Onboarding Thousands Of New Users To The Lighnting Network. @matteopelleg #531

@npub12rv5lskct… said "get in touch with me directly if you want to work on/with #cashu". 🙋‍♂️Hi, right here! I'm respecting his "don't Nostr DM me" profile note but wasn't able to find him in my Matrix client... I want to use trusted Cashu mints as a fundamental piece of an escrow system that backs a free market of bounties and work-for-hire (over Nostr, of course) I already have a minimally-viable relay implementation and a web client that handles the happy-path actions. I've integrated zaps for escrow payments and funds dispersal. Deeply-embedding Cashu mints into the escrow system will really take this idea where it needs to go. If you're ever available to share some thoughts on the design or provide some Cashu guidance I would be deeply appreciative @npub12rv5lskct… ! You know where to find me. Thanks! (If I don't respond to a DM it means I definitely didn't see or receive it. Tag me in a note in that case!)

"Oh yea, we're going to scale [Bitcoin] without shitcoins. That's for sure.". - @npub12rv5lskct… ♥️♥️♥️

This intro from @npub12rv5lskct… about art/code/creativity.... Wow. How did we end up with this guy? What a world.

Take 3; Hoping this is already on the list, but looking forward to seeing lots of you guys in the Premier, Saturday 27th, 4pm EST. if being a Producer is a little steep and it maybe if you’re a euro poor such as myself, zap me a couple 100k sats and you can come to my house!!! 🫡🙌

Hoping this is already on the list, but looking forward to seeing lots of you guys in the Premier, Saturday 27th, 4pm EST. if being a Producer is a little steep and it maybe if you’re a euro poor such as myself, zap me a couple 100k sats and you can come to my house for a watch party!!!! 🫡🙌😂

sats for holidays: back in the paper wallet days i printed some out for nieces and nephews as bitcoin stocking stuffers. since then i've swept them to hardware cold wallets, all the while sliding more sats in every year. each year i help their parents get a little closer to legit self-custody without my involvement. started with me as the custodian.. end goal being a self sovereign extended family (with a nice starter stack). bitcoin uncle club!

vinney here (the "v" in "v cavallo" 😆) i have a fully self-hosted lightning address at my own domain - [email protected] - that i achieve with lnbits on a public vps and a tunnel to an umbrel node on my LAN. it is a pain in the ass but it **does** work and makes me happy. the externally-reachable vps is the key. dm me on nostr if you want more details!

I'm not picking a side here. I just want to clarify Mechanic's point as I understand it. A scammer just needs to get Granny to double-click on an application that does those things automatically. Fetch op return data from a block on the chain, does whatever parsing and chopping, and then runs it locally on her machine (stealing her credit card number or passwords or whatever arbitrary malicious malware activity). If the scammer hosted this malware on his own server, downloads would leave a paper trail that investigators could follow. Uploading the malware to any other public server would likely be blocked or filtered by whatever security and content restrictions that plarform has. his point is the Bitcoin blockchain becomes the least filtered, easiest place to upload that sort of thing. whether one sees this as a problem or not is up for debate, but I wanted the argument to at least be clear.

you asked how the bill pay thing works for me: i get "bank account and routing numbers" from Strike, where i have a bitcoin balance and zero USD. i put that "bank" account number in my credit card, mortgage, car payment, etc. - literally everywhere. so all my USD bills are paid from my bitcoin "checking account" balance in Strike. importantly, i have an auto-withdraw threshold on Strike where anything above that amount is moved to a (new) address in my cold storage automatically. so life is like: get paid in bitcoin; "checking account" balance stays in Strike for monthly expenses; excess above that is automatically hodled in cold storage. it's actually fairly mindblowing...

Oh. And please yell 'Yeeeeeee haaaaw' in your best Texas cowboy accent! Then kindly explain the history of the term Yee Haw, as we all love feeling out on random facts! Love your work, old partner!

