Julian #Assange is finally #free. This is a good day.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a #Lightning #wallet that is able to pay #Bolt12 offers? #Custodial is fine, just need to do some #testing. #AskNostr #Bitcoin

Keep in mind, your #bank is unlikely to function this way. Take #selfcustody. #Bitcoin

A #bitcoin node's Proof Of Work. When electrs is waiting for the blocks to download, it's complete silence. When the bitcoind logs rush in for each block getting #verified, I can hear the server's fan spinning up momentarily. Up and down, up and down. This is the way. Run a #node. #PoW

Hope you all opened any new #lightning channels you needed to, because this was a good weekend for fees. The next one may not be so. Keep #zapping.

#Government didn't ban #Kaspersky. They banned the average #american citizen from being able to choose to install it. Then again, anyone choosing to pay for and install #antivirus software in this day and age is being #scammed. So, I dunno :Vegeta:

I tried, I looked, but nothing out there compares. I built my #Dojo back up from the ashes. Can't seem to get #Ronin UI up, but that's okay (waiting for v3 for x86 support). Dojo is all I need at this point for #Samourai and #Sentinel wallets. Verifying the #timechain as I post this. Fuck authority.

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I'm not suggesting everyone is capable of taking custody of someone's funds, or even that they'd want to, but at what point is it acceptable to stop suggesting the "next new cool custodial wallet", and instead offer to host friend's and families' funds? Suppose I can flip the question another way... Does every serious self-hoster that does this for more than as a mere hobby need to become a large public service entity? Funding immediate friends and family I'm sure happens (I do it), but there should be a #WebOfTrust model (of sorts, perhaps more verifiable) where friends of friends try out some self-hoster's solution. I think if done and decentralized enough, no mint/lightning pool would become big enough worthy of a #rugpull. And even if it happened once, it would become costly to keep trying to do so over time. Further, some form of monetisation could also encourage honesty. I think this is relevant now due to the emergence of #ecash mints, but I've always held it as an important topic during the earlier lightning days, and I think it's the lack of consideration that made #cashu as an example be created to solve so many custodial problems, many of which perhaps didn't need to be there in the first place.

From the work @hodlbod, @npub10jcn...3kag, and @Vitor Pamplona are doing on DMs (NIP-17, NIP-44), to developers signing their own apps for @Zapstore to pull, and all the way back to @JeffG and others making a push for double ratchet DMs (NIP-104)... This is serious signal right here 🚨 Support them. Zap them. Contribute with them. View quoted note →

The #internet broke because the #money is broken. It's not feasible to monetize native internet services when there's no native internet money. Thus, it was easier to monetize user data, which lives and becomes native to the internet. Data can be internet-native, so the logical answer, at the time, was #datamining. #Bitcoin fixes this. Sats fix this.

If it wasn't already clear... You can clearly see... 💣 💣 💣 Where this is going. 💥

To businesses/services: Geo-blocking is against the #Bitcoin ethos and everything it stands for. There is no justification, there is no excuse. If you geo-block, you're in it for the #fiat, not Bitcoin. That, or you made one hell of a mistake designing your service, knowing well ahead of time you were positioning yourself as ripe for regulatory capture. To users: If you use a traditional #custodial wallet, think twice and seek alternatives.

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@jack mallers making it easy to understand for the masses. Shitcoins will never truly attain the longevity their proponents hope for because, in truth, there is no spoon. You really really want the spoon. Well put, Jack.

I now only use #Amber as my event signer. On mobile, it manages access to my #nostr private key when on #Amethyst and on #0xchat. When on desktop, #NoStrudel calls Amber when it needs to sign something (with granular control for remembering an action if I so wish. If you're not using Amber, there's really nothing better right now.

Oh god yes... I can stack No-KYC sats via lightning in bed.

Running into an issue with a new #tor only, #Start9 powered #Lightning node. It seems it has trouble receiving payments due to a lack of routes (I usually also include private hints) and over the course of a couple of months hasn't shown up on 1ml. It has 2 channels open, one with LNBig, and another with Olympus. I've ran lightning nodes before, from the early days of Umbrel to MyNode, to a manually configured Lightning Dojo (my longest running node), and haven't run into this particular issue, my node seems to be, for the most part, invisible. Could my channels being opened as private channels have an effect on whether my node announces itself? Any ideas? #AskNostr #Bitcoin