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It's been 6 months since we decentralized #lightning swaps in Electrum. Today, 9 swap providers are offering liquidity to Electrum users

Pay with Bitcoin using layer-2 The Electrum App offers @lightning swaps from multiple providers, who compete on fees and liquidity to make sure that your channels always remain usable. The beauty of this? It is trustless and permissionless: Anyone can become a swap provider and earn fees.

A lot of things are possible with Electrum plugins. Since version 4.6, third-party plugins can be distributed as ZIP files, and installed by users at runtime. Maybe #nostr could be used as a plugin distribution channel? Think of a decentralized AppStore powered by web of trust.

Electrum Documentation

Plugins

The plugin system of Electrum is designed to allow the development of new features without increasing the core code of Electrum. There are two type...

The next release of Electrum will support 'Submarine Payments', where you pay to an on-chain address using your lightning funds.

Nostr is what Ethereum tried to achieve: decentralize all the things.

Thank you @Bitfest @Nind for organizing this great event. Bitcoin and Nostr are the perfect match!

It's a pity that I could not join the Deep Dive podcast. Nevertheless, they did an extraordinary job at explaining Proof-of-burn. I am deeply impressed. 🤖

Hello Manchester ☀️ #bitfest #nostrshire

Abusing zaps for Proof of Burn: I set my zap address to x@notary.electrum.org If you zap me, the funds will go to the bitcoin miners. The notary will publish a #proofofburn event (kind 30021) that contains a Bitcoin txid and a Merkle branch.

Nostr Proof-of-Burn demo available:

Nostr Proof-of-Burn

And yes, you can steal sats from this service :-)

The Price of Attention: Attaching Bitcoin Fees to Nostr Events

GitHub

notary/notary.pdf at master · spesmilo/notary

Nostr proof-of-burn plugin for Electrum . Contribute to spesmilo/notary development by creating an account on GitHub.

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