supratic

lightning

RIZFUL integrates USDT payments

I was not expecting this... @megalithic wtf! But I guess market demand drives features release and this will be useful for many.

![](https://m.stacker.news/129437)

Is kind of a contradiction to let people use scams and warn them about it... kinda "you'd like to be possibly screw?"

Use this feature at your own risk!

![Rizful supports small outbound USDT payments as an accomodation for our users in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. If you must use USDT, consider using it only for small amounts, and moving your funds back into Bitcoin as soon as possible. Risk of devaluation: The US dollar has lost ~97% of its purchasing power in the last 113 years. USD purchasing power over time: Purchasing power of USD over time (CPI-based). - Tether Risks: When you use USDT, you are entirely reliant on Tether (a private corporation) to maintain their system, honor redemptions, manage reserves, and keep the token pegged. - Solana Network Risks: This USDT is sent on the Solana network, which is a centrally-controlled blockchain. Unlike Bitcoin, Solana has been halted multiple times by its operators, transactions can be censored, and the network is controlled by a small group of validators. Solana offers no meaningful decentralization benefits over a traditional database. Use it only when necessary and move funds to Bitcoin as soon as possible. - Always Start With A $1 Test Transaction; Solana has many different address formats and standards. When sending USDT to a new address, you MUST always send a small $1 test transaction first and confirm it was received before sending the full amount. USDT payments are irreversible - if you send to an incompatible or incorrect address, your funds will be permanently lost.](https://m.stacker.news/129448)

COINOS.io goes non custodial

What? Why should it be? This is just a onchain non-custodial solution. Lightning liquidity I assume will continue to be provided by Coinos's LN node

> Does changing your account to self custodial require you to operate a node?

No, learn the difference between a Bitcoin Node and a Lightning Network Node, they are different things

> Will it reduce the liquidity and reliability of your coinos wallet by going self custodial?

You'll still use coinos Lightning Node to provide you inbound and outbound liquidity

II was waiting for this long time, and it's finally here. The @coinos's withdraw option has been working greatly but now, triggered when a certain threshold was reached. But with this new feature I've no more reason to use it. Thanks @adam_coinos_io 

You will find the new functionality on your https://coinos.io/settings/security page
![](https://m.stacker.news/129436)

and the option to set a new seed or import an existing one

![](https://m.stacker.news/129435)

Enjoy your sovereignty, responsibly!

bitcoin

AGORA

Stream Date: January 29, 2026 Location: Workshop17 Watershed, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa

About the BCE Summit: Welcome to the African Bitcoin Circular Economy Summit! This event is a high-signal gathering of pioneers from across the African continent, held as a primary satellite event one day prior to the main Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town conference.

The Mission: Our goal is to use the practical, demonstrative power of Bitcoin Circular Economies (BCEs) as a viable way to educate and empower the masses. In regions where financial oppression, lack of economic freedom, and illiteracy overlap, BCEs serve as a powerful tool to spread personal freedom.

What is a Bitcoin Circular Economy? A BCE is a hyper-localized project where individuals earn, spend, and re-circulate sats within their local community. By paying salaries in Bitcoin and onboarding local merchants, these communities push the boundaries of fiat dependence further outward, ensuring economic value stays local.

Summit Highlights:

Grassroots Insights: Presentations from the 26+ BCE projects currently active across Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Nigeria, Burundi, and Tanzania.

Scaling Impact: Strategies from the 700+ merchants across Africa already accepting daily Bitcoin payments for real-world goods and services.

Educational Workshops: Practical sessions on how to launch and sustain a circular economy project in your own community.

Empowerment through Experience: Discussions on how "learning by doing" helps the unbanked and underbanked gain access to sovereign financial tools.

African Bitcoin Circular Economy (BCE) Summit 2026 | Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town

More than 10 of my bitcoin friends got hacked, 2FA enabled didn’t help

Same here, hopefully this report helps those that use zoom to keep an eye or two open when clicking random links.

More than 10 of my bitcoin friends got hacked in the past month. All had 2FA enabled. It didn’t help. Here’s how they almost got me too 👇

HOW THEY FOOL YOU

1️⃣ Someone from your contacts messages you to schedule a call. This is already a stolen account. A friend who got scammed before you.

2️⃣ They send you a calendar invite first. Then, right before the call, they send a Zoom link. At a quick glance it looks legit. The preview looks identical to real Zoom. The trick is subtle: the hostname and subdomain are swapped.

This is the fake Zoom link they sent me. A real Zoom link would have those two words around the dot swapped.

👀 https:// zoom (DOT) webus05. us/j/47369507762?pwd=7kiAzRm6PNBvNFdBBEY04cr6LLzHPk.1

Easy to miss, even if you know what to look for. Especially when it comes from someone you trust.

