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Monero doesn't have a comment field. They need a note to go along with the tip. But I didn't want another system depneding upon confirming the monetary transactions. Attestations with PoW seem more universally-applicable. Then recipients would issue receipts.

2026-05-22 20:32:41 UTC

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Same. I read the comments. I'm low-key disappointed, when it just says "Zap!" or something.

2026-05-22 19:59:27 UTC

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Everyone is in love with your imaginary girlfriend.

2026-05-22 19:58:30 UTC

I surface zap receipts at the top of the threads as super-chats, but y'all don't really write anything in them. 😭

2026-05-22 19:56:10 UTC

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She is! 🥰

2026-05-22 19:49:13 UTC

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Does it actually do anything? Have you ever tried it out? Do you know of PoW events?

2026-05-22 19:29:57 UTC

Trying out PoW.

2026-05-22 08:56:28 UTC

#Palantir Aufsichtsratsmitglied Peter Thiel und CEO Alexander Karp sind beide deutsche Herkunft.
Ist mir erstmals aufgefallen.
https://media.tenor.com/9EuaI2az2pUAAAAC/baddies-evil.gif
#deutschland

2026-05-22 05:24:32 UTC

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We should all do more walking.

2026-05-22 05:10:05 UTC

GM. Devs, here is your daily reminder to add payment targets to your clients.
Now, with on-Nostr spec.
https://i.nostr.build/K9aglb06qt1pRqq2.webp
#naddr1qv…89e5

2026-05-22 04:58:20 UTC

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That Nostr merch, tho. 😎

2026-05-21 15:21:38 UTC

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Opening in cake wallet. Sparrow supposedly handles it now, too.

2026-05-21 15:21:03 UTC

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Same person. Silberengel is my dev npub. Sorry, for the confusion.

2026-05-21 14:45:19 UTC

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What @npub1jvx…7yqz said. Our entire project is run that way and it really takes the stress off.

2026-05-21 14:41:40 UTC

Public zaps makes sense, for microtransactions. The reason for that is that they are usually so tiny that the person receiving them values them only very slightly higher than an emoji and lower than a comment or boost. But to the public, they are "real money" and note-bling and are interpreted as significant. So, there is that powerful social aspect to zapping.
A private 1 sat zap (the equivalent of $0.00077 USD) doesn't make sense because it does not increase the joy of the person receiving it, but also doesn't give them the social clout of someone receiving public zaps. A private 210 sat zap ($0.16) feels like a concrete acknowledgement and a private 2100 sat zap ($1.62) is starting to feel like real money to _the person that received it_.
I don't always publically comment on such private zaps I receive (they are private for a reason), but I do greatly appreciate them.
I try to tip at least 210 sats, often more, and I like to manually type add a descriptive comment. I increasingly do this privately. I think this is something that is meaningful to the person I am sending the money to and the privacy actually makes me inclined to send them _more money_. I tend to zap much more than I get zapped, and people think that is weird, but when it is private, I throw caution to the wind.
https://0x0.happytavern.co/2397671198c68113b2387f9fc4a6aed038bf01599f87ef4496bdf60661f26a5b

2026-05-21 13:48:15 UTC

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To be fair, the government has been derided for years for being analog. Now they digitize and that is also bad.

2026-05-21 12:31:25 UTC

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Hey, it has Lightning, too. Cool.

2026-05-21 11:20:19 UTC

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Trying to fix the BCH handler.

2026-05-21 06:05:51 UTC

You were this many days old, when you found out that a zap is not a payment. It's a receipt.
#nevent1q…8ahg

2026-05-21 05:46:10 UTC

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I'm the wrong person to ask. Nostr client devs don't build zaps, they just enable them. Zapping is wallet/node feature.
That garnet app was a Monero wallet. I'm not building a wallet.

