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2026-02-26 04:52:48 CET

A challenge for nostr is that normies want more government regulation of social media, not less.

2026-02-26 04:51:55 CET

The United States was founded by anti-government activists.

2026-02-25 15:56:09 CET

One of our fiat businesses has been doing a lot of small international payments recently and something really stands out: There is one country with EXCELLENT Bitcoin and Lightning adoption..... SOUTH AFRICA.... A huge number of South Africans seem to both 1) totally understand BTC and Lightning 2) often use it day-to-day ......

2026-02-24 02:32:22 CET

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Yes, if you are highly technical. A normie will lose or expose his private key and then ask "I know I have some sats, but I don't know how to find them.. I looked in my email but don't see anything. I guess it was a scam."

2026-02-23 06:55:42 CET

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Here's our take on this issue, FWIW:
Can I log in with my Nostr account?
We have carefully designed Rizful for maximum security. At the same time, we have found that too many Nostr users have poor security practices with their private keys. (For example, entering private keys into many websites and apps.)
Since real money is involved, we don't allow users to login via Nostr, and we don't ever ask for your private Nostr key. A combination of email/password, plus optional two-factor authentication, is the battle-tested and secure way to protect your Rizful account.
This approach ensures that, if you make a mistake with your Nostr keys in the future, your Rizful account won't be vulnerable.
Please note that you MAY use a privacy-preserving email service, or a "hide my email" feature (like on iOS) when signing up for Rizful.

2026-02-20 22:36:57 CET

@npub18m7…q955 Damus should be able to handle a `get_info` response from NWC, or at least ignore it without an error... this is probably something you could have an AI fix if you don't want to have a human fix it..... but it seems your AI closed the issue as "not planned"... https://github.com/damus-io/damus/issues/3262

2026-02-20 19:17:58 CET

One of my fiat businesses is making a lot of payments recently and I'm trying to orange-pill as I go by asking the recipient of the payment to accept Bitcoin.
My main negotiating tactic is to show the Normie a screenshot of a the PayPal payment (they almost always want a paypal payment)... and show them how horrible the exchange rate is and how much PayPal is taking.
But -- I'm starting to think that the biggest barrier to Bitcoin adoption as payment tech is actually the "crypto" industry.
The problem is that, if you send a normie Bitcoin, he/she will immediately go onto an exchange to try to exchange it for fiat... and in the process, there is such huge likelihood that the exchange will be able to trick/confuse the Normie into some kind of "crypto" gambling thing... this only has to happen once, and the Normie will assume that the whole thing is a scam.
https://image.nostr.build/3251ab210e1fd3640e1b4cd94ce61a35b8dd408935cb5e2e08ca14d451bfbc8d.png

2026-02-19 22:39:01 CET

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Looks like Zaprite doesn't yet support NWC connections. Maybe you could request that they add support.
https://image.nostr.build/24d9ee1d3e6ecb659c1bebcc785d8f44f67e26a1f2666d46c9c8c7c7f674bebf.png

2026-02-18 02:46:07 CET

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Yes rizful is currently up -- just a heads up that things might be rocky for the next few hours.

2026-02-18 02:41:21 CET

@npub1jlu…p2kq and Megalithic.me users -- right now the megalithic.me website is down. Rizful seems fine. There is some kind of big internet-wide infrastructure issue going on right now. Will keep an eye on it..
https://image.nostr.build/d5daf3313c7fcd6c47396d29048577a533631154a909e6d1cb7058f8a045ac05.png

2026-02-16 19:11:19 CET

How do we kill Binance? I'm trying to pay someone with Bitcoin and they send me this crap.... It's incredibly misleading as it literally shows "Deposit BTC" with the Bitcoin symbol...
https://image.nostr.build/3865eb01700cb3f3ace1c7341be76986754e07a8c376d41080556d11f6572297.png

2026-02-16 17:00:35 CET

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@npub109q…uvsf Looks like you are trying to use a speed.app address, which isn't compatible with inbound zaps.

2026-02-15 19:54:05 CET

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https://beta.predyx.com/ what about this?

2026-02-14 17:52:21 CET

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I hang out with a lot of extremely spoiled residents of Los Angeles and related areas and there is an absolute scourge here of people thinking that they MUST spend $40k on one of these stupid Swedish mattresses: https://hastens.com/us/

2026-02-14 14:34:40 CET

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Sending really small amounts onchain isn't economical... if you make a 2000 sat output, you're going to have to spend at least 200 sats just to move it in the future...

2026-02-14 00:52:59 CET

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what nostr client are you using? I think @npub1v5u…n0v5 is actually doing their "web previews" correctly, but your nostr client isn't showing them https://image.nostr.build/894e1fe79606d95cd82cfb3741986d8b2864b86dc5d722970ab2d4af00fe925e.png

2026-02-13 23:11:45 CET

https://fountain.fm/episode/hRkXuC9cR0D92tLgZqwe

2026-02-13 01:33:26 CET

what is the closest thing to a discord replacement that nostr currently has?

2026-02-12 18:50:31 CET

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I don't get it. How can you get rugged by a DNS provider? If you own the domain, you point it any DNS provider you want, right?

2026-02-11 19:36:58 CET

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We're positioning ourselves as someone who can tell when a Nostr post was written by chatGPT..!

2026-02-11 19:19:31 CET

We are working on a campaign to onboard normies to Nostr. We need the most succinct possible page which is like "Make money from zaps by using Nostr!" -- this is the starting point -- https://docs.megalithic.me/using-rizful/your-first-steps-with-rizful/ -- if anyone has any comments/suggestions for this page pls let us know

2026-02-10 23:56:00 CET

DNS issues seem to be fully fixed. Probably a lot of users might not have noticed an issue anyway -- if our IP addresse(s) were cached locally.

2026-02-10 19:45:05 CET

Rizful.com and Rizful NWC is experiencing intermittent downtime over the last hour or so. This is not related to our systems, but seems to be a (very rare) outage from our DNS provider -- you can see the status here: https://dnsimple.statuspage.io/
Messing with DNS is not fun or recommended, and actually switching DNS often takes a few hours or days -- so we're going to "do nothing".
Apologies.

2026-02-08 15:43:27 CET

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BTW -- you can only "spend" small amounts in USDT on Rizful. You can't deposit, you can't "hold" USDT, etc.
Rationale is something like: "if you're going to withdraw, and you're about to have to give money to Binance anyway to convert this Lightning withdrawal to to USDT, then sure, if it's a small amount, you can do it here, instead, after you look at our big fat warning about why USDT sucks."
But overall, your comments/concerns definitely have merit.
I think we're pretty clear.. and have been clear from the beginning: If you want the perfect self-custodial solution, you should run your own node -- either using our guide https://docs.megalithic.me/category/set-up-a-lightning-node -- or running Alby Hub, which, when you run on your own hardware (or in their cloud, really..) , is a very good solution. (And you'll never have to see the word "USDT" anywhere!)

2026-02-08 14:50:26 CET

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Did some experiments. There are a variety of bad options, but the main question was 1) how do we have our user pay very small amounts with very low fees 2) what is going to be compatible with what our user wants ... after some experimentation we came to the same conclusion that Block has ( https://www.stablecoininsider.com/cash-app-stablecoin-payments/ ) -- basically that Solana is the "best of the worst" if you want to touch stablecoins. Tron's fee structure is an outright scam where they want you to "stake" Tron in order to send with reasonable fees.

2026-02-08 14:30:07 CET

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Sure. I very much shared/share your perspective, but then I was thinking from the perspective of a low-income, unbanked person in South Asia/Africa/Latin America, who might find a way to earn in BTC, but literally has to spend money on food/rent/whatever in the next few days with a vendor that only accepts USDT.

