Brian of London
Sir Brian of London

I run v4v.app a Hive <> Lightning bridge. https://peakd.com/@brianoflondon

Public Key

npub18hz8xs2tafx7rhclzukrr94gypcemw6ch2hcwe9eak4q03k4a8wq2wfmgv

NIP-05 Address

brianoflondon@sats.v4v.app

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsrm3rng9975n0pmu03wtp3j65zquvahdvt4tu8vju7m2s8cm27nhqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dskhgkn7

Publishing to

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub18hz8xs2tafx7rhclzukrr94gypcemw6ch2hcwe9eak4q03k4a8wq2wfmgv

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2025-09-14 04:12:01 UTC

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Let me tell you what the Jew hater(s) at Alby did: I was a significant developer of parts of the Sat Streaming system. Through 3speak I put value blocks into thousands of rss feed podcasts.
Alby have BLOCKED me from sat streaming from my own sovereign Alby Hub because I'm a Jew living in my indigenous lands refusing to be murdered. You can't use YOUR Alby hub to stream sats without authentication via their Alby servers. Not very sovereign. They geo block me because they don't like Jews who fight back.
I'm rebuilding the back end to my Hive to Lightning infrastructure right now.
Boosts and sat streaming will not be part of the rewrite because Alby killed it. I can't test apps so keysend and all the information will die.

2025-05-20 13:24:06 UTC

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Can I use these features if I pay?
Unlock Pro
Take your Alby Hub experience to the next level
Pro Features Include:

2025-05-20 10:26:20 UTC

@npub1get…0nfm if I wanted to pay to subscribe to your “Pro” account with my Alby Hub and retrieve my lightning address (which you still send me emails about) am I allowed to?

2024-12-31 16:30:10 UTC

Stuff nobody seems to know about Lightning....
How do you clear a stuck In-Flight payment which failed 1002 days ago?
Seriously? I'm working on some new code for my node and both the LND nodes I have have stuck payments like this. Obviously this node has been rebooted and upgraded numerous times in the last 1002 days!
⛱️ Payment: 16397 amount: 99,933 sat pre_image: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 in flight time: 1002 days, 1:47:06.093676 created: 2022-04-04 14:11:24.390480+00:00 status: IN_FLIGHT

2024-11-26 07:53:53 UTC

Unfortunately @nprofile…9mzc appears to be geo blocking Israel.
This renders a lot of the functioning of the so-called self sovereign Alby Hub very hard to access.
Full details on my blog. https://peakd.com/hive-110369/@brianoflondon/breaking-the-ethos-of-bitcoin-avoid-the-alby-and-getalby-project-4ov

2024-10-07 08:07:43 UTC

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More details on this and a full write up can be found here:
https://peakd.com/hive-110369/@v4vapp/why-withdrawals-from-binance-to-your-lnd-lightning-node-might-not-work

2024-10-07 07:09:06 UTC

Are you having trouble withdrawing Lightning from
@binance
? I am but I know the reason and its not your fault.
For the last few weeks any attempt to withdraw Lightning from Binance to my LND based Lightning node would tell me "no route".
I could withdraw to another node: one which was ONLY connected to the rest of the Lightning network via my primary node but not to my primary (obviously withdrawing to this secondary node meant sats passing through my primary so route wasn't an issue).
After asking at LND Labs I found out that there is an issue with the current LND 0.18.3 version which inserts a whole lot of extra feature bits in the invoices.
This upsets Binance's withdraw system. The only answer is to use another system to receive sats that isn't running LND 0.18.3.
This has been fixed in the pending LND 0.18.4 release.

2024-04-04 07:35:13 UTC

Anyone ever seen a Lightning payment on an Invoice with a 1 hour expiry that confirmed 3 months later?
Binance sent a payment, they marked it as failed, refunded it and 3+ months later it shows as settled and they want the refund back (given because they have the Payment Hash).
How would a normal user with a Wallet of Satoshi account know what to do about this?

