it's somewhat unfortunate that most lightning addresses here are through custodial apps, but it's undeniably true that it is still technically challenging to set one up noncustodially (DNS is an absolute bitch). i have this one yael@yael.at but also through a BTCPay server sats@pay.yael.at but these took me hours to set up and costs me server time to keep them running. ideally, much like Paynyms and BIP-47, we'd see more noncustodial wallet adoption of lightning addresses

will likely have to launch a new relay in order to implement the newest features — hang steady folks.

In my experience, getting Americans to adopt Signal happened much quicker than WhatsApp. iMessage being a strong product and iPhones being so ubiquitous explains why WhatsApp isn’t the US standard, but the only way to explain Signal adoption is the combined privacy + encryption. Europeans/LATAM/Asians/Africans are still predominately android, so WhatsApp makes sense. This is all until there are encrypted messaging apps using Nostr!

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“But at what cost?”

have been obsessed with the homelab jellyfin/radarr/sonar solution these past few days. have basically killed my bandwidth. enough with the walled gardens

I don’t see enough people talk about the “buy sats on cash app, send via lightning to a swap service or integrated lightning/chain app” it’s an interesting baby step into privacy, still using a KYC service. Peach is one of the best for non-KYC, but mostly Europeans at the moment

my favorite Bitcoin influencer of all-time is my node

May be stupid question, but where does one fill in the relay “contact information” that now shows up in some clients? it’s not in the settings JSON file as I’ve added the info there. I’m using ts-relay (now nostream)

it seems my btcpay reverse proxy is down as well -- it's a hard day for servers man