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Last Notes

2026-09-19 13:40:18 UTC

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Currently Rizful can't send to @zeuspay lightning addresses. A good workaround is to get an invoice from your recipient and pay that -- that should work fine.

2026-09-14 13:49:17 UTC

The OpenReceive BTCPayServer plugin is coming soon! Enables seamless Lightning payments in BTCPayServer!

2026-09-03 19:43:14 UTC

if anyone is looking to implement Lightning, USDT, USDC payments on their website, looking to help onboard a few users to this, which is our new project: https://openreceive.org/

2026-09-03 18:45:05 UTC

https://docs.megalithic.me/lightning-tips/accept-bitcoin-payments-with-openreceive

2026-09-03 18:36:23 UTC

This is what we've been building -- OpenReceive -- freedom tech for inbound payments -- receive BTC Lightning, UDST, and USDC, safely & reliably to your web application: https://openreceive.org/

2026-08-29 16:50:01 UTC

building Lightning services: "Six months of learning about Lightning and then an unlimited numbers of years of increasingly complicated and paranoid DevOps"

2026-08-24 11:55:46 UTC

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Ask the Sumerians how long it took for dudes to start accepting Gold instead of Cattle....

2026-08-24 11:54:55 UTC

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Stromboli, right? One of the coolest things about Stromboli are the floating pumice rocks...

2026-08-23 11:39:15 UTC

We're building something big and robust for merchants that relies on receive-only NWC codes. Our research suggests that currently only Alby and Rizful support making receive-only NWC codes. Can anyone suggest other NWC-capable wallets which easily allow a user to generate a receive-only code?

2026-08-09 14:43:08 UTC

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Rizful has a longstanding code -- probably over a year -- where it refuses to send to zeuspay addresses. This is for security reasons. Zeuspay addresses are often used when a user is offline and can't receive an HTLC, which can lead to channel jamming attacks.

2026-08-07 16:52:47 UTC

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this is familiar

2026-08-06 13:46:22 UTC

@npub1qkf…ertp trying to contact you with something security related, seems like you might not be on Telegram anymore and it isn't obvious to me how to contact you otherwise, you might want to have some kind of contact form or method on stacker.news especially for security-related stuff

2026-08-05 00:54:58 UTC

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Nice Rizful integration! Uses this integration: https://docs.megalithic.me/rizful-tips-and-tricks/easy-onboarding-for-nostr-clients

2026-08-04 09:34:03 UTC

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There is quite an easy way: Use a free Rizful.com account. Or use getalby.com -- just close any Lightning channel and you'll end up with on-chain sats!

2026-08-04 09:32:59 UTC

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Not impacted.

2026-08-01 11:38:22 UTC

ColdCard apocalypse was a black swan event. Even more unlikely than a big exchange getting hacked. Who would have ever thought that a paranoia-themed operation like CoinKite would have basic RNG flaws?

2026-07-28 11:37:40 UTC

Does anyone know who the creator or runner of https://snake.dance/ is? We have a technical query..

2026-07-22 16:49:54 UTC

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where is this?

2026-07-22 01:05:11 UTC

Lightning Swap: https://docs.megalithic.me/lightning-tips/swap-usdt-usdc-solana-ethereum-to-bitcoin-lightning ... https://lightning-swap.com/ -- compatible with the FixedFloat API.

2026-07-19 01:01:47 UTC

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It's possible you have configured a "limit" or "budget" for your NWC connection and you are hitting that limit, and maybe your client isn't properly giving you the "budget exceeded" error....

2026-07-19 01:00:56 UTC

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We just zapped @npub1lr2…dl6a 10k satoshis without a problem from Rizful.
Yes, Rizful does have limits, but no, unless you are trying to buy a Ferrari via zap, you won't hit them.
https://blossom.jumble.social/f390ed6f847b79091ce3a44b6009b3271b22cc17481d7f18f54d395b2bf501d2.png

2026-07-15 00:57:47 UTC

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if you DM us with your email we can investigate the email delivery for your email domain... pls try telegram or signal: https://megalithic.me/contact

2026-07-08 15:03:56 UTC

Lightning doesn't have a marketing department.... It's not like Solana. But those of us who can see activity increasing from the "inside" -- because we run routing nodes or services -- can see it growing steadily year over year.

2026-07-07 21:55:14 UTC

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"Lightning fails in about 30% of the time." ?!?!? We run some of the biggest and most central nodes on Lightning and see extremely low failure rates. Are you sending Lightning payments with a potato? We obviously cannot see the failure rates for other services, but for Rizful and Alby, unless you are doing something very wrong, you should almost never have failures.

