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Lightning.Pub is already a nostr powered Lightning node, and signals to relays with a beacon for wallets to connect. LSP services in that beacon is a goal of ours, but a longer range objective, since there's far more considerations than just advertising and an API.
Setting up a node to use nostr for comms is easy, less than a minute as we've shown, but being a good LSP is another matter entirely... just being reachable over IP4 negates a p2p-like marketplace.
Potential clients also need to know an LSP is reliable, so that implies network level insights about up-time and liquidity.
It'd be pointless to offer this for wallets specifically, since wallets are generally sales interfaces. Wallets choose LSP's not for lack of a decentralized market, but because the wallet is how they sell their LSP service. Zeus sells Olympus, Phoenix sells Acinq... and so on. LSP's are how wallets monetize.
Mobile nodes are also a retarded idea, I've articulated that many times before here.
Liquidity ads is a similar concept to yours, done over Lightning gossip, which is dumb since gossip isn't meant for that. Nostr is the appropriate forum for it and vast improvement, but Liquidity ads has no traction for many of the reasons I'm listing here.
Amboss Magma is a centralized market, it solves some of the reputation issues with all its insights as a result, but still savvy users are going to dig down into their network insights and self-peer rather than buy blindly.
Lightning Labs Pool is similar, blindly accepting an offer from anyone who was able to list isn't a recipe for success.
Lower the barrier to becoming an LSP
Lowering the barrier ultimately will just flood the market with bad LSPs, the high barrier acts as a filter of quality... the Lightning.Pub vision is less about a marketplace of arbitrary peers, but rather using your existing Nostr social graph. The best LSP is the node of someone you'd still deal with otherwise, that keeps your routes shorter and Web of Trust adds a filter beyond network insights.
Someone made an extensions PR for Lightning.Pub and hooked it into their ATM biz, been thinking about plugins/extension for a bit so this is going to be fun to review and merge
Always has been
Oil moves in tankers and pipelines
Tankers depends on Navies, pipelines depend on air defense
Navies and air supremacy are the enforcement arm of geopolitics
The most entertaining outcome is the most likely
People will move from Dubai to get away from the drama of the Strait of Hormuz
... just to end up in Singapore before the battle over the Strait of Malacca
Jack also had 5x too many people at twitter as Elon demonstrated
I see this story more as needing a stock pump headline as Square gets share taken by Toast, Robinhood, Stablecoin platforms, etc
There's basic channel management in the dashboard... dashboard ui is a mess since its mostly been just us hardening functionality... but it's getting attention now. @deSign_r has been on the case and we got some sexy figma's cooking.
people have been speculating about the US and regional Allies interceptor number is
This is the funniest part about all this, one fake analyst for a dead MSM newspaper suggested it, and muppets bought it hook line and sinker as if the .mil planners don't know their numbers and somehow overlooked this in decades of war-gaming scenarios
How should Spark-based wallets tell describe the trust-assumptions to their users?
"This does nothing for you, it's for our lawyers in case they need to lie to the government"
I somehow spent $6 on gemini flash just fucking with it for a few hours that day... madness
First take-away from my botched experiment with it was to just DIY something purpose built
Stumbled across this yesterday and it does a good job articulating why
Human Events reported early Saturday that it would be roughly a 4 week campaign, that was later confirmed by Trump... The weekend conditioning strikes first soften the target with high tech, take out launchers, radars, decap etc, so we can use then cheaper stuff to clean up.
Amazing how the TDS crowd swallows hook-line-and-sinker inventory FUD from fake news as if .mil planners don't know their own inventories and logistics networks better than WaPo... they're probably still waiting for Ukraine's counter-offensive to work out.
clearly escalated the situation
It's a 40+ year old situation, nothing is clear, except the deep state ousted Nixon who would have avoided much of the mess from genesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thMVMkVtUf8
Iran wasn't launching missiles at anyone
The strait has been a constant issue with missiles out of Yemen, also rockets out of Lebanon, both Iran proxies
Iran can't actually hit the US
CONUS.
US bases in the region are US soil, US cargo ships, etc. Infrastructure of partners are mainly a EU problem given its largely imports their that get effected, but just last year or so they literally asked for help from the US since they lack capabilities to keep the strait open. Defense compacts with the Saudi's go back 80 years.
Smuggled-in dirty bombs or container launched missiles/drones could hit the CONUS, which is why this dove-tailed with VZ/Cuba operations.
I wonder how much time they had to put into crafting these statements:
Probably 10 years give or take, when they made a deal to not move on Taiwan until the US gets TSMC fabs running domestically so we can just let them have it and save both side a ton of blood and treasure.
Do you have dashboard at all? If not you may not be using wallet as admin
Once in dashboard click on channels, there's buttons in there