Good point: in the AI era, developer "laziness" is a feature not a bug.

Laziness - in this sense - is isomorphic to solving for the path of least resistance, which like the traveling salesman problem or other optimizations is actually really hard. Humans probably use heuristics to get close to lower bound solution which is what "good code" looks like.

Personally, I expect the path of least resistance changes with 2025-era coding agents, and so we'll actually end up changing our metrics for what good code is.

Just got my ticket for https://bitcoinfor.ai/

Looking forward to the talk Seamless AI Wallet Access with Nostr Wallet Connect as a primer for the Geyser NWC Hackathon #1002992.

let me drop a different address in sn chat now. thank you!

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Nice find, i minted a meme there. Not sure how to get the sats back tho...

I'm assuming this will allow Polymarket work in the US without a VPN?

No mention of L2's like Lightning and Polygon. Any concern for non-custodial Lightning Apps?

PS - Any examples on non custodial lightning apps, other than the one I'm posting to?

Nothing from my end, thanks.

Great to hear, the game is afoot.

The boltz.exchange episode was super high signal 🤌

Gun does mean sending enabled. But device sync allows SN to "know" that you can send. If I recall correctly.

Nice work, now just enable Device Sync here: https://stacker.news/settings/passphrase

The gun should appear, see https://stacker.news/faq#how-do-i-get-a-gun-or-a-horse

POV: me walking into Dunkin Donuts to pay with Lightning

Yes I agree with your analysis: mass adoption lowers the average quality of offerings on a platform. There's even a name for this: Eternal September. Personally I've seen this happen on AirBNB, Uber, Groupon, and Facebook - yes i was on facebook when it was college emails only.

I'd like to take your thoughts one step on the "blame probably also lies with the type of customers it started to attract after becoming mainstream". I see this as a variant on Goodhart's Law which states when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

For an example: high schoolers doing community service were seen more positively in the selective U.S. college application process. Makes sense if a teenager is willing to help out for free, they are probably pretty mature, ambtiious and organized, which are good things for your student body. But when the benenfits of listing your community service became known to the general population, suddenly every student was "doing" community service, but of course not of their own drive, but for the boost of their application which made it a useless selection metric.

Back to enshittification of platforms: I think the early adopters are usually selling slack that appears by happenstance. AirBNB is a great example because many people had built a guest house for visiting relatives and friends without knowing they could make extra money by renting it out online, so they built it for quality and for character, not profit maximization. But now that concept of airbnb is known, many real estate investments and remodelling plans occur with the rental opportunity in mind. In which case the incentive is to produce the minimal viable unit which can get booked at the highest price.

So in the early days you sell slack on boutique offerings: AirBNB's rented slack guest houses, Uber was renting slack for a designated driver who had no plans that night, Groupon was putting butts in seats during the off season. But then at mass adoption the platforms create a baseline of demand which exceeds the available slack and becomes fulfilled by a commodity service built for profit maximization.

To wrap up, yes this is where the profit motive drives the enshittifcation but it's not at the platform level (as you correctly identified) but at the participant level once the exploit becomes well known.

Well deserved, a great team. They won this year's MIT Bitcoin hackathon: https://devpost.com/software/payjoin-integrations

Looks like cake wallet (v4.28.0) is the first (?) wallet to support PayJoin, although I haven't been able to figure it out yet.

Little eerie seeing this post...

I also dusted off an umbrel install I had last running in 2022, plugged it in and started re-syncing. Same specs: RPi4 with 2TB spinning hard disk. Has bitcoin v22.0 installed. Also at 78% of the full height as of this morning.

In top noticed that beyond bitcoind the elctr (?) contianer was taking a third of the CPU being utilized. When I get home I verify this and check out some of these diagnositic commands.

Just added you. It says you can't be messaged. If you add me back it might allow, or you can hit me first, my DM's should be open.

@Cje95 hit me up on nostr (in my profile) ?

Alright folks, that was a lot of fun and thank you for the great answers. H/t to the SN hivemind ⚡

Looks like secret tunnels wins the bounty 🙌