2026-07-01 13:43:50 UTC

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So this is a situation when you are trying to totally empty your lightning balance, like you have 50 satoshis in lightning balance, and you want to send (ideally) all 50, but have to try for example 30, or 40, or 45, in order to find an amount that will clear the fees on the network (across all the hops to your destination) -- do I have that right?

2026-07-01 13:20:31 UTC

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Thanks. Is this with "send on-chain" or "send lightning" ?

2026-06-28 03:49:56 UTC

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"SOCKS: Connection refused". Looks like something related to Tor. I'm actually not sure, are there LNURL services which run over TOR?

2026-06-21 18:07:39 UTC

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try rizful or alby via nwc and see if that fixes it

2026-06-18 22:33:11 UTC

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also this is a nice touch...
https://blossom.primal.net/4aa1dbb9b9d0c8a340259a821f67c3d6d8c0a2d1cf40af9e3d20db1c431b8a44.png

2026-06-18 04:07:15 UTC

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have not seen issues recently with alby browser extension

2026-06-16 03:30:53 UTC

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we increased the maximum number of nwc connections per vault...

2026-06-13 14:54:45 UTC

@npub12vk…pugg Not sure if you are intending the LightSpark addresses to function as normal Lightning addresses or not, but in case you do... https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-web-app/issues/198

2026-06-13 13:42:20 UTC

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I will add this to the Github issue, but basically, you're going to want rate limiting for various NWC actions -- here is a sketchy from our nwc-ruby library: https://github.com/MegalithicBTC/nwc-ruby#polling-as-a-backup

2026-06-11 18:20:06 UTC

Rizful users: If you have any trouble logging in, it might be because our defenses are incorrectly flagging your device. As this is security-related, please keep communication about this private -- Telegram or Signal is best: https://megalithic.me/contact

2026-06-07 05:08:42 UTC

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for a good time, use Alby or Rizful

2026-06-06 19:23:44 UTC

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LightSpark needs to pay the bills! A cappuccino is $12 in Culver City...

2026-06-06 17:44:11 UTC

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Agree. The goal is to present something extremely simple for normies to help them understand that Bitcoin is divisible into "satoshis"...

2026-06-06 16:03:17 UTC

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https://docs.megalithic.me/rizful-tips-and-tricks/how-rizful-gift-cards-work

2026-06-06 05:38:40 UTC

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For actual normies who are at the "wait, can you own less than one Bitcoin?" stage of education -- we recommend Rizful Gift cards. Also because they look cool... https://image.nostr.build/6eafb6d20e7ab992043d0a549dc470aab6fdfe564cc5ebac7f42d11ce8d3e73e.jpg

2026-06-05 14:34:39 UTC

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interesting, can you provide details about this? would like to benchmark some payments

2026-06-04 16:47:01 UTC

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This shows the entire flow, from purchase of gift card to redemption: https://docs.megalithic.me/rizful-tips-and-tricks/how-rizful-gift-cards-work

2026-06-04 16:24:50 UTC

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Basically the idea with these gift cards is "how do we educate normies about really basic Bitcoin ideas?"
The most basic thing is "what is a Satoshi" -- like, the vast majority of normies don't understand that a Bitcoin is even divisible!
So... our idea (maybe it's stupid?) is that we can onboard normies VISUALLY by sending them two things.
1) One of the gift card images like we have just posted to this thread
2) An ultra-simple, 2nd-grade-reading-level explainer like this: https://docs.megalithic.me/rizful-tips-and-tricks/bitcoin-one-page-explainer?_highlight=explainer

2026-06-04 16:17:42 UTC

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ok, here is another one, I had to clean the dried-up bong water off this one but now it's good to go.... https://image.nostr.build/cf39a8ae31b651911fdc8715c59737b1941e99016714c4466e99ef1c74905cdc.jpg

2026-06-04 16:16:19 UTC

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those fuckers move so fast! lemme see if I can dig up more cards....

2026-06-04 16:13:43 UTC

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someone just redeemed this 10k card.. that was fast!

2026-06-04 16:12:03 UTC

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ok, pls don't get greedy... but here is another one....https://image.nostr.build/8df6c8da79a543c24312cd0106ec76a93e5219f882339eb22565022e78affe97.jpg

2026-06-04 16:11:00 UTC

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ok, looks like someone just redeemed it ;)

2026-06-04 16:10:27 UTC

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if someone redeems it, pls post to this thread so everyone else knows not to try it ;)

2026-06-04 16:09:48 UTC

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actually... looks like this claim code is still valid! who wants to try redeeming it in their rizful account??

