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2026-08-01 17:30:41 CEST

This may be the darkest time I have seen since being involved in Bitcoin.
People taking self custody and using the product that they were told was the most secure option and they end up getting completely rugged. Heartbreaking.
This is worse than FTX or Luna or block fi because of the effect it has on the community's trust and confidence in self custody. Hopefully it will strengthen the auditing process for projects handling people's funds and they will be more secure going forward.

2026-07-27 13:36:52 CEST

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HotD is better this season (so far) than any previous season, in my opinion.

2026-07-09 02:09:13 CEST

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If you coinjoined/mixed them, the exchange likely would freeze your funds if you sent them there. Also, sending them to an exchange would still dox that you own them regardless if they were mixed.

2026-07-09 01:25:56 CEST

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Will selling the fork coins to an exchange link those forkcoin utxos to your real btc utxos?

2026-07-07 20:12:21 CEST

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Very cool. Is the lightning wallet that is built-in, a Spark wallet?

2026-07-07 01:07:14 CEST

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Number 1 is the answer. I'm not holding my breath waiting for number 2.

2026-07-04 17:22:15 CEST

Happy 4th of July. I'm grateful for the ideals and principles that this country was founded upon. In many ways, we are more free than we have ever been. However, I'm saddened by the trajectory we have been on and can only imagine what the founders of this country would think if they saw the state of things today.
Today is a good reminder to reject the growing tyranny and creeping authoritarianism. Embrace the ideals that this country was founded upon. Individual liberties, property rights, and small government that is beholden to We the People.
Happy 4th Nostr.

2026-06-30 17:21:54 CEST

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Maybe this? Idk.
https://goyimx.com/mullvadnet/status/2070861905036509575#m

2026-06-27 16:16:25 CEST

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The last one on either pic. (I'm a simple man)

2026-06-25 21:46:13 CEST

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No worries, maybe next time sir 🤝

2026-06-25 21:33:36 CEST

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Narrator: it was indeed not on the list 😢

2026-06-25 18:37:07 CEST

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Banger.

2026-06-24 14:48:27 CEST

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2026-06-23 18:28:19 CEST

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Muh yield
muh premiums
muh NAV
TLDR muh fiat!

2026-06-21 15:13:04 CEST

@nprofile…qy52 would be cool to give this a mention on software updates next RHR. The great privacy tools that Samourai built are still alive and continue to be built upon. The power of open source software!
#nevent1q…pcr0

2026-06-21 04:04:23 CEST

Transacting peer to peer is a revolutionary act.
Do it.
#nevent1q…y7y4

2026-06-18 18:39:53 CEST

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@nprofile…3xe9

2026-06-18 18:38:36 CEST

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When buying from an exchange, you're essentially going on a list that says you bought Bitcoin and how much you own and at what price you bought it. On robosats or bisq, there is no "list" being made unless your peer is a fed. Your fiat payment rail (strike venmo zelle cash app PayPal etc) only knows that you sent fiat, they don't know what it was for.
The whirlpool aspect is to then break the link from where you got it and from your future spends. So if you received sats in Bisq or robosats, your counterparty can follow your utxos to each future hop on chain. If the next hop is whirlpool then they cannot confidently follow it further than that first hop.
(Robosats is lightning native so you can receive via lightning and avoid some of that traceability. Although many coordinators on robosats do allow on chain payouts which I prefer)

2026-06-18 17:31:32 CEST

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Bitcoin is the best money. Now buy my stonk to finance my btc purchases, pleb.

2026-06-18 01:49:26 CEST

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Feels like this may need to unwind before we go back up 😁 imagine the sentiment then.

2026-06-17 17:54:02 CEST

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Oof. Hate to hear that. Good on him for continuing stacking. Thats a tough lesson.

2026-06-15 19:51:06 CEST

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All that is "ours" is God's anyway.
Thank you for the reminder.

2026-06-14 00:45:21 CEST

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Agreed 100%

2026-06-13 17:10:05 CEST

Ashigaru Desktop is 🔥
See you poolside 🌀
https://blossom.primal.net/99394e35ce8d5208132618599a2e202c7d2dc9216bef27abdd14ff79f8dfdc02.jpg

2026-06-13 16:01:30 CEST

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UBI will be sold as the government coming in to save the day and will gradually descend into the majority of people being fully reliant on the government for their well-being via UBI.
They will give you your UBI in their surveilled slave token and you will only be able to spend it on what they approve.

2026-06-08 00:09:51 CEST

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Atms are shitcoins. Try robosats, bisq, or a local meetup.

