Why Are Wallet of Satoshi Lightning Payments Exploding?
3929 sats \ 23 comments \ @kr 23 Sep 2023 bitcoin
I’ve noticed a recent surge in Lightning payments on Wallet of Satoshi, but it doesn’t seem to be caused by jumps in Nostr activity or THNDR Games activity (both were partly responsible for the early 2023 increase in WoS payments).
Anyone have a good theory as to where the extra payments are coming from/going to?
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628 sats \ 5 replies \ @benthecarman 23 Sep 2023
Probably satograms
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41 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 23 Sep 2023
And is so easy to limit that spam: increase the min HTLC on your routing nodes.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kristapsk 24 Sep 2023
What the hell is satograms?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @benthecarman 25 Sep 2023
https://satogram.xyz/
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 23 Sep 2023
that’s a good one, looks like 64k satograms sent to date, half of which probably hit WoS wallets.
payments on WoS are nearly up 100k/week though, so feels like there should be other contributors too.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 23 Sep 2023
LOL this is it! make sense the spam.
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393 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 23 Sep 2023
See? This is the beauty of LN: nobody knows what users are doing over LN, not even custodial services! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hear that chain -anal? You are fucked, obsolete, meaningless.
This surge is huge! This is pure signal!
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461 sats \ 2 replies \ @TonyGiorgio 23 Sep 2023
Oh they know. If you think they are giving @kr full access to their database then you're dead wrong.
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221 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 23 Sep 2023
not really. They will see just a bunch of txs between WoS users but not with my wallets, for example.
Don't get me wrong, I am not praising the use of WoS. I am praising the use of LN.
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211 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 23 Sep 2023
yeah i don’t have any info beyond number of payments
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165 sats \ 1 reply \ @fabian 24 Sep 2023
are sure its not nostr activity? people have been experimenting with zap splits recently, turning 1 zap into 130 zaps with a single tap
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 24 Sep 2023
it could be, the zap experiments seem like a plausible explanation. i was mostly looking at nostr usage and noticed that adoption hasn’t spiked up.
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179 sats \ 3 replies \ @billiam 23 Sep 2023
It was the btc23 conference in Innsbruck Austria.
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19 sats \ 2 replies \ @billiam 23 Sep 2023
Was there and all the plebs payed wit WoS or Phoenix
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179 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 23 Sep 2023
doubling the amount of txs, is quite big for a conference. How many users were there, 100k ? I doubt it was that only.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @billiam 23 Sep 2023
LOL
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19 sats \ 1 reply \ @pillar 23 Sep 2023
Do we have any way to verify these numbers? Or do we need to trust WoS?
Can you think of any incentive they might have for inflating them? Perhaps a search for funding or similar?
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 23 Sep 2023
personally i don’t have a way to verify these numbers, i’m operating under the assumption that the data they share is correct
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scholarhacker 24 Sep 2023
Satograms, anywhere from 7 to 15 sats being sent with urls in the notes. No obligation to check out the URL. Let the Sats flow.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @faithandcredit 23 Sep 2023
they are about to sell the company?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @edulopesf 23 Sep 2023
I started dealing with WoS because it was the most convenient app...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fred 23 Sep 2023
It's the number of new users coming on the platform
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 23 Sep 2023
Maybe some new game or something? Probably not though, that’s a pretty large increase
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