2026-02-08 14:22:46 CET

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See above -- the warning you have to "accept" to try this out. We have had a few users -- not sure where they are but likely in the "global south" -- Africa, Asia, etc -- who say they really need to be able to make small payments in USDT. Our idea was to try it out, and provide lots of "warnings" along the way. To be honest so far it's had very, very minimal usage. Might be something we'll abandon. Was interesting to implement and to learn about the various terrible existing solutions for stablecoins....

2026-02-08 14:22:05 CET

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https://image.nostr.build/e1574dfd54c170d1631b3f45dcaac16a5f185eb117a7401f174b8e83e6bb7fd3.png

2026-02-06 18:25:46 CET

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Please educate yourself on the tradeoffs of WoS "self-custody" before you use it -- it really means "self-custody" from a LEGAL standpoint for WoS. IMO it's considerably less safe than other services, especially due to the risk of seizure or KYC by LightSpark, an American company. More details: https://github.com/buildonspark/spark/issues/64

2026-02-06 02:50:06 CET

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just zapped you but latency was probably about 8 to 10 seconds, which isn't great -- but if you're self-hosting that might be an acceptable tradeoff

2026-02-05 19:07:29 CET

Bought at $70k, $66.5k… my memories of not buying when it went down $18k to $3.5k in 2018 are enough to keep me consistent on this…

2026-02-04 22:22:11 CET

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CoinOs have made tradeoffs - you can sign up in one click. I definitely understand why they made these tradeoffs. But tradeoffs have consequences.

2026-02-04 22:05:08 CET

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Hate to say it, but this is why we require that Rizful users sign up with an email (ANY email is fine, the just have to confirm it -- anonymous email forwarders are ok...) This whole thing of "I have sats but I don't know how to get to them and I don't know how to recover my password"... is not a great user experience -- and probably has led to a lot of stranded sats.....

2026-02-04 21:40:48 CET

https://image.nostr.build/2ef5041a6a2ce19994e5d23e8c9db898a363f30dfb2f5c912e2876c42c3d6575.jpg what I am concerned about for vibe coders is that they might think they can just skip this part of learning how to program which in my view was actually the most enjoyable part of the whole thing. It’s nice to at least kind of understand how things work.

2026-02-03 23:34:33 CET

Please listen to this and understand the scale and complexity of nature: https://fountain.fm/episode/2NfVtqGcLn1KeYYWUPeO

2026-02-03 22:40:04 CET

Dear Lord, giveth me the strength to not attempt to fix software issues which can only be reproduced on one physical device.

2026-02-03 18:38:55 CET

Configuring DNS -- that thing you do once every 18 months, infrequently enough that you can never remember what "@" means or where to put it in the record. Consistently annoying for me from the period 1998 -> 2024.... and now.. Another task finally solved by AI, because you can ask AI "How does this thing work again?"

2026-02-03 07:23:18 CET

https://reclaimthenet.org/lawsuit-challenges-national-park-service-ban-on-cash-payments
To me, it's 100% obvious why this is such a problem, but, every time I explain the issue to Normies, they just don't get it. Why is it so hard understand that "we don't accept cash" is a plague and must be struck down by courts?

2026-02-01 06:14:05 CET

A lot of assets that are "not volatile" -- are actually very fucking volatile. Try selling a house (or other real estate) after fire, flood, or earthquake, or riot -- or even an economic crash...

2026-01-31 21:58:39 CET

Weirdly Bill Gates should probably go to jail, but actually just for not giving a shit about Windows and making it such a horrible experience for everyone. The other stuff I don’t really care about that much.

2026-01-30 18:38:23 CET

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You can also use Rizful like an app (but not an app that requires Apple or Google's surveillance/approval) -- explained here: https://docs.megalithic.me/rizful-tips-and-tricks/phone-or-tablet

2026-01-30 18:37:34 CET

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Use any email -- any privacy-preserving service (like iOS "hide my email") will work well.... we require email because you need to have a path to recover access. After studying the options, we decided that "your funds are secured only by your nsec"... was not safe enough for our standards....

