matt
Matt Corallo

https://bluematt.bitcoin.ninja

10th known contributor to Bitcoin Core. Now Full-Time Open-Source Bitcoin+Lightning Projects at Spiral (Part of Block).

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2026-02-09 11:05:51 UTC

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No, because I’d rather be at a bar :)

2026-02-09 02:31:09 UTC

I dunno who needs to hear this but seeing a professional (American) football game in person is strictly worse than on TV. The games are made for TV. Do you know what happens in the stadium for the nearly 50% of the time that they’re showing commercials? Absolutely fucking nothing. Oh you have a box? Cool, I’d rather be at a bar watching it on TV.

2026-02-08 22:03:10 UTC

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ODELL finally admits he controls the Bitcoin price.

2026-02-08 20:22:32 UTC

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Mostly just that the sign was created by people young enough that they didn’t even consider rock to be a risk to kids :)

2026-02-08 14:02:01 UTC

It’s impressive how well LLMs demonstrate the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

2026-02-08 11:27:19 UTC

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lol what did you “philosophically disagree” with her on? If you just say OP_RETURN relay, it might be worth pointing out that she isn’t even who pushed any changes!

2026-02-08 11:26:01 UTC

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You mean like the bitcoinuniversity guy who was pumping shitcoins until very recently? Agree, in that case.

2026-02-06 23:07:39 UTC

This. Build the best Bitcoin to get more normal sane people to use Bitcoin and drown out the crazies.
That and don’t bother engaging on social media. Sorry to the crazies you’re just never gonna get to interact with any Bitcoin dev at this point - people gotta protect their time.
#note1jfm…lz4w

2026-02-06 20:37:54 UTC

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💯

2026-02-06 19:18:35 UTC

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Also here tbh #nevent1q…3aaa

2026-02-06 19:17:50 UTC

Absolutely stellar mute list here v
#note17ej…kkj9

2026-02-06 19:17:08 UTC

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I can tell you get your information second-hand from morons cause she wasn’t even the one pushing to change relay policy.

2026-02-06 18:02:26 UTC

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It seems to continue to get worse. There was a time when the fights were over relevant topics and were less harassment and more deep disagreements over things people cared incredibly much about. Then it was just about attacking “shitcoiners”, sometimes for good reason sometimes less so. Now it’s just about attacking and harassing other bitcoiners because they’re not “pure” enough. That’s been true for a number of years but it just seems to be over dumber and dumber things every six months.

2026-02-06 12:09:34 UTC

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If you can’t recognize outright harassment as “shithead” behavior, then you’re just an idiot. There’s a huge gap between disagreement over a decision and harassing someone.

2026-02-05 20:46:19 UTC

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Yea…. You’re not wrong

2026-02-05 19:34:48 UTC

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Could, but with a community like this why would anyone, really?

2026-02-05 19:26:05 UTC

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Indeed

2026-02-05 19:02:49 UTC

And so Bitcoin loses yet another person who invested nearly a decade learning its intricacies so that they can meaningfully contribute. At this rate we’re not gonna have anyone left who’s qualified working on Bitcoin. Wonder how much people will love it when the chain randomly splits because of poorly-maintained code.
At least lightning security was improved 10x in the interim, I suppose.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/34517

2026-02-05 02:26:36 UTC

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Has been for years. Honestly not sure how we get any new blood at this point.

2026-02-04 22:10:03 UTC

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Happens every bull market too. In fact moreso.

2026-02-04 22:04:02 UTC

Man it’s disappointing to, yet again, watch bitcoiners eat each other alive and drive great people away. Bitcoin is so much worse off for it, we could have so much more…

2026-02-04 11:59:59 UTC

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There’s a lot, dm.

2026-02-04 02:54:50 UTC

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Oof. Visiting certainly not a good look. Not exactly uncertain what they were doing (raising for Blockstream), but not a good look.

2026-02-04 02:40:54 UTC

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That’s not a link, that’s someone else’s take. So, again…link?

2026-02-04 02:27:49 UTC

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Link? I missed anything about a meeting actually happening, let alone a visit?

2026-02-03 17:00:19 UTC

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Like, not sure how this is objectionable activity:
https://x.com/adam3us/status/2018069917967233443

2026-02-03 16:59:27 UTC

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There’s a huge gap between “interacted with him extensively” and/or went to his island and “sent a well-connected person some emails to encourage him to evangelize bitcoin”

2026-02-01 22:14:53 UTC

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Man is that how much longer we have to hear about it? They should have picked a date sooner so that it’s over with quicker.

