Lolololololololol remember this? Some people just wanna put you down. Small zap energy.

https://i.imgur.com/V9WjNv4.png


1) what


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Woot, I'll check later thanks for reporting.


Enter /link and import your wallet into BlueWallet or Zeus.


Ship it an rip it ⚡


Does Amethyst only work with 1k sat zaps? That's some big zap energy.


I take it back, Amethyst loads an INVOICE in your wallet so I think it can do zaps. Sorry for the confusion.


You can use Alby + LN.tips together btw. It's the way I use it.

Enter "/link" in the bot, add a new LNDHUB wallet in Alby and enter your credentials there.


That was a lot of zaps in one post.


No. You need a zap compatible lightning address provider and a zap-compatible nostr client.

If the client opens up your wallet with the lnurl, it can't work because the client itself needs to send special zap info to the zap endpoint for the zap to work.

What you should be seeing is your nostr client asking for an amount, you enter it, then an INVOICE opens in your wallet that you pay.

Amethyst can show zaps but I think it can't pay zaps.


Very heavy lifting, but I feel you.

Use: https://sms4sats.com/

to sign up to shit


Put the Lightning address into your nostr profile. Make sure to add your Key to LightningTIpBot.

Here is a guide:

#[3]


Alby doesn't have NIP-57 yet, do they?


self-sovereign pleb 💪


Ecash on NFC cards? What is this? The cypherpunk that everyone has been talking about so much??

💜🥜😎


Here, take this guide:

#[2]


Dear Pleb,

get a NIP-57 Lightning address, do it now. It's a Lightning address that supports zaps you know. You can also use vida.life or stacker.news. I don't care if you stay on ln.tips or not. You can change it back anytime you want to your wallet of satoshi address or something when they finally implement it themselves.

I don't make a single sat with you. I just want us to have some fun.

Here you go. Click it: https://ln.tips 👈


You aren't zappable cos ur address is not NIP-57


Bitcoiners are a truly incredible bunch 💜

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_1206685b86f73985fcc1b5023e6b149d0b3ac5f3471431e2d2ac65326ed74343.png


The like buttons and stories and all that will win though, watch.


nostrday, all my troubles seemed so zapped away 🎶


I am therefore I stack


I spam therefore I am


I zap therefore I am


I code therefore I am


I ship therefore I am


(☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞ Mah man!


basically zappin


Sorry not sorry

https://void.cat/d/FVYpiwFyvStVRUZoEM8jEH.webp


Thanks ser!


https://LN.tips 👈 they meant.

Chat with the bot and enter /nostr add <your_pubkey>


Use BlueWallet, IMO it works better there. Although Zeus is amazing for controlling a node.


🥜🟣⚡🌮🤙

https://void.cat/d/YVp8irB8fx7MNRtfbj3wKg.webp


I can't follow you harder


Let the FOMO intensify! Zap those posts and let all the normies flow in! First the influencers, then their followers, then everyone.

And suddenly they're all bitcoiners. Excellent.

https://media4.giphy.com/media/8fen5LSZcHQ5O/giphy.gif


needs testflight and a good kick (restart)


reckless af


This whole thing is a test in production! 🤣


Some Lightning things are so hard to test in dev. Like how on earth am I supposed to test whether Damus shows the counter or not (I don't even have damus!)


Very strange cos there are others here saying the opposite!

What could it be? Maybe reload the note? Nostr events keep flowing in and sometimes it clogs up.


no kink shaming detected


Oh yeah sorry about all Damus plebs who got stuck on the app store, I think you need the Testflight version to see the zaps counter go BRRRRR.


The zaps literally vibrate in my pocket, jussayin


It literally vibrates in my pocket so.....


Hallelujah!


ZAP HARDER I guess?


u on damus ser?


Whenever I push an update on ln.tips and announce it here, my wallet goes BRRRRR.

Feels really good to know that they are people out there who appreciate the work you put in. 💜


Damus users, do you see the zaps now??

Are you entertained???


