It's raining BIPs, hallelujah... Recently merged: BIP53 BIP54 BIP172 BIP177 BIP321 BIP443 On the cusp: BIP77 Maybe a good time to remind that BIPs are author documents that represent the authors’ recommendation to the Bitcoin community.

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Wake up, babe, 3 of these are consensus soft forks and all people will talk about are the 2 about what to name/rename sats.
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It's raining BIPs, hallelujah... Recently merged: BIP53 BIP54 BIP172 BIP177 BIP321 BIP443 On the cusp: BIP77 Maybe a good time to remind that BIPs are author documents that represent the authors’ recommendation to the Bitcoin community.
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A better idea is just to decide that it's all BS and stop messing with the code. You don't need to read any of them, or listen to anyone's opinion, if that's your position.
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21seasons 7 months ago
If we don't "mess" with the code, it'll eventually stop working. How is that better idea than to continue maintaining and to improve the efficiency of the code? 🤔 Also if somebody finds a way to increase privacy while making transactions smaller, why is it better to not explore and "mess" with it? 🤔
My trust in Devs is at an all time low. I thizits better if they just stop touching the code. They have done enough damage already.
Highly recommend looking through @Murch 's posts. I don't know about the other devs, but at least he's out here putting in good faith efforts to educate and argue for the core dev's position on things.
That was pretty easy, so that's a good argument. What I've tried so far, was to set up receiving with Phoenix. I figured a bolt12 invoice might work, or the BIP353 username would, but neither seemed to work from Amethyst when I tried in my own profile. I moved recently and haven't set up my homenode again, so I was considering doing that one of the coming weekends, but maybe I'm missing a way easier way of doing it?
Alright, gonna keep my eyes peeled. Thanks for going to the ML first, we've been getting a lot of halfbaked stuff first-seen as pull requests lately 😅
If enough wallets support BOLT12 we may see some progress there, but LNURL works well for most people at the moment. Self-custodial wallets like @ZEUS and Misty @Breez ⚡️ offering a Lightning address help, but if you run your own node, either on a physical machine or in the cloud with @Alby, you get a seamless experience with NWC. It’s worth the effort to set up, IMHO.
It doesn’t matter if the majority of user-friendly wallets don’t use it yet, and Nostr clients don’t have any integration for it. And to be fair, I’ve tried using it recently to make payments between Phoenix and Misty Breez and had multiple failures. Someone show me BOLT12 working at scale, please.
We worked with Phoenix and Boltz to improve it, let us know if something isn't working as expected after the latest updates (both Phoenix and Misty).
It takes time to get wallet adoption. We just added full bolt12 in our nodeless SDK this week, we still don't have it on Greenlight. But I agree with Matt, it's here, and we need to push for wider adoption.
Dunno, I’ve never had issues paying or receiving from/to Phoenix, but definitely engage with breez! As for nostr not supporting it yet, well, sounds like a great time for someone to step up and do the work!
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the axiom 7 months ago
if everything is a bip nothing is a bip also missing bips for all the l2s currently in dev
So, what you're saying is that we have not been selective enough for accepting recent submissions?
It was with too hard to get a BIP processed in the past, and now people put BIPs on a pedestal. But BIPs are author documents. They don't present community consensus, they're the authors’ personal recommendation to the Bitcoin community, especially in Draft status. It's good that we get a few controversial BIPs. It helps to make it clear that it's still the readers’ responsibility to make up their mind.
It was with too hard to get a BIP processed in the past, and now people put BIPs on a pedestal. But BIPs are author documents. They don't present community consensus, they're the authors’ personal recommendation to the Bitcoin community, especially in Draft status. It's good that we get a few controversial BIPs. It helps to make it clear that it's still the readers’ responsibility to make up their mind.
It was with too hard to get a BIP processed in the past, and now people put BIPs on a pedestal. But BIPs are author documents. They don't present community consensus, they're the authors’ personal recommendation to the Bitcoin community, especially in Draft status. It's good that we get a few controversial BIPs. It helps to make it clear that it's still the readers’ responsibility to make up their mind.