I made a Telegram bot that auto-replies to new or infrequent users. Scammers impersonating devs and DMing users are very common in wallet chat groups. My hope is that this will prevent people from getting scammed. The bot written in Deno and you can easily deploy it on Deno Deploy (or self-host on your own server).

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GitHub - hsjoberg/telegram-autoreplier-bot: A Telegram bot that auto-replies to any new or infrequent user that writes a message.

A Telegram bot that auto-replies to any new or infrequent user that writes a message. - hsjoberg/telegram-autoreplier-bot

Code is released under public domain. The bot is currently live in our Blixt Wallet chat group. Example scenario on how the bot works: ``` User: I need help please Bot: Hi there user. Beware of scammers <Nasty scammer impersonating a dev DMs the user> User: Oh nice, thanks for the heads-up, kind bot. ``` We’ve seen that a welcome message isn't sufficient protection as people just don't read these. Even you make it crystal clear about scammers. My rationale here for the bot is that they will notice if the bot replies directly to the user's message so they get pinged about it. Cheers guys.

Kotlin error looking good 😎

Okay I’m dumb! I changed my Lightning Address on my nostr profile some month ago, but that one is no longer working. Okay should be fixed now, it’s back to ⚡️ hampus@blixtwallet.com

Blixt Wallet is back with the final release in the 0.6.x release line, v0.6.9-420. Nice! This version has a new feature for Android, Lightning Box. Lightning Box is a service letting you receive via a Lightning Address non-custodially to your Blixt.

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Release 0.6.9-420 · hsjoberg/blixt-wallet

The final frontier is here for the 0.6.x release line, v0.6.9-420. Nice! This one has a great new feature for Android, Lightning Box. Lightning Box...

Lightning Box works in conjunction with Persistent Mode that was released in Blixt Wallet v0.6.9. For things to work out well, make sure battery optimization is disabled. Battery drain is expected to be low or not noticeable if things go as expected. Reach out if you have issues. The Lightning Box service will forward Lightning Address (LNURL-pay) requests directly to the wallet app on the phone, so it can respond back with an invoice created by the wallet itself. This means that while this service is not a custodian, there is still trust involved. Lightning Box is free and open-source software and anyone can choose to run their own service provider.

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GitHub - hsjoberg/lightning-box: A trust-minimized payment inbox for Lightning Addresses

A trust-minimized payment inbox for Lightning Addresses - hsjoberg/lightning-box

In Blixt Wallet settings, you can easily change the server to your own. The Blixt Wallet project will host a Lightning Box instance for @blixtwallet.com addresses. A draft bLIP specification for the inner workings of this protocol can be found here:

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blips/blip-lnurlforward.md at lnurl-forwarding · hsjoberg/blips

Bitcoin Lightning Improvement Proposals . Contribute to hsjoberg/blips development by creating an account on GitHub.

It is built using Lightning P2P messages, so any lightning node wallet implementation can choose to implement this protocol. That's all for now. Cheers and Happy Blixting! 🟡⚡️

Nice. Blixt Wallet is back with v0.6.9! We have a lot of new stuff in this release, such as a new stable Tor implementation, Persistent Mode, Simple Taproot Channels support, 0-conf channels support for Dunder LSP, and a bunch of new languages.

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Release v0.6.9 · hsjoberg/blixt-wallet

Blixt Wallet is back with version 0.6.9. Nice! This release has a lot of goodies, such as Simple Taproot Channels support, new robust Tor implement...

--- This release has a new Tor backend ("newtor") on Android that should be much more robust and reliable. You don't need to do anything in order to experience it, just make sure you have Tor enabled in Blixt settings. --- Blixt Wallet now has support for Simple Taproot Channels! Your private channels will just look like normal Taproot transactions if you do a coop close, which is great for privacy. Dunder LSP & autopilot will also support this feature in the near future. --- Blixt Wallet on Android has a new Persistent Mode, which lets Blixt stay in the persistently in the background. This can be helpful if you're awaiting a payment, or if you just want to keep in-sync with the chain. Depending on the device, this mode may drain more battery life. In a future release, we will allow self-custodial Lightning Address support for users opting in to the Persistent Mode. --- There were a lot of more stuff than the ones discussed here, so be sure to read the changelog. If you wish to download the app, head over to https://blixtwallet.com. Thanks to all contributors in this release and Happy Blixting everyone! 🟡

Blixt Wallet v0.6.9 is around the corner.

No, Lightning is not dead. But let this be a wake-up call that we should not put all our eggs in one basket. We need to explore alternative scaling ideas. Therefore I am supportive of the covenants softfork and the OP_CAT proposal, which help many Layer 2s.

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Covenant tools softfork by jamesob · Pull Request #28550 · bitcoin/bitcoin

Conceptual discussion here: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/covenant-tools-softfork/98 This draft is a patch that activates the consensus changes outl...

Mobile LN nodes and wallets rock!

Testing to post to a cool new relay