could be further improved. iOS:

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Blink (Bitcoin Wallet) App - App Store

Download Blink (Bitcoin Wallet) by Blink SA de CV on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like Blink (Bit...

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.galoyapp APK:

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Release v2.1.53 Release · blinkbitcoin/blink-mobile

Features Add e2e test for updating invoice amount and note (#1249) Miscellaneous Tasks Moving fr ca to fr and pt br to pt (#1266)

So can we say Nick Szabo's suggestion that mental transaction costs would lead to adoption of flat fees rather than microtransactions is taking a blow with Zaps? https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/micropayments-and-mental-transaction-costs.pdf

For real

So which clients have NIP-57 zaps support? And which handle zaps best so far?