MiddleWay / MiddleWay is on Nostr

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2024-07-24 19:11:50

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Hopefully later. says "Bitcoin and Lightning" here: https://github.com/ProtonWallet

2024-07-24 13:03:55

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is proton email address becoming lightning address? not clear if that is blockchain only...

2024-07-14 10:59:12

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And if someone does not have the ability to make children? Are you trying to make them depressed? Because:
Life is not worth living.
There is no meaning to life.
No inspiration for planning and care about the future.
Decreased joy.
Life is neither novel nor exciting.
No one is innovative, surprising and imaginative.
No one shapes us into better versions of ourselves.
You won't be increasingly surrounded by life as you grow old.
You will be surrounded by death as everyone you know slowly dies.
You will certainly regret not having kids.
You are not honoring the sacrifice and suffering your ancestors had to endure by passing the torch forward.
You are dishonoring them by wasting your life on the meaningless pursuit of your own pleasure.

2024-07-13 22:01:29

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Sure, I don't use custodial wallets except SN (to lightning address), and I auto withdraw to my node. But at least Wos, Alby, etc are large centralized entities. A mint can be spun up easily by anyone, and they are mostly anonymous.

2024-07-13 12:41:30

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yes. shitcoinery

2024-07-13 12:13:51

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A cashu mint can create sats without locking actual Bitcoin (Fake Wallet https://github.com/cashubtc/nutshell/blob/f32099bce7ecca54338ebc1a551883fbdb883af2/cashu/lightning/fake.py#L31). So the zaps you receive may or may not be real, i.e. convertible to Lightning sats. So you should either zap those sats onwards, or withdraw to a real wallet asap (claim from the mint).
It this thing takes on and there will be lots and lots of such (potentially fake) sats on Nostr, this will inflate Bitcoin supply and damage it's reputation when many sats turn out unclaimable.
TLDR I hate this shitcoinery.

2024-07-08 20:35:47

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by Jeff Strand or Lionel Shriver? 🙃

2024-07-03 14:23:58

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My wife is a yacht broker in Europe. Every large payment from a buyer in EU to a seller in US is a nightmare recently. Correspondent banks just freeze the amounts ($0.5m or more) "to check for AML/sanctions evasion". I believe they just patch their balance sheets and earn interest, not even responding back to the sender until investigated. It takes weeks to get the necessary information to them via the sender's bank, because the whole system is crazily inefficient. They hire the dumbest employees in payments departments. I hope the rich guys will get fed up with this bullshit soon and start using Bitcoin.

2024-06-24 22:29:57

https://medium.com/@goryachev/the-art-of-routing-sats-e678a5c66323

2023-11-12 01:09:57

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Yes, nice feature! Prevented me from requesting a pool while the same peer has joined my triangle. Thanks for keeping up the good work!

2023-11-11 18:51:44

One very educational story for a Lightning node operator:
https://medium.com/@goryachev/bitcoin-node-security-case-study-e1ca00a378b5