2026-02-01 18:42:44 UTC

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Apparently if you did roughly anything someone sent an email about it to Epstein. At this point not being included just means you never did anything

2026-02-01 18:40:36 UTC

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Lolllllllll

2026-01-31 00:33:51 UTC

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😂

2026-01-30 14:25:02 UTC

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Yea it’s dangerously pleasant lol. I have to have an actual alarm across the room I have to get out of bed to silence.

2026-01-30 11:20:20 UTC

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Errr incredibly pleasant and intriguingly

2026-01-30 11:19:48 UTC

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I mean (a) I actually find the wrist tapping to be an intriguing pleasant alarm :). But no I do use the data to correlate with trying different things around my routine so it is somewhat helpful. Also I use it to dunk on nostr when my sleep is good 😂

2026-01-30 11:07:24 UTC

I mean not enough deep but like damn wtf that’s what I call sleep.
https://image.nostr.build/55e75123a373ab461f8df9ccb893df8b35bd900e37a9d41cec38b9cf879c92f2.jpg

2026-01-27 14:41:11 UTC

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lol one of the longest and most consistent libertarians in bitcoin.
> leftist
People sure will say anything to defend their team.

2026-01-24 17:03:50 UTC

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😬😬😬
NYC is never that high even indoors with an open window.

2026-01-24 02:41:13 UTC

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lol what kind of trouble LLM is that? Outdoor is in the low 400s.

2026-01-24 01:58:20 UTC

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I do not have much in the way of random human-sized plastic parts lying around in my apartment.

2026-01-23 23:27:30 UTC

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Luckily I appear to have found the last two sleds for sale in lower Manhattan.

2026-01-23 23:26:43 UTC

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I do not have a wood shop in my small apartment, sadly.

2026-01-23 18:44:20 UTC

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I’m surprised he’s still talking about it honestly. Everyone else has moved on.

2026-01-23 18:07:59 UTC

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Okay I take that back there is exactly one hardware store with five sleds left.

2026-01-23 18:01:46 UTC

Every hardware store in manhattan south of 14th street is currently sold out of sleds. Amazon's next delivery for a sled is in a week.
Our supply chains have failed.

2026-01-20 20:52:46 UTC

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🫂

2026-01-20 20:29:30 UTC

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I’ve seen too much shit out there man

2026-01-20 20:25:47 UTC

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Ohhhh okay so MoneyBadger is just a bridge allowing you to pay an unrelated merchant not using their service? Nevermind lol

2026-01-20 20:21:28 UTC

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TBH I strongly think we shouldn’t bend over to adopt random shit people do that doesn’t make any sense. We have 500 payment formats already, inventing your own just because isn’t okay and wallets shouldn’t stand for it.

2026-01-20 20:14:53 UTC

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So they invented their own spec (email format ln-address inside a QR) rather than using the LNURL parameter thing? Wtf people…

2026-01-20 20:11:10 UTC

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Samson is so good at getting irrelevant government officials to talk about Bitcoin. Weird skill, tbh.

2026-01-20 19:04:59 UTC

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Iiuc these are “crypto payment QRs” that have an embedded LNURL in them, correct?

2026-01-19 03:03:36 UTC

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Unfortunate name collision to be sure. Radical is awesome!

2026-01-18 13:49:39 UTC

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Errr by freezing some coins you *get* the ability to recover potentially many more.

2026-01-18 02:52:58 UTC

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Radicle not radical lol

2026-01-17 14:37:22 UTC

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s/especially because that position/especially if that position/
Depends on the QC scenario :)

2026-01-17 14:34:59 UTC

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Sure, to be clear I’m not advocating for radicle specifically, just noting that it seems the furthest along and thus maybe the most exciting. I’m much more driven by retirements than some abstract tech preference, as are most people I imagine :).

2026-01-17 14:29:07 UTC

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It depends so much on the exact scenario. I believe we’re imagining radically different QC development scenarios rather than disagreeing on specifics. Eg see below.
Bitcoin has maintained its neutrality precisely because it only has value if it maintains its neutrality - the market in general will sell any fork that isn’t clearly in line with the properties of Bitcoin that matter.
But there are other market dynamics like supply that matter too. As Pieter puts it, Bitcoin only works if everyone in Bitcoin can agree to the secure set of cryptographic primitives in the system - for those not okay with pre-QC crypto and okay with “you had ten years to move your coins, and even if you forgot we’ll make sure you can still get them in every case we can”, they’ll strongly prefer the fork with fewer coins being sold (not just total supply, coins on the market!). IMO that’s a *very* reasonable position (again, as always, depending on exactly when/how/etc a CRQC is discovered/built), especially because that position *allows more bitcoiners to retain access to their bitcoin*.
#nevent1q…yz23

2026-01-17 14:07:04 UTC

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One thing I’ve heard desired from folks is the ability to default issues to private visible only by maintainers. This not only ensures that security issues aren’t public immediately but also removes the incentive for people to troll by opening issues. Then a maintainer can mark an issue as legit and it’ll be public. IMO this is a great way to approach it.

