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2026-03-25 19:36:39 UTC

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How the hell did you build this so fast! I’ll take a look at this this weekend, but looks perfect.

2026-03-24 19:40:30 UTC

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Awesome! Do you help develop for lnbits? It’s such an underrated tool. I’m trying to build a tool incentivizing merchant adoption using NWC pre subscriptions as the main incentive for a merchant to adopt it, but finding mobile NWC to be too unpredictable since they have to have the app up. Lnbits is one of the few persistent options. Would love your feedback. Bitcago.com

2026-03-24 19:10:45 UTC

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I experimented with the exact setup you described. Albyhub allows cashu mint as a funding source which you can then use NWC to fund lnbits. I always tend to gravitate back to lnbits, and would just be simpler to skip the albyhub bridge if lnbits can just add it as a funding source directly. I will say it did work though.

2026-03-20 03:23:37 UTC

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Looking for feedback on a new merchant adoption tool called bitcago.
Merchants want recurring revenue.
Bitcago leverages Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) to preauthorize Bitcoin subscriptions, allowing users to pre-subscribe to a merchant, building a pool of recurring revenue that acts as an incentive for that merchant to adopt Bitcoin. There is no risk to the user, as payments only activate once the merchant provides a Lightning address. When the merchant accepts bitcoin, the subscription activates.
Users can start pledging to their favorite local shop. Bitcago.com

2026-03-19 01:28:55 UTC

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We need more bitcoin merchants. NWC is a perfect incentivizer. I built a tool to accelerate local Bitcoin merchant adoption. Users pre-pledge monthly Bitcoin subscriptions to their favorite shops. Once pledges get high enough, we reach out to the merchant: "You have $500 (whatever the real number is) in recurring monthly revenue waiting - just accept Bitcoin."
Merchants love recurring revenue. Make it hard for them to say no. Check it out: bitcago.com

2026-03-19 01:15:53 UTC

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Hi Marty,
Big TFTC and RHR fan. I built a tool to accelerate local Bitcoin merchant adoption. Users pre-pledge monthly Bitcoin subscriptions to their favorite shops. Once pledges get high enough, we reach out to the merchant: "You have $500 in recurring monthly revenue waiting - just accept Bitcoin." When they accept, we activate the subscriptions and send to merchants lightning address.
Merchants love recurring revenue. Make it hard for them to say no. Check it out: bitcago.com

2026-03-12 17:31:11 UTC

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Curious, is cashu as a funding source on the roadmap? Saw spark was just added. Would be awesome to be able to have NWC capabilities on cashu, which lnbits would provide perfectly!

2025-12-13 19:09:49 UTC

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Was looking at lightning.pub for the first time. Seems pretty cool. I think NWC is under used within bitcoin as a way to make subscription payments. Think an API that can take a NWC string input and pull a payment from it to pay an invoice or lightning address would be super helpful for businesses to use NWC for monthly payments. Does lightning pub offer something like that?

2025-11-20 03:10:21 UTC

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Thanks - keep up the great work. Appreciate you

2025-11-20 02:43:41 UTC

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You are definitely the superior app for Bitcoiners and the one I recommend. Their limits are super restrictive while yours are fully open. They do beat you on fees for cash balance to lightning payments with their new announcement. If I pay a $25 lightning invoice (~27k sats) - from Cash App, it takes exactly $25 from my cash balance. Strike looks like it’s adding a fee of some kind and taking $25.31 from the cash balance.

2025-11-20 02:24:42 UTC

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Strike has always been competitive on fees. With Cash App launching no fee cash balance to lightning payments, curious of strike will match.

2025-11-18 03:01:03 UTC

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Cash App taking the lead again in bitcoin development is huge! I think limits are still too restricting and would love to see Cash App pay online allow bitcoin payments! Keep up the incredible work!

2025-11-16 17:12:27 UTC

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Thinking something like this. If I run a web app that I want to incorporate lightning subscriptions into. I could collect NWC strings. Then through a lnbits API, be able to pull a payment from one of the NWC strings. Can handle the payment timing on the web app, but the ability to pull payments from a NWC string with lnbits API could be powerful.

2025-11-16 04:03:47 UTC

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Lnbits is the Swiss Army knife of lightning and nostr! One nostr API I’ve noticed missing though is a way to pull payments from a NWC string. It exists as a funding source and the NWC service provider pulls funds from a wallet, but there is no way to pull payments from a NWC string to a lightning address. I think this would be a huge feature for things subscriptions!

2025-11-11 01:08:02 UTC

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Doesn’t this already exist?

2025-11-02 02:03:59 UTC

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Hi Matthew, keep up the great work! Looking back, it seems taproot was what caused a lot of the issues. Instead of taproot being rushed, do you think this is the conversation that should have happened back then? And thus it wouldn’t have gone through being this contentious?

