I have decided to join the NWC hackathon and have built Portal BTC. Portal BTC is a self-custodial web wallet designed for Bitcoin users who want to leverage Bitcoin, Lightning, Liquid, and Cashu without the need to run their own Lightning node. This means that you can receive lightning payments (as little as 1 sat) fully self custodially without needing to run a lightning node! Working beta at https://portalbtc.live

how about cashu? you let the user store sats in any mint they choose, you allow them to make an in-app purchase to buy x sats which then are minted on the user's mint when you receive the payment from apple, and you store the proofs on the app

I hate google as much as the next guy, but that's just not true of android. If you run or murena any other degoogled android rom, there's nothing that could ever stop you running nostr apps on your phone. But primarily, most importantly, I think that linux needs to make a come back on mobile devices, there have been attempts but none of them went as widespread as they should have imo

Honestly someone COULD seriously make bank doing that "I take your AI generated slop prototype code and turn it into a real application written by humans"

Why do people keep saying it doesn't work. I am genuinely confused by this

But dude now anyone can build an app that would take 1 hour to build in 5 hours while screaming at an ai fix a bug, AND end up with a terrible code base at the same time, isn't the future exciting?

I'm so glad that pewdiepie has switched to Linux. He's going through the full Linux experience where once you try Linux seriously (i.e. actually give it a shot) there's no coming back. You want everything to be like Linux because you have seen the light, you know that it's possible to actually make your life simple again. I'm making a bet, I'm not a betting man usually, but I bet 100k sats that in the next 2 years he's going to be a nostrich too

That's fantastic

@ I'm not personally an apple user, but please release zapstore for ios too, it's clear that apple doesn't give a shit about freedom

I have gotten to the point where seeing the words "AI" in front of a product makes me distrust it as much as the words "Silicon Valley Startup", and that's saying something

Its used for other event mentions, which is exactly what you're doing!

it's just the new fad, AI is the NFTs and web3 of 2025

It's been a week and I keep going back to this paper. It's crazy to me. Obviously I'm skeptical of any study that hasn't been reproduced yet, the reproducibility crisis is real and it affects every single area of science. But even if we find out that every single one of their claims is overshot by 1000% the result would still be terrifying for the future of humanity. If we keep using LLMs we are accellerating our heading towards the direction of idiocracy. But at the same time, just remembering this article makes me think twice every time I try and use an LLM, so perhaps the future is not so bleak (at least in this area)