2023-12-04 12:54:25 UTC

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If I wrap a 0.5 BTC at $40,000 and deposit $40,000 HBD, and a few weeks later the price is $42,000 and I have to deposit another 0.5 BTC, I believe the plan is that I would have to deposit enough to make the collateral up to 84,000 total.
But these numbers will be altered by the reliability of the wrapper. For example my Hive reputation (with all the revenue streams it gives me) ensures that my reputation on Hive is worth many times more than these figures.

2023-12-04 12:18:52 UTC

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Wrapping and unwrapping will be an organic process. So in effect this will inject a form of dollar cost averaging into the amount held as collateral.
But highly trustworthy wrappers will also develop to the point where the absolute value of the collateral is less important.

2023-12-04 11:42:11 UTC

It’s a pity that Lightning is so deeply controlled by ideological Bitcoin Maxis instead of open minded technologists who can think outside a box.
Stable coins on a rapidly centralizing Lightning is a very bad idea, there are better, more decentralized systems but they involve another blockchain.
Pity, Lightning is a mess.
https://peakd.com/developers/@brianoflondon/btc-wrapped-on-hive-will-be-better-and-less-centralised-than-btc-on-the-lightning-network

2023-09-16 15:31:03 UTC

Sad reality of #LightningNetwork today.
@binance implements it but (after initially allowing larger amounts like 3m) has now set a limit on 1.999m sats.
They also don't allow @MuunWallet or @Breez_Tech wallets and I know why: both of these solutions offer non-custodial storage but it is too slow and unreliable.
So you have to send to either your node or a wallet on a custodial centralized provider like @getAlby or @walletofsatoshi . Both fine products, but not what BTC is supposed to be.

2023-09-07 16:18:59 UTC

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Thanks!

2023-08-22 08:10:00 UTC

If you’re looking for a privacy focused Hosting which accepts Lightning, take a look at https://privex.io
I’ve been a happy customer with them for almost 2 years.
If you want to, you can give my name brianoflondon as a referral code.

2023-08-02 20:25:14 UTC

Daniel Suarez's vision for crypto is literally out of this world.
https://peakd.com/crypto/@brianoflondon/in-critical-mass-by-daniel-suarez-he-gives-one-of-the-best-uses-of-crypto-ive-ever-read

2023-08-01 16:20:48 UTC

Why grant the SEC any legitimacy?
And WHY does anyone submit to the idea that the SEC should be allowed to "regulate" securities when they've done such a shitty job for so long at actually protecting investors from "regulated" investments like Madoff, FTX or any of the the long list of frauds which they failed to take action against BEFORE the little guys lost their money.
https://peakd.com/@brianoflondon/why-bitcoin-is-not-enough-all-these-coins-stealing-market-share-from-bitcoin

2023-08-01 09:47:39 UTC

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Do we think this will happen to all the other Moonpay resellers?

2023-07-31 16:16:23 UTC

If you believe there even is such a thing as an "unlicensed security" you are granting your government the right to decode what you can invest your money in.

2023-07-28 05:17:57 UTC

Do you hate Jews having self determination and security in our indigenous homeland?

2023-07-02 19:43:30 UTC

https://nostr.build/i/84bae66c1b3e4c8820c15a0a5fd9214caaa34c1a51db4fdc282a322bf24c6c09.jpg

2023-06-28 17:49:11 UTC

Have we ever agreed on a simple symbol for sats?

2023-06-13 15:54:00 UTC

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All set... brianoflondon@vlt.ge

2023-06-13 12:32:26 UTC

Epic vs Apple & Google in Australia goes to trial early next year. Big case for App store freedom.
But the reality is any business relying on the big platforms can be crushed at any time.

2023-06-11 05:57:33 UTC

My Lightning address service brianoflondon@v4v.app sends an image with every Lightning Address request, what other services do this? I'm testing something and need other examples to test against.

