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 should we start a nostr fedi? 
 HELL NO 
 Wait you mean like Feidiverse?  
 Fedimint 
 Like the Fediverse but mint flavour? 
 Sounds good to me  
 The tech nerd part of my brain has wanted to play with Fedi but the anti-custodian part of my brain really, really doesn't want to fuck with it. 
 Smoke some weed and silence the tech part 
 weed usually makes me want to play with shit more 😂. But I get your point. 
 Definitely fun to mess around with. Nutsack is pretty cool. 

No one is advocating for anyone to put allot in it. 

Tool in the toolbelt 
 Who would manage the lightning gateway? 
 This is a good question. 
 My understanding is that you can’t have multiple lightning nodes using the same key or you get unpredictable behavior. Maybe that’s just for routing nodes?

I wonder if we could somehow shard the private key using FROST so that outbound payments are still federated? I’m out of my depth on this one. 
 What are the incentives? Sounds to me like the gateway carries all the risk and the costs. 
 Hypothetically they could collect fees from the guardians periodically. Or if we can figure out how to federate the lightning node itself then each of the guardians could be partially responsible. Mints need to collect fees over time anyway or else they’re incentivized to rug and/or quit. 
 I’ll risk some Sats 
 Yes. 
 In. 
 How did they solve the trust problem? 
 you join a fedi that's ran by reputable people. they're web of trust based. 
 Reputable people? So lets go back to twitter and use a plattform of reputable people? 
 What does this mean? I genuinely don't know anything lol 
 nostr:nprofile1qqswq087qywczsjtkc9p960tpjcvn35gcdr39smefsr49cr33vmfauspz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7suuvdz launched today. Fedi is a way to scale Bitcoin with community trusted guardians. 
 so it's not a copy of Spring Browser?
 
 fedimint is less likely to be rug pulled since it's federated with multiple guardians, compared to ecash, is that correct 
 Thanks, will try it out 👀👀 still not entirely sure what it does. I might be too stupid for tbis. But nostr:nprofile1qqswq087qywczsjtkc9p960tpjcvn35gcdr39smefsr49cr33vmfauspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz4gs4r Please make that Download button more visible lol:);) 
 Nope. No idea what it does or how to use it lol. Thought this would happen lol 
 As having ran a successful federation I'd say absolutely. 

If needed I can be a guardian.  
 Can you hook fedimint up to a nostr app for zaps? 
 Bank with your community. Sounds like a perfect fit. 
 On the Fedi.app? 
 Can you please advise the best place I can go to learn more about the technical side of Bitcoin- Lightning, Fedi, nodes etc? Keen to expand my knowledge but unsure on the best web sources