@Rizful.com and Megalithic.me users -- right now the megalithic.me website is down. Rizful seems fine. There is some kind of big internet-wide infrastructure issue going on right now. Will keep an eye on it..

How do we kill Binance? I'm trying to pay someone with Bitcoin and they send me this crap.... It's incredibly misleading as it literally shows "Deposit BTC" with the Bitcoin symbol...

what is the closest thing to a discord replacement that nostr currently has?

We are working on a campaign to onboard normies to Nostr. We need the most succinct possible page which is like "Make money from zaps by using Nostr!" -- this is the starting point --

Rizful First Steps | Megalith Lightning Docs

Pick a Lightning address and connect a Nostr wallet — quick and easy.

-- if anyone has any comments/suggestions for this page pls let us know

DNS issues seem to be fully fixed. Probably a lot of users might not have noticed an issue anyway -- if our IP addresse(s) were cached locally.

Rizful.com and Rizful NWC is experiencing intermittent downtime over the last hour or so. This is not related to our systems, but seems to be a (very rare) outage from our DNS provider -- you can see the status here:

DNSimple Status

Welcome to DNSimple's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

Messing with DNS is not fun or recommended, and actually switching DNS often takes a few hours or days -- so we're going to "do nothing". Apologies.

Bought at $63.5. From ski lift.

Bought at $70k, $66.5k… my memories of not buying when it went down $18k to $3.5k in 2018 are enough to keep me consistent on this…

Bought at $70k, $66.5k… my memories of not buying when it went down $18k to $3.5k in 2018 are enough to keep me consistent on this…

what I am concerned about for vibe coders is that they might think they can just skip this part of learning how to program which in my view was actually the most enjoyable part of the whole thing. It’s nice to at least kind of understand how things work.

Please listen to this and understand the scale and complexity of nature:

Fountain

The Science of Everything Podcast • Episode 157: The Geologic Time Scale • Listen on Fountain

A survey of the Earth's history through the lens of the geologic timescale. We begin with a discussion of the terminology of geochronologic units a...

Dear Lord, giveth me the strength to not attempt to fix software issues which can only be reproduced on one physical device.

Reclaim The Net

Lawsuit Challenges National Park Service Ban on Cash Payments

A federal appeal challenges whether Americans can still spend real dollars on their own public land—or must surrender privacy to do so.

To me, it's 100% obvious why this is such a problem, but, every time I explain the issue to Normies, they just don't get it. Why is it so hard understand that "we don't accept cash" is a plague and must be struck down by courts?

A lot of assets that are "not volatile" -- are actually very fucking volatile. Try selling a house (or other real estate) after fire, flood, or earthquake, or riot -- or even an economic crash...

Weirdly Bill Gates should probably go to jail, but actually just for not giving a shit about Windows and making it such a horrible experience for everyone. The other stuff I don’t really care about that much.

When I discuss "what I do" with real normies (those that are financially unsophisticated), and I mention BTC, invariably they say "are you a trader?" -- I think in their minds, they assume anyone involved in BTC is a "degen day-trader", someone looking at technical analysis all day and doing risky things with complicated-looking charts & graphs. But, ironically: I have actually started multiple "fiat" businesses before this, some of which scaled well above 25 employees and into many, many millions of USD in profit... and working on Lightning is actually THE FIRST time I feel like "I'm doing something which I will still be doing in 10 years." Like, Lightning is just getting started and there is an enormous future ahead for it. All of the prior fiat businesses, I could envision their failure/destruction (due to changing market conditions) from the very beginning. I just don't see an end to Lightning. I think it IS the endpoint, at least for the next several decades.