2026-06-07 22:30:44 CEST

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I understand that and I get it. I figured that was part of it. Regardless, I hope the rest of my points make sense. You have a massive platform. Many people have learned a lot from you regarding real bitcoin privacy in the past. My criticism is mostly because I want that to continue when it seems like it has dwindled or become less of a focus.

2026-06-07 14:24:41 CEST

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Seems like the X conversation has been dominated by treasury company tradfi bros and the knotzis this cycle.
Obsession with NGU has created a culture of USD cucks within the Bitcoin community.
Need to steer the convo back towards the cypherpunk roots. No KYC and transacting p2p is the way. Those are revolutionary acts.
Without an emphasis on this, the conversation on X will continue to degrade and become gayer and gayer.
Hopefully you can move the needle on X in the right direction.

2026-06-06 21:32:48 CEST

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https://xcancel.com/kortik456585/status/2055910777396355367#m

2026-06-06 21:31:27 CEST

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Lemme see if I can find it, somebody posted it.

2026-06-06 21:24:37 CEST

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Have you been testing the new 3.0 beta?

2026-06-05 19:01:18 CEST

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https://blossom.primal.net/7d93c2af2b82612e6187e501a7c2baa125615be583959a96f5a8287ebaf065e0.mp4

2026-06-05 01:23:50 CEST

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Yessir
https://github.com/RoboSats/robosats

2026-06-05 01:14:46 CEST

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Working on the mobile app.

2026-06-04 15:12:21 CEST

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https://blossom.primal.net/961362b183efb52bb2e8dde8a7d1c9f074908eb42dea9a004416a021a23db4d8.mp4

2026-06-03 16:47:58 CEST

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@nprofile…zqfx doing a good job carrying the torch.
Also, at least there is still a remnant of privacy advocates leftover that learned from him long ago that are still around to teach people.
Not sure how to set payment targets. On wisp.

2026-06-03 16:27:53 CEST

I have to say, this was one of the more depressing videos regarding bitcoin I've watched in awhile.
I am a long time listener of @nprofile…qy52 and I have learned a lot about actual Bitcoin privacy and privacy tools from listening to him over the years. So I'd like to first thank him for that. I also am not trying to pile on the opensats drama from the other day. This is more just me screaming into the void and giving some criticism (hopefully helpful criticism) from someone who appreciates the content/discussion on Bitcoin privacy that Matt has put out in the past and wishes it would have stayed as high signal as it use to be.
Before I get into my rant, I think the lady interviewing asked great questions. Also, maybe Matt felt like he was speaking to a listener base in this specific interview that doesn't care about the nitty gritty details or maybe he didn't feel like he had enough time to really get into it because the interview was only ~40 minutes.
However, the answers regarding how to have decent privacy while using bitcoin were not good, in my opinion. I say this because I know that Matt knows how to use Bitcoin privately. The mere suggestion of using Strike and Phoenix to use Bitcoin relatively privately is disingenuous. Using a KYC exchange then hopping to an LSP that sees all your transactions. Both of those requires trusting those entities (to his credit, he does mention that). He also mentions briefly that the only way to have privacy is self custody, which I do appreciate him mentioning despite not going further into it.
For some reason it feels like there is no longer an attempt to shil/plug/explain truly private Bitcoin/lightning usage. No mention of tools to ACTUALLY use lightning or bitcoin privately. It seems to me that he just automatically assumes that people don't care about privacy enough or it's too difficult/complex so it is not worth explaining it. It is difficult/complex to use Bitcoin and lightning privately but it doesn't mean people out there don't still need to hear how it is done.
Starting from 0, Bitcoin privacy starts with not using a KYC exchange but that is no longer mentioned because trusting Strike with your privacy is now "good enough for most people". It makes me cringe every time that I hear Matt shill Strike because all I can think about is the hundreds of times I have heard him talk about the dangers of KYC and not to use KYC exchanges. This has changed since 2022 ish and it is sad because of how much I personally learned about Bitcoin privacy from listening to him.
I say all this to say:
- I think that more people care about privacy and using Bitcoin privately than Matt thinks. (maybe I'm naive)
- Even if more people don't care about privacy and Bitcoin privacy than Matt thinks, the people who listen to him today will not have a good starting off point or foundational understanding of how to do it because it seems he immediately assumes that most people don't care about actual privacy. That is not true of his listeners from the past who learned a ton about Bitcoin privacy from many of his older podcasts and podcast guests.
- To that point, I would encourage Matt to use his very large platform and influence to continue to talk about tools that are actually private and how to actually use Bitcoin privately instead of assuming it is "good enough" for people to just use a KYC exchange and then an LSP. People don't learn and grow when they hear the most well known Bitcoin privacy influencer tell them that KYC exchange + Phoenix is good enough for them. They just stop there because they assume they are using Bitcoin privately.
Again, I'm not attacking Matt. I'm trying to offer a perspective from somebody who really learned a lot about real Bitcoin privacy from his podcasts in the past and I feel like the new people listening to him now are not getting that, which saddens me.
https://youtu.be/OMCGBf9mQSo

