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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
I saw the discover button and thought that worked well.
Who here has sent @nprofile…pqyq a GM? https://blossom.primal.net/34f2bdf08a09821ac372c5bf911a61157460d787ba1f022fbffc523fb332f60c.jpg
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.
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.
This is the way. Congratulations brother.
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.
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.
Then you're out of touch with billions of humans.
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
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You can probably vibe code one with Shakespeare.
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 😬
When you send money with CashApp does it tell you about all of the banks and monetary networks that it's using? No. Money just shows up.
Most people don't care how the sausage is made, they just like how it tastes. Bitcoin is no different.
And lastly, normies don't like Bitcoin. The media has lied to them and they don't know better. Use Bitcoin as the rails as @nprofile…uh0e said years ago in his peanut analogy.
Given the hype, the current thing, and the colors of the Android, I assume it's Google's Android with Gemini inside. Gemini would no longer be an afterthought or a second class citizen. Google's flavor of Android would be an operating system built with Gemini/AI at the forefront. https://www.android.com/new-features-on-android/io-2026/
No mention of the Big Bad B-word anywhere, just using Lightning and Bitcoin as the monetary rails. The technology just fades into the background. I like it.
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You're not wrong. I have made the fees argument.
Gives clear stablecoin regulation to make you a genius. Duh.
We need less jank. That's the issue.
It's very useful 🤓 I wish more clients implemented it
Eventually, yes. Right now though, Ditto's lowest on-chain zap is $1.
What media player is that?
@nprofile…xxx2 @nprofile…vyla @nprofile…s2k9 @nprofile…9k9u @nprofile…yrsy thoughts on this?
I actually think this is a good idea. Thoughts?
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I don't think it's a good idea either and I don't see myself using it, but I'm presenting a counterargument to see what others think because I'm always open to have my mind changed.
I thought this as well. Still more work to do.
