Last Notes
> Do nothing: If you don’t move the money, everyone will see how much money you have to your name, as was promptly demonstrated by “wrenchstr”, rich list, and other vibe-coded projects. You might not even know about the money, but by using your nsec to sign messages (read: you simply using nostr, logging in to something, or pressing a like button here and there) proves without a shadow of a doubt that you are still in control of your keys, i.e. the keys that can move the money. Bad for users. Fantastic for criminals. A wet dream for prying eyes.
> A more realistic example would be someone sending money to you as well as to one (or multiple) addresses on the OFAC list, suggesting to law enforcement that you are part of a criminal network.
https://dergigi.com/2026/05/20/careful-icarus/
Thank you for the kind words 🙏
Seems I'm doing it wrong right now 😂
As the "Bitcoin is Time" guy I'm all for a reliable source of time, but I'm very much against strongly tying identity to onchain transactions irreversibly.
I trust that you've read my lengthy argument against and that you will end up doing the right thing. https://dergigi.com/2026/05/20/careful-icarus/
Great article. One thing that wasn't really touched on, although maybe tangentially, is the idea that you could have no idea that you received any on-chain Zap at all. Only two clients support this misguided feature. That means that for all other Nostr users that are using other clients, they could have no idea that they've received on-chain Zaps to their npub.
Since most clients (thankfully) don't support on-chain Zaps, their clients have no way of notifying them that they're receiving money to their npub this way. Furthermore, people who are using on-chain Zap clients (Ditto, Amethyst), these clients can't in any way determine if the person they're sending on-chain Zaps to use or have ever used one of these clients. It is far more likely than not that they'll be sending Zaps to a person who won't be notified in any way that they received anything.
Putting aside all the horrible practices that on-chain Zaps have for privacy that you outlined, the entire argument for on-chain Zaps at the moment is convenience. But I can't think of a worse UX for a common user than to have build a payment system that will in all likelyihood result in the recipient not being notified that they received anything at all or not having any means for the sender to know who they can actually successfully send money to and who they can't.
At least if I try to send a lightning Zap to someone without a LN address, it will say that I can't. That's what proper UX should do.
Fidelity bonds have existed for a long time, and can be useful to show "seriousness". Has nothing to do with humanness of course, since bots can have bitcoin too. https://jamdocs.org/glossary/#f
I asked ChatGPT to summarize my essay and it came back with this image #nevent1q…v58w
I'm glad it was useful! 🫂
https://blossom.primal.net/955d4730c5f00fe88768af35e1974c3186e9e029d42ae175bcb8f94bb06b54d7.jpg
Like, seriously. https://blossom.primal.net/2bc501aed53a751d13bf85236ffb1ae9ead795c922a1620cda1721d515386ba3.png
One of the more strenuous hikes of my hiking career. https://dergigi.com/assets/images/bitcoin/2026-05-20-careful-icarus/mt-stupid.png
GM https://haven.dergigi.com/182ea874f6efe85ddd921c76800fdfd37d566a6e2057d602bd3404b33d680fc0.jpg
🤝
https://haven.dergigi.com/303bb25cb751435b95c9a60cb633cf4e6c091371479772e7f2c20d06c9e1ce9e.png
https://dergigi.com/2026/05/20/careful-icarus/
Not the government, just a grumpy old man yelling at Claude (who is partly responsible for this mess).
https://dergigi.com/2026/05/20/careful-icarus/
There is only dust, and dust is an issue.
> Imagine a mafia boss coming to your house, giving you money that was made via illicit means. He vanishes instantly after, but not before leaving a trail that leads directly to you. A trail that’s very easy to pick up by the police as well as other mafia people. To make things worse, you had no option to refuse the money because the mafia boss is also a witch, and a spell was cast that deposited the money directly into your soul. And even worse than that, he cast the Pulvis Assaultus spell on top. Now the only way to rid your soul from the mafia witch dust is to throw more money at it.
https://dergigi.com/2026/05/20/careful-icarus/
GN https://dergigi.com/assets/images/on-chain-zaps.jpg
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
https://dergigi.com/2026/05/20/careful-icarus/
mood https://haven.dergigi.com/c8d6c73f24e330140997e7bf30fb1d4ce90eeedf5eb9fce9ae964b24cc2d44b8.jpg
Indeed. https://dergigi.com/2026/03/20/the-internet-left-me/
I'll publish parts of it today (if I can manage)
we should call them "on-chain doxx"
#nevent1q…nde5
nothing is dirtier than this sauna 😂
GM https://haven.dergigi.com/5f5c3d0a255dcde68b7d99f409f67a13dc0098d442287cd290db3368bf0a11c8.jpg
Private zaps have existed for a long time. https://haven.dergigi.com/98c29efdd9d0554781ae5b8b93b6494293e6946218cbf844f7a42af7e242d821.png https://haven.dergigi.com/894c629a2f1441d828a6091240991d05bdb823d2ca1d7847eb9500871470febd.png
GN https://haven.dergigi.com/a398f3468187fad74d0267a2be76c5688ef049f51c493f3ca086b699e889a782.jpg
Neat! https://hashtub.snorkel.com/
it's as retarded as you want it to be
Deutschland hat keine Wal
https://haven.dergigi.com/5c84617b4dddb7ff4ef533dde1a0af290b5a77fee133db4bb188a6363f80bc80.jpg
this is what they took from us https://haven.dergigi.com/44cc663f03d5ba3ec2dcc55c2fcab9fa0aa6643082f4c8e735e96da6fba510e2.jpg