2026-05-30 20:28:01 CEST

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Looking forward to this one gents

2026-05-30 15:55:16 CEST

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Just found out they're in my town. It's terrible.

2026-05-28 01:34:52 CEST

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Isn't cashapp only available in the US? Why would anyone in the US buy usdc?

2026-05-27 20:46:12 CEST

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By synonym
(A tether company)
Do what you want with that information

2026-05-27 16:58:33 CEST

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Need to get back to our cypherpunk roots.
Fuck the state.

2026-05-22 21:38:23 CEST

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He's still right 😁

2026-05-22 19:38:34 CEST

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I believe this video is from 2023 according to Grok.

2026-05-20 14:51:16 CEST

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Pilled*

2026-05-20 14:50:03 CEST

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He is almost there, if not already orange pulled
https://youtu.be/Kvye8oKNOSM

2026-05-20 03:49:10 CEST

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https://blossom.primal.net/648291595a3fdf6aecdb8308d780761c7ffc6f9975cd4058e3550ba2598dd634.mp4

2026-05-19 14:39:39 CEST

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One of my favorite verses.

2026-05-18 01:11:38 CEST

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Every npub should get a paynym 🤷🏻‍♂️ problem solved.

2026-05-17 01:34:14 CEST

@nprofile…7rhc what's the best way to contact you? I tried Nostr DM but seems broken.

2026-05-15 21:14:44 CEST

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Looks awesome so far.

2026-05-14 21:48:18 CEST

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Buying on robosats with venmo zelle cash app etc as the payment on the fiat side is way better than buying on an exchange. There is no record of you owning Bitcoin unless your peer is a fed.

2026-05-13 22:10:15 CEST

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@nprofile…ctjf @nprofile…u02p

2026-05-11 01:19:18 CEST

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I can't listen to anyone who uses Samourai making money as a negative talking point. It's retarded cope from people who have a project that no one wants to spend money on.

2026-05-10 15:00:34 CEST

Great tool to monitor the situation in the Ashigaru whirlpool 🌀
https://whirlpool.observer/

2026-05-09 16:50:37 CEST

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Privacy must be at the protocol layer for Bitcoin to be able to navigate the fight ahead. Should have been a priority 10 years ago. Anything built on top that is at all subversive will bear the weight of the state's violence (which is why Samourai was attacked). The protocol itself is the only thing that has a shot at withstanding the attacks the state throws at it. Lightning and ecash are not a threat or serious tools for privacy thus they do not go after these L2's.

2026-05-08 18:59:22 CEST

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MSTR/STRC crowd is more similar to the Hexicans because of their love for their leader.

2026-05-05 02:52:11 CEST

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https://blossom.primal.net/0e419368163d2564ccdd7ad8786056a23bf7c316b8e1f5c54897354f819c6204.mp4

2026-05-05 02:40:56 CEST

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Preserving and increasing purchasing power isn't a bad thing. But it has probably kept devs from working on privacy at the protocol and application layer out of fear for regulatory crackdown which would hurt the NGU.

2026-05-05 01:21:28 CEST

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Stay humble, stack STRC

2026-05-05 01:20:19 CEST

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The irony of being on a panel where the title is "is Bitcoin still a sovereign tool?" and then saying that the rule of thumb is if the title is a question then the answer is no 😄

2026-04-30 00:28:46 CEST

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They would probably have to KYC/not be anon. So even if allowed, probably not wise.

2026-04-28 13:37:01 CEST

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Agree completely.

2026-04-27 14:02:07 CEST

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Group Chat sir

2026-04-26 21:40:46 CEST

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Will there be a live stream?

2026-04-25 20:36:59 CEST

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(I love Zeus and Evan, just an ecash/custodial product hater)

2026-04-25 20:36:03 CEST

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One of the rare Zeus L's. Custodial is gay.

