I'm a fully self sovereign Zapper! I don't rely on any 3rd party to send and receive Zaps! Several months back there was a lot of discussion about how the vast majority of Zapping was custodial. There is no need for that, it's easy to be fully non-custodial! Here are the quick and easy steps if anyone is interested: Run a Bitcoin Node Run a Core Lightning Node on clearnet with good liquidity and a handful of channels Connect BTCPay server and configure a Lightning Address Install the BTCPay Nostr Plugin Update my Nostr profile appropriately Great, it works, but not reliably so I also added some channels: getalby - minimum channel size 10,000,000 sats WalletOfSatoshi - minimum channel size 5,000,000 sats Now it all works reliably, easy! I hope you could catch my sarcasm because I was laying it on pretty thick! Unfortunately there is no way that even the vast majority of Nostr power users can pull this off. I'm a Bitcoin Nerd (masochist?) who sets this stuff up because I think it's really fun. Maybe someday there will be an easier way to set up non-custodial Zapping but for the time being Zapping will be fully custodial and I think that's okay. We need more more "Zapping Providers" and more diversity in usage of these providers so that if a given provider rugs the entire Nostr Zapping community doesn't get wiped out. Happy Zapping Nostriches!

Yes! My 5 sat/vbyte force close lightning TX confirmed today. I had a feeling that those sats might be living in the mempool forever. I can't wait until anchor outputs are deployed. #Bitcoin and Lightning incrementally improve wherever they are stess tested. Thanks for your contributions to improving the protocols inscriptor folks!

I have always felt that this guy is disingenuous or even outright deceptive. He tries to portray himself as a virtuous libertarian but anyone that takes his advice will end up with less #Bitcoin than if they simply hold their Bitcoin. I tend to think of him as anti Bitcoin to be honest. The reality is that almost all Bitcoiners warned people about BlockFi and promoted self custody.

I did a foolish thing today. I got into a debate on X with some people who were arguing for BIP300 in bad faith. No one will convince anyone of anything in an X debate. It's a waste of time. I had learned my lesson years ago arguing with bcashers but I guess I needed a refresher.

BREAKING: my mobile data plan. Does #Nostr use an insane amount of data? I can't think of anything else I've done that would use so much data.

At one time I could pay to lightning address on snort.social but it seems to have broken for some reason. I've verified that my CORS headers are allowed on my BTCpay server. I get "failed to load LNURL service" in snort. This works fine with other clients. Any hints would be appreciated!

Who the fuck is this Mario Nawfal guy? First he is a prominent shitcoiner Then he is presenting to the WEF. Now he is some kind of geopolitical expert running Twitter Spaces on the war in Ukraine. Something really seems off about this.