2026-08-11T17:09:21Z https://nostr.now basantagoswami https://nostr.now/npub1gmm2ehusvs35zgh6pq84m8hkj4ea0ygy3c9j2e3slzhjjce3kmns5tdaz2 https://m.primal.net/LsGr.png https://m.primal.net/LsGr.png https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstqskjnrsm44h3dv83lg7nnml68n7gdy8822dn0a7up48et7yccrczypr0dtxljpjzxsfzlgyq7hv7762h84u3qj8qkftxxru272trxxmwwywfn3h Starting a keto/carnivore diet from today. Primarily due to some constant health issues that I have been dealing with for a couple of years now, with no traditional treatment helping much. I saw my father dealing with the same issues all his life. Hundreds of doctor visits and whatnot couldn&#39;t fix anything. This was my yesterday&#39;s dinner, ate a bunch of junk one last time. 🤞 Hopefully things get better now <br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/155fc60ed15efae057af7e44456d0b2c320378d5fa58e82db8f0215e31d72cea.jpg"> 2026-01-26T08:59:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0e2h72cwn6ctjwayuceu5u4323tpu7g2c6f7uy8vcane5far8w8qzypr0dtxljpjzxsfzlgyq7hv7762h84u3qj8qkftxxru272trxxmww39gf8l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs04kr0mrcqqmd5usu32tdcktlpwtp8ryad9sse2qaje2asxngzsrspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgm2gwpv'>nevent1q…gwpv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Meh other than Lightspark, people building on Cashu, Ark etc have never lied about the design of their systems, everyone has always been very clear about the tradeoffs<br/><br/>Something never taking off doesn&#39;t mean getting laughed off, come on now, be serious <br/><br/>Also I never said Spark&#39;s only use case is pretending to be lightning, I don&#39;t even know what you are referring to <br/><br/>You are just bitter these things are getting more attention than the things you built <br/><br/>You know the real limitations of lightning. You know what a statechain built properly can achieve. Pretending otherwise won&#39;t do anything <br/><br/>Lightspark is a shady company, Spark is kinda meh. But the idea itself can be implemented in a way that provides better trust minimization, scalability, privacy, and non cooperative exit than anything other than lightning. And you know very well the limitations of lightning, there simply isn&#39;t enough blockspace for everyone <br/><br/>What if it was some other iteration of statechain that was also blinded? Lightspark says they have plans for it, but let&#39;s assume it&#39;s a entirely new protocol<br/><br/>You get complete privacy from the operators, instant payments, configurable threshold of members in a federation, operators can&#39;t steal funds without colluding with previous owner, any previous sender can&#39;t steal coins even if they hack the federation if they are honest and deleted their previous key share, uses can always unilaterally exit by broadcasting a couple of txns, atomic swaps between lightning and statechain balance,<br/><br/>Would you be happy with this system? This is just one iteration away from what Spark is today. Or would you call that system names and pretend lightning only somehow solves the problem for everyone? <br/><br/> 2025-12-09T23:33:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8nageh483qwl3te8w4lqkylzfmlnwm04pgwe46e9qhyjd3zf355szypr0dtxljpjzxsfzlgyq7hv7762h84u3qj8qkftxxru272trxxmwwwp0m40 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9vjf6q9myp207mrhx09pwlsgew7qhrv8jcu7fx3z40xyzslvgu4gpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqgn0zwv'>nevent1q…0zwv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So you&#39;d have been okay with Cashu, Ark and Spark if the Cashu devs, Ark Labs and Lightspark didn&#39;t run any instance of these systems and only built the software?<br/><br/>Another dishonesty from you I recently discovered from you is in just the first few seconds of the interview you said if someone had come up with these systems 6-7 years ago they would have been laughed off stage. Ruben Somsen came up with the idea of statechains 6 years ago and no one did, in fact, no one laughed at his ideas, his presentations (available on YouTube), the Mercury Layer implementation etc. They just never took off till Spark came along <br/><br/> 2025-12-09T23:08:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfjsfelsnssynt7m78kjsr7npyz8lv04gd2ygutyrh9tnn6u26ljczypr0dtxljpjzxsfzlgyq7hv7762h84u3qj8qkftxxru272trxxmww7evdfz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2zhz44eel2fhktk5enc5946clcusrflkfm7ewrd2zx72ylxtcpxqpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9udrpa6a'>nevent1q…pa6a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Also, Justin has his own company that&#39;s building its own chstodial system using nostr, that&#39;s the only reason he shits on Ark, Spark, Cashu and everything else. You