2025-10-31 02:24:56 UTC

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Understandable not to rush a soft fork, but curious of you think it actually makes bitcoin better money or not. The taproot soft fork seemed to have brought all this mess. Why not fix some of it?

2025-10-28 18:00:57 UTC

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I think it was a 1/2 punch. SegWit made it cheap; Taproot made it possible for data to be large.
Without the discount from SegWit, the fees for large images would likely be prohibitive. Without Taproot's relaxed limits, the full image wouldn't fit in a single, standard transaction. I could be wrong

2025-10-28 16:08:43 UTC

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True, but I believe taproot enabled larger images to be stored on the chain and at a cheaper cost, which is why we saw ordinals and the likes take off

2025-10-28 15:36:02 UTC

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Really? I’ve never heard that. Why was it not done before the taproot merge?

2025-10-28 13:42:24 UTC

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The taproot soft fork brought inscriptions into existence, unintentionally. Why not patch it up?

2025-10-03 01:01:54 UTC

@nprofile…0j5p best bitcoin app there is. Feature recommendation id love to see is Nostr Wallet Connect. Would love to be able to send recurring payments to my friends

2025-09-11 20:42:14 UTC

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Exactly why I moved from cash app to strike. Cash app was leading in bitcoin features but has stalled. You keep pushing forward where it matters. Keep it up!

2025-08-19 20:07:10 UTC

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Decentralized Digital Scarcity. Bitcoins value prop. Nothing else does these 3 things together as good as bitcoin

2025-08-07 02:30:10 UTC

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This is awesome! Is it possible to make the USD payments in decimals? It seems to round the payment to the nearest whole number even though you input it with a decimal

2025-07-30 02:06:28 UTC

@nprofile…xz58 great job shutting down the ETH treasury on Bloomberg! That analyst still couldn’t recognize bitcoins use case, but might just have to rewind what you said a few times because you were clear and kept it simple

2025-07-16 23:18:09 UTC

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Dr Jeff would make a good one haha the influencers being put on these companies is such a fiat move. People just need to stick to bitcoin purchases

2025-07-15 20:56:37 UTC

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Bitcoin treasury companies today = use debt to buy bitcoin. Bitcoin treasury companies of the future = normal businesses earnings in bitcoin

2025-06-17 12:35:03 UTC

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Been looking for this feature for a while in lnbits! One thing I think would be helpful. Ability to also request recurring payments. You set it up through extension, send link to payer, they input NWC string. LNbits automatically pays your lnaddress with their NWC string. Great for things like bill shares and broader reach for those that don’t have lnbits as NWC seems to be gaining traction.

2025-06-10 12:33:53 UTC

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NWC service provider is amazing! Would love to see NWC api for the client side. Ability to take a NWC string and pay an invoice from it

2025-05-31 18:47:18 UTC

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Bitcoin being decentralized makes it hard to market/advertise bitcoin values. Bitcoiners should be more willing to pool money to do this. If there was consistent bitcoin messaging outside of the bitcoin community bubble, it would help make shitcoin advertising less effective.

2025-05-27 16:30:40 UTC

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Awesome Jack! Would love to see cash app continue leading the charge on btc. Feel like innovation wise strike gold and river are now leading on innovation

2025-05-23 02:42:41 UTC

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Cash app was a great bitcoin innovating app for the longest time then just completely stopped a couple years ago. They used to offer bitcoin rewards and stopped. The limits are really bad and make it impossible to recommend to people. Don’t know why they stopped innovating on the bitcoin side. Wish they would start again. If would be great given their scale. Strike and fold are beating them on every bitcoin feature.

2025-05-16 19:27:27 UTC

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Anyone know if they are keeping the bitcoin they receive in bitcoin or are they converting to USD? Awesome either way, but just curious.

2025-05-12 22:15:33 UTC

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Just finished The Stand by King. Harold Lauder is a good example of this.

2025-05-10 18:50:51 UTC

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It’s pretty mind blowing that one of the core devs in your debate said that bitcoin is better off with non financial data included. Bitcoin is the best money and decisions should harden that status. Arbitrary data doesn’t make it better money. A little concerning that was said.

2025-05-10 16:00:45 UTC

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Exactly! They’re still getting ahead of a lot of other companies so have to give them credit. In the long run the difference between 75k price and 100k price is immaterial

2025-05-06 22:09:50 UTC

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Love the show Danny. This one wasn’t the easiest to listen to though. Wish you would have pushed back in a handful of spots where it felt like clear contradictions were said.

2025-04-21 20:17:15 UTC

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Zeus and Breez are pretty awesome

2025-03-16 17:17:56 UTC

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Love what lnbits is doing with NWC as finding source and heard extensions coming! Will there be APIs for the app side to facilitate payments with NWC if a user provides a string to their wallet?

2025-03-15 18:32:14 UTC

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Keep providing valuable perspective!

