Please. Please. Please. If you're applying to @OpenSats stop sending us ridiculously long applications just because AI spits it out for you. You are offloading the work of parsing through your application to us and it infuriates me.

Think of your application like a resume - it should cover the main points but should be concise. If you want to provide more detail provide a link or a PDF. Video applications are also useful, which is why we added the field. I'd much rather watch a two minute video than try to make sense of the buzzword slop that is often sent in.

And if you're a shitcoiner, just stop applying. Please. It's not a "you miss every shot you don't take" situation. You aren't going to get funded - your application goes straight to the bin. That includes affinity scams like Stacks.

I guess I woke up and chose violence today.

@utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 Check your DMs - I've been trying to get a hold of you.

Scanless Silent Payments
tl:dr: We built a complete silent payment notification system into Sparrow Wallet using Nostr encrypted DMs. When you send a silent payment to a Nostr identity, the recipient is automatically notified via NIP-17 with everything they need to claim the UTXO — no blockchain scanning required.
This is a proof of concept and almost certainly has security issues.