3️⃣ The fake Zoom app looks flawless. Perfect copy of the real Zoom UI. No red flags.

4️⃣ You immediately see your friend on video. This is NOT A DEEPFAKE. It’s a recording of your friend from seconds before they got scammed in the previous session. That’s why it looks perfect and trustworthy.

HOW THEY GAIN CONTROL

5️⃣ The fake Zoom app says your audio is broken and asks you to update.

6️⃣ The update “fails” and you’re shown a command line troubleshooting guide.

⚠️7️⃣ If you paste that command into your terminal, it’s over. You just gave the attacker remote access to your computer.

HOW THEY ROB YOU

8️⃣ The malware they install remotely is simple and runs fast. It takes one or two seconds.

It usually does two things:

A) Scans your computer for bitcoin wallets and steals access.

⚠️B) Steals session cookies from chat apps. This is how they bypass your 2FA later.

ELI5 SESSION COOKIES

When you log into Telegram on your laptop, you enter your password and 2FA once. Telegram then saves a session token on your computer so you don’t have to do it every time. That token is basically: “Yes, this is the same person who gave you the password and 2FA earlier.” When attackers steal it, they present it to Telegram, which sees it as a valid session and lets them in.

So they don’t need your password or your 2FA code. THEY ARE YOU.

If someone gets access to your computer, you’re done. At that point, it’s just damage control.

MY GOLDEN RULE

Life is short and beautiful. No client call is important enough to mess with command line troubleshooting.

Be lazy. Be safe.

![](https://m.stacker.news/127788)

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nostr

Plebeian Market code is now public GPL-3.0 and 100% nip-99

they probably just copied the license file

@PlebeianMarket just announced it here https://njump.to/nevent1qqsgdu7pcz78akfn08us7aydwsd97zy0lec77xv93pv3jda86u66dyqe2yye7

Stacker News Review 2026: Reddit, But With Lightning Payments

I took initiative and shared it here as I noticed you didn't, I'll forward to you the sats in a few days

Stacker Saloon

saloon

LNbits can be non-custodial too, shockwallet can be custodial, same as Alby, Zeus (Embedded)

LifPay is over a year that has been discontinued, and still there available?

> *Temporarily limit the size of data fields at the consensus level, in order to correct distorted incentives caused by standardizing support for arbitrary data, and to refocus priorities on improving Bitcoin as money.*
> —@Dathon_Ohm

I was looking for something like this and I found it! The website provide simple info for understanding the complexity this bip solve, plus all references needed for you to test it out and make your mind about it.

Other relevant conversations about the topic on SN:
- https://stacker.news/items/1404849/r/supratic
- https://stacker.news/items/1413227/r/supratic
- https://stacker.news/items/1346655/r/supratic

BIP-110: Reduced Data Temporary Softfork

@sox found a bug in the editor: `@mention` does not render as expected https://stacker.news/items/1414987/r/supratic

Found another review, today about SN. I'm happy people start appreciating it as a community instead of a stacking tool. It make SN level up with its indirect competitors. 

> *What started as a simple concept, basically "Hacker News but you earn Bitcoin," has exploded into something much bigger. It's become a full-fledged social platform. You've got news feeds, established Bitcoin figures sharing guides and reviews, a marketplace where people actually trade, a weekly podcast, a non-custodial Lightning Network integration, Nostr connections, job listings, and territories that let users create their own spaces.*
> —Andrea Carnimeo @blockdyo

That's a nice intro! The review still focusing on reward system for creating content. However, is one of the few I found that highlight the community and the values provided by it instead of just talking about avid stacking. I feel this is a critical step for SN growth, what's next now? How could SN be able to scale to next level?

How many LDK wallets do you know?

DarthCoin

Ok, make more sense, now. Will not even waste time researching. Thanks

gaming

Design

hyperlinks

Entertaining...

![](https://m.stacker.news/125780)

Funny little game part of this [Lunar Trails ](https://seblee.me/work/lunar-trails/)project, an interactive installation, first commissioned by the Dublin Science Gallery for their GAME exhibition, running from November 2012 to the end of January 2013.

It features a full size arcade cabinet running the vintage 1979 game Lunar Lander. As you play the game, the path that you take is rendered on the wall with a large hanging drawing robot.

The trails build up to produce artworks that are solely created by the game players, and is a reflection of all their individual journeys to the surface of the moon.

In collaboration with mechanical engineer Paul Strotten, designer Val Head, and production manager Becky Stevens.

It included an [hackday](https://hackaday.com/2012/11/23/art-installation-plots-every-game-of-lunar-lander-that-is-played/) too...