Ok Dave, we got a deal to facilitate here.... We need to get Steak n Shake in touch with Texas Slim! Then broker the deal for Beef.com and the bitcoin ranchers to supply all franchises of Steak n Shake with premium grade grass fed low time preference home reared beautiful beef. This is the kind of deal that the Beef Initiative was set up to achieve by our boi Slim! LFG. Who do we need to sit down with to make this happen? @moderntman

This was supposed to be a much bigger boost. I mis-tapped

npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m and npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx said "Twitter is a walled garden, so you can only post screenshots to Nostr". If **you** can see a tweet (or any other "private" content on the web) you can make a perfect web-archive of it. And then you can share it peer to peer in an uncensorable manner, removing all the internet's walled gardens - including paywalled ones. When someone else replays that archive in their browser, they're seeing the private page exactly as you did. The available tools for doing this are a bit clunky at the moment, but my team has built 95% of a frictionless user experience for doing just this. We'll be done with it within the year (or we'll be out of business). And Nostr provides all the rest of the infrastructure needed to make a proper network out of this. Extremely exciting!

my mempool my choice

#cashu is a genius act cashu ecash will be to megacorp coins what Bitcoin is to fiat.

Keep em coming Dave! You are an absolute machine! Total Bitcoin legend, thank you ser!

Looking forward to when the new member of the cbp medi network makes her first appearance on notable news!!! Big fan of downbeat price vibes when we’re at hanging around at 130k moose shekels, like it’s no big deal.

I have listened to this episode on repeat back-to-back no less than 4 times over the past couple days. If you listen to one podcast in your entire life, make it this one. Thank you, @npub1zf2fsqpv7…

this is my Bitcoin

re bip110: best case scenario is that the forced-move game theory that Mechanic describes actually teaches node runners that they shouldn't be ambivalent, now or in Bitcoin's future, lest they get played by a motivated minority. Maybe this was always the goal...

The reason I stick with nostr is the same reason I stick with all open protocols: NO to permission and coercion; YES to voluntary cooperation. exit, opt-out, opt-in, reorganize voluntarily.

"donate to the show" okay!

Fascinating stuff, would love to get a system like this fitted to my mother’s house. No cheap electricity in the UK, but plenty of solar panels. Fancy a trip to blightey Toine?

let's do something about that zap amount floor.

fun song!!

here's to your hourly rate

I have so much fucking appreciation for @Knut_Svanholm_∞/21M @npub1jt97tpsul… and @npub1fk8h6g8zh… repping theism skepticism this well and hard in the Bitcoin space

Woo hoo, wallet of Satoshi winding up in Europe, but the UK, with all its draconian, free speak limiting laws, still allows me to tip my barber with sats!!! A small win, but I’m gonna take it. Now to help my hair cutting buddy transition to self custodial lightning. 🫣

Came across something you may find interesting. 🫡🙌 theory of constraints is a powerful concept. https://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/15/1/7

Absolutely love the full circle nature of your idea. I first listened to you because you were promoted on fountain, they paid me for my attention, I would never have discovered you with some form of attention monetisation. Can’t wait to get involved and sell my eye balls!!!!

I’ve been missing you Ced, great to see you in my feed again. Fantastic to listen to Bob again, such fantastic work insight into mining, bitcoin and life. #bitcoin

Great to hear from Aladdin, reminding me about my btc trading cards 🃏 I have saved for an inflation adjusted all time high. Lfg $78k gang, but let’s be honest, it’s $100k (US not 🫎 sheckel) or nothing.

And now I fully understand why institutional adoption is not further along, why would any ceo or company owner ever want to open their “Bitcoin kimono” to regulators? Get paid a dividend or sell some shares, then stack. Simples.

Great to hear from Francis again and Bull Bitcoin’s international expansion. Loved the legacy question, what can I do now to leave a mark after I’m gone and then, how can I pass on the resources to ensure they’re able to continue along the hard path. Lambo chat can be left for others. 🫡🙌

Love hearing from Fran, not only her stories about Hal (loved hearing about him buying Christmas presents), but also inspired by Fran’s positive attitude, particular after her recent injury. Best way forward is to keep working, building (whether it is your stack, skills or you leg muscles) and inspiring people. Can’t wait to finish off my 21k tomorrow, and looking forward to getting my 2025 running Bitcoin shirt.

Great show, listened to and read Leon’ ’s work many times, but as always you help give a deeper insight Ced. Feeling it’s nearly time for a family meeting “sorry kids, you’re going to be sharing a room in the new place……. Because it’ll be a one bed flat!!! Poppa’s got sats to stack”

When @npub10cxz2h7n6… says “no bad days”. It get me every time. Abso fucking purely. And yes @npub1ndketdm2q… we were right, I love every day I’ve ever spent, because I only buy good stuff with sats. Thanks Ben @npub1rxysxnjkh…

“Easy in, hard out”, how proper Bitcoin self custody is like pregnancy. 🫡🙌