@k00b
I have the best job on Earth.
I used to work on distributed systems but now I do web stuff.
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130 sats \ 2 replies \ @frostdragon 20 Jul 2022
Site is great, this is quickly becoming my go-to for bitcoin news. Learned about the bitcoin mining council like half an hour before their live stream yesterday, got a ton of super helpful info from it. Thanks man.
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51 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 20 Jul 2022
Thanks frostdragon! Let us know if you need anything
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 26 Dec 2022
Yup a great new hot spot for me
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217 sats \ 1 reply \ @rax0m 2 Jan 2023
Found this site through a random namedrop on Stephans new year podcast episode. I've been staying off Twitter for a while so hadn't heard of it anywhere before.
I check HN every day and now I have a second website to check :)
lnauth worked immediately (a bit surprisingly) using Zeus + my Umbrel over tor
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795 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 2 Jan 2023
Thatβs awesome to hear! I use Zeus for lnurl-auth too.
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111 sats \ 0 replies \ @nym 27 Dec 2022
Welcome aboard @k00b!
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110 sats \ 2 replies \ @satbattle 21 Aug 2022
Hey Keyan,
Do you have a Discord server? Somewhere people from stacker news can hang out and chat more casually?
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13 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 21 Aug 2022
If you look in the footer of the site we have links to a Sphinx Tribe and a telegram group.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @davidw 31 Mar 2023
Care to share your npub in your bio?
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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @F 5 Aug 2022
Hey Koob, where's my welcome comment on my profile? I feel left out. Thanks for making this site btw.
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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @jerry 14 Jul 2022 freebie
nice stake keyan!
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110 sats \ 1 reply \ @RenHodl 30 Apr 2022 freebie
Simple & clean looking great working app/site. Love it. Thank you!
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15 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 30 Apr 2022
Thanks Ren!
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346 sats \ 1 reply \ @MajorMajor 27 Oct 2021 freebie
Amazing stuff you've built here! I've always enjoyed trying out new things, especially technology related things, and I have to say this website is perhaps the most amazing proof of concept in my opinion for how lightning should and can work.
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15 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 27 Oct 2021
That's very sweet major! Thank you!
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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @Drew 21 Apr 2022 freebie
Love the site Keyan keep it up! π
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 21 Apr 2022
Thanks Drew!
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304 sats \ 1 reply \ @poe7645 29 Dec 2022
It's amazing four years ago I was sending my first $5 on chain to of my first purchase to my first mobile wallet from Coinbase. Wondering if it would go to where I wanted it. It did and a light bulb went off. Hundreds off transactions later and figuring out lightning a little, this platform is another one of those light bulbs. Great work!
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 29 Dec 2022
Thanks poe!
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10 sats \ 4 replies \ @DmitriiLunin 16 Jan
Dear Keyan,
This is my first day on the project, many things are intuitive and not complicated (especially if I was previously on Hacker News), but damn, why are there such difficulties in terms of payment?
No, of course I understand everything, the idea of using only bitcoin and I can study Lightning without any problems.
But somehow I had never met Lightning before, and being in the ERC-20 (where my wallet became 900 days old today) I thought: why limit the number of participants who are willing to pay?
Anyway, it's cool what you've done and I'll certainly study everything I need to do to get onboarded. Thanks a lot!
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b OP 16 Jan
You mean, why don't we accept arbitrary ERC-20 tokens? Mostly because SN prefers bitcoin as an MoE, UoA, and SoV, so we'd have to exchange your tokens for bitcoin on our end and assume exchange rate risk. Hopefully more exchanges will support lightning going forward and ERC-20 people will have an easier time onboarding to lightning apps.
Excellent! If you've been in the ecosystem a long time, and you've avoided using bitcoin somehow, it's probably worth getting acquainted. It's a whole other world and the world us stackers prefer.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DmitriiLunin 16 Jan
I don't want to distract you, but if you have a minute, write your answer to the question: Don't the ERC-20 tokens, the same ETHer, perform the same functions you specified and are more common (user friendly, as for me)? I am sure that the choice of bitcoin was not accidental on your part. Thank you!
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 16 Jan
They do not provide those functions sufficiently for SN to depend on them. Hypothetically, we can use pots and pans as money but I wouldn't. We choose to use the best money available as a matter of taste and we expect others would prefer to do the same regardless of the other assets they are speculating on at any given moment (whether that's Apple stock or Solana tokens).
They are certainly more plentiful, and unpredictably so, if that's what you mean.
The bottom line is really that we aren't an exchange and we aren't a broker. We are a social economy and efficient economies have a preferred money and ours is bitcoin.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @DmitriiLunin 16 Jan
Great answer, thank you π
Of course I still have a lot of questions, but somehow I'll figure it out on my own,
have a nice day Keyan!
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @gzuuus 20 Apr 2022 freebie
Hi Keyan! nice to be here! π
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306 sats \ 0 replies \ @relc 25 Sep 2021
thank you for your service!
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @doubleplusgood23 11 Feb
Hey k00b not sure if this is worthy of a bug report or if I made a mistake but I tried withdrawing from my Stacker News wallet to Alby.
While Stacker News said my transaction was done instantly I still see Alby as "Waiting on Payment" while it's been nearly an hour.
Very possible I messed up but not sure how considering I just copypastad the invoice.
Any guesses what might of caused this?
Thanks.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 11 Feb
Reach out to Alby if you're concerned. When we say your withdraw went through it means they have your money now. I'd guess Alby has a small technical issue and it will resolve soon.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @doubleplusgood23 11 Feb
Yup, it was Alby!
Thanks for the response :)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @herminiacolon 25 Dec 2023
Merry Christmas
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @blockdyor 14 Jun 2023
Heya! Using SN since a few weeks and I'm in love with it. I was wondering if there is any possibility to automatically publish on SN new posts from the website's rss feed. Thanks!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama 30 Mar 2023
Have you seen this? #157771
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @038089326f 10 Feb freebie
lfg i honestly ado LOVE stacker
0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Brunswick1 21 Feb 2022 freebie
Is there any way to contact members of the site other than replying to their posts? I noticed your sphinx tribe appears to be broken. Is it still available?