2025-03-07 23:53:49 UTC

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I would think so too! Never really understood why cash app never brought to their terminals even with cap gains. Probably a knowledge gap still for most

2025-03-07 22:59:50 UTC

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Do you think no cap gains would get more businesses accept it?

2025-02-22 01:30:49 UTC

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Just build hacks into the next ETH update. Make it “extra strong money”

2025-02-16 14:16:29 UTC

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Congrats! Lnbits is my favorite bitcoin tooling

2025-02-06 20:32:02 UTC

@npub1k7v…c04l - On the WBD podcast, you mentioned getting to $475k in Q4 driven by light Nation State and corporate adoption, then a crash back down following. What do you think the narrative is at the nation state level during bear market? Do they buy more with the better prices, or do you think the narrative/momentum we see in 2025 pauses until the next cycle?

2025-01-28 03:37:59 UTC

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Almost prefer it at the state level first. States competing is a great thing. Arizona going to drive a lot of people to move there by creating prosperity for its citizens.

2025-01-28 02:53:24 UTC

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Isn’t that MMT’s argument? Spurns innovation with cheap money creation. Understand it props up a bunch of zombie companies. What do you think innovation looks like under a bitcoin standard?

2025-01-23 23:02:28 UTC

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Haha we should have known all along. This is why the fiat system causes wealth inequality in the first place. The govt always feeds the lobbiests closest to the money. Exploit a noble idea with their greed. At least bitcoin is involved, but sad direction to go.

2025-01-20 02:47:22 UTC

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Yeah I’m glad this feature exists, but you’re essentially giving strike 1% of your bill total. Maybe more, idk if they take a percent on direct deposit conversion.

2025-01-06 14:10:07 UTC

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Never read Sanderson, but just bought the first mistborn book. I’m super pumped! What would you compare it to?

2025-01-04 19:48:42 UTC

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Nosferatu was visually amazing. To me his best movie is still the Northman.

2025-01-01 16:19:17 UTC

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What do you think advertising will look like when Augmented Reality becomes a norm? Google Adsense on steroids.

2024-11-30 19:33:13 UTC

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Personal preference is albyhub for node management and lnbits for lightning functionality @npub1get…0nfm @npub10ef…aeh3

2024-11-14 23:48:29 UTC

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Big fan of you both! Bitcoiners need to build things they want to see in the world. Working on a ranking app with lightning integrated. Rank movies, whiskey, tv, books, or anything else. Would love feedback! Rank23.com

2024-11-08 03:52:26 UTC

Looking for beta testers for a web application with bitcoin rewards integrated. If you love ranking movies, tv shows, whiskey, beer, or anything else please reach out! Would love feedback. Rank23.com

2024-10-04 02:29:36 UTC

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Is there a docker installation option?

2024-02-15 04:29:40 UTC

@npub1sg6…f63m love cash app. Please consider raising bitcoin withdrawal limits. Proper cold storage UTXOs management will be impossible as prices continue to rise.

2023-12-29 19:49:05 UTC

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Question I keep coming back to is will everyone be able to be self sovereign and hold bitcoin in self custody or will it only be for the elites? If a transaction costs 30k sats today and this remains going forward with prices increasing, you have to maintain a 1M UTXO to be efficient, does layer 1 eventually price out self custody for middle and lower classes? And is it even possible to be self sovereign on layer 2 since you have to open channels on layer 1? I think time will tell, but hoping self sovereignty is for everyone, especially those that need it the most.

2023-12-29 18:02:37 UTC

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As the bitcoin price rises, would you expect this $10 fee to remain $10 or would that go to $100 or $1000? Wouldn't that price out average person from layer 1?

2023-12-21 17:57:02 UTC

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2023-12-21 12:05:25 UTC

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Dune is fantastic

2023-12-10 01:30:10 UTC

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I know everyone was praising taproot, but the question I have not being super technical and only seeing the unintended consequences of ordinals is did it actually make bitcoin better money? I’m seeing the ordinal downside without the upside.

2023-12-05 13:00:50 UTC

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Love what @npub1xnf…lpr5 and those other wallets are doing to simplify channel management! But won’t it still result in small UTXO set when user wants to move the funds to layer 1 and they close the channels? What’s the solution for using layer 2 noncustodial but merging to large utxo set when ready for layer 1?

2023-12-05 12:56:11 UTC

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Exactly, at some price point & fee rate the average person will be forced into layer 2 because as price goes up UTXOs become smaller in dollar terms. Right now it’s $400 for a 1M UTXO. Utxo management becomes untenable for average person.

2023-12-05 00:08:13 UTC

Does anyone know what price & fee rate it becomes too expensive for the average person to be layer 1 users and have to user layer 2? I feel like we’re close this next cycle. #bitcoin

2023-02-01 00:13:28 UTC

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