2026-05-21 05:27:48 UTC

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And they offer negative value in a social context, such as this client. If anything, it's demoralizing and discouraging to see who is getting the most zaps.
Jack, fake e-girls, scammers, engagement farmers, people who have received grants or VC money and shortly thereafter rug us all, paid memers and influencers, etc. I would really rather not know. I know plenty of people who were so grossed out by that, that they left.

2026-05-21 05:24:16 UTC

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It's not only interest, it's that within larger selections brand is essential to ease choice.
The point being that the Power Law tends to negate the effect of micro-transactions. If I receive 2k sats/week, now, even a 10x increase is 20k. The equivalent of $15 USD. That's less than one hours' worth of income working minimum wage, here, so that it offers little economic incentive.
Now, we do have people sending us larger amounts, but those tend to be direct LN payments or on-chain, not zaps. If you aren't personally very popular and famous (this @npub180c…agc0 npub's comment is indicative of wider sentiment), or part of some gated reward pool or ranking system, like @npub1636…qpl4 is building, then zaps offer little economic value.

2026-05-21 04:43:11 UTC

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That's tipping. I left that in.
1. A zap is an event sent to a Lightning server, instead of a relay. It tells them who you want to send a tip to and what relays to publish the receipt to.
2. The Lightning server publishes the receipt event and that is what shows up in the feed.
You could just tip someone directly or only do step 1. In practice, the servers have always done 1 and 2, but if they are reconfigured, I might bring back 1.
A 3. alternative is that a LN server DMs the recipient or sends them an encrypted receipt. But that is not in the spec.
1, 2, and 3 require you to trust someone else's LN server to follow your instructions.

2026-05-21 04:24:46 UTC

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Oh, that would be 🔥

2026-05-20 20:38:10 UTC

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That math assumes attention is spread evenly, but the larger the group, the more attention is concentrated and celebrity is the determining factor.

2026-05-20 18:45:43 UTC

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The zaps I receive in a week and €5 will get me a Happy Meal.

2026-05-20 15:35:49 UTC

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I have HTTP relays, already, bro. Try to keep up. 🤣
Getting rid of json would be silly, though.

2026-05-20 15:35:01 UTC

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Even if you have the option, you have to rely on the server respecting that option. They are free to just ignore it and publish anyway.

2026-05-20 15:34:09 UTC

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They thought a book about the slave era would not contain racism? 🤦‍♀

2026-05-20 15:07:15 UTC

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It is, actually. I thought I was the only one who had read it. 😂

2026-05-20 15:03:34 UTC

I feel like a weight has been lifted. I no longer have to pretend to care about which money you use and it feels good, man.
Use whatever. Do whatever.
https://media.tenor.com/MdDes36sdAsAAAAC/gif.gif

2026-05-20 15:00:14 UTC

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Lightning is more private than most payment methods. And it's dirt-cheap. And you aren't left holding a melting ice cube.

2026-05-20 14:56:08 UTC

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Those are client handlers. I'm trying to implement some. We'll see, if they work, in a minute.

2026-05-20 14:35:59 UTC

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Maybe it does. My client doesn't have those use cases.
I will still display zap receipts, but I am skipping the zap functionality.

2026-05-20 14:35:13 UTC

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https://jumble.imwald.eu/

2026-05-20 14:34:50 UTC

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It's roughly matching Bitcoin transactions with notes. This week, they decided to make it exactly-matching. Argumentum ad absurdum.

2026-05-20 14:31:23 UTC

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I receive almost no economic value over zaps. And putting them on-chain doesn't solve for that.
Privacy-minded people don't like being forced to air their financial laundry in social feeds, in order to draw in influencers. And they are right.

2026-05-20 14:25:38 UTC

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I aggregate the profile addresses with the payto addresses and render them all as payment targets.

2026-05-20 14:24:41 UTC

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https://git.imwald.eu/silberengel/jumble
I'm currently working on it, tho. To remove the zaps.

2026-05-20 14:20:29 UTC

I've completely soured on zaps, as a concept, this week. I'm taking it out of my client. Only payment targets with messages, no zaps.
I am now left wondering why in the world we thought we needed to have zaps, at all. I can't think of any actual purpose for them.
It's like financially masturbating in public.

