(Revenue of) ~crypto has crashed from 2565 sats to 139 sats. That's -94.59% within 24 hours. Was a very short bull run apparently. But nothing unexpected.

Seems like @Undisciplined and me got unseated from third place yesterday. Did we get what we deserved for talking shit? Or was it just a quantum fluctuation? But I am still in front of @Undisciplined, and this is what matters.

But what also matters is that I don't lose my streak. I got really short on sats in the middle of the day yesterday. There was too much good content that I needed to zap such that I lost track of my balance and zapped some comments too much without looking at my balance. So when it got really close to zero, I had to figure out how I can get a lot of zaps to not get eliminated on day 3 already. My streak will end when I posted something as a freebie. (You have to trust me that I won't just deposit funds.)

Then I decided to do this lazy post about Social Engineering in Mr. Robot. I initially only wanted to look at this scene myself. But while watching, I realized that this scene is so good, I can make a good post about social engineering on ~security with it.

To put in some more PoW (or context, as @siggy47 would put it) to grab your sats even harder, I wanted to also have something to read. So I just searched for "social engineering mr. robot" and found the nice fandom wiki site that I linked to, copied some paragraphs and added my own thoughts to it. Work smart not hard they say, right?

I think that post fared well. Definitely not too shabby. Thanks to all the people zapping and replying!

Since @Alby is developing Bitcoin Connect and we want to use it for self-custodial zapping on SN, @Alby and @sn are in more contact recently. While using the Alby browser extension, I noticed a bug however. I got the Alby unlock prompt while clicking on URLs unrelated to Lightning.

Since I wanted to understand more how the browser extension works, I decided that I will try to fix it myself yesterday. I was very pleasantly surprised how easy it was to setup a local development environment to get going. The https://github.com/getAlby/lightning-browser-extension/blob/master/doc/SETUP.md was so good, it literally only took me max 2 minutes for me to write code and see the changes. So huge props to @Alby for such a good onboarding experience!

Here is my pull request: fix: lnurl scheme parsing

I also went to a takeaway to which I haven't been for a long time yesterday. The owner was pleasantly surprised to see me and we had a nice flowing conversation about a lot of things. He said it must have been almost a year since I've been here. I was surprised:

I was also surprised that he remembered my name. He got it right on first try. I struggled with his name but we laughed about it.

We then exchanged some stories like how business is going; if they're open over New Year's Eve; how inflation affects their business; if they look at the prices of other similar takeaways and also how some people feel entitled to lower prices without knowing shit about running a business.

Then the conversation rolled over to me. He asked about my software engineering job at my old company and how university is going. Then I realized that maybe he was right. Maybe I was indeed not here since early this year since I changed my position in May and seems like I didn't tell him yet.

But maybe I just didn't tell him on purpose since I didn't want to reveal too much information about me when I was here the last time. I already mentioned bitcoin to him though. I wanted to tip him some sats but he was more interested in talking about the price. That's also one of the reasons why I wasn't there for such a long time but I didn't mention this.

I told him I work at a Bitcoin startup now and we're trying to build Reddit but with Bitcoin. He didn't know what Reddit was. So I tried to explain it to him very quickly. I said it's about building communities online and that on Reddit, there is a community for basically every city. But I am not sure if he got me. When I mentioned social media, I think he got stuck on thinking about it in ways similar to Facebook.

But it didn't matter much (and I didn't want to talk too much about what I am doing anyway) so we just continued with other things I don't remember. I was pleasantly surprised that he didn't ask so much about bitcoin - especially about if he should invest - this time. I think I'll come back sooner this time.