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93 sats \ 10 replies \ @k00b 23h

Until it's dialed in, I'll be spending next year focused on onboarding improvements:

  • easier sign up flow
  • one click wallets
  • how to allow folks without bitcoin on lightning to start using SN again
  • reducing as much UI/UX weirdness as possible
  • asking myself what I can remove over and over

After spending so long on wallets, it's hard thinking about doing another thing that isn't some flashy feature, but in contrast to wallets, this should be rewarding.

What's on this side of the snake pit?

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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @UncleJim21 7h

how about a 1 click bitcoin treasury company?

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 6h

already been done: #1309844

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A gravity well?

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64 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 6h

now we're talking

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Hahahahaa

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119 sats \ 4 replies \ @optimism 16h
how to allow folks without bitcoin on lightning to start using SN again

This would be awesome! Buy CCs through BIP-21 "invoice"?

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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 6h

I was thinking more along the lines of an alternative unpaid gate to posting and commenting (at least in certain contexts). But on-chain payments are another kind of alternative gate that we should add.

One of the most surprising things we learned at TABConf was that many bitcoiners hate custodial wallets and have no interest in running their own lightning nodes. I suspect they'd be cool with the middle ground of a robust statechain/sidechain, but none of that is very trustworthy yet.

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202 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 5h
One of the most surprising things we learned at TABConf was that many bitcoiners hate custodial wallets and have no interest in running their own lightning nodes.

If not for Phoenix' UX, I would have been one of them. I ran an lnd early on (home node on 2 Odroid hc4 boards) and although it was interesting, I lost quite the sack of sats to poor channel management and I ended up pretty negative about LN for a while. I feel that before LN, defending your stash meant simply protecting your keys and not sending coin to a scammer. Life was simple if you'd figured those 2 out, whereas now there's a lot more complexity.

I suspect they'd be cool with the middle ground of a robust statechain/sidechain

I don't know. Statechains is a loaded subject, because Paul has been too much of a tizzy dick about those since 2014, and in general sidechains are a burden because you'd need to sync 2 chains.


Bonus take re: custodial wallets

The only problem with CCs is that there are a bunch of assmilkers and other clowns roaming here that are campaigning for custodial wallets because of some horse emoji. But I don't want to use custodial services. These are wildly antithetical to Bitcoin to use, as we were here for the p2p electronic money, not Banking 2.0. Fuck banks.

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202 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 5h
The only problem with CCs is that there are a bunch of assmilkers and other clowns roaming here that are campaigning for custodial wallets because of some horse emoji.

If we didn't want SN to support marketplaces, and didn't enjoy reading about stackers buying little things with their proceeds, I probably wouldn't have bothered doing all this noncustodial lightning stuff. I suspect it'll be worth it a few iterations from now, but you're right that CCs do most of what we need doing today.

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202 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 4h

It's not so much an SN problem as it is a generic LN problem, I think - at least for me, nowadays. Since I'm roaming, it's not really feasible to run a small box with lnd, and it's nasty to have active keys on a hosted box in a datacenter. (And yes, it's even more nasty to use someone else's banking service that has active keys on a hosted box in a DC.) I will test Zeus with NWC but I fear that at the rate lnd eats my phone battery, I'm not going to be cheering all that much.

I have thought up somewhat of a scheme using a hosted so-hot-its-burning Shockwallet combined with a somewhat cooler Zeus for offloading, to test, but I still heavily dislike both the cost and complexity. Just need to find a quiet moment to set it up and see what's what.

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Feeling thankful to have had a peaceful Christmas, hope everyone is having a good day. Today I played a little Elden Ring, watching The Return today after getting distracted on a first attempt

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Made almost $20 in recaptured money depositing my year's worth of piggy bank coins today, and that was after removing all the pennies...

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67 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 27 Dec

Sorry about the weird slowness just now. All of our servers got cycled through due to a an overly sensitive health check. I believe I've fixed it but I'm surprised that hasn't happened before.

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61 sats \ 1 reply \ @BononXD 26 Dec

Hi, after a long, long break—so long, I see, that the side removed my profile picture. That's why I posted this sweet kitten, from the summer litter. I hope Google Translator didn't make any linguistic crap. Apart from that, I wish you all a Merry Christmas

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hello merry chrismus

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90 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 26 Dec

Rather than attributing your partner's good behavior to your romantic abilities, give them credit for being good. Or if you are dull and your ego is too loud, at least give them credit for being responsive to your romantic abilities.

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Waiting for the storm:

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shooting this is loads of fun!!

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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @Car 26 Dec

woo doggie! 🐶

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79 sats \ 4 replies \ @Car 26 Dec

lol

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This is excellent!

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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @Car 26 Dec

looks real to me

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Yeah, but you failed that test on SNL. I want to know if it looks real to @k00b .

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off to the gulag with you

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308 sats \ 210 boost \ 0 replies \ @sox 26 Dec

In less than a week, over 30 editor bugs have been searched and destroyed. Huge thanks to everyone that helped us by reporting everything they could find.

We're also going to release a megafix for Android users in the coming days.

Happy holidays!

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I claimed it today but I have no idea what it's about. I see some $ value but didn't see anything to redeem them.

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Yeah Someone claimed it. Since stackers are sleeping on Plunda I took my free loot drops to nostr

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83 sats \ 1 reply \ @plunda 26 Dec

interesting, having quicker claims over on nostr?

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It’s hard to say need more data

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84 sats \ 1 reply \ @plunda 26 Dec

that's a cool idea hahahah, once the next big release is out gunna start really focusing on that sorta stuff!

was wondering about building some aort of daily or weekly raffle. so you can enter each week and have a chance to win various prizes

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Now that's more like it!

Thanks, bro!

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