You can also use Rizful like an app (but not an app that requires Apple or Google's surveillance/approval) -- explained here: https://docs.megalithic.me/rizful-tips-and-tricks/phone-or-tablet

Use any email -- any privacy-preserving service (like iOS "hide my email") will work well.... we require email because you need to have a path to recover access. After studying the options, we decided that "your funds are secured only by your nsec"... was not safe enough for our standards....

This stuff is getting out of control, the surveillance -- the problem is that most normies I think are conditioned to accept this gradually and don't understand why it is a problem.

When I discuss "what I do" with real normies (those that are financially unsophisticated), and I mention BTC, invariably they say "are you a trader?" -- I think in their minds, they assume anyone involved in BTC is a "degen day-trader", someone looking at technical analysis all day and doing risky things with complicated-looking charts & graphs.

But, ironically: I have actually started multiple "fiat" businesses before this, some of which scaled well above 25 employees and into many, many millions of USD in profit... and working on Lightning is actually THE FIRST time I feel like "I'm doing something which I will still be doing in 10 years."

Like, Lightning is just getting started and there is an enormous future ahead for it.

All of the prior fiat businesses, I could envision their failure/destruction (due to changing market conditions) from the very beginning.

I just don't see an end to Lightning. I think it IS the endpoint, at least for the next several decades.

Another option, to escape fiat jail, but not have to leave behind all your Shopify data... https://docs.megalithic.me/BLFS/getting-started

My take: If you stay disciplined, you can do stuff which in 2020 you would have never attempted because you thought it would be too complicated. For example -- I am a huge Postgres user and tend to use expensive managed Postgres servers because... postgres admin is complicated. But today, in about 3 hours, I set up a pretty complicated remote follower for a local postgres instance, along with bandwidth limits, all the networking stuff, all running in docker on both ends. Something which would have taken me 3 days of puzzling to get right in 2020.

If you're building a Nostr app, you can quickly & easily create a flow for users to get a Rizful lightning address and nip-05 ... see here:

https://docs.megalithic.me/rizful-tips-and-tricks/easy-onboarding-for-nostr-clients

.. and here ...

https://github.com/MegalithicBTC/rizful-integration-demo

OK. So basically the "[email protected]" address is wrong, it should be "[email protected]" -- however, we're pushing a fix to Rizful to handle situations like this.. basically to automatically downcase the user input...

oh I see the problem --- [email protected] is the actual lightning address but they're asking for sats to [email protected] -- need to look again at the spect to figure out which side is supposed to handle errors like this

If you see "h-tag mismatch" when you try to send to a lightning address from rizful.com, that means whatever service is running that lightning address is doing something wrong with their implementation... I looked at this thread and I could not determine what lightning address you were trying to zap... please let me know ... this has happened before and we were able to reach out to the service and explain to them how to fix their implementation...

Great, looks like you've set up a Lightning Address with Rizful. You're 1/2 of the way there! Please follow the tutorial for your Nostr app here to learn how to connect your app to Rizful: https://docs.megalithic.me/category/using-rizfulcom

Once you've finished, please ping us back here so we can try to zap you!

Great, looks like you've set up a Lightning Address with Rizful. You're 1/2 of the way there! Please follow the tutorial for your Nostr app here to learn how to connect your app to Rizful: https://docs.megalithic.me/category/using-rizfulcom

Once you've finished, please ping us back here so we can try to zap you!