I'm at TAB and I just bombed a wot workshop lol. Couldn't get the demo to load in safari and then stumbled around trying to explain what I expected to be able to show.

I need a nap then back to TAB

Trying not to build up too much of a PR backlog while k00b is at tabconf

A prototype for Joinstr Apps

Getting my routine/schedule solid. Seeking new income sources (passive/hourly billing) Closing out non IT/R&D/business system backlog (like getting my live working streaming setup done, finalizing my VsCode configs ).

I’m on Matrix and Discord if anyone wants to co-work (10am - 7pm CST and usually a couple hours on each side of that).

I've been looking at the peer connection behavior in the Bitcoin Core peer-to-peer network code, identified a half dozen issues, and proposed fixes for them along with the logging improvements that helped uncover them:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28248

Anyone interested to review or test is very welcome to do so. A big thank you to Vasil Dimov for his initial review.

High school teacher here. Building my own bitcoin node, learning Umbrel and onboarding students to anything and everything tech.

WhatWhat

We're rebooting a lightning wallet project that's lnurl and nostr native. The idea is that you can connect to all your lightning address / custodial accounts, and your home node, to use the balances together opportunistically from a refined and unified interface.

Because it's nostr native, you'll be able to give friends and family access to your node- without a dedicated webserver or hectic networking configs. Just provide an npub and relay for your node, and very light node app will handle the connections and accounting.

WhyWhy

Having been around Lightning a long time, the state of wallets is still very sad. To that end, they've actually gotten worse in many cases.

It used to be that wallets emphasized connecting to a remote node, but UX for this never panned out and the incentives for users to run their own node really never materialized as a result. Running a node for $20 in fuckaround sats just hasn't been worth it.

This resulted in most every major wallet pivoting to mobile nodes, which are a disaster in concept. Lightning loses all meaning when you go to make a payment and it takes 5 minutes for the wallet to boot, only to fail at pathfinding because it's graph is out of sync and the LSP is a bottleneck.

Mobile nodes are also not very useful for receiving payments or connecting to web apps. As a result, we see hair-brained hacks like Bolt12 being proposed that effectively just re-invent Tor. The same Tor which is notoriously unreliable, and who's false privacy narrative subjects users to intel agency sybil surveillance. It's madness pushed by a select few that seemingly want to the network to be more centralized and custodial by breaking it further.

Nostr based accounts however makes remote connection easy, and this re-incentivizes Uncle Jim nodes now that they can easily share access to friends, family, and web applications.

HowHow

The wallet is a simple PWA, but we can get around some PWA limitations if needed by wrapping it up as a native app with something like Ionic- ensuring continuity across all platforms.

Lnurl-Pay and Lnurl-Withdraw are basically all one needs to use a site like stacker news as a wallet source. Scan a withdraw link -> prompt user to add this to spending sources. Enter a lightning address -> add this to receiving sources.

Just like that, stacker can decentralizes the network away from Wallet of Satoshi.

Using a Nostr based RPC for home nodes requires the additional daemon on nodes themselves, but completely eliminates the web server requirement and is much lighter than alternatives like BTCPay. Nostr is much less complicated than proprietary stuff like LNC/Macaroons, and can easily be dropped into existing Nostr apps.

FeedbackFeedback

What do you think of this effort? are you a likely user? how do you feel about a nostr daemon on your node? If you don't have a node, is the ability to do more with it more likely to entice you to set one up?

edit: Spare me the Bolt12 defense, there's maybe 3 developers that know more about it than I and they aren't risking their paycheck to debate it.

A guide on Bitcoin Nodes, offering insights into their definition, functioning, why you should run one, historical evolution, as well as software and hardware aspects.

Skipping TABC to work.

Shipping a new release of Mutiny hopefully today which will have more nostr features like a personalized zaplife feed.

Then going heads down for the rest of the week to work on route finding algorithms that take into account the concept of "highways" and "exits" based on node reliability and number of channels / liquidity. The key is the compare the results with a custom prober based on LDK and record each probe success and failure to compare algorithms and rate different LSPs as the entry point.

Building looker studios dashboards for people who have a hard-on for first click source attribution, like it even makes any sense, but hey it makes them feel better about themselves, so who am I to argue?

Working on my self by training and trying to improve my financial situation.

Cheers

Still deep into the homeric world, discovering the role of the heroe in pre-classic times and the life of women in the bronze age, based on Homer's and Hediod's epic poems. It's lovely to dive into another cultural dimenson when reality turns into a gigantic shitshow.

Working on radio.noderunners.org More functionality has arrived. As has a basic web-interface!

Trying to learn how to stack more and zap better

Trying to apply proof-of-fairness to a Treasure Hunting Game

Working on my spiritual life.

Translating & trading

Learning HardwoodJS (LOVING it), and LND. And designing, researching (mostly parsing apple review crypto guidelines..), and building a stacker.news / reddit / twitter competitor (or rather, augmentor). In all probability I'll buy you all in a few years in any case so no worry ;) <3

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