“Don’t worry, we won’t share your phone number with anyone.” Don’t worry, I won’t share my phone number with you. #grownostr #privacy

Another argument against #cashu for me used to be "ugh, it's just like reimplementing the banking system on #Bitcoin!" It's not. First, cashu offers extreme privacy guarantees. Possibly even better than #Monero. (Side note: I love Monero.) Second, it's #permissionless. Third, cashu bearer tokens can be passed as data, allowing all sorts of programmable money use cases. Banking will never be any of this.

I'm more impressed by #cashu than I expected. I used to be really turned off by the tradeoff of relying on custodial mints, but: I value the high speed, low fees, and privacy benefits. (The custodian themselves has zero visibility into your activity.) Offline-capable lightning addresses is absolutely killer. As is the ease with which you can make lightning payments from a cashu wallet like Minibits. The speed with which you can start accepting lightning payments through Nostr using npub.cash is insane. It makes a lot more sense when you think of cashu as a spending wallet. Indeed it should probably warn on larger amounts (maybe it already does.) Sure, you can get rugged and lose some pocket change. But as webs of trust grow - and surface - around mints, I don't see this being a major issue. So, we'll see how this goes. 😎 #bitcoin

@vexl 😎 I'm not convinced by your reasoning for requiring phone numbers. It seems to wholly undermine the no-KYC claim, regardless of what promises you make about who can and can't see it. (And requiring an anonymous SIM to preserve privacy is a hassle.) Have you considered, eg charging 5-10k sats or something, as an alternative to providing a phone number? #bitcoin #privacy

Any #NanoGPT users out there? Can I ask a favour? They're not yet on Nostr AFAICS. Please consider using their "Suggestions and bugs" to request that they join Nostr. I've run into an issue where not having them accessible here is making me consider @Maple AI or @PayPerQ. #ssknostr #grownostr #ai

To answer my own question: @Plebchain Radio. One of the most #cypherpunk podcasts I've listened to in a while. Highly recommended. View quoted note →

Finally tried @Zapstore for the first time today. Very cool. The way an app store should be: #permissionless Powered by your social graph. Supports making direct payments to developers, with zero fees taken by the app store. Some days (most days?) using Nostr feels like living 10-20 years in the future. #grownostr