Last Notes
Some stories must be told 🤙🏻🫂💜
Yeah, that's a downside to the convenience. I've been on the last flight of the evening coming home and have had that flight be cancelled. That sucks as there's no alternative as you said.
👀👀👀 OMW to Nashville @nprofile…lw26.
No, it's just early as fuck because I had a 6am flight. So, I woke up at 3:30am. Oof.
It's a good day to be alive.
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Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! The nice thing about small regional airports is you can get there 5 minutes before you board. 🫂💜🤙🏻
https://blossom.primal.net/ca06e2fee990070b43cd805bc524ce90fdf9ec3e33acc4c09fd8032021a5d276.mp4
Unless it's Ron Burgundy.
Sir this be a shitpost. Mostly because I'm annoyed at the news. And sitting on the toilet.
I kind of want the aliens and/or interdimensional beings though. Maybe they can help us figure out Nostr's Lightning onboarding issue.
Three psyops at once? Someone is working overtime.
Wild times. WW3, rat viruses, and interdimensional beings. Seriously, can we not? Here I am just trying to purple pill a few thousand more people. 2026 has different plans I guess.
Maybe tomorrow we can get alien models 🤓
Welp. https://blossom.primal.net/96b180d9cdaffa5bf8bce5bcc062bebb4701509ad6cbade5225362590f4ba619.gif
oh fuck. that's definitely not good.
okay i see now. i can switch to zaplocker and then we move back to how things originally worked at launch, where i have to open zeus once a day or the hodl invoices expire and sats are returned to sender.
that's too complicated, so cashu works better in that regard, but it's another piece in the complexity puzzle.
if you go the cashu route, zeus is essentially acting as a layer to get you to dump the custodial sats into a LSP channel/node in the phone channel.
this is all fine and probably less complicated than the lightning node i've been running for 6 years, but is it normie ready, probably not. more time is needed to tinker and scenario play.
I forget the question that I asked. Who has shitposted on Nostr? Maybe. 🤣
Memers. Do you thang. https://blossom.primal.net/899a89073fb751f3b5d26559ed7800a6ca7b526524824ed13421f26d5a4a55e0.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/a39c84805a4c3261689c4b50042926e8ac3a3647831290463dd5cdd0cc21e29c.jpg
Who here has sent @nprofile…pqyq a GM? https://blossom.primal.net/34f2bdf08a09821ac372c5bf911a61157460d787ba1f022fbffc523fb332f60c.jpg
I saw the discover button and thought that worked well.
hmm. it's actually more complicated than i had hoped. i picked LDK because *shrug* assuming that a normie would just use the first option available to them. having to pick a cashu mint is confusing when all im trying to do is send and receive zaps. i have it all working, with cashu, but i wanted to use my LDK phone node.
i have yet to find anywhere locally where this works besides the place i setup last fall :(
always be trying new and old tools.
right. i used it when it first launched node in the phone and zeus pay a few years ago, but i didn't feel it was ready for prime time. i have been convinced that it might be now. i look forward to this real world trial.
congrats to the winners! #WoTathon
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this entire campaign had an incredible amount of projects. keep building WoT.
i've been using cashu for zaps for the last 6 months because i wanted to give it a 30 day real world trial and it worked so well. but perhaps it's time to try something else for a 30 day trial period. im thinking @npub1xnf…lpr5.
buy more than you sell? i mean, sure, but what a clown.
It does. I've been running a lightning node for 6 years now. I don't mind it. I think it's fairly easy. But I am not the other 8 billion people on the planet. If I were, well the world would be boring AF, but also Lighting would have larger adoption. We haven't found a solution that's a beautiful marriage of trust and complexity.
I don't like how relay operators can delete my money.
Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! Zaps have been the largest hurdle in the onboarding flow for three years now. I want them to work and users to get through that section of onboarding without having to explain everything. If you have to explain how to use a feature, it's too complex. https://blossom.primal.net/a6950575bcb51c43e7ab875da86887217cfb9206d3c916d55bcc815fdc4f9741.gif
That's a fair way to look at it. Perhaps I'm not comparing them entirely in the same light. While CashApp is easy to use, I do have to have a bank account or debit card which is an entire process itself.
Then you're out of touch with billions of humans.
This is a cool and interesting solution, but has trade offs just like any other solution and I think the trade offs are too many for me to fully like it. My main issues are speed and fees. It's only acceptable now. I don't believe fees will always be as low as they are now which makes this very hard for sending small amounts. I don't believe the price of bitcoin be always be this low, so again this makes it incredibly hard for sending small amounts. I could be wrong but I also feel that telling someone I tipped them but due to randomness, they can't use that money for an hour seems like bad experience. Maybe this last one isn't a big deal, because it's a tip and they don't need the funds ASAP. I don't like that we're setting people's keys up to be incredibly more valuable than social communication. I like that this is all part of the conversation. We need to keep having these, because ultimately someone will solve many of these issues and make trade offs minimal.
You can probably vibe code one with Shakespeare.
I want something that's as easy as generating a bitcoin address or Nostr profile and boom you can receive zaps.
I want something as easy as CashApp. Install an app, tap a couple buttons, boom.
Normies need this.
https://mempool.space/address/bc1qtjjcvn98wh7dfd55m8kxhjcfexanttwt8gtan8
#nevent1q…00gy
I'm not thrilled about everything centralizing around Spark. Yeah, we use it. I even tell people to use it because it's easy. But easy doesn't mean right. The last thing I want is every Bitcoin app depending on one provider. That's literally the problem we left.
Lightning isn't perfect. Never claimed it was. But it's the best we've got right now. Maybe something better comes along, a new L2 that actually works for normal people without centralization. Maybe it's just BOLT12? Maybe it's Ark? Until then, we work within the constraints we have.
Ultimately, this is an engineering problem. We can solve it. We have Claude. We have brilliant developers. Keep building. Keep trying new things.
I'd prefer if it was a toggle. I'd even be fine with USD the standard and then we can enable sats in an advanced setting. I don't mind catering to normies but we can't forget our roots!
I choose to believe differently. Otherwise I'll be very disappointed 😬
This is the way. Congratulations brother.