2023-05-22 12:44:33 UTC

I've been thinking about reputation and trust.
https://peakd.com/reputation/@brianoflondon/how-much-do-you-value-your-hive-account

2023-05-22 06:13:36 UTC

Every Lightning channel is a co-owned NFT.
You can't sell them and your 50% share is controlled by the other party. And if you opened the channel, your investment in the fees to open it are at risk and entirely out of your control too.
https://twitter.com/ctt_podcast/status/1658525094082117642?s=46&t=-KxM0zFkgyJ6HnTuQ-VqWg

2023-05-15 17:13:43 UTC

The reason the "Nakba" defines this woman's favorite victim group is because there doesn't exist evidence of Arab Palestinian people with a national character before then.
It literally is the creation myth of Palestinianism.
#nakba #Israel #palestine https://nostr.build/i/a12508436458fb22b1c5e5dc316a67d00c4e68d40c606b317ae3699d966fd657.jpg

2023-05-13 08:26:14 UTC

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If you believe in ever increasing value of BTC that means the fees you ignored in the past will one day be significant wealth you threw away when you could have been staking sats on Wallet of Satoshi and letting them absorb the costs.

2023-05-13 08:24:26 UTC

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You just made me think… according to Bard… there are 13.75 million vehicle transactions per year in USA and 278m personal and commercial vehicles.
If each transfer of a vehicle (in the USA alone) is a BTC transaction (because you’d want to record change of ownership as the bare minimum) that’s 9.2 months LOL. Assuming no other transactions.
Bitcoin in its present form cannot be used for anything beyond finance (and even that is looking ropey right now).

2023-05-13 08:03:23 UTC

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That would be nice… most them won’t touch me because I’m a “shit coiner” who posts on a properly self sovereign Hive system instead of using corporate controlled and owned Medium or Substack like all the good plebs.

2023-05-13 08:01:39 UTC

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LOL the Ordinals craze makes running your own Lightning node insanely and stupidly expensive so only a few thousand zealots will do it.
Opening channels and then re-opening them when they force close because of bugs and subtle incompatibles in all the core software, oh and Tor being such a crappy system to run on, makes Lightning node running stupid at small scale. Sure it is a few sats at 1 sat/Vb but at 100+sats/Vb you have to be made of money to do it.
99+ of Lightning use will tend to custodial solutions and you’ve just recreated the horror of the banking system with different middle men.

2023-05-13 06:19:08 UTC

There is no Bitcoin community. There are only a bunch of conflicted self interest groups and semi-religious cults.
And amongst them, only miners are incentivized by the core protocol.
https://peakd.com/v4vapp/@brianoflondon/ordinals-and-the-mempool-apocalypse

2023-05-10 07:57:04 UTC

I’ve been reluctantly building on Lightning because I saw big VC money going in and to ride those coat tails and pick up on what they built.
The current fiasco with Ordinals has me doubting Lightning’s future entirely.
I don’t see any ROI for VCs when channel openings and random closures will eat all possible profits and cost reductions. Without centralised services and huge nodes investing big BTC bucks, I don’t see any way this works.
I don’t see what incentive Miners have to do anything different, they make bank on these fees. They don’t want stupid 1 sat/vb channel openings and at 100+ sat/vb I don’t see how Lightning is viable.
Perhaps at some point this destroys Bitcoin completely, I don’t see how the original “best money ever” continues when moving it even via Lightning requires either a huge upfront investment or huge fees.
Where is the incentive for Miners to even want to change the code and discourage arbitrary data storage?
Unfortunately Bitcoin’s ridiculous governance model (i.e. shouting on Twitter and some email lists with no actual ability to force a change in the code) looks increasingly like its biggest vulnerability.
Why am I wrong? #[0] #[1]

2023-05-02 06:07:28 UTC

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Looked into it and there was a close issued from your end.
Just the vagaries of Lightning.
My node also force closed with Muun's node because they became unresponsive.
Unconnected but simultaneously I have 13m sats on chain but that I can't touch. Will have to ask Lightning Labs on Slack for help with that.

