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  1. Core or Knots ?
  2. Ark or Spark ?
  3. CLINK or BOLT12 ?
  4. Zeus or Phoenix?
  5. How many nocoiner merchants you onboarded and what solution you tell them to use?
90 sats \ 6 replies \ @niftynei 8h
  1. I'm a Knots contributor, but not a core contributor. currently run core on my machines but they're a bit out of date tbh
  2. lightning :D
  3. i haven't heard of CLINK, can you say more about what that is?
  4. ooh this is tough. i use Zeus to talk to my CLN node; and phoenix as my daily driver wallet.
  5. zero, i'm pretty focused on btc++ things these days and dont really get outside of the dev ecosystem much
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there's something to the fact that lots of devs are excited about using nostr as a communication transport

despite the fact that lightning already includes a communication transport?

seems to be that there's not enough people that know or understand how to build on top of lightning; or maybe running lightning clients is so much more work than a nostr client?

not sure exactly but seems like there's a lesson in here that would be worth figuring out.

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Separation of concerns

Browser deliverability

Privacy/hostile network resilience (regular SSL traffic)

Performance and reliability (onions bad)

Identity de-coupled from the payments protocol makes for better social integration and HA across disparate Lightning nodes

Nostr is just json and websockets, seems there are not enough lightning devs that know how to build on top of json and websockets, may be a lesson there

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17 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 7h

Maybe is time for you to hang out more on SN and nostr and not so much in the "dev community".

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @niftynei 7h

"nostr is built using tools i'm familiar with" probably is the explanation for why most devs craft solutions with it.

how to get more devs who are familiar with byte-level protocols? maybe the answer is vibecoding

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Nostr is built using tools the web has made ubiquitous

Why there are Lightning devs that don't want Lightning to be the money of the web? Maybe the answer is NGO salaries

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