2026-01-17 14:05:08 UTC

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Will the market see it that way? I doubt it.
#nevent1q…fltc

2026-01-17 13:41:08 UTC

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> First, stop assuming they're Satoshi's. We don't know that.
Fair, thanks for highlighting it. Doesn’t particularly matter to this discussion though.
> Second, when/if they are spent, we won't know how the private key was known to the spender. Quantum's existence won't change that epistemic limitation.
Sure, but the decision a future Bitcoin community will make won’t come after early coins start moving, it would come before then. In a world where it is clear to everyone that a CRQC is *going* to become reality in 2-5 years the Bitcoin community has two choices:
* disable now-clearly-insecure spend paths, allowing those with keys derived from a seedphrase to retain their coins but burning any coins that are not and have not migrated to some post-QC output type
* allow all coins using now-clearly-insecure spend paths to be stolen, absolutely trashing Bitcoin’s reputation as a secure system.
I find it *incredibly* unlikely that the market decides to value fork b over fork a.
> Third, there is no "we" to make such a choice.
There will be a fork cause *someone* will build it and the market will decide which is more valuable. That’s ultimately always how Bitcoin decides.
> No group of people have the right to confiscate coins, no matter how rational the reason.
In this scenario the coins will be confiscated or burned no matter if a fork happens or not. That’s the important part here. Burning >>> theft, imo.
> And to *anyone* (not Matt specifically) who is worried about the market effect of huge selling, consider the market effect of the precedent of freezing coins at the protocol layer. Everything is a one-time exception until it isn't.
Worth raiding again here that no coins derived from a seedphrase would be burned. So strictly speaking no one knows whether any given coin is burned or not. Also possible to do something like allow coins to pre-commit on chain to a new private key via blinded signature that can be revealed later - that way you could spend your coins post-CRQC without doing so pre-fork.
> Notice that that last point is not wrong because "if QC then all btc is worthless"; we are discussing the scenario of there being a migration path but old plain pubkey holders don't use it
Imo the reputational damage of “lol, Google stole 2M bitcoin and is selling it, what a dumb fucking coin” is way worse than you’re making it out. But, again, it’s highly dependent on exactly the state of QC and how public it is at the time. This isn’t something you or I can really decide and ultimately it’s up to the market at the time to pick what it wants bitcoin to be.

2026-01-17 00:32:04 UTC

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lol it was a joke bro chill

2026-01-16 23:03:20 UTC

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That’s great, but is exactly the first type of moderation I mentioned as likely insufficient to avoid distraction.

2026-01-16 23:00:41 UTC

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I imagine that type of moderation is simply going to be a “no” on any nostr-based platform (for good reason, for social clients! Just not so much for a workspace…), sadly

2026-01-16 22:59:57 UTC

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At this point GitHub is so bad that I’m down to switch to anything that is works reliably, has basic issue/PR flows (with decent review tooling, not that GitHub sets a high bar, maybe also issue assignment), has moderation tools (sorry, they’re a requirement, and not just a “I don’t want to see this”, a “I can’t have people spamming the issue tracker everyone else sees cause it’s a massive distraction from work”, we’ve had issues with this repeatedly even just in LDK), and CI tooling.

2026-01-16 22:56:27 UTC

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Sadly you missed a huge group of coins - forgotten wallets and non-bitcoiners.
People often forget they had Bitcoin or just don’t care enough to check in on it for *years*. The only way to ensure they get their money is to disable insecure spend paths but allow them to claim via a seedphrase ZK proof. The side effect of this is that you also burn coins not held in a seedphrase-derived wallet (very old coins and a select tiny minority of wallet software).

2026-01-16 22:53:29 UTC

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Except there are migration tools (mostly around GitHub’s API)! So I wouldn’t say that the state of things is actually all that bad.
Still, multiple frontends for the same data is cool, no doubt, just solving a problem I don’t have.

2026-01-16 22:50:50 UTC

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Except that unlike nostr things (dunno about repo-hosting specifically, but in general) don’t keep a full copy of everything locally. In radicle any contributor fetches everything and always has it all (for repos they care about). If things go down it’s as easy as one more server and flipping a switch.

2026-01-16 22:48:45 UTC

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No, because every contributor has a full mirror locally at all times. If it gets taken down, no big deal at all.

2026-01-16 22:47:58 UTC

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I mean sure, it’s speech, if people want to talk about your project or an issue with it on some other platform great, they should! Just without getting in the way of people working on it.

