It seems Nostr based P2P marketplace is all the rage these days. And people are viewing it as if these are competing solutions. My intention has always been to create a single open order-book on Nostr that no one owns. There is literally no money to be made in this. And I’m doing this anon so even repuation and glory upside is highly limited. The only reason to do this is to create ways for on-off/ramp into and out of Bitcoin. My stack gaining purchasing power is more than enough motivation for me. When I started nobody was talking about this. Now it seems to be all the rage. I am more than happy to drop n3xB completely if someone already got this vision built. The competition should not be at the protocol/order-book level. The competition should be competing clients, liquidity providers and arbitrators - NOT competing order books and protocols. If it’s the latter then we already have it in the form of Bisq and RoboSats, and would be zero reason to put this on Nostr. The only reason to put this on Nostr is to have an inter-operable, highly liquidity order-book, instead of having wall gardened orderbooks, albeit P2P, etc that we already got today. If anybody is building ‘competing protocols’ that is also meant to be an interoperable order-book, we should talk. One of us should drop. I’m more than happy not building protocols and build mobile clients and UX instead. DM me.

Some men are dangerous because they are violent, antisocial. We are more dangerous because we are not - we are far more dangerous to the establishment because we want a better world to be built.

I am going to admit up front. I’m mostly anon LARPing. Despite Tor and not using CC and VPN and anon E-mail and all that. I highly, highly doubt someone sufficiently determined is not going to be able to doxx me if wanted. I am not sure how Satoshi did it. Question if some people actually know who Satoshi is and just not telling. Good Bitcoin doesn’t care who Satoshi is, one way or another.

Coded with GPT-4 and asked it to do PSBT with BDK in Rust. Its not perfect. But I ask it to fix things I see incorrect and it understood context and keep digging more into the BDK doc for solutions on its own. Mind is blown. For example at first it called a method that didn’t exist. I told it that and it fixed it. Then I asked it I want the input amount and output amount to be different since it’s ‘partial’. It done that by just looping through UTXOs in the wallet until it reaches the desired input amount. I asked if there’s something in the BDK that helps with coin selection. And it found the CoinSelection trait and updated the code to use ‘BranchAndBound’ I still haven’t tried to run it yet. But even if I treat this a pseudo code it’d still be amazing

Zaps is an attack on LN decentralization. Should not have rolled it out wide before non-custodial solution is ready

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Ran some analytics on zaps on nostr, it's quite terrible... ~95% of users have their lightning address set to a custodial wallet ~91% of all zaps...