What the heck. I already had it installed on my phone. Haha. I must've downloaded it at some point in the past, but forgot about actually trying it out. Going to give this a try now.

Did she really say that regarding Jamie Dimon?! Unreal.

Oh nice. Didn't know about that. I will definitely have to check that out. Thanks.

It certainly can be!

Thats great. But does open the door to classifying custodial hosts that do have unilateral control of user funds as money transmitters though? That could apply to things like shared custodial lightning wallets such as LNBits or Cashu mints, etc.

I also think many people can be classified into all those categories at once, depending on the subject matter. I may be a creator/contributor for one subject matter, but a lurker for another subject matter because either I don't have a strong opinion or because I don't consider myself a subject matter expert in that area despite my interest in it.

I like the idea of bitcoin meetups, but I don't like the idea of people in public knowing that I'm into bitcoin? How do you reconcile those two feelings? Have you ever been to a bitcoin meetup in your area? What was your experience like? I usually don't talk about bitcoin to anyone I don't know, so the idea of going to a bitcoin meetup is worrying, but at the same time it would be cool to meet bitcoiners in person.

Pretty cool. Thanks

I could see her saying that. But at the same time, she is usually pretty covert about her wallstreet meetings. Like one of those shadowy super-coders. 😂

You can share mute lists, but ya, regex support would definitely be beneficial. Ultimately there are better ways at controlling spam and bots though than a blacklist type approach.

Isn't that akin to just muting users and/or text strings?

We really need to build a P2P bitcoin exchange on top of Nostr. Things like Robosats, Bisq, and Vexl are nice, I've used many of them extensively, but they're also ripe with fraud abuse which can get your accounts in trouble when trading with the wrong person. We're almost all bitcoiners here and there is a wide mix of people looking to either accumulate or sell bitcoin. We could use the web of trust with Nostr to find people within our trust circles looking for a partner who we could regularly exchange with. Similar to the idea of Vexl, but rather than needing to find exchange partners via our phone's contact list, we could use our Nostr follows (which are already public) to find trusted people looking to exchange with. From there, all exchange details can be done privately through encrypted communications. Obviously you can't fully stop fraudsters, but being able to find exchange partners among the people in your community you trust would go along way toward facilitating P2P bitcoin trades which is really needed to help bitcoin fight KYC. I think Nostr is in a prime position to help facilitate this.

I want self-sovereign zaps to be as easy as possible for the end-user as well. But I think some perspective is always good too. In order to perform a Zap in the alternative fiat world, it would require opening an account with an institution, providing loads of identifying data and documentation, waiting several days for account opening and funds to be transferred, and requiring all parties that will be transferring funds to be a part of the same closed-system and go through the same process each. While it may require a little technical knowledge in the beginning, this is a battle that can be won because the incumbent system is so disastrously bad in comparison.

Oh wow. That site is a blast from the past. I remember using that site back in the early days of lightning in like 2019. Glad to see it is still around! Might have to give it another go.