2026-05-20 14:01:52 UTC

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It's a permanent. public record of the money you spent. Like publishing your bank account transactions on Facebook.

2026-05-20 14:00:01 UTC

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No, I controlled for that. I only display the on-chain options over 10k sats.

2026-05-20 13:59:11 UTC

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I know. People are asking me to add Monero zaps, but I now know so much about zaps that I am thinking of removing them, altogether. The whole idea of publishing payments on public threads, on an uncensorable protocol...
This is was never a good idea and I don't know if I want to encourage more of it.

2026-05-20 13:41:11 UTC

I can't be the only user who only uses zaps to send little tokens of appreciation, and does everything else directly wallet-to-wallet. I don't actually want every transaction I have made up in lights.
I wish there were a reliable way to turn off zap receipts. I am currently just giving users the option of not sending the Lightning server the relays, and hoping they take the hint and send nothing back.

2026-05-20 13:36:44 UTC

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Implementing a single event and an associated URI is the sort of simple, easy, elegant, universal, useful, privacy-protecting and dirt-cheap solution that the clever people tend to scoff at.
Why solve a problem simply, when you can solve it like...?
https://media.tenor.com/4hgLFtGX1lYAAAAC/explain-plan.gif

2026-05-20 13:32:23 UTC

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https://github.com/ATXMJ/nips/blob/rfc8905/A3.md

2026-05-20 13:21:25 UTC

It's bizarre to separate users of Twitter clones or shopping sites or recipe books or Bible study chats by payment method. **It has always been bizarre. It never made any sense.** I can say that because nobody is paying me or shaming me to not-say it, but everyone knows it. Money is something that serves the people interacting, not the other way around.
The complete obsession with payment methods has nearly doomed Nostr and turned us into a Bitcoin Maxi ghetto that even Bitcoin Maxis don't want to hang out in because it is tiresome; like watching paint dry. To only have Bitcoin in common is now to have _very little in common_.
**However.**
The most-sensible way to liberalize payments on Nostr is to implement payment targets and make their use seamless and elegant. So that nobody feels coerced into using Bitcoin, or even zaps, in order to use Nostr.
I build on Nostr for Nostr's own sake, and I want everyone to use it. **Nostr is for enemies.**
https://i.nostr.build/K9aglb06qt1pRqq2.webp
https://v.nostr.build/QeGlNERIjQrHc07O.mp4

2026-05-20 13:13:01 UTC

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Zaps are a massive infrastructure project, so no.

2026-05-20 13:11:04 UTC

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Yeah, it moves. I've set the dust limit at 10k sats, to try to avoid that and not have the payment eaten by fees.

2026-05-20 12:50:27 UTC

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Everyone should be able to use the same Nostr app. I will not be installing Bitcoin-only toilets and demanding Bitcoin-only pews, either.
This has gotten so ridiculous.

2026-05-20 12:34:45 UTC

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If Bitcoiners had more marketing sense (well, then we wouldn't be floundering like we are, but I digress), we would all know that getting people who prefer other payment methods (even -- gasp! -- fiat) to use Nostr _also_ increases the number of people who onboard to Bitcoin.
A small slice of a huge pie can be larger than a very tiny pie.
Or, as we say in Germany:
> Competition is good for business.

2026-05-20 12:31:33 UTC

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Nostr is for enemies.

2026-05-20 11:14:35 UTC

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They should definitely spend it on Nostr! 💖
I'm trying to get some relay devs to accept Monero payments, as well.

2026-05-20 10:45:42 UTC

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It's in my payment targets and visible on my profile page on some clients.
#nevent1q…mnpz

2026-05-20 10:14:19 UTC

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Yes, but this is about signaling which one you prefer people use.
The user can define what they want in an event. But if they define nothing, the client falls back to defaults, so that the functionality is not broken. Same way we do relay selection.