shit on everything else *except* cashu because Zeus integrated it<br/><br/>That&#39;s very dishonest 2025-11-12T14:40:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2zhz44eel2fhktk5enc5946clcusrflkfm7ewrd2zx72ylxtcpxqzypr0dtxljpjzxsfzlgyq7hv7762h84u3qj8qkftxxru272trxxmww6qsjt7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqrc82qv7q437xhzxycpwzveztt5yhpyldwgk02qe8xql2wcxka6gpzamhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctcupua2v'>nevent1q…ua2v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I use Phoenix and Zeus for self custodial lightning. No matter how many docs you write to make yourself feel important, this still still terrible UX first of all, and doesn&#39;t scale to more than a few million people at most. You can&#39;t just look at what works now if you want more and more people to use Bitcoin via lightning 2025-11-12T14:36:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy5y3g56kcvxp2ax6jv0pme8dpkj2tn2hsljukp58c96hf55usz8qzypr0dtxljpjzxsfzlgyq7hv7762h84u3qj8qkftxxru272trxxmwwat22x8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgu86qlcquqz5pk93nv7v62smmn3aj90l5ku33lgqqer6hpvrs3zq7td0y3'>nevent1q…d0y3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Now I remember why you got kicked out of the Nostr Telegram group in the early days of nostr. You get needlessly personal. I am a dev and I do know how to manage liquidity in lightning. That has nothing to do with the discussion we are having<br/><br/>LN works as intended. And that&#39;s the problem, because the way it works is not enough<br/>Even if you are a gigabrain managing liquidity flawlessly, that&#39;s still terrible UX, and you are not gonna change human behaviour en masse to make it work<br/><br/>We can change the topic to talk about how dumb everyone except you is but that doesn&#39;t change the fact that lightning doesn&#39;t scale the number of users that can use Bitcoin, it only scales the number of txns we can make 2025-11-12T14:14:58Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqpagzyjr2ydaj2c3uqzqlj6glvamynyx8njnu6gg5kddt2nahe9szypr0dtxljpjzxsfzlgyq7hv7762h84u3qj8qkftxxru272trxxmwwc2pe6z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswaj5ne6urpxecvth69j8hgsacv2hu9esj3hjske7fkfq6h9h7j9cpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhg680z0f'>nevent1q…0z0f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I have been thinking about this a lot lately. The internet fundamentally changed human society because it changed who you could be connected with. But the problem that arised was that you couldn&#39;t reach other people based on the offline connections you already had and big tech / social media algos became the permanent proxies<br/><br/>This is a video not directly related to the topic we are discussing but opened my mind to why web of trust would be very very important for nostr. Also, with the advancements in AI, without WoT, you&#39;d need more and more privacy invading stuff to keep the internet working which can&#39;t last very long <br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYlon2tvywA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYlon2tvywA</a> <br/><br/> 2025-11-09T18:54:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstwkut037adphargz3gtxcplkkd9acxz4s3kg2wmfe7vggegd8v2gzypr0dtxljpjzxsfzlgyq7hv7762h84u3qj8qkftxxru272trxxmww6kgq32 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs228ewqa0f4fyass6jtz5jh8taylny37st2ssgx63q05ye608dqfqpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcav2ezy'>nevent1q…2ezy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Approach 2 is leaner, but tags don&#39;t mean the same thing across event kinds, so using `r` tags might not be a good idea<br/><br/>Some event kinds are always anchored to other things like comments. That&#39;s why NIP-22 was created. <br/><br/>Here is an example of a comment on a URL from NIP-22<br/><br/>{<br/> &#34;kind&#34;: 1111,<br/> &#34;content&#34;: &#34;Nice article!&#34;,<br/> &#34;tags&#34;: [<br/> // referencing the root url<br/> [&#34;I&#34;, &#34;<a href="https://abc.com/articles/1&#34">https://abc.com/articles/1&#34</a>;],<br/> // the root &#34;kind&#34;: for an url, the kind is its domain<br/> [&#34;K&#34;, &#34;<a href="https://abc.com&#34">https://abc.com&#34</a>;],<br/><br/> // the parent reference (same as root for top-level comments)<br/> [&#34;i&#34;, &#34;<a href="https://abc.com/articles/1&#34">https://abc.com/articles/1&#34</a>;],<br/> // the parent &#34;kind&#34;: for an url, the kind is its domain<br/> [&#34;k&#34;, &#34;<a href="https://abc.com&#34">https://abc.com&#34</a>;]<br/> ]<br/> // other fields<br/>}<br/><br/>Considering zap requests and receipts are also anchored to other events, maybe you can use the K, E, A, I, k, e, a, i tags with the zap event kinds? 2025-05-27T10:42:27Z