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Why it's hard to have bitcoin foss software in debian and other linux repos?
390 sats \ 8 comments \ @Butterfinger 19 Feb tech
I know that the commies of debian and their social contract are very much against "crypto" and money in general as any communist. But we have had a long time to educate them about money and especially foss money, how come they love foss technology but hate foss money and prefer paypal, visa and mastercard? I am very greatful for debian project in general and of how good it has done in the world, but on foss bitcoin software coming into its repo it's total disappointing. There's only electrum wallet so far in regards to bitcoin: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=team%2Bcryptocoin%40tracker.debian.org Zero software for LN...
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125 sats \ 2 replies \ @clr 19 Feb
It's probably better in the long run. Download from the source instead of trusting their repositories.
Also, bitcoin/ln/nostr will get zaps from plebs (actual users) while those FOSS developers will gave to beg their overlords for fiat money.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Butterfinger OP 19 Feb
Yeah, that's how I use the software I need now, from source. But for example a lot of users don't know how to do it, especially a lot of newbies. But you're right, foss devs on nostr will have a real income while the fiat devs will keep drinking soy"milk".
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118 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja 19 Feb
If you have the patience for it, you should learn nix. You basically write a program that tells the program what version of all of its dependencies its going to use, but when the user uses nix to install a program it will typically (with the exception of the weird way some people have managed to get binary blobs to work with it) install everything from source, from the repo URL specified in the install program (the flake.nix file) and check that the hash matches the one specified in the nix install program.
I'm still learning it myself, but if you ping me (or others) on the nix discord server for help I or they will do their best to help you, but nix development shells are very helpful.
https://nixbitcoin.org/ https://zero-to-nix.com/
You can then install nix on debian (it won't conflict with apt because it doesn't install packages in the /bin folder) and go from there.
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40 sats \ 4 replies \ @justin_shocknet 19 Feb
Someone has to do the release engineering for it to be in the apt repo, are you volunteering?
I think its also readily available as a snap or flatpack
There's 3rd party packages too, here's a one-liner that will give you a lightning node with a nostr-based accounts system:
sudo wget -qO- https://deploy.lightning.pub | sudo bash
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6 sats \ 0 replies \ @emmanuelrosa 19 Feb
^ This.
First, someone has to step up and package the software. Then, said someone has to keep the package up-to-date by keeping an eye on the upstream repositories, testing... All for apps which hardly anyone uses.
In addition, some Linux package repositories don't accept new packages quite as easily as others.
As for FOSS projects not being receptive of bit coin... bitcoin just isn't all that popular. Yes, it's well known, but not well used. I suspect the crypto shenanigans have tainted bitcoin,
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Butterfinger OP 19 Feb
The workarounds work fine, but for example having sparrow into tails is more complicated.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 19 Feb
So someone needs to volunteer their time to package it, or at least make a bash script for one-line deployment... should be pretty simple, I bet a bounty would go quick
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Butterfinger OP 19 Feb
On last episode of bitcoin review Craig and NVK were discussing of hwo to do it...if hiring some communist college student with red hair or something like that lol
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