Alright it should be fixed now! Give me a zap for all the Damus users out there! ⚡💜🤙


don't zap me bro (you literally can't)


I'mma restart the whole ln.tips infrastructure real quick

https://media1.giphy.com/media/32mC2kXYWCsg0/giphy.gif


Ah shiiiii I've put the user's pubkey there not the bot's

thanks will let me fix dat real quick


I'm trying

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_3fd19ec70da6c74bdc4e141f600050fb49a582098a9a1f2ed42dac0e9accd9d3.png


Did you add your nostr pubkey?

/nostr add <pubkey>


Not even if you get a normal invoice from here?

https://ln.tips/.well-known/lnurlp/callebtc?amount=10000


Your address is wrong, you sure you're btcwarrior420?


LNbits 🤙


Yeah sure with the LNURLw extension!


Gm nick


Yes I see it!


No, I don't agree with what you said.


Thank you. If you check that event, the SHA256() of the description tag == commit hash of the bolt11 invoice.

Here is proof:

Commit hash:

61e3345be17aaea73029440186e1b292f16470d50bdd39deb2e954077a5e4eda

Check here:

https://lightningdecoder.com/lnbc100n1p377ua9pp524mpqcuanqd76ywlnxxkda5ng4cfshpfq8wwaww7snm5muwyj9eshp5v83ngklp02h2wvpfgsqcdcdjjtckgux4p0wnnh4ja92qw7j7fmdqcqzpgxqyz5vqsp5ftkq45ul7yx6hlja49j5m06g7az6092lgxuqc2lfqx3mrs77lpvs9qyyssqwe24dxc50ufv2yqgn23me4ly9tndugvx4slqrc0ggnwqqlrd72ynsg7gn3gg85xchu8w2etjrk6x9uuzyjx8k0tdg8szzcjqq65kuhcqjaycry

Sha256(description_tag):

61e3345be17aaea73029440186e1b292f16470d50bdd39deb2e954077a5e4eda

Check here: https://emn178.github.io/online-tools/sha256.html


That's odd, then I must be doing something wrong. I would like to know what though.


That WOS is probably going to report zaps back to nostr so that they show up in the counter next to a post like they do with ln.tips


Still an issue that needs resolution. I can't say why though.

Do *any* zaps show up on Damus at all? Is it ln.tips bring broken or Damus? I don't know that. LN.tips zaps do show up on Amethyst and Snort.social.

#[2] would know.


*without breaking other legitimate Bitcoin use cases


There is no way to remove it, so better just STFU


#[0] get a zappable Lightning address here https://ln.tips

Afaik you pass your donations on to charity iirc from one of your pods. Let them zap!


Trying to retrain my muscle memory from unconsciously typing "tw <Enter>" into my browser address bar to "sn <Enter>".

(I'm using snort.social primarily)


# LN.tips 💜 nostr

🔥 New: LightningTipBot (LN.tips) now also support NIP-05 identifiers.

Now that you can add your nostr pubkey to the bot (initially for NIP-57), it was a no-brainer to also implement this.

You can use *the same address* as an identifier ✅ and as a Lightning address ⚡ for receiving zaps.

### How it works:

In LightningTipBot (https://ln.tips 👈) enter

/nostr add <your_nostr_pubkey>

If you already did this for zaps, you don't need to do it again.

Now add your_username@ln.tips as a NIP-05 identifier to your nostr profile and boom, you're verified.

https://void.cat/d/UyME4Yx8tGQU1aqMJxqGkd.webp


What if I told you that I can see Wallet of Satoshi devs experimenting with Zaps in the logs of the LightningTipBot server (they are using their relay).


Would be cool to be able to see if someone has a zap-enabled Lightning address or not. I feel more inclined to zap people who have one because you see the counter go up on nostr (and get some feedback as the zapper).

Currently that's only ln.tips and vida.live afaik.


But i see your nip05 identifier here ser! have a little zap


They even have their own echo chambers full of menchildren who cheer for each other's toxicity. Like they need to give each other love and confirmation because they lack it in real life xD

some pathetic shit


You can get a mobile native app experience by connecting your TipBot account to BlueWallet (same as with Alby on desktop). In Bluewallet, import a new lightning wallet and enter your credentials.


Sometimes I see people I follow on twitter for the first time posting something here and I think "hmm I should follow you", click on their profile and notice that I already follow them because of the insanely helpful "import Twitter follow list" feature in snort.social.

It's so damn useful.


You don't have to do anything and it's how the bot works.


Which nostr client allows you to import the relays of another profile with a single click again?


if this is real and not stock photo, omg let's be friends.


Rainy day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDqULFUg6CY


I get asked multiple times an hour how to connect LightningTipBot to Alby so excuse me if I sound like a broken record to some, but if you haven't seen it yet, here is how:

#[0]


Posted from iris.to :)


Guys what's going on. Sometimes I reload snort.social and I see nothing but black.

Been happening for a while now. Open it in anonymous tab, works. Delete browser storage, works. Use it for a bit, reload and black.

Come back a couple minutes later and it works again. Javascript console has no errors I can identify as the source.

WTF.


I know it's haram but this is also very funny 😝

https://void.cat/d/W1iK42rFTbeD1SKpKKFFsR.webp


Dude you're making me cry 💜 zap is love

https://void.cat/d/SCZ1CpreNAbfj5y8zaNyJg.webp


Gm, stay humble and stack zaps


Remember the Cashu ecash torch on nostr?

I member! 💜🥜


We already had couple of Cashu ecash chains here as well. Very fun times!


Yeah, I mean bot's been creating thousands of zap receipts. Nobody has given me any authority to do so.  No proofs needed. Even if, those could be "faked" as well.

Same as follower count and likes, everything in nostr is easy to fake.


zapchain


/link /link /link /link /link /link /link /link

/link eet

Alby + LightningTipBot == hyperzapperization

https://void.cat/d/BgsRHGMLNiau1Cy6bNwjju.webp

#[0]


Since zaps are still easy to fake, there will be chaos at some point and then probably nostr clients will create lists of pubkeys of zap providers that they want to trust.

The pubkey of LightningTipBot is npub1lntjpsudnm3nwxy0g74vs3wumr6epnxmf2fgkakauxqc0dxf6d7smau8ar

It's not used for anything but zap receipts for now.

Stay safe zappers 💜


There are no limits in the bot, but please be careful!


iykyk


💜 This was a zap on nostr.


Do they send the username in the LNURL comment or the payer data?


You have to be zapped TO a nip57 Lightning wallet (like ln.tips) FROM a nip57 nostr client (like snort.social)


Some people still saying "I want zaps so badly". Why are you waiting? Here is how

#[0]


Don't forget LightningTipBot is 100% non-profit so your donations really make a big difference. We literally pay for the bare-metal server with those zaps you're sending.

Over and out (for today) 🫡


I don't know the exact number because I've started properly logging only after a few updates. I'm 100% sure though that its at least 1.5k zaps.

In half a day.


self-zapping is not shown in snort.social apparently


Either Damus or I'm doing something wrong but the counter doesn't show up there (anymore?)

Works in Snort.social and Amethyst though.


HMMMMMMM 🤔

Wouldn't that be terrible UX? Snort.social is so much better!


Added more tolerance for websocket connections in ln.tips to publish zap receipts to relays. Should be more reliable now.


Can you share it with me somehow (Telegram?)

I'll give it a try. Wanna figure out why users say they can't see the zaps.


Jus to confirm: Do you see the amount zapped in Damus?


How do I get into this wallet garden? I need to debug them zaps.


Are zaps on Damus only in Testflight? And if so, can I use testflight on my Mac? (I don't have an iPhone).


Well the zap notes are valid. We have to ask #[3] if he knows why they might not show up.


To users of the nostr clients in the list in the bottom.


I'm recording a podcast in this virtual world with Zach from Value Stack Podcast and guess what we'll be talking about today! 😂

https://void.cat/d/CmAMtwVrcH9csQLmnSN5SQ.webp


# NIP-57 support (update)

💜 Sending (Nostr clients):
- Snort.social
- Damus
- Amethyst
- maybe more?

⚡ Receiving (Lightning wallets):
- LN.tips
- VIDA
- StackerNews
- strike.army
- maybe more?


# NIP-57 support

💜 Sending (Nostr clients):
- Snort.io
- Damus
- maybe more?

