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If you have a Lightning address in your Nostr profile, this concerns you directly. There is a good chance that address resolves through Spark, a Bitcoin Layer 2 run by two companies, Lightspark and Flashnet. Wallet of Satoshi runs on it. Cake Wallet runs on it. The Breez SDK defaults to it. Every transfer on Spark is co-signed, and therefore seen, by the operators. Users were never told, and that is presented as a feature. Your funds are safe. The custody design is genuinely good. But custody and privacy are different things, and here is the part that matters on Nostr: your npub is public, your Lightning address is in your profile, and the operator sees every payment behind that address. Link the two and a pseudonym becomes a named person with a queryable payment history. SparkStalker already demonstrated this works. And unlike Lightning proper, where the data to subpoena never existed, Spark's operators are named, regulated companies that can be compelled to hand over what they see. It does not stop at Spark users. Lightning privacy is a crowd effect. Every wallet that moves behind Spark's operator thins the crowd for everyone else, including people running their own nodes. Zap someone on Wallet of Satoshi and the operator records it, whether you ever agreed to Spark or not. I wrote three articles on this. What Spark is and who runs it. Why a public identity turns its metadata into a warrant target. And why "then don't use it" misses the argument. Your Lightning wallet might not be a lightning wallet

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Your Lightning wallet might not be a lightning wallet

The "Lightning" wallet on your phone may be routing through Spark, a Bitcoin Layer 2 run by two companies that co-sign, and therefore see, every tr...

Your Nostr profile is a subpoena waiting to happen

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Your Nostr profile is a subpoena waiting to happen

There are two kinds of privacy. Data that was never collected, and data someone promises not to share. Spark gives you the second kind. Link a Spar...

The privacy you lose when others choose Spark

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The privacy you lose when others choose Spark

You can refuse Spark and still lose privacy to it. Lightning anonymity is a crowd effect, and every wallet that moves behind Spark

While doing some research on making LN Address available on the domains of customers of @npub1lhuf...t08x I came to the conclusion it's quite easy to do so in general. If you run a Wordpress site you can do it easily with a WoS address for example. 1. Install a redirect plugin, for example wordpress.org/plugins/simple… 2. Setup a redirect as on the image below. You can receive now sats on lightning address: pay@<your domain>.com which redirect directly to the #walletofsatoshi lightning address of @npub1lhuf...t08x (lncheckout) If you have your own domain and you can fix the redirect in another way, you can do it without wordpress as well.

It's getting colder at the office, time to turn on the heater! #bitcoin

Cool to see my service https://lnshort.it got some traction after the mentions here on nostr. It was build long time ago as a demo project to get some experience with the development of lightning apps. Had already planned to sunset it, but will keep it running for at least another year based on usage. Same applies for my splliting bill service https://goingdutch.pm

As the creator, it's cool to see https://lnshort.it get some use now with nostr. Need a shorter url, check lnshort.it. See for example the shortening of habla.news urls: https://lnshort.it/lurusan https://lnshort.it/nostr-welcome https://lnshort.it/lnwalletguidenostr #[0], #[1], #[2]

#[0] Verifying My Public Key for telegram: "teunehv:440789314"

#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "cryptoteun"