Oh, believe me, we tried to get permission. His Solana wallet would not accept our bribe however, so our hands were tied, and had to just switch to shitposting about him.

Sir, instead of zapping you, we've sent your zap in Trump Coin to your LinkedIn profile. Thanks for your service.

I am still completely mystified by the idea that we can rely on users to tag their own content.

kind of mid marketing strategy

Sir, according to directions, we must now stop sending Zaps on Nostr. Please contact us via LinkedIn and provide your Trump Coin address so we can continue on that platform. Thank you.

The more you talk smack about , the more BTC goes up. Thank you for your service.

Sir, we tried to send your sponsorship payment via LinkedIn, however your Solana wallet did not respond. Please reply at your earliest convenience.

wen moon?

Thanks for your suggestions on our marketing campaign. As we discussed, will henceforth only be sponsoring LinkedIn users, and all sponsorship payments will be in Trump Coin. Please check your LinkedIn Inbox, or Microsoft Teams, for your offer. Thank you.

We promise to stop sending you 100,000 sat zaps if you promise not to send us 100,000 sat zaps, and instead, guarantee that you will spend the 100,000 sats we sent you on drugs that are illegal in your current jurisdiction. Deal?

BitChat needs zaps, pronto. And probably it needs to be implemented with eCash.... and not Lightning, given the potentially offline status of a lot of users, right?

Sir, we tried to zap you, but our service provider has informed us that we are unable to send zaps until unblocks our account. To unblock our account, will need to unstake his wrapped Solana coins on Binance. Please open a support ticket with Binance.

Your choice, gunslinger: Alby Hub: "Self-custodial, for real: you can clone a GitHub repo, run it all yourself, with no permission, with excellent privacy, all using tested, reliable, open standards, which are all over 5 years old: The Lightning Network, and Bitcoin. Proven to work in production. Many thousands of users." Spark: "Self-custodial, like, at some unknown point in the future, LightSpark, a private company, might allow you to access their API, and at that point they might or might not allow you to do something with their weird token that uses non-standard addresses. Oh, and the software isn't available yet."

supposed day job: nostr dev, lightning dev, squabbling about bitcoin ..... actual day job: doing fuck-all while Bitcoin gradually goes to $1m

Nostr: 30k users, 1k developers, insane value proposition: post here and get zaps.

We need to announce that has demanded that we stop sending outrageously large zaps on Nostr, and for this reason we are quitting Nostr and will henceforth only post on Facebook, where we promise to only post pictures of our employees wearing "cute outfits." Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Great, looks like you've set up a Lightning Address with Rizful. You're 1/2 of the way there! Please follow the tutorial for your Nostr app here to learn how to connect your app to Rizful: https://docs.megalithic.me/category/using-rizfulcom Once you've finished, please ping us back here so we can try to zap you!

Ultra-simple Rizful tutorials: Get paid with a static QR code from Rizful: https://docs.megalithic.me/rizful-tips-and-tricks/rizful-qr-payments/ Use Rizful from any phone or tablet: https://docs.megalithic.me/rizful-tips-and-tricks/phone-or-tablet/

I'm old. Explain what "Linda" means in this context. Is that a reference I should understand?

Good question. We've been involved with BTC since 2013, and currently we're doing a few different things with the aim of increasing usage of the Lightning Network. We're running LSP services... https://megalithic.me/ .. maintaining some docs on the network ... https://docs.megalithic.me/ ... and running Rizful ... https://rizful.com/ .... So: while there is a little bit of revenue generated from the Lightning stuff ( see https://docs.megalithic.me/the-gentlemans-guide-to-routing-nodes/a-node-for-a-gentleman for a humorous discussion of that) ... in reality this is closer to a NON-PROFIT project which we are undertaking to find ways to increase Lightning adoption. In the long-run these projects could be a business, but they could also just be a few little things we are trying to do to give back to the BTC community, as the BTC community has given us a lot over the years! We're just mostly excited about the various places that Nostr and Lightning can intersect... that's why so far we've focused on zaps and zapping as the area we want to help the most with.

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Wait, I thought people on Nostr liked getting zaps? Isn't that the whole damn point!?!?!?

Sir, first you need to ask to allow us to send zaps again. Currently we are blocked from doing so by the unique control he has over the entire Nostr network.

We would have offered you 250k but we have only offered that to so he could talk shit about us. Which seemed to work.

"He." That's sexist. What if is entirely run by women?

You've been seeing so much because for some reason keeps talking about us. We keep trying to send him sats, then he sends them back. Maybe we should try sending him like Ethereum or Trump Coin instead?

Sure. If Spark releases software that anyone can run, that does not "phone home" to LightSpark.com, and allows me to exit out of their ecosystem onto onchain Bitcoin, that does seem at least fairly close to "self custody". BTW -- I think Ark should think about this, and when you are ready to go consumer-facing, be proactive about showing that anyone can run and endpoint, and it's totally possible for someone to interact with Ark without touching Arkade's domains. Even if you have a couple small-time operators stand up the service, make it available on their domains, that would be huge.