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Meatspace payments and zaps, pretty much every tool for lightning presupposes these as the clear cut usecases for lightning when they don't exist outside of a little bubble
402 and AI is starting to wake up some people to the real use cases for API level machine to machine payments, be it for the wrong reasons, 402 stuff is still largely memecraft because of an ancient http code hipsters soy out over... And AI larp like OpenClaw is the latest bandwagon hipsters can't resist... Neither are actually practical ways to do these things ofc but at least it's directionally correct
Poll the verify URL
Could use CLINK, it fetches the invoice over nostr, then will fire a nostr native receipt once paid. Also doesn't require your Lightning node or middleware to it to have static http endpoints / jwt etc. Lightning.Pub will also allow your node to fire callbacks to something external.
99% of internet users don't have a Lightning wallet
This is surprisingly not true, CashApp alone is a Lightning wallet on 100M phones in just the US alone... a badge to remind users of that option may help conversion. You could use the browser time zone to change the badge based on geo to apps they are most likely to have that supports LN. Since you're selling "crypto" information, the odds of them having something that can pay a Lightning invoice is fairly high.
I considered time-bound URLs and key escrow
This could be transparent to the user, leeching from your CDN is worse than copies... your back-end just signs the url and the key lives in the users browser storage.
Bitcoin is only failing if losing is your metric of success. This is a common problem among Bitcoiners as articulated best by BitPaine
What is Bitcoin?
"Bitcoin to them was money for outcasts and losers (like them)."
If you find virtue in losing, you perceive winning as failure.
I tend to agree, the state fills the void created by abdication, that's why libertarians and squeemish conservatives are much worse than socialists... even communists. Socialists and communists and ineffective by themselves, they require good people convince themselves to do nothing.
It's this abdication that creates horrors, quintessential weak men = hard times.
The surest path to a tyrannical government is pearl clutching over the sausage making of law and order, and the sidelining of moral people from governance by their own virtue signals.
The irony is amusing when you really think about it.
That's helpful information, thank you.
If LND is at 0 and you're connected to your own Pub via the nprofile then it is in bootstrap mode, it will open an outbound channel automatically once the balance is sufficient. The only cost then is the chain fee for the channel, no lease.
We created CLINK as a superior protocol to NWC, if using with Nostr what you're looking for it's bxrd.app support it.
Definitely rough edges as we're still focused on driving innovation and a comprehensive ecosystem as part of that, wallet is getting pretty mature now though and polish is coming. Wallet is just one part, Pub, Bxrd, LV, CLINK, Sanctum... all primatives to a bigger vision intending to work better than the ad-hoc disjointed projects the ecosystem is stunted by... the trade-off for that being our dev effort bounces around to each component over a long time horizon.
We should agree that the NAP is a desirable underpinning to any system.
But the NAP doesn't mean non-violence, simply that violence is just. Systems becoming unjust is inevitable, that's universal cyclicality present in everything.
consent of those people who their citizens
Shareholders.
Ralph's heating is a subsidiary.
Exalted
There's a top to every hierarchy, and through the millennia the number one indicator that determines whether a ruler is bad or good is if that ruler believes themselves to be subordinate to a higher power.
In the neighborhood I grew up in, if you didn't pay your bills, you ended up in the cement pour of a big dig tunnel and it was therefore a fairly rare occurrence people didn't pay their bills.
If you bugged out to Providence or Florida to escape your debt, someone brought you back on a bounty.
That was a much nicer neighborhood then, unlivable now, because compassion to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
Your freedom is the ultimate collateral, whether that's government or society in general.
Am I equating government to the mob? yes. Because that is reality, and it's reality because it works and there is no alternative. Music festivals full of dope in the 60's couldn't change that.
child support. Seems like a bad system
True, the woman's brothers and uncles handling matters was a better system.
A venn diagram of tooling and use-cases, building for dumb use-cases have left Lighning with equally dumb tooling.
If your coffee dealer isn't already storing their wealth in Bitcoin, they have little reason to accept Lightning for payments. Lightning isn't for coffee. People want to rush ahead to meatspace payments when very few people in the meatspace know what to do with Bitcoin in the first place.
Dumb tooling has also been a product of bad incentives, Lightning inherits this problem from Bitcoin itself... because it is permissionless/trustless there's no real business in making great tooling, so funded projects generally deal in slop like mobile nodes that are only useful for losing money on swaps and liquidity to tinker with something useless.
Maybe the catch-all answer here is Bitcoiners are dumb and have largely misallocated Lightning?
thanks
trust in the setup
What specifically can we clarify on this? Obviously have to trust the code if you're unable to review it, and bootstrap mode is trusted but opt-in...
With your own node and bootstrap disabled it's designed to be completely trustless.
The nostr comms are also all encrypted so using our relay (or any public relay for that matter) doesn't open a risk.
how can it be recovered
Currently its the same as any other LND node, you need your seed phrase and channel backups to recover funds if shit hits the fan. Backing up the Pub database is also a typical manual process of automating a copy.
For shockwallet itself in boostrap mode, your nostr key is enough to recover the account keyring from the relay.
We are in the home stretch on a massive Backup/Restore PR for Pub that includes the Pub database shards, identity, account balances, offers etc... that chunks to an FTP server every 30s... and should make restore simple via a graphical wizard so you can get your guests back up and running quickly. Goal is for that to be enterprise class so you can rely on it for even bigger operations.
https://github.com/shocknet/Lightning.Pub/compare/master...wizard-wip
Docs will be revisited once we get this fully tested and merged.
limiting people's movement
A guest pass to the citadel is a ticket that doesn't include free drinks, skirt your tab and get bounced. Basic property rights.
maybe I'm just clutching my pearls
Nailed it, if the facts were reversed and the US stopped enforcing this law, AP slop would frame it as an attack on single mothers, and you'd clutch your pearls about that.
If it's from a globalist slop outlet and you pearl clutch, that's by design.
Their chip manufacturing makes it critical to world domination
Deep state nonsense.
They make the chips with equipment from the Netherlands, machines that can be replicated and relocated... and the US has been working on on-shoring chips for over 10 years.
There's even a TSMC in Arizona now, and sloppy Intel managed to manufacture sub 2nm chips in their own fab.
You don't go to WW3 over a factory that would be demolished by rocket fire in said WW3.
The military case is the island chain narrative, maybe there's something to it, but all signs point to preparing to lock down the pacific more generally... that island is less important when its not full sized submarines as the risk any more... but submarine drones that can slip out.
Taiwan is a CIA outpost that buys a lot of hardware, nothing to read into here.
Russia gets parts of eastern europe
US gets the western hemisphere
China gets Taiwan
Unspoken treaty
US is really all that matters since the dollar underpins every other capital market
US is fortunately already well on the way, NSA created Bitcoin for this very reason... the dollar Triffin Dilemma has cost the US it's national security. Bessent's plan to replace offshore dollar with stables is Act II.
I was just doing a focus group with 50 boomers and asked why they don't use lightning in their day to day.
49 of them said unilateral closures were the reason, I was stunned.