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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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186 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 3h
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 3h
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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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 3h
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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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 3h
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 1h
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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Happy 4th! Bitcoin is freedom! We marched in our parade with the cub scouts!
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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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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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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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Last week of June: ratio of zapped posts to post that got 0 zaps.
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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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Did a Zeus swap it was magical
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Can someone cut the animation? It's bricking my tablet. @k00b
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11 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 6h
There’s a button in the footer to disable the animation
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1011 sats \ 2 replies \ @jakoyoh629 6h
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 \ 1 reply \ @ek 6h
Ohhh, that’s a bug, will fix
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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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153 sats \ 1 reply \ @supratic 6h
mempool unbelievably empty... Everything happening on ~lightning these days!
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94 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 5h
Mempool emptiness gives me crummies in my tummies.
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113 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 7h
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 7h
#Thought ⚡⚡
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Do Americans still deserve to celebrate July 4th?
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25 percent of the country doesn't deserve to live here
not joking
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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 7h
This is a question for reflection 🤔.. I think so...
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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @suraz 9h
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127 sats \ 6 replies \ @grayruby 9h
The fireworks are much more impressive on my laptop compared to mobile.
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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 8h
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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and Brave browser!
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67 sats \ 2 replies \ @sox 8h
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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I like the effects of the fireworks and I am using the Brave Browser on an iPad!
I'm using brave browser on my desktop
I like the fireworks, I can't tell if it's a bug
11 sats \ 1 reply \ @flat24 10h
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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you should be getting more zaps
but SN community can be too politically correct and humorless
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 11h
"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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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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Day 355 of nut 🌰 dropping 🥜 in the Saloon
cashu:cashuBo2FteCJodHRwczovL21pbnQubWluaWJpdHMuY2FzaC9CaXRjb2luYXVjc2F0YXSBomFpSABQBVDwSUFGYXCBpGFhAmFzeEA5Zjk1OWQyOGJmMTBjMTU0NzEzZGIyZWY5YTdiNzU0ZDMyN2M2MTE2YjIxNTg0NjhlZWYwMGQ4YWQzNTFlOWMwYWNYIQP09gykAq-RUoaw_u-ayyzaalt4CEYCxiqUqpgfmZM-fmFko2FlWCC8CL64EaQCYax2qV7oNYt5gSXjNMgAJQqbmTX8kdWJhWFzWCA4tS5MJo2JDaU1NQxvDudCiDrR_Cg24njWZWT5fChWoGFyWCDP8BsR-R2lb8n7ksOJCM2QgHeO7G6dH3CU9oOjBteiew
Want to harvest? Go here to get a Wallet to harvest this nut!
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167 sats \ 1 reply \ @ignaciob 11h
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
143 sats \ 3 replies \ @TNStacker 12h
Happy Fireworks!
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pew pew pew
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32 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG0RA 12h
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205 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 13h
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FTS, of course, but this time The Royal State FTRS and low and behold they were!
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FTS!
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Day 556 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 637 sats on 3Jul2025! Running total: 377,145 sats!
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