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David Coen
@thedavidcoen

Author of Q/A about Bitcoin, SW QA Tester and Support for EdgeWallet.
Donations:⚡️ [email protected]
Useful links: https://links.davidcoen.it
Lightning node: 02e74c09ca720c891221164424651f62176a4737a4b2fd4f75a5befee127e90b9e

Relays (21)
  • wss://ditto.pub/relay – write
  • wss://eden.nostr.land/ – read & write
  • wss://nos.lol/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr.1f52b.xyz/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr.fmt.wiz.biz/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr.lu.ke/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr.massmux.com/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr.milou.lol/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr.mom/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr.thomascdnns.com/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr.zebedee.cloud/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr1.tunnelsats.com/ – read & write
  • wss://relay.current.fyi/ – read & write
  • wss://relay.damus.io/ – read & write
  • wss://relay.nostr.info/ – read & write
  • wss://relay.nostr.ro/ – read & write
  • wss://relay.nostr.scot/ – read & write
  • wss://relay.plebstr.com/ – read & write
  • wss://relay.snort.social/ – read & write
  • wss://wot.utxo.one – read & write

Recent Notes

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You should NEVER, EVER, send "on ramp" bitcoin to a custodial service.
"Yes, but for small amounts the setup is a mess!".
Soon it will become as easy as sending to a Bitcoin address.
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I don't think it's a matter of "believing in Lightning".
Paul is a bit skeptical about reliability and has self-custody as a priority, that's why we strongly opposed previous lightning solutions that were custodial.
I respect his point of view.
Edge remains open source, so PRs are very welcome.
Also, you don't need to use shitcoins it you use Edge! Imagine your edge account as a client-side encrypted package where you can collect seed phrases (aka wallets) and maybe in the future ever more things.
You can have Bitcoin-only accounts with as many Bitcoin wallets as you wish.
That's how I use my accounts.
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Also @nprofile1q... the reply was for @nprofile1q...'s comment, not for the main post by Daniel.

Ps: I saw the recorded event with Bitpolito. You were great. Too bad I wasn't aware of that, I live a few km from there, it would have been an occasion to meet in person :-( !
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Hey Daniel, I'll do!
We currently don't support lightning, that's true.
I'm a Lightning early adopter so you can clearly understand how much I want to use Edge to make LN payments.
Unfortunately we are not still ready for that, for a few reasons:
Onboarding would be difficult for the majority of our user base
Hard for them to manage liquidity (the current SDK options do not support splicing yet, as far as I know)
Success rate of payments (it's actually improved a lot lately, so that might not be a big issue anymore!)
In the meantime, I use Breez and Phoenix wallet.

As for Ark, it's no longer theoretical. There are a couple of implementations currently in development, check ArkLabs and Second.
They are in testnet, and probably out in mainnet later this year.
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The problem is being a liquidity provider.
Not just for the infrastructure and the rebalance, but because as a centralized identity, you are an easy target for the state.
If they decide you are a money transmitter, then good luck.
That's why we need distributed liquidity and possibly separate the service operator from the liquidity providers.

For onboarding, the issue is definitely channel creation.
We may be able to solve this with Ark.
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As a non-engineer, I had hard time getting an Overseerr service reachable remotely.
I asked chatGPT and I had the solution in 5 minutes! 😱
So, I used it again to create this tool: https://resources.davidcoen.it/ddnscpanel/
This tool helps users with a dynamic IP and a hosting provider with cPanel configure Dynamic DNS (DDNS) automatically.
If you have a domestic server but your ISP changes your public IP frequently, you need a way to update your domain to always point to your current IP.

Who is this for?
- Users who have a dynamic public IP
- Users whose domain is managed via cPanel (with a URL to update the IP).
Users who want to access their home services (like Jellyfin, Overseerr, BTCpay, etc.) remotely.