2023-05-01 13:37:58 UTC

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Now a full post.
https://peakd.com/bitcoin/@brianoflondon/even-the-terrorists-in-hamas-know-about-bitcoins-privacy-problems

2023-05-01 13:37:00 UTC

I decided to check Al-Reuters' story about Hamas no longer taking Bitcoin donations. Fact check True ✅
https://peakd.com/bitcoin/@brianoflondon/even-the-terrorists-in-hamas-know-about-bitcoins-privacy-problems

2023-04-30 18:53:30 UTC

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I finally reflashed a new SD card. Everything is on the hard drive (except ssh key config for some reason) and now it's working again.

2023-04-30 18:42:16 UTC

I got some help to check out the recent Reuters story about Hamas terrorists telling supporters not to send Bitcoin because of fears their supporters can be tracked.
The story checks out. https://nostr.build/i/ddda3389cd13c45fed8adacfa31b0f60eef1503e236ff177c375d9e0d1b82335.jpg https://nostr.build/i/6d42d706d4955d26aa55e144eb54a402d04c97f27b6e6f97d1076ed1598ea029.jpg

2023-04-30 05:39:57 UTC

#[0] my channel to you force closed from your end last night, any issues at your end? I’m always curious why Force closes like this happen.

2023-04-30 04:51:56 UTC

My voltage Lightning node force closed 3 important channels last night right in the middle of a Mempool Tsunami....
Pain in the arse.

2023-04-29 17:23:59 UTC

The Bitcoin maxi world should get behind this campaign.
https://twitter.com/nytimesup/status/1652093761512697857?s=46&t=-KxM0zFkgyJ6HnTuQ-VqWg

2023-04-29 11:02:43 UTC

Finally got around to re-flashing the SD card on my Umbrel. Seems to have made it a bit more stable.
The only reason I need to keep this thing is because my dev environment points to it.

2023-04-27 07:52:57 UTC

Neither #[0] nor #[1] asked to receive the rewards from the posts I wrote on Hive last week. Adding it up, it looks like the small fraction I set aside was 12,964 sats.
I’ll keep ‘em, thanks. I earned 431,520 sats last week, most of it posting about Nostr 😆

2023-04-26 15:59:14 UTC

This is a pretty amazing piece of work:
The complete collected written works of Satoshi
https://peakd.com/bitcoin/@crrdlx/satoshi

2023-04-26 12:26:59 UTC

Forward Slash Hell: How One Character Cost Me a Day
And you won't believe what ChatGPT said at the end.
https://peakd.com/hive-110369/@brianoflondon/forward-slash-hell-how-one-character-cost-me-a-day

2023-04-24 19:09:37 UTC

ChatGPT can't code. But it sure as sugar can explain your mess ups to you once you've figured them out.
https://peakd.com/hive-110369/@brianoflondon/forward-slash-hell-how-one-character-cost-me-a-day

2023-04-19 09:59:18 UTC

Why is Microstrategy only accepting up to 10,000 sats on their Lightning Addresses?
{
"tag": "payRequest",
"callback": "https://lightning.microstrategy.com/lnurl/pay/saylor",
"minSendable": 1000,
"maxSendable": 10000000,
"metadata": "[[\"text/plain\",\"Deposit to saylor@microstrategy.com\"],

2023-04-17 17:22:47 UTC

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Interesting. Sounds like trying to build the key management system of Hive but without a fast free trustless text storage base layer.
Good luck.

2023-04-17 08:21:15 UTC

Anyone else got good ideas for a symbol to put in front of sats? Something that is common?
This is my favorite.
ṩ
LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DOT BELOW AND DOT ABOVE
Unicode: U+1E69, UTF-8: E1 B9 A9
ṩ1,512

2023-04-16 15:07:47 UTC

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Unfortunately they're giving 201 on the first call which just gives you parameters and the address to fetch the invoice from I guess that creates a unique internal code.
That second call could legitimately be 201 as it creates a unique invoice. But 201 on the first information only call is a bit weak.
In the absence of a tight spec you get this kind of interop problem.

