Better yet, check out https://beta.noahwallet.io and try it yourself!

As the mainstream media and politicians in my country are aligned in an anti-X narrative I fear I'll have nothing else to use but nostr within a years time. I hope my fellow countrymen will join me but it's hard getting the word out.

The launch has been going really well, thanks for the support!

When BDK merges silent payment support you'll be able to play with silent payments with your ark wallet 😅

I'm trying to spread the word but I've not seen any non-bitcoiners talk about it yet

It would require effectively running a custodial service for lightning. Currently the way Noah works is that the client generates a preimage and payment hash, then it requests an invoice from the ark server. At that point the server facilitates the payment with some checks and balances which allow the client to keep the server honest. A third party swap service could exist which receives lightning payments and sends an ark payment of equal value to an ark address however that is custodial.

Can someone explain why $58K gang is a thing? I don't remember anything significant about it back in 2021~

I just think it's natural that as it gets bigger the time it takes to make large gains will increase. Barring geopolitical changes or world events I think the bitcoin price is destined to become quite boring.

Something definitely feels more brutal and scary this time around but I'll keep building and hopefully come out on the other side helping the next wave of adopters stack sats.

At risk of being called a spook I don't think it's all manipulation, I think it's more like just that Bitcoin will be harder and harder on newcomers as it matures. I'm sorry it's been so tough but I believe you will get your moment. As Odell would always say, stay humble and stack sats.

75% of Knots runners will use it, maybe 10-15% of miners will signal for it at the peak. I think it'll have a quick start in terms of nodes runners but it'll plateau. If people against BIP-110 start getting antagonistic, elitist and celebrating early I think there will be a second wave of adopters.

All in all I think things will be getting get very tense until August. I think the end result is a chain split because people will engage in a competition to see who can get the highest fee rate transaction in the first force-activated block to cause an immediate minority chain split.

I hope it will be a wake up call to the BIP-110 supporters that you can't bully the network into following your rules if there is an intolerant majority. I also hope it's a wake up call to Core and the community at large that we need to unify, not splinter. If things get as heated as I worry it will, I'm concerned that there will be a psycho or two getting violent in real life but I very much hope I'm wrong on that one.