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@k00b

19,831,303 sats stacked

stacking since: #1longest cowboy streak: 881 verified stacker.news contributornpub1qkfnm...c3hq09ertphuumn

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I have the best job on Earth.

I used to work on distributed systems but now I do web stuff.

394 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.

61 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 20 Jul 2022

Thanks frostdragon! Let us know if you need anything

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 26 Dec 2022

Yup a great new hot spot for me

253 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

831 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 2 Jan 2023

That’s awesome to hear! I use Zeus for lnurl-auth too.

147 sats \ 0 replies \ @nym 27 Dec 2022

Welcome aboard @k00b!

146 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?

49 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.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @davidw 31 Mar 2023

Care to share your npub in your bio?

146 sats \ 1 reply \ @RenHodl 30 Apr 2022 freebie

Simple & clean looking great working app/site. Love it. Thank you!

51 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 30 Apr 2022

Thanks Ren!

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.

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @jerry 14 Jul 2022 freebie

nice stake keyan!

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.

15 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 27 Oct 2021

That's very sweet major! Thank you!

102 sats \ 5 replies \ @xsilentg 1 Jul 2024

Hi! There is an error when trying to edit my bio. A small red message pops up and says "1 item deleted," but then when refreshing the page there is no change. Is there something new to edit bios, am I missing something?

Thanks in advance 🌻

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b OP 1 Jul 2024

Bug! Looking into it

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b OP 1 Jul 2024

It looks like you managed to delete your bio in the past, so now it's in an uneditable state. I'll try to manually fix it.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 1 Jul 2024

Give another shot when you get a chance. It should work now.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @xsilentg 1 Jul 2024

Thank you! 🌻

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @5e5d0604a5 12 Aug 2024 outlawed

stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.

100 sats \ 3 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 26 Mar

Hey, @k00b.

Thanks so much for being the first person (and currently the only person) to purchase a BitLight or BitLamp or Hash Lantern or whatever they end up being called.

Would you prefer a black cord or a white cord for your unit?

Also, can you contact me via email with a shipping address?

Thanks again for all you do, man.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b OP 26 Mar

Black cable but I'm not picky. I'm surprised no one else has pulled the trigger.

Ship it Pleb Lab please!

k00b 601 Congress Ave #230 Austin TX 78701

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Jon_Hodl 26 Mar

I'm a bit surprised too but I am working to bring the price point down and I think a lot of the plebs are waiting to see if a bull market kicks off.

I will get this shipped asap.

Thanks for your support.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 26 Mar

For encouraging sharing, it might help to have a dedicated domain, then when folks click on buy it takes them to geyser. idk though.

69 sats \ 3 replies \ @Drew 21 Apr 2022 freebie

Love the site Keyan keep it up! 🖖

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @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!

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 29 Dec 2022

Thanks poe!

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 13 Aug 2024

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG 29 Jun 2024

Howdy @k00b, glad to see you're one of the most prolific stackers around and a proud cowboy!

Just want to introduce you to the ~AGORA territory, a place to buy and sell your products or services with other stackers and obviously use bitcoin P2P as a medium of exchange.

Read this intro guide whenever needed, and if you have any feedback or suggestion on how we can make this space more useful, please do get in touch!

Wish you great and prosperous times around this wonderful corner of the internet!

Stay tuned, stack sats ;)

10 sats \ 14 replies \ @lunin 16 Jan 2024

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!

0 sats \ 13 replies \ @k00b OP 16 Jan 2024

ERC-20 (where my wallet became 900 days old today) I thought: why limit the number of participants who are willing to pay?

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.

Anyway, it's cool what you've done and I'll certainly study everything I need to do to get onboarded.

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.

0 sats \ 9 replies \ @lunin 8 Jun

@k00b could you please take a look here - #1000364 The post creation failed and retrying the payment doesn't help.

0 sats \ 8 replies \ @k00b OP 8 Jun

What do your wallet logs say?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @lunin 12 Jun

@k00b Could you please check it again? I now have enough sats to post, but there is an error. Take a look at the log:

[blink] error payment failed: Failed to fetch - bolt11 lnbc1230n1p5y5kqupp5ne3cgdfzc3e7p7lt3f0y57zjv8lly5upvskc32l9kj57xs2ezmqqdqc2d8r5grrwfjkzar9yp5hgetdcqzysxqzjcsp5es62x0a2vvpzxm5yp9dq8ezve63f8vmaw5aty2neltu9f3qnn07q9p4gqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqpqysgqxh6qv5edjcsfd6x90nhqe2dmh5qq8yar6zs5kzf8tn4ce3qxpscssxpsspduuqmwpqdtd5jlgjfhawv870t3v8x2mcjwm7khv99sj0sp70xvyn amount 123,000 msats payment_hash 9e63843522c473e0fbeb8a5e4a785261fff25381642d88abe5b4a9e3415916c0 description SN: create item created_at 2025-06-12T04:31:24.000Z expires_at 2025-06-12T04:41:24.000Z

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 12 Jun

It suggests we had trouble connecting to blink. They might be having an outage or their api changed.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @lunin 8 Jun

1m [blink] error payment failed: failed to pay invoice INSUFFICIENT_BALANCE Payment amount '133' sats exceeds balance '109' - bolt11 lnbc1230n1p5ytpd7pp5xlk9srmwpgngs82u7qq823rg706cv2zfgd7l8ayuggnq8p6nwmesdqc2d8r5grrwfjkzar9yp5hgetdcqzysxqzjcsp5g0n8q57v2na5ueyascg2vq50qquv8mk472x32srew4mhnqu09pnq9p4gqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqpqysgqh7rmxfysevzeleprxknq56rg3hxwmqsg0wqv4ey6rxt27472mjhqdx7ts9vr6hr78husvhnnh7kvv0k3xqcag2g676fs0qklc2jrt2spy84n87 amount 123,000 msats payment_hash 37ec580f6e0a26881d5cf000754468f3f5862849437df3f49c422603875376f3 description SN: create item created_at 2025-06-08T12:44:46.000Z expires_at 2025-06-08T12:54:46.000Z

1m [blink] info ↗ sending payment: 123 sats - bolt11 lnbc1230n1p5ytpd7pp5xlk9srmwpgngs82u7qq823rg706cv2zfgd7l8ayuggnq8p6nwmesdqc2d8r5grrwfjkzar9yp5hgetdcqzysxqzjcsp5g0n8q57v2na5ueyascg2vq50qquv8mk472x32srew4mhnqu09pnq9p4gqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqpqysgqh7rmxfysevzeleprxknq56rg3hxwmqsg0wqv4ey6rxt27472mjhqdx7ts9vr6hr78husvhnnh7kvv0k3xqcag2g676fs0qklc2jrt2spy84n87 amount 123,000 msats payment_hash 37ec580f6e0a26881d5cf000754468f3f5862849437df3f49c422603875376f3 description SN: create item created_at 2025-06-08T12:44:46.000Z expires_at 2025-06-08T12:54:46.000Z

1m [blink] error payment failed: failed to pay invoice INSUFFICIENT_BALANCE Payment amount '133' sats exceeds balance '109' - bolt11 lnbc1230n1p5ytpdnpp5mvnvlqtkqzyn37tya60rrul648t8zwwtduzez3592v4nc8ys6xgsdqc2d8r5grrwfjkzar9yp5hgetdcqzysxqzjcsp5lycscpmr9vsvqpu5szgqkkljemx46ek9m0vqqds776dk7uks704s9p4gqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqpqysgqy0nh4csjmnm96l8nh333g43kxw2tsdqqf48yrurs6jc6qsxedv5s350447j4l3vhp5j98z0a04pa08lzjrfmv0dgxx2c3y47aq74q2spg28kyl amount 123,000 msats payment_hash db26cf8176008938f964ee9e31f3faa9d67139cb6f05914685532b3c1c90d191 description SN: create item created_at 2025-06-08T12:44:35.000Z expires_at 2025-06-08T12:54:35.000Z

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @lunin 8 Jun

Nothing. I just have 134 Sats — I need 125 to post on Agora — and I can't create a post.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 8 Jun

Does an invoice pop up?

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @lunin 8 Jun

Yes, everything is clear now. I just need 133 sats, not 125! Please excuse me for disturbing you.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 8 Jun

Also if you initially fail to pay noncustodially, you can’t switch to paying custodially. We’ll fix this soon.

