Have you seen nstart.me It's not a nostr client but a tool for onboarding

andrej karpathy said in a recent interview that we are summoning ghosts, not building animals with these ai systems, pretty accurate statement

I think the biggest complain people had about Umbrel that they called it open source but open source apparently has a very specific meaning related to the licence of the software and Umbrel should have called it source available instead

I stole a slipper from a friend's boyfriend and wore it for more than a year. Had to use superglue like 5 times because it was broken everywhere

I am playing around with the idea of having two key pairs for new users, one for your daily usage, the other to be kept private till you need to rotate the daily npub/nsec Will release details soon, built a client and everything to validate the idea, need to do some more work before I am confident this works

Liquid's codebase is called Elements, it's a fork of Bitcoin with some features added. Liquid focused on privacy, and faster tnxs using Bitcoin primitives, while Rootstock on the other hand used a EVM compatible virtual machine which allows devs to deploy Ethereum chain contracts on it, so focused more on DeFi and other "crypto" stuff That's probably the reason

There are two companies building Ark Ark Labs: docs.arkadeos.com Second: docs.second.tech There is trust involved to an extent in Ark, you need to trust that the Ark server won't collude with the sender of the payment to double spend it, but that's only for payments that you receive instantly, if you wait for some time your balance (called VTXOs) can be included as part of an aggregate txn that the Ark server makes after an interval which removes the trust assumption

It's a sidechain like Liquid, low adoption but has been around for a long time

Made an instant payment today from an Ark wallet to a Spark wallet to a self custodial lightning wallet on mainnet

I'm gonna write a proper article about it one day. Some people seem to think traditional apps have great UX because they don't use cryptography directly, but the entire thing only works because your system comes with a bunch of public keys that you are literally trusting for doing anything on the internet Imagine if nostr had 7 keys that all clients trusted (directly or indirectly) for the authenticity of everything instead of verifying signatures of individual events. That's how it works currently

What is this and how do I get started?

Leftists just oppose whatever social structure exists in any society. In the west they reject Christianity, in India it's Hinduism, in both places they support Islam just to spite the majority

Sell them for sats

Use https://sakura.oxtr.dev/

Also saying Bitcoiners don't give to charity when there are a lot of people making 70-100k USD per year (which is a huge amount outside of the US) for being open source devs in the Bitcoin space, is just funny. There are also hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoin being given to many non profits by HRF and OpenSats etc in Bitcoin itself

There is this thing in Bangalore called Namma Yatri that doesn't charge any fees per ride and instead the drivers pay a subscription fee per month to use the platform. It's a government sponsored initiative but the codebase is open source and maintained by a private company I have been meaning to take a lot at it forever but never did

You can receive and send via lightning, but it works using Boltz for swaps, which is a non-custodial AKA non trusted system for swapping sats in different systems like onchain, Liquid and Ark The functionality might be broken sometimes because it's still experimental but when it works it feels seamless

"Cryptography turns every problem into a key management problem"

One thing I wish we did is call Bitcoin a cybercurrency instead of cryptocurrency from the beginning, sounds cooler and the term was already coined in The Sovereign Individual