2026-05-20 06:46:09 UTC

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That second one is Silent Payments, so Bitcoin on-chain.
I'll improve the labeling and formatting a bit more. Need to shorten the rendered link and give Bitcoin a prettier logo.

2026-05-20 06:44:15 UTC

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Yes, or through Amethyst, I think.
What I do, in addition, is list them in the zap modal, as alternatives at POS. And render them prettily and with handlers in all text, like this:
payto://monero/47R4NpvudmrLkLxaf4Uyiq56weFDZko1KeFrY5qUgnJ95X3D1YWYRVASAnMLBgpB5BeSViAVaxLXuFDuup15j3f45NC2WUp
payto://bip352/sp1qqtd4w6zkq47r249ff7v7utxp3salvm62mgzfdmhunyhtt6km9uckzqemmzvpuarwzfy38qsvurzuutqpg5hjvje99zuy49pewmpyfwwnfvn3c823
payto://paypal/derjuergen

2026-05-20 05:58:53 UTC

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They've been tipping me more than I get in Lightning, for months.

2026-05-20 05:50:12 UTC

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If you add an SP address to your payment targets (like I just did), clients can simply default to that.
You can't opt-out of npub-based SP addresses, but you can opt-in to a different address and publically signal that.

2026-05-20 04:48:22 UTC

Whoa. #Monero Bros are big tippers. 👀

2026-05-20 04:39:26 UTC

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Public zaps a voluntary posting of the transaction amount. They aren't a poll of actual wallet addresses.

2026-05-20 04:37:45 UTC

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It's @npub1q3s…d26p .

2026-05-19 20:33:30 UTC

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Isn't this just a design choice? Don't offer on-chain zaps as an option unless the zap amount greater dust.

2026-05-19 20:30:23 UTC

I implemented muting threads, and then followed a whim and added **following threads**.
And now I am wondering why this hasn't existed before. I use it, constantly.
https://0x0.happytavern.co/9f7d3979a032984bd0c3d2690a7f050a238d0fac6109938eef22a167897890f4

2026-05-19 20:12:24 UTC

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Yeah. I have kids tho, and they like me and have jobs.
The countries sending us migrants are facing a demographic crash. They suffer more, when their kids leave.

2026-05-19 19:22:32 UTC

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@npub1226…grkj this is what I meant. I really need profile data and metadata like 10x faster and constantly up to date. 10 minutes turn-around on a replacement, max.
At least for the currently-active npubs.
What we got now is rookie numbers. Any more users and it will take hours to propagate this stuff.

2026-05-19 19:19:03 UTC

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Not really. Robots will be cheap and plentiful. Productivity will soon explode.

2026-05-19 19:15:48 UTC

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We know.

2026-05-19 19:10:49 UTC

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The events are cached, so it sometimes needs a refresh to speed up the update

2026-05-19 19:02:16 UTC

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It's Imwald. Takes a minute to load, the first time.

2026-05-19 18:59:47 UTC

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Okay, but Bitcoin can't be the best at everything, as everything has a trade-off. It's clearly the best at store of value and large financial transactions (oil contracts, etc.) because of its NgU and the massive market cap.
As someone with the "international transfer" and "arrange international meetups" issue, I am very happy with Bitcoin.
https://0x0.happytavern.co/ff2c074d3da687dac94d7120faadcfc02dcaa2e00720c6ffde96769d4a0d3106
https://8marketcap.com/

2026-05-19 17:50:53 UTC

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The migrant fertility actually collapses, as soon as they arrive.

