phaedrus 1 year ago

Report by Federal Reserve bank of NY saying what Bitcoin people keep repeating: printing money hurts poor people more than wealthy, making inequality worse. Their conclusion is that Fed doesn’t have the tools to fix inequality and is making it worse. I think people outside of Bitcoin community should know more about this report https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff_reports/sr959.pdf

phaedrus 1 year ago

I would like to give away tips in Bitcoin to people who don’t have any wallet yet. What’s the best solution these days?

phaedrus 1 year ago

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phaedrus 1 year ago

Nostr friends, what’s the current best practice on managing Nostr keys? For instance, managing same (or clearly linked) identities across different apps (ideally not sharing the same key), or key rotation?

phaedrus 1 year ago

I agree we should not ossify the core protocol too fast. The network effect will ossify it naturally. Of course it’s hard to find the right balance. This is so well written! View quoted note →

phaedrus 1 year ago

Is @matt talk posted somewhere online? (Couldn’t make it to Nashville)

phaedrus 1 year ago

Stacker News

Bounty: ideas for logo \ stacker news

A friend is looking for logo for his project/company. Will pay 150,000 sats for 10 diverse logo ideas. Here is some info about the project: https:/...

phaedrus 1 year ago

Stacker News

Bitcoin-powered 99designs \ stacker news

I tried to use 99designs. They charged my credit card $299 first. Then they blocked my account, requiring full KYC (uploading my ID, selfie, etc) I...

phaedrus 2 years ago

Bitcoin-only Trezor. The best present I got this Christmas ;-)

phaedrus 2 years ago

Congrats! Great to see adoption of non-custodial solutions. Is there any lipa product/app I can try?

phaedrus 2 years ago

Good day Bitcoin entrepreneurs! What cool stuff are you building?

phaedrus 2 years ago

@OpenSecret just sent 100k first invoice to mutiny wallet and it took 40k fee. Why?

phaedrus 2 years ago

Phoenix should be fine. They can love they don't custody any funds. Right? Please prove me wrong.

phaedrus 2 years ago

Bitcoin Explained is incredible podcast. Pretty technical yet super crisp and easy to understand. Here is an episode - summary of ideas for scaling: Share this

Fountain

Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin • Episode 82: Scaling to Billions of Users • Listen on Fountain

In this episode, Aaron (@AaronvanW) and Sjors (@provoost) discuss a recent blog post by Bitcoin Core developer Anthony Towns (@ajtowns), “Putting...

phaedrus 2 years ago

Thoughts on why Ads is so successful, and how it's not gonna be trivial to replace it with value4value and Lightning:

Can Value4Value replace Ads?

In this post I’m gonna share my thoughts on why the Ads monetization model has become so successful, and how could Value4Value over Lightning (V4...

Any other advantages or reasons why Ads is so successful? Any interesting projects tackling this space? #lightning #value4value #v4v

phaedrus 2 years ago

Who can integrate zaps into discourse? It powers many forums. Sounds like it should be pretty doable with npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm, right?

Stacker News

Project idea: integrate zaps with Discourse \ stacker news

Discourse powers many forums such as Qubes OS, Umbrel, Tailscale, Syncthing. I often find helpful answers there and would love to send some sats to...

phaedrus 2 years ago

Is there Midjourney that I can pay per image with Lightning, instead of subscription which requires credit card?

phaedrus 2 years ago

Very bullish on L402 - this is significant problem in AI/ML and Lightning is perfect solution!

AI for All: Powering APIs and Large Language Models with Lightning ⚡🤖

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of a new set of developer tools to enable the Lightning and AI developer communities to build global…

phaedrus 2 years ago

Been offline for about a month. Any progress on Ark?

phaedrus 2 years ago

Phoenix has been my favorite wallet for a while now, and this is huge improvement!

ACINQ | Introducing the new Phoenix

ACINQ is a Bitcoin technology company with a focus on the Lightning Network.