The story of #cashu and #fedimint is a textbook example of why user experience beats technical superiority every time. People developing around nostr really need to keep this front and center. A lot of gains have been made in this area in the past year, but nostr is still difficult to use even for technically adept people.

Cashu won not because it was technically superior but because it was easier to use both for users and developers who wanted to build tools that leveraged Cashu. I see Cashu everywhere, Fedimint is basically non-existent.

Cashu is a custodial way of storing BTC which exposes uses to significant risks of being deliberately rugged, having their mint hacked, or having their mint just randomly go offline one day forever. Fedimint mostly solved this by having coins locked up among multiple mints, now these bad eventualities required cooperation between multiple parties.

But at this point, fedimint is looking more and more like a footnote in #Bitcoin development history.

How hard is the "80 GB of storage with pruning" requirement for #BTCPayserver. I'm having trouble coming up with a good rationale for why 20GB wouldn't work. #bitcoin

One of the biggest barriers to merchant adoption of tools like #btcpayserver is hosting costs. While it's a no-brainer to pay for a $10/month VPS for btcpay if you have consistent BTC transactions coming in, most merchants lack surety that they will. I want to help merchant adoption by getting them started for free.
What are some of the best cloud providers that have generous "firsts x months free" or "first x credits free"? Currently looking at vultr but curious as to other options. Bonus points if they take BTC. Many cloud providers I've seen charge a significant premium for storage, like the VPS is $4/month but 80GB of chain storage is going to cost an additional $15.
#bitcoin

Looking to follow somebody who posts about #entrepreneurship self-improvement and building companies. Think the "knowledge of the top 1%" video clips you see shared everywhere. Any suggestions? #asknostr

Accepting lightning for merchants requires a lightning node be online 24/7. The common solution for this is #btcpay server, but this is quite heavy (and therefore impossible) for many online merchants on shared hosting. But @ZEUS "node in a phone" is lightweight enough to be run on Android. Can a BTCPay server be configured to use a "node in phone" style node?

Is there some similarly lightweight option we can use which does what #BTCPay Server does but with the overhead of #zeus? #bitcoin #asknostr #lightningnetwork

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