2026-01-30 16:46:52 CET

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This stuff is getting out of control, the surveillance -- the problem is that most normies I think are conditioned to accept this gradually and don't understand why it is a problem.

2026-01-30 05:10:48 CET

When I discuss "what I do" with real normies (those that are financially unsophisticated), and I mention BTC, invariably they say "are you a trader?" -- I think in their minds, they assume anyone involved in BTC is a "degen day-trader", someone looking at technical analysis all day and doing risky things with complicated-looking charts & graphs.
But, ironically: I have actually started multiple "fiat" businesses before this, some of which scaled well above 25 employees and into many, many millions of USD in profit... and working on Lightning is actually THE FIRST time I feel like "I'm doing something which I will still be doing in 10 years."
Like, Lightning is just getting started and there is an enormous future ahead for it.
All of the prior fiat businesses, I could envision their failure/destruction (due to changing market conditions) from the very beginning.
I just don't see an end to Lightning. I think it IS the endpoint, at least for the next several decades.

2026-01-29 16:13:48 CET

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Another option, to escape fiat jail, but not have to leave behind all your Shopify data... https://docs.megalithic.me/BLFS/getting-started

2026-01-26 03:31:58 CET

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@npub1q6p…0kxr sent u a DM

2026-01-26 03:22:10 CET

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sent u a DM

2026-01-26 03:21:15 CET

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sent u a DM

2026-01-26 02:30:39 CET

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sent u a dm

2026-01-25 02:54:53 CET

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actually this "check nwc string" thing doesn't work like it should for relays which only accept NWC messages... I recommend trying a different field on that testing page

2026-01-24 18:30:31 CET

We just pushed out some new, hyper-paranoid security stuff for Rizful NWC connections. We've tested it with multiple nostr clients and it seems to play nice, but if anyone suddenly finds that that they can't connect to their NWC wallet, please get in touch with us ASAP. There could theoretically be a misbehaving client somewhere that won't be able to get through our new security hoops.

2026-01-21 22:32:54 CET

Seems like CoinOs.io is actually fully down, see this JS error when loading coinos.io....
https://image.nostr.build/01514ec7e147b5bd1156fd9e87390eb5829a450f17589456b96d2959f69e80f2.png

2026-01-21 18:18:58 CET

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If you're feeling sick, perhaps the universe is telling you "time to finally start using Rizful"?

2026-01-20 17:46:14 CET

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I think we're already doing that, but it's so simple that it might not be obvious.
Deposit Onchain --> Automatically credited to Lightning balance
Withdraw Onchain ---> Automatically deducted from your Lightning balance
There are only fees when you "withdraw onchain" -- currently 0.4%, a bit less than Boltz.

2026-01-19 20:42:54 CET

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It should be faster, cheaper, and more straightforward than Boltz. But Boltz is a lot more sophisticated and is likely the right choice if u are running your own lightning node.

2026-01-19 18:24:43 CET

You can now "swap" on-chain BTC to Lightning, and Lightning to on-chain BTC, using a free Rizful account.
This should be so easy that no tutorial is needed, but just in case....
https://docs.megalithic.me/rizful-tips-and-tricks/swap-onchain-to-lightning
https://docs.megalithic.me/rizful-tips-and-tricks/swap-lightning-to-onchain

2026-01-19 17:10:03 CET

@npub1jlu…p2kq now supports on-chain send & receive. Please try it out and let us know any comments!
https://image.nostr.build/6cd3e313bc9666122d1022c1efceb9595a45a1ac0dc2b3221179e7322647f079.png
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2026-01-19 16:57:19 CET

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Good question. Is it possible that the invoice simply haven't been paid yet? To help you troubleshoot, please feel free to contact us on Signal: https://megalithic.me/contact

2026-01-16 20:43:26 CET

I want to visit some of these trees and pay respects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_trees

2026-01-11 17:07:45 CET

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Both CoinOs and Rizfuil charge a small "platform" fee for withdrawals... I believe both are .1% -- very low. But Lightning is quite complicated and the total fees you will pay for outbound (and your payer will pay for inbound!) are actually determined by the hops that your payment takes. And those fees can change at any time!

