leo 2 years ago

A scammer rented a small kiosk in a Hong Kong mall, advertised buying Tether above market price, arranged an appointment with a 30 year old accountant, and when she came to deposit the Tether, the clerk apologized he had to go to the bath room and disappeared through the back door of the mall.

South China Morning Post

Hong Kong accountant cheated out of HK$1 million in bogus cryptocurrency deal

Detectives are investigating whether fraud syndicate set up shop in Tsim Sha Tsui to cheat victim.

leo 2 years ago

What kind of time and date format is Bitcoin Core using? ddd mmm d hh:mm:ss YYYY Fri Jul 7 06:36:12 2023 What a horror show of mixed and scrambled conventions.

leo 2 years ago

Just one more channel, I swear! No really, I can stop anytime!

leo 2 years ago

This sounds like a really cool event if you’re around Vancouver: Summer beer, wine and Oyster special at Artigiano in Edgemont Village

leo 2 years ago

Serving dinner: “Do you have any food allergies or are you not from here?”

leo 2 years ago

It’s really cool that in Lightning, if you don’t manage your node well as a merchant, I usually can do that for you, even without your knowledge. It’s not so cool that this comes at a cost for your customers.

leo 2 years ago

Some truth bombs that might be difficult to swallow for north Americans: - The only acceptable tooth paste flavors are salt and charcoal - SUVs are just minivans - Hiking and microdosing do not constitute “culture”

leo 2 years ago

Is running your own Lightning node too much to ask even for an otherwise technical and Bitcoin-affin merchant? Managing liquidity and uptime can be hard, but how hard?

leo 2 years ago

Why is there no such thing as dessert poutine? Just dump ice cream on the fries, a mix of caramel, chocolate and maple syrup, garnish it with whatever is legal and charge me $20 for it. *ducks*

leo 2 years ago

A Montréalaise pawn shop that takes Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash…

leo 2 years ago

A social network I always wanted to see: Attach geographic information to posts, such as GPS location or addresses, then only look at posts from others very close to you. Could be a hit at conferences, universities or even mountain tops. Let people travel the world through the metaspace like a ghost.

leo 2 years ago

Neon lights are long gone. Don’t cling to the past, accept and embrace the LED screens illuminating the night

leo 2 years ago

Twitter is now the social media app of choice to talk about all other social media platforms. On nostr it’s still customary to only talk about nostr.

leo 2 years ago

As the mempool is grinding through the 4sat/vB range, it’s a great opportunity to consolidate your nodes utxos: 1) Make a new address with “lncli newaddress p2tr” 2) Send your funds with “lncli sendcoins --addr <address> --label "consolidation" --min_confs 0 --sat_per_vbyte 3 --sweepall”

leo 2 years ago

Never have I been zapped a testnet3 sat: Please try! testnet@liongrass.hk

leo 2 years ago

15-minute cities? Fuck that I ain’t walking that far to the grocery store! I’ll accept five minute cities and not a second more.

leo 2 years ago

Imagine having such a beautiful neon sign in your shop only to say “bitcoin? comment? non non non” when I ask to pay for my poutine. Needless to say I walked out

leo 2 years ago

The open web is dead. Welcome to the never closing nostrverse! (Mind you I’m paying over US$120 per year for these lousy losers to lock me behind a sign-in wall)

leo 2 years ago

I assume future nostr clients will connect to only very few relays by default, and these relays will fetch posts from other relays, as well as cache images and other media to control/optimize the experience.

leo 2 years ago

Woop woop! The #Lightning ambulance is coming to rescue your HTLCs