I did some work earlier this week on supporting LUD-12 on stacker news - attaching comments to lightning address payments in and out of SN. Aside from that, enjoying some time on vacation!

Creating a Stacker News Python Library

Started a 21-day challenge in which I aimed to learn something new about Bitcoin or interact with its ecosystem every day. I would also record my progress on Stacker News.

Day 6 - Did some reading up on how I could wean off my dependence on fiat and incorporate habits into my life to use Bitcoin more often. Compiled a list of merchants that accepted BTC payments and even methods on how I could give others sats so that they could experience the Lightning Network first-hand.

Something special. I did it many times in the past but this time will be with the help of a friend from El Salvador. Onboarding new people into Bitcoin is not an easy task. Not for the new user, but also for us, the bitcoiners. Finding the right tools to start with somebody is not an easy task.

Each case is special, please don't jump and generalize with crap "privacy first". That doesn't work like that.

We all learn in this process, especially us, the bitcoiners.

Soon I will make a post here with the whole story.

Add NIP-39 to Plebeian Market

Section 5 of the Nostr Dev Course Day 26 Replit Replaced a couple of boards on one of my S9's Opening Lightning Channels maybe get to 30 Try publishing an article on substack or blogstack.io Fiat Mines

Week 3 of the Nostr-LN Wallet & Node project: #252744

We're building the stack to make NOSTR the 3rd Layer to Lightning for Web Applications. A new wallet will enable better connectivity UX to remote nodes, enabling a re-decentralization of the network by empowering Uncle Jim. LNURL is also getting some novel functionality.

In another thread I share how much of the conversations around Lightning Development are counter-signal. Lightning deserves a brighter future than the things currently capturing all the attention and capital can ever deliver.

We got into some of the nitty gritty with the nostr RPC this week. While it had been rough'ed in from a hackathon awhile back, we've since learned that NIP04 encrypted messages are completely broken from a cryptographic standpoint.

Fortunately there's a draft for NIP44 that fixes the encryption, we've upgraded the project to use v0 of that for additional testing.

Protocol handlers are another difficult issue as Lightning apps have convened on the lightning: protocol for links (even though nostr has more wisely followed our recommendation for web+ protocols that enable handling by PWA's).

As a result, we've sunk some time into PWA -> Native wrappers to see how that goes. The wallet will remain a PWA, but in the short-medium term a native bundle is necessary to make it a viable daily-driver until apps upgrade to web+ or browser standards safelist the lightning: protocol.

Just going to university day after day. Listening to an economic "professor" who says that during an inflationary environment the best investment is buying government bonds... and he really means it. Why would I give money to someone who is already in a lot of debt? By the way inflation is much higher than the yield on the bonds. Moreover, I don't even start talk about this is just a promise and nothing more.. When I ask him what about bitcoin then his immediate reaction is it is a piramis game and so on.. but when I am trying to go into details why is it piramis game and asking him to support his statement then he changes topic. Now I know. He is talking bullshit and he does not know anything about bitcoin. Why most people are like this? Why they can not be quite and listen? Instead doing this wise exercise they prefer to say nonsense.

Monday I was catching up and merging code. Most of yesterday was spent refining the personalization algorithm and looking for easy wins to make the downstream work easier. Today is a little more of that and back to the downstream implementation.

Also yesterday a site I built before SN had someone threaten a cease and desist for something that was posted ... it was deleted immediately, but we cache the-living-crap out of the site for SEO purposes so I had to find where all the caches were and delete them.

Continuing to work on my podcast, The Transformation of Value, 41 episodes released already!

Working on a side project

Nostr all day, everyday. It's in my blood. I love it. If Nostr were a human (or even an animal) I would hump it 🐪

I'am creating crypto newsletter for my followers. I want to deliver sumerized information of last week. Now working on content and graphics.

I'll be recording a video for my youtube channel about the options to speed up an unconfirmed txt as the Replace by Fee & Child Pay For Parent

My channel is for spanish speakers who are just starting their orange journey, so I tried to avoid most of the technical parts, I explain how to do it, not how or why it works...

Diet, rest, and overall memory and focus

Can someone give me a job