It is not a competition of merchants to get your sats it is no KYC offramp service offering most of the time.

It happens probably every bull market. There were multiple ways for running node on mobile. All of them are gone.

Hi @franzap, I'm waiting for your response. Thank you.

Yes.

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He's reached out. Thank you

"No command found" error after installing and making it executable. Fran has reached out, tho. I hope he'll help

Thank you.

Hi Fran. Thank you for reaching out.

I installed the software on Linux, first following the command on the website, and then made it executable. However, each time I tried to launch it, it gave an error "No command found"

I still followed the steps on GitHub and encountered the same issue. So I'm not sure what I haven't done right.

Could you please help? Perhaps you can point me to a detailed documentation or something.

Thank you.

Bitcoin mining centralization is a cause for alarm, no doubt.

I'm looking at it from the standpoint of what is at stake, really. Bitcoin's protocol security is dependent on how decentralized the network is, and much of the power of protocol decision-making lies with the nodes. Think of the nodes here like the U.S. Senate.

For a system that is rapidly and drastically becoming economically valuable, the number of decision makers (a.k.a nodes that protect the integrity of the network) seems really small, especially when weighed side by side with the number of people using that network and the value vested in it.

If your numbers are accurate, then the growth rate of the nodes post 2021 is reasonably cool, cos it means there are 7+ new nodes every day from 2021 till date. However, my attention is on the general number.

We should have the least 100k nodes accounted for, while hoping that there are numerous other ones not accounted for.

This sounds like it. Just like lightning routing fees for lightning nodes, right?

I wonder if such a BIP is on the desk already.

Thank you. I've tried to download and run Zapstore on Linux over the CLI, but it keeps giving an error "command not found," and the documentation is not very clear on how to troubleshoot such errors.

Could you please offer a guide on how to use Zapstore? We could chat over Nostr or any platform of choice.

You could as well drop a guide here. Any which way you are cool with would work.

Great recommendation. Would check this out right away.

You mentioned Valet in one of your articles, I think the one where you described Private banks over lightning. Thank you for the mention.

With limitations like "if you trust the sender" you may not need to use ecash at all.

This is not true. Ecash does need internet.

Basically, hosted channels could be transferred similarly to ecash, even Lightning channels. So idk imagine Valet ♦️ does that.

How do you think it could work Lightning offline escrow?

We don't have VCs $$$ to maintain OS agnostic wallets. Besides, Valet ♦️ is only on FDroid due to Googles KYC policy.

Valet ♦️ allows to "hold" incoming payments. There is CLN plugin too. Good one

Simply put, "Bitcoiners should lead by example". It doesn't have to just be Bitcoiners who own companies. Even Bitcoiners who are employed by a firm or are self-employed should start asking for paychecks in Bitcoin.

Imagine if every Bitcoiner were like Russel Okung from the NFL.

I love the idea of "charging a fiat premium".