2023-04-16 08:49:21 UTC

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“Open platform” 😆🤣

2023-04-16 06:12:51 UTC

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I just spent 30 mins trying to figure out why my http://v4v.app doesn't work with this LNURLp and I found it.
The LNURL spec DOESN'T specify response codes, IBEX returns 201 (created) which is fine but my code was looking specifically for 200 (which pretty much everyone else uses). Fault is in my code.
I’m just going through now and changing a whole lot of checks for == 200 to >=200 and < 300. I know you love hearing about this stuff… as usual, you broke something 🤣😆🤣😆
But the LNURL spec is also poorly written too. 🏃‍♂️✂️
#[2]

2023-04-15 16:12:08 UTC

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https://peakd.com/lightning/@brianoflondon/hive-is-a-centralised-shitcoin-parading-as-decentralised-its-all-smoke-and-mirrors-bro-3j2009-on-nostr
I’ve hypothecated 5% of my earnings on this post for you. If you want them. Obviously you’ll have to know that the sats you get in a zap came from a shitcoin.

2023-04-15 08:10:13 UTC

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Opinion…. Is there an edit button Nostr like we have on Hive (which obviously retains all prior versions too).

2023-04-15 08:09:01 UTC

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Thank you for the hours of study you clearly put into that opion! I presume you run a Bitcoin full node and a Lightning node yourself?
I will quickly shut down the witness node I run ranked 50th which pays me about sats 750,000 per month. Clearly those funds when converted to sats are an illusion and the multiple Bitcoins I’ve collected in cold storage over the last 4 years from working within Hive will evaporate at some point.
BTW my witness ranking comes because real people with a combined investment in Hive of 153,884,113,642 sats (1,538.84 BTC) from 220 individual accounts have voted for me. I’ve only been a witness for 4 months but the years I spent doing useful stuff on Hive built my reputation to a point that when I started a witness I picked up votes quite quickly.
Perhaps I should refuse the 133,000 sats per DAY the DAO pays me to run the various other services. This comes to me because people vote for my proposal in a similar way to the witnes position.
I’ll stop posting on Hive (where I typically make 166,000 sats per post or more, funnily enough someone gave me a single tip of 71,000 sats in addition to the payout I’ll get in 7 days).
This is what happens when a core protocol includes value exchange AND instead of giving all inflation to hardware operators, some of it goes elsewhere for things like dev work or content.
I just checked, my Lightning node made 95,000 sats routing last month. A high water mark for me. 26,000 sats is my monthly average over the last year. I presume you run a Bitcoin full node and a Lightning node yourself?
I’m glad you’re all so excited about 20 sat tips here. Have fun stacking those and building geek play things.
Once again I’ve written more than I should in response to an excessively dumb comment….. I’ll post it on Hive later and earn 150k sats :-)

2023-04-14 17:55:21 UTC

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It takes consensus of 17 of the top 20 witnesses to change the code or core parameters. The HBD savings interest rate is a vote amongst witnesses and doesn't require a hard fork.

2023-04-14 17:37:18 UTC

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Hive is completly open source. It was forked from Steem after Justin Sun bought Steemit.
https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive
I'm looking for a decent explanation of governance but ultimately the White Paper is the source of truth. https://hive.io/whitepaper.pdf
Basically top 20 Witnesses produce blocks every 3 seconds. A backup roster of around 100 more witness produce the 21st block in each rotation.
Witness ranking is by votes according to the staked Hive (Hive Power) held by the voter. I’m witness 50 right now and that has taken me lots of work to earn community respect.

2023-04-14 15:26:54 UTC

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Same mechanism which has kept Bitcoin going since 2009. Programmed inflation.
Hive's utility and the businesses many of us run using it provide the reason to hold and use the token. It is the world's only censorship resistant bulk text storage system.

2023-04-14 14:50:36 UTC

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You have Google Captcha on your support page.
The spec for Lightning Addresses allows a minimum other than 1. Your site doesnt work with in spec addresses.
Why do you need to verify sending a Sat? Once you get the response from /.well-known/lnurlp that's more than enough to confirm.
The recipient might have liquidity issues or server downtime generating an invoice at any time in the future but that's just part of normal operation for Lightning Addresses.

