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Holy cow! The DoJ said the quiet part out loud... "[They] argued that confiscating $50,000 from a small business did not infringe the business' right to private property because money is not property." Do you need a better reason for using #bitcoin?

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The government says money isn't property—so it can take yours

In a jaw-dropping argument, the Department of Justice claims seizing $50,000 from a small business doesn’t violate property rights because money ...

Is it a bitcoin bank holiday? View quoted note →

Am finally able to send zaps...! 🙌 I had to build a tool to do it, but now it's ready, and I've been having fun the last couple of hours testing it out... 🫡 If you use Primal on desktop, or can't create a wallet on Primal mobile for any reason, then you might like my Nostrly web zap tool too:

Nostrly

Nip-57 Web Zap - Nostrly

So I created this web zap tool. Simply enter the Note ID (nevent) of the note you wish to zap, or the NPUB of the user you want to zap... select th...

You just click the "..." in the top-right of a post, select "Copy Note ID #" and then paste this nevent into the web zap tool. You'll then be able to zap the note from any wallet you like. Let me know what you think of it. #nostr #zap #btc #lightning #bitcoin #asknostr #primal

One of the things I’ve found frustrating with Nostr is that it isn’t always possible, for whatever reason, to connect your wallet to your Nostr client. Especially with a desktop browser. So I created this web zap tool.

Nostrly

Nip-57 Web Zap - Nostrly

So I created this web zap tool. Simply enter the Note ID (nevent) of the note you wish to zap, or the NPUB of the user you want to zap... select th...

Simply enter the Note ID (nevent) of the note you wish to zap, select the amount to zap in sats and add an optional comment. You’ll then be presented with a regular lightning invoice you can copy or scan into your wallet to pay.

The mempool has fewer than 12,000 transaction in it. Usually there are around 200,000 unconfirmed. Not sure what to make of this... it is quite astonishing.

Nostrly lightning redirection now falls back to Cashu eCash. If a user doesn't have a Lightning Address set up in their Nostr profile, or they set their Nostrly address as the Lightning Address, Nostrly will redirect zaps to their npub.cash wallet automatically. So zaps sent to a Nostrly address will ALWAYS find a LUD-16 callback, regardless of how the user has set up their Nostr profile. It also means that privacy-minded Nostrlings can avoid broadcasting their actual LN address, and keep their zap receipts private. That's because Cashu eCash is a Bitcoin bearer token (like a dollar bill). You can deposit your eCash sats back to a Lightning wallet any time, with no record of where it came from (like cash). I've set my own profile LN address to field test it. Any zaps will turn into eCash tokens in my npub.cash wallet. Huge shoultout to @calle and @Egge for their hard work making Cashu eCash such a great addition to the Bitcoin and Nostr ecosystem.