⚡ Receiving (Lightning wallets):
- https://LN.tips
- VIDA
- StackerNews
- strike.army
- maybe more?


Sending: Snort.io and Damus, maybe more?

Receiving: https://LN.tips, VIDA, StackerNews, maybe more?


I use LightningTipBot via Telegram, it works on iOS, Android, Web, Desktop, everywhere.

Get a wallet here: https://ln.tips


Made a post for the normies on Twitter about Zaps on nostr.  Reposting here👇

At first I thought zaps on nostr are just a little gimmick like most Bitcoin Lightning tipping. I couldn't have been more wrong.

Zaps are going to accelerate nostr and Lightning adoption at the same time. 🧵⚡

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_928af8ad31a8c77ef92b1013f04a014b48c82790d03e21593d343f4d542c97ff.jpg

Lightning tipping on nostr:

Nostr users can add a Lightning address to their profile "natively". Nost clients display a tipping button below each post. If you like a post, you can send Bitcoin directly to the author.

Takes a couple clicks, feels like sending a "like".

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_4228f17f88e2fe1bebb947aa2bf7d3962db0ecf3c6b9bc33a48099470089476f.jpg

What are zaps?

Zaps are a way for a Lightning node to signal back to all other nostr users that a tip was paid for a note. It is based on LNURL and works with Lightning addresses out of the box. It's easy to implement, took me couple hours.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/57.md

This means that everyone can see how much has been tipped by users for a note! This is the crucial part!

This is what will increase the FOMO by 1000x.

Everyone can see how much Bitcoin a good post can make. Why join nostr? You'll get paid for it! Why use Lightning? For nostr!

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_2c2d6402ca53c6926434f05925ccb8141531976354ad6539ffce741ccd4594bc.png

Got FOMO yet?

There are only a couple Lightning address providers out there that support this for now but already I'm seeing insane activity. #[0], #[1] and @LightningTipB0t  are others.

I know what counts as lot of LN activity, trust me, this is *insane activity*.

I've just added this to
@LightningTipB0t
 (non-profit) and you can try it yourself. It takes a minute to set up. Use whichever service you like but if you use one with NIP57 zap support, you'll drive adoption.

Here is a short how to: #[3]

Don't sleep on this.

I received more Lightning tips on nostr in a day than in my entire time on Twitter. You can too.

Find me on nostr: #[2]

Get your Lightning address: http://ln.tips 👈


Added a bunch of more relays so the zaps show up on more ... relays!

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_a4d8aa4307ad64f15b32ea3a49336c36ee404dd14c5c3e703abe5c6b603567c9.png


Maybe because of relay mismatch? Idk, #[4] am I doing something wrong that Damus doesn't like?


Now that you can add your nostr pubkey to your https://ln.tips wallet (with /nostr add <pubkey>), obviously I'm gonna add support for NIP-05 identifiers as well so you can use your@ln.tips address for both, identification and receiving Lightning tips.

Should be a piece of cake but first I've gotta get out and enjoy the sunny day.

🤙


Different bot! LNTXBOT is down (RIP) this is LightningTipBot


Btw, I'm also sending the zaps with LightningTipBot by connecting it to the Alby browser extension.

# Here is how

- In LightningTipBot enter "/link"
- In Alby, add a new LNDHUB wallet
- Enter the credentials from above

Now you can send and receive zaps from your wallet on https://ln.tips 🔥


Is there a page where I can enter a pubkey and see all registered events from that pubkey?


Understanding how onion routing (used in Lightning) works will make your brain go 💥.

Layers of data wrapped around each other, each layer decryptable only by one node in the route who then passes the inner layers of the onion to the next one.

https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook/blob/develop/10_onion_routing.asciidoc


Beautiful how in Bitcoin so many ultra smart people are willing to share their ideas with everyone else for free.

Collaboration and open source culture in Bitcoin is stronger than ever. This is the true signal. Everything else is a derivative.


edgy


Btw I love nostr and all (I developing on it) but I also think the hype is overblown af.

*ducks*

Don't hate me for it. The irrationality of some influencers is just very sus.