2026-05-19 17:49:54 UTC

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I can see yours, on my client.
https://0x0.happytavern.co/672516f0779225b56159a1f05ea4f74551129bb434de4be963b38c95e52e4b1a

2026-05-19 17:48:33 UTC

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I can see yours, on my client.
https://0x0.happytavern.co/624f37e49393a5383b090255ad6d6b2f84ec228dc5b187352f06615b3094bb44

2026-05-19 17:33:38 UTC

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It's primarily a land-use tax in exchange for holding title, so long as you agree to the common law, mediation rules, and help provide for a common defense.
I understand that anarchists don't want a common defense and therefore also don't want taxes, but this is the way they medieval (and modern) city-states work. It's effectively what a state simply is.
You become a Bürger or Freibauer by paying the tax according to how much real estate you control, and by personally fighting (or providing fighters from your family or staff) when the city is attacked. And helping repair the walls and other defenses, or paying for that repair, etc.
Everything else modern states do are add-ons, but defense is the one thing a state cannot abandon without ceasing to be a state because then it cannot defend the borders that define the territory.

2026-05-19 15:50:51 UTC

Rahm Emanuel considering running as the Democratic candidate for the U.S. President.
https://youtu.be/fQTvjTchh_w
#politics #USA

2026-05-19 14:12:37 UTC

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https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2119

2026-05-19 14:09:26 UTC

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I actually render the payto URI basically anywhere.
#nevent1q…lkay

2026-05-19 13:59:13 UTC

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Most people just look at follows.

2026-05-19 13:45:25 UTC

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This is what the message looks like. You can edit the text, before sending. It is not encrypted and it is not a reply to any other event. And it does not show up in kind 1 feeds.
It is just your chance to give them a heads up that a payment is incoming. Alternative would be to use DMs for that.
https://0x0.happytavern.co/c7e5437f84d387b9f3c13402996bbfc7277c0e025a41719c2fc554868f491811

2026-05-19 13:01:21 UTC

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I saw it first time on the client from @npub1use…k5ks.

2026-05-19 12:57:51 UTC

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I just got laid off, as a software tester. The customers are also cutting the dev budgets. They're vibing everything, now.
These were industrial customers, by the way.
They're vibe-coding the controllers for electronics, like stoves, cars, airplanes.
https://media.tenor.com/esbimlVRrtkAAAAC/checking-radar-no-one-cares-radar.gif

2026-05-19 12:43:27 UTC

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I don't think he sees any of us.

2026-05-19 12:20:07 UTC

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I got the UX down really cool, now. Spent all day hammering at it.
Thanks, for helping me test it.

2026-05-19 12:19:28 UTC

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More proof that Nostr UX is underrated. I would have thought having a link is automatic, but they don't have a cryptographic ID, so you have to enter a string and keep typing in numbers until you get a green check, that nobody else has it yet. And they don't use e-mail because more than one account can have the same e-mail.

2026-05-19 12:05:36 UTC

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It isn't that bad, if the link doesn't work. It is clearly a PayPal link containing your e-mail address, so people can figure it out.

2026-05-19 11:58:11 UTC

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Oof. Yeah. It's basically a custom website for your user. You have to enter in the text you want to display as a username and then it forwards to your account page.

2026-05-19 11:36:12 UTC

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I just checked mine. On my profile page on PayPal was a blue link to create a payme address. It comes out like https://www.paypal.me/user38910

2026-05-19 11:33:09 UTC

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Everyone has one. I added that to the help text.

2026-05-19 11:25:50 UTC

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I see your link in my dev environment, now, but I just wanted you to know that the link is wrong. Paypal links don't work with e-mail. They are supposed to contain your username.

2026-05-19 11:03:07 UTC

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A lot of it is just what is offered on a new phone. Most people never change that. I have a Motorola (which I like), but every software update spams me with new apps. But not Nostr apps.

2026-05-19 10:58:27 UTC

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Oh, yeah, we have that on Alex, but I forgot to add it to Imwald. Useful feature.

2026-05-19 10:51:16 UTC

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Yeah, I tried to change my seat on an airline and the website crashed every time. Had to call up and have them do it. 😂
Everything is so fucked up and bullshit.

2026-05-19 08:17:06 UTC

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The fees are really low, at the moment, and the Bitcoin price is depressed. We shouldn't make major protocol situations at the bottom of a dip.
Bitcoin is going up forever, gal.

2026-05-19 07:19:52 UTC

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is it a client from me?