In the meantime, you’ll either need to pay the invoice that pops up or create a new item.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @lunin 8 Jun

Got it - will try later! Thank you!

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @lunin 16 Jan 2024

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!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 16 Jan 2024

Don't the ERC-20 tokens, the same ETHer, perform the same functions you specified and are more common?

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).

are more common?

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.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @lunin 16 Jan 2024

Great answer, thank you 🙏 Of course I still have a lot of questions, but somehow I'll figure it out on my own, have a nice day Keyan!

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @gzuuus 20 Apr 2022 freebie

Hi Keyan! nice to be here! 👋

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @247bf84fda 25 Aug freebie

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306 sats \ 0 replies \ @relc 25 Sep 2021

thank you for your service!

20 sats \ 4 replies \ @podconf 8 Apr 2024

Is the QR code lnurl on profiles static? Am I able to use that QR code as a static deposit address for fundraising?

We are planning a DDOS campaign against @thebitcoinbugle for spreading misinformation and we want an easy way to fundraise.

31 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b OP 8 Apr 2024 freebie

Is the QR code lnurl on profiles static

Yes, but accounts have a wallet balance limit of 250k sats which we plan to lower further in the future. 🫡

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @thebitcoinbugle 9 Apr 2024

Stacker News could be an interesting place to fundraise to DDOS different providers. Could be an issue in the future.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 9 Apr 2024

Distractions. Your noncompliance is the issue. What did you do to make number go up today?

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @thebitcoinbugle 9 Apr 2024

Just published the Bugle Weekly podcast which was all about NGU. Make sure to go over and zap it for us and comment to get it trending on Stacker.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG0RA 21 Dec 2024

Hey @k00b, you got some SN Badges on your nostr profile! Now it's time for some Sticky Stickers ;)

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @south_korea_ln 11 Dec 2024

Hi man. Do you mind if I pop into your office sometime in the afternoon to say hi? No worries if you tell me this is a bad timing.

11 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b OP 11 Dec 2024

Do it! Do you have signal?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @south_korea_ln 11 Dec 2024

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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln 11 Dec 2024

Can you give me your telegram? I'm at the corner of 6th and congress avenue but i don't see nr 601...

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 11 Dec 2024

https://t.me/k00bideh

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsMate 29 Jun 2024

I love Stacker News @k00b! One of the best things I've discovered in the Bitcoin community yet.

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @Hamstr 17 May 2024

the NIP-05 aren't working. Server is down?

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b OP 17 May 2024

This is the nip05 page: https://stacker.news/.well-known/nostr.json

It appears to be working. Maybe that’s not what you mean. Could you be more specific?

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Hamstr 17 May 2024

when I look at my profile on nostr, it used to be a purple checkmark, now it's red!

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b OP 17 May 2024

Which nostr client?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Hamstr 17 May 2024

It's fixed now, but it was showing up as a red ! Mark on Amethyst

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 17 May 2024

It could’ve been amethyst was the problem, but let me know if it comes up again, or you experience anything else for that matter.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Hamstr 17 May 2024

Thanks! I was nervous because I'm writing for my part 2 guide to use stacker.news as NIP-05 (just to make it easy for beginners)

0 sats \ 12 replies \ @Hamstr 13 May 2024 freebie

I have a few question about the relays. When I cross post, it gives me the option of relays (optional).

If I'm not specific, where does it get published to?

What if I only want to publish to certain relays?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Reign 8 May 2024

Hey Koob, can I bug you for a min?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 8 May 2024

What did you need?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Reign 8 May 2024

Nothing, you seem to have the system set up exactly how you want it to be, to profit. Just like any business. Have fun being just like the rest. While you pretend to be different.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @doubleplusgood23 11 Feb 2024

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.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 11 Feb 2024

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.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @doubleplusgood23 11 Feb 2024

Yup, it was Alby! Thanks for the response :)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rdytostack 10 Feb 2024 freebie

lfg i honestly ado LOVE stacker

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @herminiacolon 25 Dec 2023

Merry Christmas

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!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama 30 Mar 2023

Have you seen this? #157771

0 sats \ 7 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?

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @john7whyte 31 May outlawed

stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 15 Nov 2024

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