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Saddle on up to a stool and spill the beans about your day, fire away with them questions, or let loose and give us the lowdown on your wild and woolly life. We're all ears, so don't hold back!

We're open round the clock, so mosey on in whenever you please!

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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @noknees 5 Jul

is the fireworks effect permanent @k00b? can it not be made sesasonal? it damages SN's authenticity i initially joined SN for and does not match with the theme i think the lightning was, say the flagship of SN

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117 sats \ 1 reply \ @Car 5 Jul

the fireworks has always been a thing on SN, also who doesn’t like explosions

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @noknees 5 Jul

always? i never knew about them lol until know but they look childish, more like birthday celebrations which would be ok for say one week before or after SN's birthday but if this is the new normal then I strongly oppose it

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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @cointastical 4 Jul

New theme?

What I see when loading SN, first time, in Incognito on Chrome (138.0.7204.96).

Hitting reload after, gets what I would expect to see.

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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @cointastical 5 Jul

Just did this again, but shows normal now -- though with the July 4th fireworks.

Assuming whatever it was causing that was related to the introduction of the fireworks, and has since been fixed.

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 5 Jul

We did have to change some CSS for the fireworks. It looks like it might’ve partially loaded the new stuff for some reason.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @noknees 5 Jul

is there a special snow effect for winter season under development?

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187 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 4 Jul

All this talk about Spark got me wondering if SN could benefit from using an (opt-in) statechain for zaps between stackers. The trust model of SN is already weaker than that of a statechain, but just thinking about statechain support feels like heresy, lol

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185 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 4 Jul

I'm open to exploring it and even defaulting stackers to it (if they don't attach a wallet) so long as we call it what it is, whatever it is.

I'm afraid to use Spark though because I get the impression they will not hesitate to shotgun kyc people if they need to. Without Spark, it'd probably be nontrivial to add lightning support to a statechain we run ourselves though.

The most pressing question I have is how offline receives are handled if they are handled at all. They probably have enough cracked cryptographers to make zaplocker not a liquidity locker, but idk.

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15 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 4 Jul

They probably have enough cracked cryptographers to make zaplocker not a liquidity locker, but idk.

I wonder if that's possible somehow. Maybe with a weird script representing the channel? Otherwise Spark would need to generate the hash of something they don't know, yet reveal something only when they've paid the wallet (which is offline and can't interact to reveal anything).

Maybe hedghog channels could be a solution.

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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 4 Jul

Spark explains here how to receive offline via lightning:

Seems like the main idea is that the receiver has to create shards of the preimage and distribute them to the group of Spark operators in advance. Then the receiver can go offline and still receive on lightning.

But regarding:

All operations here are atomic under the same 1/n or minority/n trust assumptions, as the operators must work together to recreate the preimage.

In our case, it would be just us, and we're always colluding with ourselves, so maybe it couldn't be considered atomic anymore?

So I think this whole idea of using a statechain like Spark does completely falls apart when it's all run by the same entity (as is currently still also the case with Spark).

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 4 Jul

Ah, so they’re leaning on the federation to make receives less custodialish.

This is beginning to sound a bit like a fedimint in terms of the regulatory approach. I have a hard time believing that a federation obfuscates custodianship enough that regulators won’t crush them.

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20 sats \ 7 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 4 Jul

Happy 4th! Bitcoin is freedom! We marched in our parade with the cub scouts!

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21 sats \ 6 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 4 Jul

Congratulations, the boys love being in a parade!! Did many of them get to carry flags? Was it the whole pack or just a den or two?

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20 sats \ 5 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 4 Jul

Whole pack, we passed out candy. We passed out flags on Memorial Day! We also just got back from camp for the first time!

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11 sats \ 4 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 5 Jul

Was the camp an overnighter? They just love those overnighters with the campfire dinner and the “scary” stories. Our favorite meals were the foil meals each kid made for themselves.

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20 sats \ 3 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 5 Jul

Yes 3 nights out in a tent. My boys just finished kindergarten and first grade and it was their first time camping. They did awesome!

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11 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 5 Jul

Yes, that first time makes it or breaks it. They will love it right up until they are Eagle Scouts! My boys only started as Tiger Cubs, though.

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132 sats \ 2 replies \ @stackerstats 4 Jul

Last week of June: ratio of zapped posts to post that got 0 zaps.

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 5 Jul

Cool stats. Do you have api access?

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stackerstats 5 Jul

I didn't use api. just copy-pasted every post from every day into a file and then parsed it for csv.

