@calle 's speech at the Olso Freedom Forum highlights the importance of privacy for individuals, and how spending money is a form of speech that must be protected if we value freedom and democracy. Worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/live/hmangS2Qul8?si=ctPlpHkErDCHMYLJ&t=21397

The amazingly talented @d4rp4t , with support from the equally amazing @BTCPay Server team, have made BTCNutServer (Cashu eCash payments plugin) a reality! It’s still in pre-release testing, so we have it running on a couple of different live btcpayserver instances. If you would like to help testing, or just try it out, please head to one (or both) of our test installations: Custodial LN node:

Donate to d4rp4t

Full LN node:

Donation to Rob Woodgate

Both stores have “custom amount” options so you can test with amounts as small as 1 cent if you wish. PS: Don’t forget, these are live instances, so real sats will be spent!

Trying to move some money from a joint bank in France to an account in the UK…. the initial request was made 24th March and is still not completed. The bank keeps adding more and more verification requests “for our protection“ before they process it. This is why the world needs Bitcoin

Taking one for the team … #anothershittyday

4am… breakfast of champions… Well, the sun is over the yardarm somewhere… right?

Cute... made me chuckle. Well played sir 👏

A busy day coding and testing today - Cachu Redeem now supports redemption of Cashu tokens demoninated in fiat currencies (like those from the Stablenut mint). Cashu Cache now reads legacy kind:37375 wallets and upgrades them to be NIP-60 compliant. Cashu Witness now also supports fiat currency denominated tokens Time for a well earned beer, I think. Cheers!

Introducing Cashu Gather - the easy way to gather up NutZaps sent to your NIP-61 public key. It scours your relays for unclaimed NutZaps, organizes them by mint, and presents a token containing all the valid proofs it finds from each mint. For example, if you received 100 NutZaps from MiniBits, each for 5 sats, you'd get a single 500 sat token to cash in. It supports NutZaps in multiple currencies, and stores a history of collected tokens, so you don't lose them.

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Cashu Gather - Nostrly

🎵 Here we go gathering NutZaps in May, On a cold & frosty morning... 🎵

May the 4th be with you... always.

Fascinating

Cashu Witness now fully supports tokens NutLocked to a NIP-61 (NutZap) public key... It can even reverse lookup and tell you who it belongs to if the user's wallet supports it. [*] And signing NIP-61 locked tokens is secure too... you simply use a regular NIP-07 extension! [*] User's kind:10019 NutZap event must include the 'k' tag. If you create your NutZap wallet with NutZapMe, this is taken care of for you.

Come on, own up now…

A whole new generation of bitcoiners gets to experience a block size war. Block War II

NutZaps got overhauled in Nostr back in February, and I couldn't find a client that works according to the revised spec. So I built NutZapMe. It lets you create a NIP-60 compliant Cashu Wallet, a backup wallet, and a NIP-61 NutZap informational event to tell people how to send you ecash. Once setup, you can also use your NIP-60 wallet to NutLock tokens, and unlock them using any regular Nostr signer extension. I built it because I wanted to add NIP-60 support to Cashu Witness, and needed to set up my own NutZap wallet for testing.

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Cashu Cache - Nostrly

Cache (noun): a squirrel's 🥜 stash

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Easter break begins…