2026-01-16 22:34:25 UTC

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I mean self-hosting gitea is also “portable” in that it’s on a database via a schema defined in open source code. That portability doesn’t matter unless where you want to port it to is some other nostr thing that reads metadata in the same format.

2026-01-16 21:06:18 UTC

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Fair enough, curious to see what happens.

2026-01-16 20:41:46 UTC

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Right but then it’s not really a complete GitHub replacement? If we still have to host gitea or whatever why shouldn’t we just use it.

2026-01-16 20:17:42 UTC

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Well, I suppose not strictly more censorship resistant on the ability to post, depends on the config, but certainly around takedowns.

2026-01-16 20:00:54 UTC

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Worth pointing out that radicle’s approach is substantially more censorship-resistant and decentralized than nostr.

2026-01-16 19:54:56 UTC

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Do any of them have any kind of moderation tools (to prevent the inevitable flood of spam and illegal content)? At least gitworkshop.dev doesn’t appear to actually use decentralized storage for everything, still requires a git host.
radicle seems like a much better concept for how to do this type of thing (just use git for everything!) vs bothering with nostr, but if someone managed to build a product that met the requirements on nostr that would also be fine enough.

2026-01-16 03:48:18 UTC

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lol what kind of slop is this

2026-01-16 03:16:33 UTC

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So you’d rather steal them instead? One way or another they’re not gonna be satoshi’s anymore. Better they be burned to give the entire Bitcoin community more than let some private VC company steal them to enrich their VCs.
Seems kinda obvious really.

2026-01-16 03:09:15 UTC

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I don’t think you listened to anything I said.

2026-01-13 20:54:55 UTC

Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Entirely undefeated advice. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

2026-01-12 19:20:23 UTC

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😭😭😭

2026-01-12 19:20:03 UTC

Welp there goes the run of microstrategy. What the hell was that
#note1xw0…ccj4

2026-01-12 14:21:08 UTC

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Maybe you shouldn’t either :p

2026-01-12 14:20:53 UTC

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Consistency. Crazy amounts of consistency.

2026-01-12 13:46:44 UTC

Yall ain’t got nothing on this sleep
https://image.nostr.build/172ef21118d00ad51f12de0c9331e3db9d5b842a78c5c7521ae9a8e4dc7ab974.jpg

2026-01-03 00:36:14 UTC

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While I agree with you in principle, “the customer is always right”, and landing a perfect first-transaction UX is really important. Ultimately, today, I thing that means the only thing we can actually build that’s self-custodial (at least for the right balance) is a graduated wallet.

2026-01-02 02:50:38 UTC

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Trust me I really want to flip the switch and use Cashu not Spark, but the available mints are just not that compelling.

2026-01-01 22:41:13 UTC

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It’s still a private gh repo while a few more bits are finished.

2026-01-01 22:40:49 UTC

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Except then you’re building a cashu wallet not a bitcoin wallet. If you want to display a standard receive QR code that every bitcoin wallet can deal with (ie lightning), you have to pick the mint.

2026-01-01 19:19:01 UTC

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There’s tons of wallets for advanced users to do all kinds of things. I’m not super interested in building another.

2026-01-01 18:30:14 UTC

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Then I don’t see how I can reasonably set that as a default targeting end-users who shouldn’t have to have any idea what “ecash”, let alone “lightning” or any other weird Bitcoin jargon means. Let me know when there’s a real mint option and I can use that.

2026-01-01 18:07:55 UTC

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No, specifically, which one. Please give me a URL and a description of who operates it and why you think they’ll still be operating it in a year or two.

2026-01-01 17:31:49 UTC

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To be clear, the underlying code already supports cashu as well as spark. I’d absolutely love to change it, I just need a mint URL…

2026-01-01 17:28:12 UTC

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I would too, but I don’t know how to configure a wallet by default for a user who doesn’t know anything about “ecash”. Give me the mint URL I can hard-code that we’re both confident will still work in a year and I’ll change it.

2026-01-01 17:26:50 UTC

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Yes

2026-01-01 11:08:21 UTC

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Companies willing to take on the regulatory risk of being kinda-custodians or multisig-custodians.

2026-01-01 11:07:23 UTC

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A realize it’s 30k *sats*, right?

2025-12-31 23:18:59 UTC

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Who’s gonna run the mint

2025-12-31 22:41:28 UTC

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Well, I tried, but damus won’t let me copy the invoice and primal won’t let me open an outside wallet at all. You got whatever was in my custodial primal wallet tho lol.

2025-12-31 22:02:39 UTC

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Boy I wish.

2025-12-31 21:15:41 UTC

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I was pressured into it