Zap to Zero Day 22 | Bikeshedding

Bikeshedding, also known as Parkinson’s law of triviality, describes our tendency to devote a disproportionate amount of our time to menial and trivial matters while leaving important matters unattended.

Maybe this is a new nip indeed. Requesting invoices shouldn't require authorization. The need looks more like a data vending machine that replies when a key is pinged than a nwc action.

you guys bike shedding so much more than needed. the wallet connect functionality should have the ability to receive, that is all this does

As it stands, the change alone doesn't seem to be a replacement for the public lnurlp resolution when asking for an invoice from somebody else's wallet.

you can build zaps on top of this, you can build a lightning address server on top of this, you can build a webstore on top of this.

the point of this is to allow the functionality of requesting invoices, not building a specific app/use case like zaps

It looks like this spec-change has been approved and is now live in a popular NWC implementation. Can it be merged so that other client devs know how to interoperate? This would help ensure different implementations use the same api for the same functionality, and it would help client devs like me know what api methods to call if they want to use this functionality

need 2 implementations

ok

looks like a second implementation is on its way, hopefully it is here soon

getAlby/nostr-wallet-connect#112 (comment)

https://github.com/getAlby/nostr-wallet-connect now implements this, good to merge?

How about a keysend method? That would enable wallets to be the funding source for a lot of value for value podcast stuff.

I think this PR is getting pretty big at this point. We should have enough functionality now for any kind of wallet.

Good to merge? @bumi @rolznz

@benthecarman we haven't implemented the new methods yet, if possible it would be great to do this first in case we notice any changes that need to be made.

I would like to propose one final additional method - what do you guys think?

Get Info

Returns information about the user's node

I don't get the goal here.

The original intention was to be able to create invoices over NWC. That way NWC can be used as a replacement for things like LNURL in the future.

The alby guys wanted to add full functionality to be able to get all other payment information so we added list payments and invoices.

Satistics

#!/usr/bin/env bash

COOKIE="<INSERT COOKIE HERE>"

ENDPOINT=https://stacker.news/api/graphql

while true;
do
  sats=$(curl \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-type: application/json" \
    -H "Cookie: $COOKIE" \
    --data '{ "query": "query ME { me { privates { sats } id } }" }' \
    --silent "$ENDPOINT" \
  | jq '.data.me.privates.sats')
  line="$(date +%s) $sats"
  echo "$line" | tee -a me_sats
  sleep 5
done

Recent Superzaps

1. Confessions of a burnt-out father

I don’t have to be around people all the time. I’m perfectly fine signing up for seminars and workshops and attending them alone. I miss being exposed to people outside my usual realm of work and expanding my horizons. I hate that I have to rush home every week day after work because I need to pick up my kids from the childcare centre. I hate that I have to spend my weekends taking my boy to the indoor playground so that he can release his pent-up energies. In fact, right now I’m at the indoor playground. All I see around me are equally bored parents passing the time buried in their handphones. Since when did my activity-filled life turn out to be so mundane?

2. What’s your SN routine like?

I have had the cowboy hat in my possession for 24 days, so suffice it to say that posting and commenting here on Stacker News have become a comfortable routine.

While other regulars fiddle around with the optimal amount of zaps they should give, I have been more preoccupied with incorporating the use of SN into my life. So after 24 days, this is basically my routine these days:

[...]

What’s your SN routine like?

Can I just say that I see you all the time making quality contributions here. I think you may be cheating yourself of sats with your method. You will earn far more by tipping more. Build up some more sats, then tip quality posts early. For more details, check @Natalia's recent post. It really pays to pay others before yourself, as crazy as that sounds. As an example, the first thing I do in the morning is donate a load of sats to the site. It's not completely out of the goodness of my heart. First of all, then I don't need to worry about my cowboy hat. Secondly, I know I have a chance to earn it back with good tipping and posting throughout the day.

3. The Mysterious Life And Death Of Mircea Popescu

I once took a vacation with my family to Costa Rica’s pacific coast, not far from the place where Mircea Popescu reportedly died. It’s a beautiful part of the world, and it’s on my short list of places to relocate to if I get the motivation to leave the United States. I say it’s where he reportedly died, because there is little about Mircea Popescu that is certain. That’s the way he wanted it. Yes, I used the past tense, and I will keep doing so for the sake of consistency, but I’m not sure he’s dead.

I must confess that when the news of the drowning began appearing in bitcoin publications in late June of 2021 I had never heard of him. He was apparently an OG bitcoiner, a major whale and a famous blogger. The headlines said that he may have died holding over one million bitcoin, making him the only “bitcoin millionaire” other than Satoshi Nakamoto. I read elsewhere that his stash was not nearly that large. It was all based on speculation. So far as I can tell, none of his wallets have ever been traced or identified. Everyone just took his word for it when he boasted of his enormous hoard. I discovered that he was controversial. He was considered a brilliant bitcoin philosopher and a savvy entrepreneur, while at the same time he was described as hateful, racist, misogynistic, and anti-semitic. I am a bit of a history junkie, so I wanted to learn more about him.

I don't want to dump more work on you, but when you're done with this experiment I hope you keep writing these posts everyday as a sort of blog. Your writing style is addicting. Kind of a more friendly Popescu. I read it to see what's going on in that head of yours more than for this experiment. I bet I'm not the only one.

Challenge of the Day

Song of the Day

And I feel tired Empty and hollow Heart broken inside And I feel this life Has nothing for me anymore

And I feel revived Sacred and honored One of a kind And I feel this life Is something I was chosen for