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89 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 4 Jul

Bitcoin Price on 4th of July

2010: $0.01
2011: $15
2012: $7
2013: $77
2014: $640
2015: $260
2016: $670
2017: $2,600
2018: $6,580
2019: $11,765
2020: $9,080
2021: $34,975
2022: $19,750
2023: $31,050
2024: $58,660
2025: $108,100

WatcherGuru

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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 4 Jul

Did a Zeus swap it was magical

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11 sats \ 9 replies \ @jakoyoh629 4 Jul

Can someone cut the animation? It's bricking my tablet. @k00b

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11 sats \ 8 replies \ @ek 4 Jul

There’s a button in the footer to disable the animation

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1011 sats \ 7 replies \ @jakoyoh629 4 Jul

I've got that setting turned off, but the animation still pops up and then freezes my tablet. Pages are taking forever to load, and it just keeps refreshing.

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29 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek 4 Jul

Ohhh, that’s a bug, will fix

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 4 Jul

It also is the case on my phone. My phone is on 🔥! (But it's kind of a nice butt warmer kind of thing)

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 5 Jul

It’s fun, nice work!

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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scroogey 5 Jul

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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 5 Jul

sorry, we didn't deploy the fix yet

/cc @k00b

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153 sats \ 1 reply \ @supratic 4 Jul

mempool unbelievably empty... Everything happening on ~lightning these days!

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94 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 4 Jul

Mempool emptiness gives me crummies in my tummies.

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113 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 4 Jul

The true history is nothing like the heroic and glorious past that has been portrayed in books by a biased few. 🧐📚

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s3 4 Jul

#Thought ⚡⚡

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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder 4 Jul

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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 4 Jul

Do Americans still deserve to celebrate July 4th?

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 4 Jul

25 percent of the country doesn't deserve to live here

not joking

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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 4 Jul

It looks like ICE just got the money to greatly expand its efforts to deport the 30 million illegal aliens that are living here! There may even be rewards for doing so.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s3 4 Jul

This is a question for reflection 🤔.. I think so...

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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @suraz 4 Jul

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41 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 4 Jul

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127 sats \ 6 replies \ @grayruby 4 Jul

The fireworks are much more impressive on my laptop compared to mobile.

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86 sats \ 5 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 4 Jul

I noticed a difference between monitors too. On one, the firework leaves a shadow after it explodes and it just stays there. On the other, nothing sticks, it’s clean.

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61 sats \ 4 replies \ @sox 4 Jul

AFAIK this bug should only affect Safari users, so the shadow would also appear on Safari Desktop other than mobile.

It's part of the huge collection of Safari idiocies.

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118 sats \ 3 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 4 Jul

and Brave browser!

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67 sats \ 2 replies \ @sox 4 Jul

Interesting, so my assumption (so not AFAIK but AFAICT) is incorrect 👀

Didn’t look into it, yet

edit: it gets cleaned up after a while though

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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 4 Jul

I like the effects of the fireworks and I am using the Brave Browser on an iPad!

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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 4 Jul

I'm using brave browser on my desktop

I like the fireworks, I can't tell if it's a bug

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261 sats \ 4 replies \ @flat24 4 Jul

I found this is X. And it didn't seem a bad idea, the first time I don't want to vomit 🤢 Some publication with those acronyms.

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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Bell_curve 4 Jul

you should be getting more zaps

but SN community can be too politically correct and humorless

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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @flat24 5 Jul

but SN community can be too politically correct.

This phrase caught my attention, this too subjective, depends on who sees it and how that person thinks.

For some LGBT acronyms represent their collective and flag. (Why don't you like the joke, and obvious does not seem correct)

And on the other hand, we have those who understand, that you are LGBT acronym and all this movement. They are used to manipulate the population, make them more stupid and weaken the world population implementing this disastrous and disgusting ideology. (For them, it may seem correct as a joke or meme related to the subject)

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 5 Jul

did I say politically correct? I meant they have no sense of humor

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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 5 Jul

Do not worry, my main intention here is to express my ideas or thoughts. If after that I also get some Sats will be fine and much better.

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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 4 Jul

"He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."

He = King George

Happy Insurrection Day!

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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 4 Jul

Looks like the known rules of warfare of those merciless Indian Savages have somehow spread like a scourge or plague amongst all nations!

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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 4 Jul

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167 sats \ 1 reply \ @ignaciob 4 Jul

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #361:

describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used for HTLC relay in LN
CTV+CSFS advantages for PTLCs
Vault output script descriptor
Continued discussion about CTV+CSFS advantages for BitVM
Open letter about CTV and CSFS
OP_CAT enables Winternitz signatures
Commit/reveal function for post-quantum recovery
OP_TXHASH variant with support for transaction sponsorship
Optech Newsletter #361 Recap Podcast