2026-04-25 19:12:37 CEST

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Idk why Wisp let me like this 4 times. I was just trying to put the 💯 reaction 😂

2026-04-21 19:35:05 CEST

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If saylor cared about the price of Bitcoin, he would withdraw it from coinbase and into multi sig self custody.

2026-04-21 05:14:05 CEST

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Idk if the bottom is in until this house of cards comes tumbling down tbh.

2026-04-18 15:12:40 CEST

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Let's goooo!

2026-04-18 13:53:49 CEST

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Had the same issue. But I have two accounts, one for my meetup and this one. Wisp doesn't have an accounts feature yet so I'm using primal for one account and wisp for the other 😄

2026-04-15 02:56:04 CEST

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Boomers love yield.
I think I'll just buy Bitcoin and not have any counterparty risk.

2026-04-14 14:05:26 CEST

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Was just thinking about this last night.

2026-04-10 20:45:20 CEST

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Steady lads

2026-04-09 21:59:32 CEST

@nprofile…a4r4 do I need a channel directly with Olympus in order to receive zaps via ln url address?

2026-04-07 17:58:34 CEST

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Also somewhat reminiscent of the Do Kwon strategy!

2026-04-07 05:01:28 CEST

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The emoji at the end of the post broke the link for me 😁

2026-04-07 01:39:05 CEST

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Fwiw this use to happen to me a lot and I believe it was a hardware issue (was using a raspi) because with my new node setup, it works like a charm. Never an issue.

2026-04-06 22:42:37 CEST

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ETA on when there will be an update button within the UI? Don't like the idea of having to reflash in order to update to 040.

2026-04-03 17:12:21 CEST

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Agreed. My wife and my child are the two most obvious representations of God's love in my life.

2026-04-01 19:13:49 CEST

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https://npub1q8ks84vvjr9gyqs6mwnr6s8q4esaff3e60nykzzm6xtkmjns7dfqyhp6gc.blossom.band/b0467af1e2c1f087df1ee031b297036b33c3593245a8c0e57a4979450372a23d.gif

2026-03-31 14:35:51 CEST

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Yeah, I'd rather be seeing Mewtwo.

2026-03-30 18:04:20 CEST

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https://xcancel.com/milessuter/status/2038628200574578974#m
This is ideal

2026-03-30 01:38:21 CEST

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Hoping I don't even have to mention btc to the merchant at all.

2026-03-29 00:48:47 CET

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It's probably just vibes. In my opinion, 90% indifferent, 8% cheer it on because Samourai mean tweets and 1% support them and 1% do something about it.
Still only ~15k signatures on the petition. Minimal donations compared to donations to Roman Storm. People have memory holed it. Bitcoin community abandoned them but it's not surprising because they stopped caring about privacy 5+ years ago. Hard not to be black pilled.

2026-03-28 23:46:49 CET

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We witnessed this with Samourai.
Majority indifferent.

2026-03-20 18:58:13 CET

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Why no mention of square terminal auto enabled btc payments on rhr? Felt like huge announcement.

2026-03-16 23:50:12 CET

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Coming soon to a country near you.

2026-03-16 14:42:50 CET

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Fed reply^

2026-03-14 17:58:33 CET

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Thank you sir 🤝

2026-03-14 16:00:50 CET

This should be required listening for any Bitcoiner.
https://xcancel.com/linkinparkrulz_/status/1785999130239565937#m
The amount of complaining and debating about things of little importance when there are no real privacy solutions at the protocol level, is truly sad.

2026-03-13 00:26:54 CET

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This.

2026-03-12 16:30:31 CET

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De maximus exemption has always been possible. We should not ask permission.

2026-03-12 00:33:03 CET

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Song slaps

2026-03-08 15:25:36 CET

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The user experience of lightning is not nearly good enough to demand a higher price.

2026-03-08 13:23:23 CET

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Great song

2026-03-08 04:05:15 CET

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I do run a lightning node but I almost exclusively use on-chain btc unless an in person merchant only accepts lightning. When fees are this cheap, why does it matter if it takes a little extra time for the tx to confirm?

2026-03-08 04:03:15 CET

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Most people use lightning custodially and the custodian extracts a fee thus removing the benefit of it being more cost effective than on chain. Even if you run your own lightning node, there are often LSP's/big routing nodes along your route/path that take a decent sized fee. My two sats.

2026-03-04 14:10:43 CET

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Is it accurate to describe Spark as self custody? No shade, genuinely curious. Seems like using Spark is regulatory arbitrage to keep wallet devs away from being considered money transmitters and just shifting that risk to Spark.