What’s going on with bitcoin and lightning in 2025? When did shadow custodian become self-custody? I know 2024 was rough but it’s a new year and it’s time for self-custody to make a comeback. Some thoughts below on how to make that happen, and a tweet thread for those of you who can’t read. https://sats.build/self-custody-lightning-2025/ What spawned this? 2024 was a rough year for Bitcoin. We literally lost a year. Regulatory was one thing, but tech was a whole other story. Lightning developer brethren, when did we give up and accept shadow custody over self-custody? smh Ecash and liquid are custodians with extra steps. S/o to nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg for being the most intellectually honest out of all the ecashers. Instead of retreating to custodial solutions, double down with me and try a little harder. I can’t defend ecash or federation mumbojumbo. I can absolutely stand behind an LSP. The details are in the post, but the gist is this– we don’t need 100% off-chain yet. NFTs lost (again). We have not pushed the Bitcoin blockchain to the point of needing to scale (yet, but if we make a compelling Bitcoin payments application, maybe we’ll actually have a reason to). We don’t need op_codes we need thoughtful design. I’m thinking of building this, but in the spirit of Bitcoin, Satoshi’s vision etc. I want you to think of building this too. Maybe we can do it together?

When I got (finally) laid off, the CEO wrapped it in numerous sincere apologies and regrets. But *on the flip side* noted that he's proud and relieved that the move will not negatively impact company's DEI quotas. It was Quotas Über Alles; a mad house bloated by ZIRP.

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We exist! Almost attempted an emacs package. Figured the more "sensible" path would be to make an elisp wrapper for NAK and find general patterns others could work into for own cli stuff. Can post kind1 now 😇 also 😉 https://github.com/nobiot/org-transclusion?tab=readme-ov-file

Welcome nostr newcomers. Some of you might find pockets of culture here that are enthusiastic about firearms. I can assure you that they are all reasonable, non-violent people. Which brings us to the topic of properly exiting hellthreads...

Good point. Does Saylor hold bitcoin even.. nostr:note1clvtkl5w94dm8tv9u8t9x943agq73xwkax0uuamms2ymucjcs2tsp006xs

Perception is lit by the time of day.

Good morning John! 🫡

You have definetly understood the mission 🤙 Keep nostr weird!

GM 🌄

Repeal SAB121 Ignite the giga booster #nostr #bitcoin

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This is correct. Now will you answer the question? 👀

lmao where did the "fighting in a trailer park" come from? What did I miss?

Orrrrrr you could let them generate their own heat inside of them instead of insulating them with a Patagonia. I lost my ability to heat myself bc my mom always made me wear a jacket. These days I’m trying to build my internal heater back up these days. 😆 embrace the cold

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My teenager every day. 🤦‍♂️🙄

No uglier than 37.

Thank you. Looking into it. nostr:npub1zga04e73s7ard4kaektaha9vckdwll3y8auztyhl3uj764ua7vrqc7ppvc

Of course they can’t. Because people who focus on immutable characteristics while maintaining “inclusivity” are the most hateful people possible. Which is why they make everything about what people CANT change.

Bitcoin will not kill the U.S. dollar. It will become the U.S. dollar, with all controls and restrictions that any CBDC issuer could dream of. “Impossible!” I hear you crying out, giggling to myself in the face of the utmost ignorance that seems to have accumulated quadratically with bitcoin’s price increase. “Bitcoin is freedom money!” ... Just like Bitcoin, CBDCs are programmable money. Unlike Bitcoin, CBDCs are concerned with features such as controlled purchases, location-based restrictions, expiring transactions, and holding limits. All of these features are implementable on Bitcoin-anchored stablecoins. Most of these features are possible to implement via the base layer once mining is sufficiently centralized... Bitcoin may be a trojan horse, except it’s not the horse you think it is. Under the correct circumstances, bitcoin is able to function as a great alternative to CBDCs. You go ahead and open up your wallet app, and here comes the stablecoin monster — built on Bitcoin. Isn’t that just great? Fully censorable, fully surveillable freedom money, but at least we pumped our market cap. It’s an authoritarian’s wet dream dressed up as freedom of transaction, like a 12-year-old going trick-or-treat — except this time when you get egged on you stink up the entire world economy. #bitcoin #nostr https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-as-a-cbdc

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its open source, so clients could implement this using a similar algorithm somehow https://github.com/twitter/communitynotes/tree/main/sourcecode/scoring

#FreeRossNOW nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp6y2dy0f3kvc0jty2gwl7cqztas8qqmc5jrerqxuhw622qnc2pq3qyd8wumn8ghj7ur4wfshv6tyvyhxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgewaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3exjcmp9e3k7mf0qqstnrj29fvp46wr6dntf3s0lnprytkspwrt7l6jpphgk9p6n6kvcgcwwdnz3