@andreneves
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It is entirely a side effect of new security systems, coupled with a need for improved internal processes for escalating specific customer support issues.
We're heads down resolving these edge cases. Please pign me directly if you're affected.
TLDR: new security systems in place to detect fraudulent usage of ZBD app had some edge-cases (@eddieoz was one of them), and our Customer Support team was unable to escalate things in a timely manner.
We're revisiting some of these processes internally to do better for our users.
If you are one of the few affected users please feel free to ping me directly at @andreneves on Twitter or email me directly at andre@zbd.gg.
Apologies for this issue.
Hey all, Andre here CTO/founder of ZBD here. Thanks for sharing this. I'm looking at it with the team right now. Will provide updates asap. Apologies to anyone that's facing issues accessing their accounts -- we'll get to the bottom of this I'm sure.
@fiatjaf is being modest here, he basically wrote all of ZBD Bot for Telegram. We're also going to be bringing some of the best features of LNTXBot into it to make the migration from LNTXBot to ZBD Bot as smooth as possible for folks.
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What is most exciting to you about running the most signal-to-noise Bitcoin conference out there? Any specific highlights?
Do you think of any use case for Lightning Addresses or another abstraction layer that could be used in the protocol?
How do you see the scaling of podcasting2.0 as it relates to keysend pubkeys? Will all podcasters need to run their own node / get their own pubkeys in order to join the network? Do you think that's scalable long term?
This is a tough one. But probably Smash. Just imagine global esports tournaments where your health is based on sats you come in with. The more hits, the more sats you take from opponents - hunger games style. Pretty epic imo
ZBD Brawl is a Smash-like game that aims to present that scenario live in colors. We’re releasing it in the next few months, lookout for that!
Not sure I understand what you mean by 3rd apps to be honest. Is that 3rd party apps? Are you saying Wheel of Trivia has ads to get you to download other games?
If so this is a pretty standard practice for in-game ads to show App Store downloadable content.
Sorry, but maybe I’m not understanding the question. Where does TikTok come in?
Sci-fi, audiobooks, gym, internet things, building weird websites, food. But mostly I do Bitcoin/LN and ZBD stuff 20hrs out of every day.
It really depends on whether you’re using a 3rd party service provider or if you are running the Bitcoin infrastructure yourself. There are tools like BTCPayServer that make it possible for you to host a sophisticated Bitcoin/Lightning setup from home pretty easily. That being said Lightning nodes require active management, unlike Bitcoin Core nodes.
I’d say pick your flavor. Maybe test with a provider first and then spend time and resources moving it to your own infrastructure if it makes sense? It’s really dependent on your technical profile imo.
ZEBEDEE is a fintech infrastructure provider for the gaming industry, and we focus on providing Bitcoin-based solutions to partner game developers/game studios like Viker Games.
Not really a specific question, but more of a general take:
If we (Bitcoiners) want people to see Bitcoin as money, we need to think of providing the same, or better, money experience that common folk users have today. Different people value different things - sovereign hard money argument doesn’t sell to all types of people.
It’s okay to want different things out of Bitcoin.
Yeah a bit different offering than what ZBD is aiming for but still very cool. I mean hybrid more in the sense that users can hold keys but ZBD can act as the LSP for liquidity provision and etc.
  1. Short answer - Yes. Long Answer - Yes, wanna do it with us?
  2. There have been discussions of payto:lightning@address.com for example. I think it's possible, but SMTP is an established protocol and I'm not into the weeds of what would take to introduce changes. To be honest it just depends on how big (and how quickly) Bitcoin/LN get online. If the demand is there, there will be those building the user experiences that end-users expect of modern systems and platforms. I think it's more likely that an email client will adopt LN Address sending/receiving on the side rather than on the SMTP protocol. But I'm not too into the weeds here like I said.
  3. That sounds super cool. We have thought of ways to use Lightning Address to do similar things like that inside our product suite as well. Stay tuned ;)
  4. Hybrid custodial approaches. LSPs. Hosted channels. Fiat-to-fiat-through-LN-Address. Stateless invoices. High availability for Lightning nodes.