2023-04-14 14:40:44 UTC

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You still haven't understood this?
They EARN in Hive and Hive Backed Dollars HBD by writing and posting.
I help them convert their earnings INTO BTC Lightning which they often move to private wallets like Muun or use Bitrefill and local services.
They ignore Nostr or Staker.news because the earning capacity there is paltry.
The exact opposite of what you're accusing me. I actually have to keep restocking my sats by converting Hive in larger amounts on Binance.

2023-04-14 11:30:37 UTC

The Bitcoin Maxi Shitcoin Paradox
https://leofinance.io/@brianoflondon/the-bitcoin-maxi-shitcoin-paradox
#[0] #[1]

2023-04-14 08:17:22 UTC

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And there's a sat bonus for #[0] if he wants it, instructions in the post.

2023-04-14 08:12:28 UTC

The Bitcoin Maxi Shitcoin Paradox doesn't allow its devotees to see how this fundamental aspect of the brilliance of the invention of Bitcoin, can ever apply to anything else, whilst still believing it is the most important invention mankind has ever made.
https://peakd.com/hive-110369/@brianoflondon/the-bitcoin-maxi-shitcoin-paradox

2023-04-13 07:21:13 UTC

#[0] I just tried to send a bug report about nodeless but the captcha crapped out and dumped what I'd written. Problem with adding v4v.app@v4v.app as a lightning withdrawl address I think because of sat minimums.

2023-04-11 17:42:18 UTC

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What do you think you'd learn from Forbes anyway.

2023-04-11 15:21:41 UTC

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I don’t work for tips… I like to get proper value for the value I provide. This is a decent 30 day return for the work I put in on Hive.
I think that's around 900k sats this month just for the social side, though I do pay $50 (165k sats) per month for a witness server I run.
https://void.cat/d/UFoxzdKmA3RirYFtsJtRof.webp

2023-04-11 05:39:40 UTC

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If sustainable funding is not built into the protocol it won't get done.
Nostr is the worst combination of VC funding (gift from @jack ) and self funding I've ever seen.
There's so much smart tech out there but because it isn't called Bitcoin, these plebs will actively ignore even learning about it.

2023-04-10 13:40:02 UTC

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#woscustomaddressgiveaway
I want to be brianoflondon@walletofsatoshi.com because that's what I am everywhere else!
yelpingparade74@walletofsatoshi.com

2023-04-10 08:53:09 UTC

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As long as all the newbies realise this (hint: they have no idea).

2023-04-10 07:44:42 UTC

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Like this but SVG Vector:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Logo_of_Lightning_Bitcoin.png

2023-04-10 07:36:21 UTC

Interesting little fact about Nostr (we have a similar side issue on Hive).
If you log in with someone else's pub key you can't read their DMs but you can see who they've had conversations with.
Keep that in mind when using DMs on Nostr.
https://void.cat/d/GGr4XHjhyetsonWPJefiRn.webp

2023-04-10 07:31:02 UTC

Can anyone point me to a decent SVG version of the Lightning Flash that is often used as the logo for Lightning? Or a few options?

2023-04-10 04:35:03 UTC

Blow my nostril 😆

2023-04-09 14:17:28 UTC

Pictures? https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_bd51af411e1ea105f0caf20e4ebdd271b8824d249e3bd505b810dcedb712ab78.jpeg

2023-04-09 14:16:35 UTC

#[0] #[1] gm 😎

2023-04-06 10:56:12 UTC

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That's what we did on Hive. So nice to see others figuring it out years later.

2023-04-05 06:11:45 UTC

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תודה רבה! חג פסח שמח.

2023-04-04 09:37:37 UTC

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I'm supportive of any cost cutting measures Google implement so that they still have enough money to pay us when we won our Crypto Class Action lawsuit in Australia. I'm already slightly worried that Facebook might have collapsed by then.

2023-04-04 09:35:32 UTC

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How much is their stapler bill?

