How do you measure controversial? By the number of people who would disagree with that opinion? By the number of people who would want to kill me for stating it? Or by the number of special agents that would hunt me down and torture me to death for spreading it?

Aha, zero fees, but everyone has to do PoW? Do you really want to let everyone mine their txs individually? If difficulty is low, ASIC miners will laugh about PoW, if it's high people not using ASICs will have to delegate mining their tx or burn an unreasonable amount of time and energy to get a tx added. Which of those is it?

The concept is interesting, but it raises way more questions than the whitepaper answers.

I transitioned to focus more on the 4 year moving average. That's a much more solid indicator than the temporary price.

Does sovereignty expire or why is there a date of expiry?

You could have also used a Bitcoin wallet that was created using agentic engineering: Bitboard Wallet.

Here's the source code: https://github.com/Radivis/bitboard-pwa-wallet

And here's the live app: https://app.bitboard-wallet.com/

Letting AI agents use that also works quite well.

Bitboard was intended as onboarding wallet / tool for Bitcoin and Lightning. I started developing it in March this year. It's still very far away from being any kind of competition to established wallets like Phoenix.

At the moment, Bitboard does not support manual coin control, yet, as the app just sticks with the initial coin selection done by BDK. It merely displays the selected UTXOs now.

Also, Bitboard currently can only connect to external Lightning wallets via NWC. A genuine app-internal Lightning node is something I plan on finishing until Q4 this year.

The most distinctive feature of Bitboard is the integrated blockchain simulation / sandbox. It's main purpose is to help people grok the mechanics of Bitcoin by playing around with it.

I get the impression that sometimes also calling people you agree with retards is a thing on Nostr.

A feverish vision of the future

"On-chain zaps, however, will "lock" your nsec to a bitcoin address. Forever." This has always been the case, even before on-chain zaps were a thing. It's a logical consequence of Bitcoin and Nostr using the same elliptic curve: secp256k1.

I always found that fact remarkable. Now the consequences of that design choice are getting real.

I have reflected on this. The proper privacy stance towards on-chain zaps is to consider those coins to be effectively burnt as reputation sacrifice in favor of the npub they are connected to.

That was perhaps not the intended use case for on-chain zaps, but it could be seen as legitimate application. Trying to convince all Nostr users that this is how on-chain zaps SHOULD be used (if at all) is a different matter.