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121 sats \ 5 replies \ @justin_shocknet 3 Sep \ on: My journey to find the ideal Uncle Jim node bitcoin

Thanks for the write-up and feedback in Telegram, its very helpful in setting our priorities... we'll get this channel view writable asap... and I think our successor to NWC is going to blow minds very soon :tm:

https://m.stacker.news/49616

https://m.stacker.news/49615

Might take a few weeks yet on Lightning Addresses for self-hosted nodes, currently they're a problem everywhere as web servers passing them off are still custodial (you have to trust the webserver to actually issue your invoice and not theirs), we've got a solution though thanks to Nostr for handoff and signing... working on formalizing some NIP's for all this today actually

210 sats \ 4 replies \ @ACYK OP 3 Sep

Yea, the reason I started with Shockwallet is it seems there is a lot of great innovation going on to sidestep the tradeoff between the speed/reliability of tor and the security tradeoffs of other solutions when making a node available over clearnet. On that note, have you considered applying for an OpenSats grant? The intersection of lightning, Nostr, doing things differently and formalizing NIPS, open source development, etc. It all seems to overlap with the types of things OpenSats funds. Would be well deserved and worth considering.

56 sats \ 3 replies \ @justin_shocknet 3 Sep

I applied some time ago but was denied, our application was "too thin", which I found interesting since Nostr's pre-history is conversations between Fiatjaf and I about our use of GUN and the necessity of web-relays back in the original Shockwallet / Lightning Pages from 2018-2020...

I suspect we don't fit into what seems to be an ECash agenda on that board, but i'll try again, possible they've come around seeing all that we've done...

Any support is appreciated, we stepped back quite a bit from Lightning.Video which has a lot of profitable closed-source code to make Lightning better overall and make the pie bigger because no one else seemed to be doing it. Anyone who'd like to help us keep going can do so through Github/Geyser...

For the investment minded, we do of course have a plan to make these projects sustainable in their own right, they may be AGPL projects but I have an enterprise background and won't be satisfied until most Fortune 100's are running a Pub.

38 sats \ 1 reply \ @ACYK OP 4 Sep

I second @brian_sabc, a lot of PoW out there now with what you've been building. Just sent a little support to lightningpub@geyser.fund as well. Thanks.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 4 Sep

Very generous ty!

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @brian_sabc 3 Sep freebie

Definitely apply again. PoW means a lot