Last Notes
I honestly love coming into Bitcoin Park for events and working for a few hours from there. I love my home office, but there's something about working where freedom technology is facilitated too.
I feel that Bitcoin and Nostr have a beautiful relationship. You can trust me on the, bro.
Gotta be like me and get them drinks for free. RIP.
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Still time for all to FOMO into #NostrNights at Bitcoin Park on Monday.
Nashville. I am in you. 💜🫂🤙🏻
GM. I just landed in Nashville. I assume the good news is that you decided to come. Nice.
Some stories must be told 🤙🏻🫂💜
👀👀👀 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.
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.
It's a good day to be alive.
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Sir this be a shitpost. Mostly because I'm annoyed at the news. And sitting on the toilet.
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.
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.
Memers. Do you thang. https://blossom.primal.net/899a89073fb751f3b5d26559ed7800a6ca7b526524824ed13421f26d5a4a55e0.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/a39c84805a4c3261689c4b50042926e8ac3a3647831290463dd5cdd0cc21e29c.jpg
I forget the question that I asked. Who has shitposted on Nostr? Maybe. 🤣
Who here has sent @nprofile…pqyq a GM? https://blossom.primal.net/34f2bdf08a09821ac372c5bf911a61157460d787ba1f022fbffc523fb332f60c.jpg
I saw the discover button and thought that worked well.
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 have yet to find anywhere locally where this works besides the place i setup last fall :(
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'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.
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.
always be trying new and old tools.
congrats to the winners! #WoTathon
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this entire campaign had an incredible amount of projects. keep building WoT.
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.
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.
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
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.
