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robos profile picture
Please. Please. Please. If you're applying to @OpenSats stop sending us ridiculously long applications just because AI spits it out for you. You are offloading the work of parsing through your application to us and it infuriates me.

Think of your application like a resume - it should cover the main points but should be concise. If you want to provide more detail provide a link or a PDF. Video applications are also useful, which is why we added the field. I'd much rather watch a two minute video than try to make sense of the buzzword slop that is often sent in.

And if you're a shitcoiner, just stop applying. Please. It's not a "you miss every shot you don't take" situation. You aren't going to get funded - your application goes straight to the bin. That includes affinity scams like Stacks.

I guess I woke up and chose violence today.
Tim Bouma · 25w
OK I did it. Instead of a P2TR address for your npub, I implemented Silent Payments. I managed to: 1. Create a Silent Payment address from my npub, 2. Send a Silent Payment from Cake Wallet (the o...
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Dana Wallet is another great option for Silent Payments. Their block scanning worked better for me than Cake wallet. https://github.com/cygnet3/dana

I also did some work on sending a Nostr encrypted DM to let the receiver know they've received a Silent Payment from you. They don't need to even scan, getting rid of the primary negative of Silent Payments: https://gist.github.com/BoltTouring/5376f9cf02b6949252cd17c2f41b453f
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robos profile picture
I'm surprised this wasn't considered. @redshift even mentioned it to @Alex Gleason a few weeks ago. I built the proof of concept with the hope that it would help make Bitcoin more private and make payments easier - all you need is an email address. And now we're debating making Bitcoin less private / objectively worse.