Keeper


He's right @npub18jgxqshg38cgzcv43zvqhnc7hjn223psy2kkmkpqt2azd9thyy4sxjc5gt

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_929a1d5b401a24faa6c082779ff18eac28de2aab204acd7a8dfa1aa0ff5293fa.png


Does a "zap provider" need to know a nostr user's nsec private key?

@npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s


Stop right there

https://i.imgur.com/5lKoQv7.jpg


I didn't get it: do zaps notes need to know the nostr private key of the receiver?


https://cashu.me
https://nutstash.app
and `$ pip install cashu`

Be cautious out there!


There are no accounts!


Isn't this simply beautiful?

Sending Bitcoin with Cashu ecash via nostr (Python client on the left and nutstash.app on the right). You enter the receiver pubkey, press confirm, and that's it.

Absolutely mind-blowing.

https://nostr.build/av/nostr.build_0dfa7808cc879cd3d7cc01900466664ef0e5ff38ffa126ceaaef00035b65b2f5.mov


Thank you for the relay btw, been using it myself!


That's not so bad!


What's the DB size?


I think Wallet of Satoshi was broken but it works again.


Why doesn't it work?


If you're looking for your Twitter followers and friends, one of the best ways to do this is to visit https://snort.social/new and use their tool to find them. The only caveat is that Twitter users must first verify their account ownership with nostr.directory.


... when someone else is sitting next to you


Hello Lyn 🤙


👀 Ooooh this is soooo useful.

#[0] says:

Attention NEW Nostr users! Here's how you find your friends!

Visit: snort.social/new
Login with your private key (use the Nos2x or Alby extensions to keep your key safe)
Enter your Twitter name in the space listed
Tap or Click on the Check button
Tap or Click Follow All


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Yes, kinda true if your pubkey is used for other things as well.


I think might be on to something here. A few thoughts:

- NIP-4 only prevents other from reading the token. With P2SH, even if the token is locked to your private key, you'd need to know about it somehow. The best way of knowing is to receive the token. It can be NIP-4 encrypted, but it doesn't need to, that's true.

- However, the amount is still public and anyone could check with the mint whether the token was claimed or not. Now that I'm thinking about this though, it seems like this doesn't have to be that way. You could restrict "token checking" to only the one who can fulfill the P2SH spending condition. Thanks for that!

- So now that we've established that NIP-4 encryption doesn't hurt and also improve your privacy, you could, in principle, use this to "store" the tokens you've received. In a typical ecash transaction though, you'd immediately ask the mint for a new token when you receive it. This doesn't have to be though. You can let some time pass before you do that. If the token is not P2SH-locked though, it could be double-spent by the sender.

- I like the idea of tightly integrating nostr to an ecash wallet, however, I'm pretty sure that data storage on nostr will not remain totally reliable, especially if you're using free relays. I wouldn't want to rely on my relays not disappearing over night.

- There is also a privacy concern: even if you can send from a random nostr key, receiving would need to be from your private key. The mint and maybe everyone else would know that something is happening. This might be solved using some sort of shared secret between you and the sender (for which you'd need an interactive protocol though).

- If a network of mint providers would run nostr relays specifically to solve this UX problem though.... I'll have to think about it!

Thanks for the inspiration! Please feel free to keep thinking with us and share your thoughts :)


Its not inherent to nostr but a part of Cashu. You can lock up tokens to a SH much like in bitcoin and only somekne who can solve that script (in this case a receiver, who owns a private key, could be nostr) can pay the token.

P2SH in Cashu isn't properly documented yet but im working on it. The Cashu spec (WIP) is here:

https://github.com/cashubtc/cashu/tree/main/docs/specs


this is the coolest shit I've seen for a a while


#[3] is a real magician btw.


Woot this is a secret preview version, not bad!


Yup, exactly. P2SH is already implemented in Cashu but it's not integrated into the nostr interface (yet?).


Kicking the hornet's nest...


About the security side, choice between two good *outbound* firewall

Lulu
https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu

Little Snitch
https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html


What's topnotch?


I installed most of these using brew :)


Thanks! I prefer the left one because it had more posts per meter 🙂


Seriously? Would that be terribly expensive to manufacture?


Cashu with Tor 😍