2026-01-11 17:00:16 CET

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The word "custodial" has unfortunately been abused a lot recently.
Yes, both CoinOs and Rizful should be considered "custodial".
There are lots of other apps which are claiming to be self-custodial -- WoS, Blitz, Breez, etc. etc. -- which we argue are not really "self-custodial"... most basically because you are dependent on one centralized API. (BTW, this centralized API creates serious surveillance/privacy risks.)
Anyway. If you want fully self-custodial, we are HUGE proponents of Alby Hub. Run Alby Hub on your own machine and you are running fully self-custodial Lightnuing. Or, if you really want to get serious, follow our guide to running LND: https://docs.megalithic.me/category/set-up-a-lightning-node

2026-01-11 16:47:20 CET

Support for onchain deposits and withdrawals is coming to Rizful, in about 7 to 10 days.

2026-01-11 16:46:50 CET

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Good question.
Coinos supports liquid & onchain as well as Lightning ... Rizful onchain support is coming in about a week, we're almost done with it.
We like to think that Rizful has better liquidity & more reliable payments, since we also run Megalithic.me ( https://megalithic.me/ ) -- one of the biggest routing nodes on Lightning.
There is a also a basic difference in philosophy around "safety" and account recovery. CoinOs allows you to sign up with only a Nostr private key, with no way to restore your account in the case that you lose access to your Nostr key. In our opinion, this prioritizes "convenience" over "safety". (For some users that might be ok!).... Rizful's approach is more conservative... we require an email address (any email address is fine, anonymized services are ok)... so the user can always "recover" his access in the case he loses his password..... this is a design decision that some might like, and some might dislike.

2026-01-08 05:51:11 CET

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So this "Unable to send zap" thing... I remember a couple users have noted this and shown similar screenshots... do you know for sure this is rate limiting issue? I thought it was some kind of incompatibility specifically between Amethyst and Primal addresses.... how do you know it's a rate limit?

2026-01-07 22:26:22 CET

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Someone needs to try to actually try this thing out and I'm hoping it won't have to be me.... here is some progress so far: https://stacker.news/items/1405896
my assumption is that this system is totally incompatible with lightning and lightning addresses but hopefully I am wrong

2026-01-06 15:20:57 CET

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Nice

2026-01-06 14:28:08 CET

OK, I know Nostr clients don't have "an algo", and that's supposed to be a good thing. But I have a very basic problem. I check nostr, and I only see stuff from the last few minutes. I would need to scroll a long way to see everything from the last 12 or 24 hours.
Would it be a good idea for Nostr clients to allow me to label certain npubs as "always show first"? Like I don't want to miss any of their posts?

2026-01-06 05:50:56 CET

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Oh yeah, normies are all over the "keyset id" and will be expertly managing their keyset versioning, that's obviously super-easy

2026-01-06 05:49:03 CET

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@npub1jlu…p2kq , naturally....

2026-01-05 05:47:58 CET

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You should definitely do this with Tesetnet3 or MutinyNet. If you do this with a mainnet wallet it's very possible you will be very sorry.
There are quite a lot of subtleties around some very dangerous concepts - like when a transaction (or lightning transaction) is really safe to consider "confirmed"....

2026-01-05 05:43:39 CET

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where is this?

2025-12-30 23:44:36 CET

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for full self-custody we recommend your own node like described here ( https://docs.megalithic.me/category/set-up-a-lightning-node ) -- or alby hub is good too!
vault stuff is explained here: https://docs.megalithic.me/category/using-rizfulcom
cheers!

2025-12-28 23:11:42 CET

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Great, looks like you've set up a Lightning Address with Rizful. You're 1/2 of the way there! Please follow the tutorial for your Nostr app here to learn how to connect your app to Rizful: https://docs.megalithic.me/category/using-rizfulcom
Once you've finished, please ping us back here so we can try to zap you!

