Yeah. Before even getting to the argument that " delegating simple tasks to AI frees up time to focus more on design" — in my case, I probably wouldn't have even thought about building anything in the first place if AI hadn't existed.

Recently I had to deal with handling a zero-confirm tx (obviously not talking about on-chain stuff, haha), and going through the process — proposing an approach, getting rebutted by AI, then re-rebutting AI's suggestion, and finally reaching a conclusion — I learned a lot along the way.

Batch openings don't seem to provide much scalability benefit, but sharing outputs could be significantly helpful — arc is considered to be implemented for this purpose. While it may not offer the immediate finality comparable to Lightning, it pertains to an area where economies of scale apply. In the future, large-scale ASPs will be able to conduct batch settlement transactions in every block, and when that happens, Arc enables:

1. Cheap utilization of vtxos with unilateral exit rights reset every block.
2. Much more reliable operation for zero-conf payments (here, meaning participation in a batch round rather than onchain confirmation) due to the incentive model — since it’s not anonymous customer but ASPs maintaining an ongoing business that must cooperate.

What percentage of messages are spam for an account as popular as yours? Is the spam filter active, making it impossible to check?

There's a similar warning about not using hotel shower heads—advising either not to use them or to bring your own personal shower head to replace it. The reason is rather hard to talk about frankly.

If we're talking about things we can do at an individual level:

1. There are many things that are illegal but don't actually violate anyone's private property—if you've been in the habit of reporting such things, stop doing that immediately.
2. Encourage tax evasion.
3. Persuade others to join in on points 1 and 2 as well.
4. Advocate for, use, and spread the freedom-enabling technologies that make it easier for others to do these things.
5. Above all, stop voting.
6. Exclude, as much as possible, the voluntary Gestapo who can't be persuaded.

In fact, there's one path that's the easiest way to put all of this into practice—one that requires no special effort and is even beneficial to do: save in Bitcoin and pay in Bitcoin.

I used to have this goal of building a sleek Nostr client like yours, so I'd pore over the NIPs. After reading through them multiple times, I came to the conclusion that I should find something else I'm actually good at haha

And this goes without saying, but... it's not just about tagging — the client also needs to look up the inbox relays of every tagged person and publish to those relays as well.

The reason the notification isn't going through is that the problematic note isn't tagging your pubkey. Also, per the Nostr standard spec(NIP), in order to send notifications properly, client is supposed to tag everyone involved — meaning all participants from the root note all the way down to that comment — but it looks like Wisp only tags the pubkey of the immediate parent note.

Most of my NIP-46 issues come from the OS killing my processes. It's never been an issue on Linux, but mobile has been a constant struggle

Just to clarify — this is a general statement; I don't know what this app does.

Right — logging in or signing up is really annoying. For most use cases, an automatically generated private key stored in the browser is enough, provided there's some protection against spam attacks (or the app doesn't need spam protection).

Basically, all financial products, including insurance, are just a gamble. But to be more precise, that 'gamble' is just an excuse to take people's money. They collect cash from users under that pretext and use it to buy assets. In the end, they’re just shorting the dollar using our own money, and we’re paying them a fee to do it for us. We could literally just do it ourselves for free.