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 BITCOIN TWITTER USED TO BE MY MAIN NEWS SOURCE BUT nostr:npub1hxjnw53mhghumt590kgd3fmqme8jzwwflyx... 
 🫡 just followed them 
 I don’t like any of the candidates for president even the slightest bit, but i’m pretty sure ... 
 I see this now 
 ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE NOSTR ACCOUNTS BECOMING ACTIVE AGAIN AFTER MONTHS OF INACTIVITY.

NOSTR WILL B... 
 It's got me hooked 
 There is no amount of changes that bitcoin can do that will make Lightning scale to visa level pa... 
 Do you have a way of limiting the size of a federated mint? If you have a really desirable mint you mint end up with more funds than you feel confident with  
 Exactly these are things I would want to know when deciding how much to trust a specific mint  
 Starve them slowly

Every minute you spend on nostr vs twitter is a win

Every minute you spend o... 
 What is fountain? 
 Great video thank you. What is the difference between cashew and fedimint? 
 been reading the whole book aloud to myself to further improve my english and also focus and pres... 
 Great book  
 If you like or repost any of my notes you SHOULD get zapped automatically, still testing though s... 
 Using snort. Reposted and liked 👍  
 Not to burst anyone’s bubble, but the court ruling that forced the SEC to accept bitcoin ETFs i... 
 Is ETH still a thing? 
 bitcoin didn't pump

Were you wrong? 
 💯 the lack of bitcoin collateral will drive the price. 
 Really like tye link you make between Eastern philosophy and bitcoin.  I see lots of links too 
 They're a portfolio for ten31 and you can't verify?!? Highly sus.  
 Long term integrity will payoff in a bitcoin world.  Hopefully  
 Would Fedimint work via zaps on nostr? 
 As a person with a lot of social capital in the nostr/bitcoin community do you think you would be interested in being part of setting up a #fedimint federation down the road? 
 How many custodians need to rug before people learn?

Seems to me there is no limit  
 I am in the same boat as you. Tried many times to set up a lightning node and always ended up giving up. @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 has been talking anout #liquid recently. Thar seems easier to use and is less custodial than a custodial lightning wallet 
 Agreed. My hunch is non custodial lighting wallets is not the solution, lost hope of that. A sidechain such as liquid seems good but as its not being used I am assuming people don't like the tradeoffs on that either. 
 Looks like it since came back down  
 If I publish my annual node syncing tests on Christmas Eve, will anyone read them? 🤔 
 I always look at the results  
 It sounds small but compared to what the exchanges hold its a decent amount 
 More like a thousand unfortunately.  But thankfully that's not how it works  
 I am with you with liquid. From all my research liquid is a lot better than I custodial lightning wallet. I don't use lightning at the moment but would you liquid (squirts) on nostr. I think your on the right track 👍thanks for the insights #squirts 
 
 I want to be as non custodial as possible.  Want to use bitcoin for really small amounts on nostr and to send to friends without paying to open a channel. Lightning should be perfect but the only non custodial wallets like zeus need a large fee to set up the wallet. Am I missing a better wallet? 
 Anything we build on Bitcoin should have the baked in assumption that fees will go much higher th... 
 I am with you with liquid. From all my research liquid is a lot better than I custodial lightning wallet. I don't use lightning at the moment but would you liquid (squirts) on nostr. I think your on the right track 👍thanks for the insights #squirts 
 
 It pains me to say it after 3 years of building on it but I think lightning is ngmi, at least for... 
 I have had the same hope for many years now but we don't feel any closer 
 Small blocks seem best to preserve the decentralised store of value of bitcoin which for me is the main issue bitcoin sovles. But as a medium of exchange I do feel a non custodial lighting network is unusable. I do sometimes think we could increase the block size so more. Guessing you are a small blocker? 
 Hello @ZEUS 

Your app looks great but was going to charge me 77500 Sats to set up my lightning wallet. Just wanting to use it to mess around with makes it unusable. Do you think the fees will come down in the future or are they driven by the onchain fees? 
 
 Its a good tool. It's asking me to log in after a few questions. Which I don't really want to do 
 I even wonder if ww2 was any different  
 Ww1 I mean 
 Interesting people are interested.

What are you interested in? 
 Ending conditioned existence through bitcoin and yoga 
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 I had started to lose hope for lightning. But this truly seems like the missing part of the puzzle. It's made me really hopeful.  Looking forward to trying it 
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 Are you enjoying it?