Apparently some shrewd "consultants" now charge 300$ and up for "offboarding" people from an exchange. That's... mind-boggling.

Fixed the NIP05 and LN zaps normally all should work fine again. 😉

The NIP05 "services" to verify yourself on nostr. Tested for you all (my personal findings... others may see it differently) nostrplebs: setup works, admin not, help/relay offline, expensive and crappy nostcheck.me : looks easy, is absolutely unusable for configuration (certainly when editing stuff), strange UI choices, very confusing bitcoinnostr.com : didn't work, directory listing doesn't work, no lighting address integration or forwarding, nothing worked; crappy iris.to : bugs and non-working website, logout/login doesn't work half of the time , unusable zaps.lol : worked straightforward, and all was fine withing 20 sec. works super fine the "guides" for self-hosting and setup are either offline, wrong, or don't list the proper details (example: "give your username". ... they don't specify what that exactly is... is it your alias before the @ and assumes the domain you're hosting the json on, or do you need to insert the whole address? No explanation , and you'll try and error and nothing works properly.

is there a working alternative for nostrplebs ? tired of this sh**

hey #nostrplebs ... to register some alias, we pay about 10k to 45k sats. ... the "service": - relay offline for weeks now - help page offline for weeks now as well https://help.nostrplebs.com/ - zaps don't work - link to verification how-to offline as well... dismal

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Why can't I be zapped? It never works it seems.

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Presenting "MCOR" A message compressor for small payloads like OP_return. This encodes and compresses your message so you can send a longer text over OP_return's 80 bytes limit. This is an early alpha release for the concept. made by 'AVB' (Always Value Bitcoin) alpha version:

MCOR (Message Compressor for OP_return)

github + codebook :

GitHub

Release alpha 1.0.1 · avbpodcast/MCOR

first alpha release 5a version 1.0.1

Tip me, if you reward proof-of-work (link at the bottom)

In the city I live, there is exactly 1 places that officially accepts bitcoin. There are like 2600 bars and restaurants. There are 0 to 4 bitcoiners that bother to try onboarding anyone that I know of. The bitcoiners that however, do show up at meetups, are buying gadgets and staring at their stickers. So yeah. Pump my bags mentality and it won't get us anywhere. "but look at the price man"

Isn't there a liquid zap solution yet for nostr. I know this is not something to zap 2 sats with. But it would be awesome to have the option in any case.

nostr ca055b3052a9c33d6490ab7c651bf2093e2ac91beffd68094b4c71f84b10f61a2509e512005cc8b016cf6a353c30c998965cb5e3e1d269adebf5e0597e6394

One if the best lightning companies went out for more than 20hours, proving a glaring fla in LN, and can't recover property,... But we're still discussing spam theater on podcasts.... 👍

sad to see: The few times I personally onboarded, helped people to get their first bitcoin ... I always return to them about 6 months later. And 100% of the time they turned shitcoiner. Main reason: s-coiners hear someone say "I bought my first bitcoin" or "I now save in bitcoin" and then they jump up, because they can be the perfect parasite: - someone did the real work (bitcoiner explaining thing, setting things up, spending time) - then the parasites and fakers come in with their referral links and "better than bitcoin garbage" and try to leach money from these people 100% of the time: they buy bitcoin, and then, like a hippie smelling weed, the worthless shitcoin parasites appear with "hey, you know Solana is fàster right... I have a referral link, and there's like an airdrop you can't miss mààn"

Multisig is the shitcoin of hardware vendors.

Low tech is the future fie security.

Using nostr on a mobile is still hellish. As soon as other services are touched, there's little to no possibility than to copy paste your nsec key. The extensions like they exist on destkopt (nos2x is the only one that works like 50% of the time for me, rest is basically crap). On mobile I get no decent way to use nostr. Unless I'm missing some good extension (not Alby, please spare me)

Imagine designing a splash screen for your software and it looks like this...

One of the bigger Lightning Network payment providers CoinOs, went down, and apparently there's little to no in-depth soul searching about this. Why is this concerning? Well, because they're one of the good guys. Doing their best to make an understandable UX, have good services, even supporting LN, Liquid and on-chain seamlessly. Yet, a mishap at a datacenter caused them to go down, and they don't have a good means to restate the balances of the last 24 hours. While podcasts are filled with the 1000th take on the OP_return "telenovela" , we ignore that one of the bigger LN providers can go down and there's little to no redundancy possible. Think about it. This is important.

Presenting the newest addition to the free toolset : The "8rack" card tool for seedphrase generation. I present. "8 rack" ... the 96 card system to finally solve the equal distribution of chances in Seed word generation with playing cards. The Three-Deck BIP-39 Seed Generator is a web-based tool designed to create cryptographically secure 24-word seed phrases compliant with Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 39 (BIP-39), essential for securing cryptocurrency wallets. Using three virtual decks of 96 cards each, the application generates randomness through an interactive, card-based system that is both engaging and transparent. This paper explores the tool’s functionality,

BIP39 Tool: Number & Word Lookup

(link at the bottom)

8rack Card Seed Tool

https://github.com/avbpodcast/8rack the fingerprint: SHA256: B6DD246B0E710FF50F6275D36E98DB9BEC0BB62DB27DC7607B1A170D19B92415 MD5: C8650BB49B073986AB9B94699947FDC2 (Bull markets are for building)