2023-04-04 06:18:02 UTC

#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "brianoflondon"

2023-04-01 10:23:28 UTC

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Who's going to pay to run the back end?

2023-04-01 10:16:49 UTC

I powered up all my BTC to earn better curation rewards on the stuff I like on Nostr!

2023-03-30 14:24:42 UTC

Podping on Hive is the most important non financial use of a blockchain in the world.
https://imgflip.com/i/7gfbzl

2023-03-28 10:37:11 UTC

Don't be Jack.
https://peakd.com/bitcoin/@fortculture/us-titanic-dont-be-jack

2023-03-21 05:45:57 UTC

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Any plans to expand to other countries?

2023-03-11 15:42:14 UTC

Which "stable coins" will be left by the time Taro is launched?
P.s. Hive Backed Dollars are holding up nicely.

2023-03-09 14:16:19 UTC

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I use Redis all over the place. Its especially good if you run it from the Docker in the same docker compose stack as your main app.

2023-03-07 12:53:08 UTC

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I'm glad I run full nodes for three blockchain projects I use full time.

2023-03-07 08:40:21 UTC

This is the problem with #nostr and anything else which doesn't have a viable business model baked into the core protocol.
https://podverse.fm/episode/EQra_C2y3
#VC capture. Today it's gifts from sugar daddy #[0] ... what next? All the VC's from failed "crypto" pile in because #Bitcoin?

2023-03-07 07:28:32 UTC

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There's no reputation cost here!

2023-03-07 07:27:33 UTC

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How do you forsee coping with the business costs associated with regulatory compliance?
I genuinely think you provide a great custodial service but if I am not paying for it I can't help thinking I'm the product.

2023-03-07 07:23:37 UTC

If you're on an expensive mobile data plan you might want to restrict Damus to wifi.
Talking to multiple relays for everything is a data hog.

2023-03-06 21:47:49 UTC

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I've received sats for being a guest on Podcasting 2.0. Months ago. We've had the whole system going 2 years.

2023-03-06 06:57:13 UTC

Bitcoin is clearly the worst tech blockchain for storing NFTs or trying to do rollups of other chains.
But because sound money bitcoin maxis are so adamant that Bitcoin is the ONLY use of blockchain as a permissionless decentralised database which can succeed, their precious chain will be mutilated by use cases which should live elsewhere.
It's almost too delicious to believe my friends.

2023-03-05 10:03:17 UTC

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Btw #[2] this post lays out the process for Zaps and I think you'll see how much less efficient this is than our streaming payments systems.

2023-03-05 09:11:42 UTC

Here's why I won't be implementing NIP-57 and zaps on my LNURLp system.
I'm advising all my users to use a custodial lightning wallet like #[0] or hello@getalby.com because of the inefficiency of using my service for Zaps.
https://peakd.com/@brianoflondon/nostr-zaps-and-why-im-not-going-to-implement-them-via-v4vapp-hive-bridge

2023-03-05 06:26:13 UTC

Will zapping yourself make you go blind?

2023-03-04 17:17:28 UTC

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If you take a look at my profile you'll see I'm using brianoflondon@v4v.app as my NIP-05 identity but then I have a walletofsatoshi Lightning address.
This means you can tip very small amounts.
If you then want to gather up Lightning and send it to Hive, I have big channels with Wallet of Satoshi so there should be very low fees.

2023-03-04 17:16:07 UTC

Hive users on #Nostr:
I've had a good look at the Zap system and it's not fully appropriate for me to add it to the Hive Lightning Bridge.
I suggest you get a Wallet of Satoshi account and use their Lightning Address system.
Still use v4v.app for NIP-05
Reasons: Zaps are often too small, I won't deal with zaps below 1000. It would also force me to join two systems which I don't want to join.
It also puts a big load on the receiving system, Let #[0] handle that.
Anyone needs more explanation let me know.

2023-03-04 08:53:29 UTC

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Ahh no, simple CORS issues.
Access to fetch at 'https://bitcoin.ninja/.well-known/lnurlp/matt' from origin 'https://snort.social' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.