2025-12-28 23:10:50 CET

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interesting test case! your granular data is below.... interesting that it was #3 where we saw the zap receipt... this can sometimes happen due flakiness on whatever server you have producing your zap receipts -- or could possibly be whatever relays you are sending zap receipts to... or could be something else...
Individual Zap Attempts:
1. Attempted at: 2025-12-28 04:52:07 UTC
LNURL: 1710ms
Callback/Invoice Generate: 1040ms
Attempt ➡ Lightning Confirmation: 2602ms
Lightning Confirmation ➡ Zap Receipt: N/A
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2. Attempted at: 2025-12-28 05:49:51 UTC
LNURL: 1605ms
Callback/Invoice Generate: 1071ms
Attempt ➡ Lightning Confirmation: 1058ms
Lightning Confirmation ➡ Zap Receipt: N/A
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3. Attempted at: 2025-12-28 06:38:14 UTC
LNURL: 552ms
Callback/Invoice Generate: 921ms
Attempt ➡ Lightning Confirmation: 5153ms
Lightning Confirmation ➡ Zap Receipt: 4049ms
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4. Attempted at: 2025-12-28 07:01:14 UTC
LNURL: 1794ms
Callback/Invoice Generate: 1083ms
Attempt ➡ Lightning Confirmation: 1038ms
Lightning Confirmation ➡ Zap Receipt: N/A
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5. Attempted at: 2025-12-28 07:36:26 UTC
LNURL: 1929ms
Callback/Invoice Generate: 1100ms
Attempt ➡ Lightning Confirmation: 1171ms
Lightning Confirmation ➡ Zap Receipt: N/A
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6. Attempted at: 2025-12-28 08:18:20 UTC
LNURL: 547ms
Callback/Invoice Generate: 1074ms
Attempt ➡ Lightning Confirmation: 1013ms
Lightning Confirmation ➡ Zap Receipt: N/A
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2025-12-28 02:46:36 CET

Do any Rizful users have suggestions for features to add to Rizful that would be useful, for our 2026 roadmap? Thanks!

2025-12-27 23:58:48 CET

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just tried manually in jumble.social "invalid zap request" .. pls ask some others to try to zap you

2025-12-26 14:49:28 CET

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looks like you have not set you lightning address so we can't zap you

2025-12-26 04:21:13 CET

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ok good, so u are trying to set your nip 05 to a rizful address right?
if you go through each of these steps... https://docs.megalithic.me/using-rizful/use-primal .. it should all work.. pls let us know thanks

2025-12-25 19:21:19 CET

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2025-12-24 16:31:09 CET

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2025-12-24 05:46:26 CET

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Hi, looks like you have not yet updated your lightning address

2025-12-24 05:43:31 CET

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Please see tutorials here: https://docs.megalithic.me/category/using-rizfulcom

2025-12-24 05:41:42 CET

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Happy to help you troubleshoot if you can find a reproducible error.

2025-12-23 14:47:12 CET

@npub1jlu…p2kq for ultra-casual use, Alby Hub for proper self-custodial Lightning, Spark and Ark (Blitz wallet, wallet of satoshi, cake, etc.) if don't care about privacy & you want your data collected and monetized by a third party like LightSpark....

2025-12-20 20:43:35 CET

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Try @npub1jlu…p2kq as a stopgap until you figure out the issue...

2025-12-17 20:34:18 CET

. https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/ This is pretty interesting. I think ironically what he is describing is a world where white men are getting a huge advantage because they are being told immediately after college that they should not attempt to become academics or screenwriters or journalists. Everyone else isn’t told this and is going to suffer horribly if they make a decision to do one of these things.

2025-12-17 04:03:55 CET

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where is that? central america?

2025-12-16 16:24:08 CET

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I read this message twice and I think understand about 20% of what you wrote. if you have any specific test cases that involve Rizful and that are failing, if you could lay them out in extreme detail, like exactly what steps you take to reach the failure, then we would like to try to reproduce them.