There are some things about how self-custody lightning works that are notoriously difficult to obfuscate away in order to provide a good experience for non-technical users. Phoenix wallet comes about as close as possible, but the tradeoff is footguns when the user runs out of inbound liquidity in their channel and they end up with a much larger transaction fee than they were expecting, because they had no idea they even HAD a channel, or how to manage its liquidity. Some liquidity management can be automated, but nothing really solves the lack of remaining inbound liquidity issue. And that is a concept that many non-technical folks can't even wrap their minds around, let alone want to try and manage for themselves.

Looks like haystack rock at Cannon Beach.

I can see these two feed options being confusing. This is me admitting that I am not sure how they differ. 😂 Can I get a definition for the difference between All Follows and All User Follows? Default Follow List is obviously just kind 3 based feed. The others seem to include my other lists as well. Is it that All User Follows doesn't include hashtags I follow?

My assumption is that Satoshi was talking about messages intended to be read by a specific person or group, but not intended for public consumption. Otherwise, the entire internet and social media space could be described as "messages" in generic terms, and assumed unwise, since it is trivial to create a permanent archive of anything that exists on the internet as plain text, as you said.

Yeah, that's the closest thing I have found. Not sure if all square retailers are represented there, though. It's specifically about places you can buy gift cards for, but there are some places I know use Square that don't show up there, which tells me that, too, is not fully inclusive of all Square merchants in the area. That said, it's definitely a good place to start. I am planning to hit up a few local places tomorrow.

List management will be coming to Amethyst! Will it support private entries, ?

Not quite what I am looking for. The one they have in CashApp is great for finding places that already have it turned on to accept Bitcoin, but I want to be able to find the ones that HAVEN'T turned it on yet, too.

Every hop in a lightning transaction is an update to a legit on-chain transaction signed by both of the channel partners and which either of them could broadcast at any time to put it on-chain. The fact that it doesn't get broadcast until the channel is closed does not make it any less a legit on-chain transaction. Lightning is absolutely Bitcoin.

Genders: I thought Amethyst already had the ability to add pronouns to your profile. Or were you talking about something else? Country or City Feeds: Amethyst already has "Around Me." No one uses it. Marketplace Improvements: That's generic. What specifically would you like to see improved about the marketplace?

I'll second Nunchuk

I had the same thought. Here's how I understand them, and can correct me if I am wrong. - All Follows: Everything you follow that can be displayed in the given feed. Including hashtags, communities, etc. - All User Follows: All you follow, regardless of which list you have them on. So things like hashtags and communities are left out, but follow packs and any other lists of you might have created would be included. - Default Follow List: JUST the on your kind 3 follow list. Nothing more, nothing less. The confusion comes from loose terminology. We generally think of "follows" as the in our kind 3, but we can also follow hashtags on Amethyst. Should we have a different word for following a hashtag, or should it be "follow" just like when adding an npub to our kind 3? Maybe it should be different, but then what word would best describe following a hashtag or community rather than following a particular user? Same with alternative follow lists, such as follower packs and generic lists. Should we call them something other than follows? Maybe, but what?

Wow... It's a approved critique! Thank you for the zap, sir!

Aegis is the closest that iOS has. Can be used with Nostur client and others that support NIP-46.

This would require something like lockbox relays, which never really took off.

I know y'all are stacking hard, because I keep getting alerts that pro.boltz.exchange is offering a premium for swapping from on-chain to lightning. Sats are flowing to cold storage!

Will be using Strike a bit more to pay for things locally now. Would be really great to have a directory of Square retailers so we know where we can go spend our sats. Once the retailer activates it, of course.

Less big mining facilities means plebs mining at home earn more sats for the same energy spent. That will encourage more to mine from home. Pair that with DATUM or SV2 so that plebs are all making their own block templates and big data-centers switching away from mining Bitcoin to hop onto the AI compute bandwagon could be a very good thing for mining decentralization.