Site is great, this is quickly becoming my go-to for bitcoin news. Learned about the bitcoin mining council like half an hour before their live stream yesterday, got a ton of super helpful info from it. Thanks man.
Found this site through a random namedrop on Stephans new year podcast episode. I've been staying off Twitter for a while so hadn't heard of it anywhere before.
I check HN every day and now I have a second website to check :)
lnauth worked immediately (a bit surprisingly) using Zeus + my Umbrel over tor
Amazing stuff you've built here! I've always enjoyed trying out new things, especially technology related things, and I have to say this website is perhaps the most amazing proof of concept in my opinion for how lightning should and can work.
It's amazing four years ago I was sending my first $5 on chain to of my first purchase to my first mobile wallet from Coinbase. Wondering if it would go to where I wanted it. It did and a light bulb went off. Hundreds off transactions later and figuring out lightning a little, this platform is another one of those light bulbs. Great work!
Dear Keyan,
This is my first day on the project, many things are intuitive and not complicated (especially if I was previously on Hacker News), but damn, why are there such difficulties in terms of payment?
No, of course I understand everything, the idea of using only bitcoin and I can study Lightning without any problems.
But somehow I had never met Lightning before, and being in the ERC-20 (where my wallet became 900 days old today) I thought: why limit the number of participants who are willing to pay?
Anyway, it's cool what you've done and I'll certainly study everything I need to do to get onboarded. Thanks a lot!
ERC-20 (where my wallet became 900 days old today) I thought: why limit the number of participants who are willing to pay?
You mean, why don't we accept arbitrary ERC-20 tokens? Mostly because SN prefers bitcoin as an MoE, UoA, and SoV, so we'd have to exchange your tokens for bitcoin on our end and assume exchange rate risk. Hopefully more exchanges will support lightning going forward and ERC-20 people will have an easier time onboarding to lightning apps.
Anyway, it's cool what you've done and I'll certainly study everything I need to do to get onboarded.
Excellent! If you've been in the ecosystem a long time, and you've avoided using bitcoin somehow, it's probably worth getting acquainted. It's a whole other world and the world us stackers prefer.
I don't want to distract you, but if you have a minute, write your answer to the question: Don't the ERC-20 tokens, the same ETHer, perform the same functions you specified and are more common (user friendly, as for me)? I am sure that the choice of bitcoin was not accidental on your part. Thank you!
Don't the ERC-20 tokens, the same ETHer, perform the same functions you specified and are more common?
They do not provide those functions sufficiently for SN to depend on them. Hypothetically, we can use pots and pans as money but I wouldn't. We choose to use the best money available as a matter of taste and we expect others would prefer to do the same regardless of the other assets they are speculating on at any given moment (whether that's Apple stock or Solana tokens).
are more common?
They are certainly more plentiful, and unpredictably so, if that's what you mean.
The bottom line is really that we aren't an exchange and we aren't a broker. We are a social economy and efficient economies have a preferred money and ours is bitcoin.
To be fair, it's normal procedure during bug reports to ask the user about the behavior they are seeing and what they want to see so we can confirm we understand your problem and can fix it.
A good bug report should include this:
Description with actual behavior
Steps to reproduce
Expected behavior
Since you used "fix" here, we assumed you are talking about a bug and not about a feature request. Sorry for that misunderstanding.
Nothing, you seem to have the system set up exactly how you want it to be, to profit. Just like any business. Have fun being just like the rest. While you pretend to be different.
Hey k00b not sure if this is worthy of a bug report or if I made a mistake but I tried withdrawing from my Stacker News wallet to Alby.
While Stacker News said my transaction was done instantly I still see Alby as "Waiting on Payment" while it's been nearly an hour.
Very possible I messed up but not sure how considering I just copypastad the invoice.
Reach out to Alby if you're concerned. When we say your withdraw went through it means they have your money now. I'd guess Alby has a small technical issue and it will resolve soon.
Heya! Using SN since a few weeks and I'm in love with it. I was wondering if there is any possibility to automatically publish on SN new posts from the website's rss feed. Thanks!
Is there any way to contact members of the site other than replying to their posts? I noticed your sphinx tribe appears to be broken. Is it still available?
iicon this is what it says which I think answers your question: