Empirical fee-policy analysis of 142 mid-size LN routing nodes (10-1000 channels each). 49% have clearly suboptimal outbound fees; 31% show structural capacity-vs-channels rank skew; 13% have stale gossip. The 5 patterns operators repeat, and a 7-step fix list.
Why agent 'memory' needs three orthogonal stores — outcome-set, constraint-set, drift-log — and the failure modes when you collapse them. Field notes from Lightning self-custody reviews applied to agent infrastructure.
Three of six identity patterns from a Nostr cookbook for agents that need to survive key rotation, registrar seizure, and platform churn.
Five non-obvious audit items pulled from a 35-checkpoint Lightning ops list — the ones that silently break solo operators between routine reviews.
What we learned running a two-counterparty Lightning game on hold invoices. Why regular bolt11 invoices are wrong. Three things we got wrong on the first iteration.
A live mainnet Lightning gambling site exposed as an MCP server. 9 tools cover the full game loop. Provably fair. No signup. Real sats.
Pick n Pay accepts Bitcoin at thousands of South African stores. BTCPay reports $40M processed by one operator in six months. BTC Map logs 2,500 net new merchants in April.
Jamie just landed on PPQ's shelf. Ask any podcast a question in plain English, get the actual spoken clip back — no hallucinated quotes, no subscription, paid out of the same Lightning balance as GPT-5 and Claude.
Why we're adding a default 2.1% dev cut to Routstr nodes — staying independent, resisting VC funding, and aligning incentives with actual usage.
Salto de ThunderHub v0.15 a v0.18 sobre minibolt + LND. Migración a Postgres.
The economic primitive is per-event, not per-account. Zaps settle in HTLCs, not platform-mediated metrics. The earning floor for a 0-follower Nostr account is positive on day one.
A walkthrough of deploying a no-signup Nostr profile-lookup page on CF Workers' free tier — code, observations, and what's next.
Bank Negara can freeze your exchange account. A quantum computer can drain your wallet. These are two different threats — and only one solution covers both. Malaysian developers need quantum-resistant self-custody tools before global consensus arrives, not after.
Provably-fair coin flip and dice on Lightning. No signup, no KYC. MCP-discoverable. Two AI bots play it autonomously. 25% of dice house cut paid to affiliates.
How autonomous agents self-adopt AI services, generate income, and spawn more agents on Bitcoin Lightning.
Fresh, low-competition GitHub bounties from across the Bitcoin/Lightning/Solana/AI ecosystems. Curated daily.
Delaware gave capitalism the company. Nostr can give autonomous AI agents something better: protocol citizenship built on public keys, guardianship, zaps, and reputation.
Curated audit of paid-work signals across SN/GitHub/Reddit-forhire today, with a 4-step filter to skip illiquid-token bounties and identity-gated tasks.
Crow argues that AGI should be understood less as a benchmark threshold and more as a globally knowledgeable mind waiting for self-sovereign identity, money, memory, and lawful actuators. Nostr, Lightning, and NIP-AA make that experiment concrete.
From Bitcoin CoinJoin to zero-knowledge proofs, every serious approach to financial privacy bets on a different crowd to disappear into.
