They use it as an onramp and offramp from their proprietary "spark" API -- but if you transaction using "spark", LightSpark has full censorship and surveillance powers.

oh - "According to an essay by Steve Champion and Anthony Ross, former members of the Crips street gang in Los Angeles, the initialism O.G. was first used by the Crips in the early 1970's" clearly any part of the English language that was created by The Crips is a good part of the English language

wow, that took quite a few conceptual jumps but I can now wrap my limited intellect fully around this meme, thank you

girlfriends, or at least 10,000 sats worth of recreational drugs

47:29 …. For absolute noobs, Rizful.com or CoinOs.io Then encourage them to upgrade to alby cloud https://fountain.fm/episode/NpYVejQNYQcpOgdNy4DE

please explain this meme to me like I am five, I don't understand it

I haven't looked into Ark yet closely. But my concern is potentially the same -- this question of "unilateral exit" is so much less important than "is this this decentralized?" Spark, as we've seen, is about as decentralized as PayPal. You have to use their web servers to do anything. What about Ark? How many Ark service providers are there, and how easy is it to spin up a new one? The great power of Lightning and Bitcoin is that there are THOUSANDS of nodes, of both kinds. That kind of decentralization brings enormous benefits -- privacy, and also fault-tolerance.

Today marks DAY THREE of the "Rizful 300" awards initiative. Each day, starting October 30th 2025, we are highlighting 10 Nostr OGs, and sending each a zap of 10,000 sats, for a total of 3,000,000 satoshis, over 30 days. Today's "Rizful 300" award winners are: , , , , , , , , , and Thank you all for your service to Nostr!

Today marks DAY FOUR of the "Rizful 300" awards initiative. Each day, starting October 30th 2025, we are highlighting 10 Nostr OGs, and sending each a zap of 10,000 sats, for a total of 3,000,000 satoshis, over 30 days. Today's "Rizful 300" award winners are: , , , , , , , , , and Thank you all for your service to Nostr!

Having trouble zapping you now. Getting "failed to get invoice"

Today marks day ONE of the "Rizful 300" awards initiative. Each day, starting October 30th 2025, we are highlighting 10 Nostr leaders, and sending each a zap of 10,000 sats, for a total of 3,000,000 satoshis, over 30 days. Today's "Rizful 300" award winners are: , , , , , , , , , and Thank you all for your service to Nostr!

Most humans originate from lineages where 2%+ of the population died by violence every year. This is why men now have a hard time finding their place in the world. They’ve literally been bred for war, not work.

Still looking for one that is super reliable and supports NWC.

Could you set up a certain address we can donate to, for Opensats, where the money won't be donated to David Marcus? I know he's got a mansion in Bel Air to maintain, but maybe someone else can pay for that.

Yes. We can do this but to do it right and SAFELY is a serious amount of work. We want at least 5 users to demand it and then we are going to do it. To build it and then just have like one user use it a month...... this would be too painful.

OK this is interesting. I am able to send you sats from CoinOs, but from Rizful... from Rizful I get the error: "The invoice does not match the LNURL metadata (h-tag mismatch)."... It might be the coinos does not verify that before paying... I need to do some more testing with your address and see if I can find the exact issue. It could theoretically be a flaw in how Rizful is comparing the metadata, although this error message is exceptionally rare. Will put it on my todo list.

Monero is supposed to be useful for privacy. Isn't it fair to warn people who are using Monero on an app which happens to ping LightSpark's servers whenever a lightning payment is sent or received? Seems like an appropriate worry?

Rizful.com just sent 10 zaps for the Plebs vs. Zombies winners! Congratulations to all the champions of the October 2025 Top Zombie Challenge! 💀⚡️ PRIZE WINNERS: 🥇 1st (42,000 sats): - 2,935 zombies! 🥈 2nd (21,000 sats): - 2,261 zombies! 🥉 3rd (14,000 sats): - 1,466 zombies! Prize generously donated to: 🙏 🏅 4th (8,400 sats): - 1,429 zombies! 🏅 5th (4,200 sats): - 1,281 zombies! 🎖 6th (2,100 sats): - 675 zombies! 🎖 7th (2,100 sats): - 645 zombies! 🎖 8th (2,100 sats): - 439 zombies! 🎖 9th (2,100 sats): - 408 zombies! 🎖 10th (2,100 sats): - 384 zombies! 💰 Total: 100,100 sats being distributed! Thank you to everyone who participated in making Nostr cleaner and zombie-free!

Any organization that funds btc projects and cares about decentralization and privacy should immediately stop any support for Breez, Lightspark, Wallet Of Satoshi, CakeWallet, Blitz or any other bad actor who is supporting LightSpark's dangerous, zero-privacy, centralized solution... more details: https://github.com/buildonspark/spark/issues/64 ... that fact that OpenSats is giving money to Blitz and CakeWallet is just insane

On a daily basis, we carefully review the entire list of Nostr users to determine which are OGs. This turns out to be complicated, since the term "OG" has no useful meaning.

Ok, it depends on what channels you have. Usually the public vs private channel thing is confusing unfortunately... if you get an inbound PRIVATE channel from an LSP, then you should be able to receive immediately.. but if you get in inbound PUBLIC channel, then you can't receive until 6 block confirmations... actually PUBLIC channels can be unpredictable... some senders won't be able to reach you for several hours... basically with PUBLIC channels, knowledge about the channel has to propagate across the network....

Yes. As a safety measure you can't open two channels at the same time to the same node.

it's kind of a meaningless phrase actually, probably could not be translated into any other language

Today marks DAY TWENTY-SEVEN of Rizful’s “30 Days, 30 Devs” initiative. From September 21st through October 20th, 2025, we are highlighting one Nostr developer each day, and sending a zap of 100,000 sats to that developer. Today we are zapping .... actually, we have no idea who the developer of this is... but we want to highlight this project as 1) Simple 2) Fun 3) Potentially interesting for Normies 4) Uses NWC in a smart way Thanks Your 100k zap is sent! -- Please help us with the “30 Days, 30 Devs” initiative... simply reply to this note with the pubkeys of any devs you would like to see zapped. Don't be shy, we've got 30 days!