2026-06-04 16:03:50 UTC

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https://docs.megalithic.me/rizful-tips-and-tricks/how-rizful-gift-cards-work

2026-06-04 16:03:32 UTC

was digging around in a desk drawer and found this... https://image.nostr.build/182c4e0aa16c300426b12e904ac81f1b508ac7c553f718b776801a629b197f6f.jpg

2026-06-02 18:11:54 UTC

We recently posted about issues with TOR with Megalith LSP. That was incorrect. The issue is actually unrelated to Tor. We're narrowing in on users who are running CLN (Core Lightning) version 26.04 -- which has a known incompatibility with LND. These users should update when possible to 26.06: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases

2026-06-02 01:00:29 UTC

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Thanks. To be fair: The reason the LightSpark's API (as used by Primal, WoS, others) is sometimes quite slow and unstable is because LightSpark has to deal with all the complexity of Lightning... ON TOP of all the complexity of their proprietary API/platform.
So when you have a problem with LightSpark, it could be Lightning, it could be their platoform, or it could be the interaction between Lightning and their platform. ;)
Rizful is more reliable and much lower latency because we're 100% focused on Lightning and haven't attempted to build an enormous sand castle on top of Lightning.... and also because we run one the biggest routing nodes on the network, so we can be laser-focused on Lightning relability.
That said, LightSpark is doing what they are doing for fairly good reasons -- and it might be worthwhile for some users to put up with the problems in return for what LightSpark is offering.....

2026-05-29 22:16:57 UTC

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https://docs.megalithic.me/BLFS/getting-started/

2026-05-29 13:37:17 UTC

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We recommend getalby.com and rizful.com -- we don't recommend Spark wallets due to privacy & centralization concerns.

2026-05-29 13:35:52 UTC

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Yes, we are pushing new users to the free version by default... getting to the paid version requires a couple clicks.. but the free version is accessible from the big blue button on the home page: https://image.nostr.build/8f1488b973980eb940e5c959f4e1dd71dc0a72e78b8cc4dd764436c4a571b7d4.png

2026-05-29 03:49:02 UTC

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@nprofile…pt5w let us know if we can help you test in some way. Also, FYI, there are two versions of Rizful -- a "paid" version, where you get your own Lightning node, and a "free" version, if you don't. Any testing you do should be done with the "free" version because that NWC service provided by the "free" version is actually superior in some subtle ways to the NWC service provided by the paid version. To launch a "free" Rizful instance, just make a Rizful "vault". thanks.

2026-05-27 14:13:57 UTC

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OK thanks for this. So you received a zap, but you did not see a zap receipt. Do you know which nostr application and wallet the sender of the zap used? We will need to try to reproduce the issue.

2026-05-27 05:08:52 UTC

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yes if your internet is down or unstable you can see that. refrsh the page.

2026-05-27 00:25:36 UTC

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If you contact us on chat we can nail down what is going on - https://megalithic.me/contact
Or you could provide answers to these.
1. Were you trying to zap someone, or was someone trying to zap you?
2. What address was being zapped?
3. What behavior did you expect to see, but not see?
4. What does "the zap receipt" mean here?
5. What does "OG note" mean here?
6. Which Nostr client were you using?

2026-05-26 21:31:14 UTC

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@npub1xvt…64sa I like it. https://clinkme.dev/specs.html -- very interesting stuff here.

2026-05-26 21:22:43 UTC

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Sorry, I mean "not touch HTTPS during the invoice CREATION flow"

2026-05-26 21:22:08 UTC

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just looking at this now
so the TLDR is that you can use your nip-05 address to generate invoices, and not touch HTTPS during the invoice payment flow
right?

2026-05-26 21:13:20 UTC

what is a mobile app that you use at least occasionally that would be cool to have support for Lightning payments in?

2026-04-08 22:20:51 UTC

New pitch for merchants: "You need to start accepting BTC for your coffee shop because down the road you might need to pay to get your tanker through the straights of Hormuz"

2026-04-08 20:13:27 UTC

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I'm getting me a bagel for 7000 satoshis and passage through the straight for 750,000,000 satoshis

2026-04-08 20:12:17 UTC

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oh shit that is funny

2026-04-08 20:11:47 UTC

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"inflation" is not a good concept for normies because normies mostly spend what little money they have almost immediately...

2026-04-08 19:43:37 UTC

We are working on a long-term project which is quite complicated to explain but part of it involves onboarding confused "normies" with very limited brain-based context windows (maybe max 100 to 200 characters/tokens of possible input, maybe a 10 or 15 second attention span, at most)..... onto Bitcoin.
These "normies", when they arrive at our door, think that "crypto is a scam" and have likely never been presented with the idea that Bitcoin and Crypto are different. We need a VISUAL way to make the case to them.
We need I think ONE portrait-formatted image, ideally with no complete sentences. Here is our first attempt
https://image.nostr.build/a560f26934f0696989ca03b22c91cb698df1f93f17d142bcc9f1eaee6bf58207.png
If anyone else finds a good portrait-formatted alternative to this (or makes one), please let us know!

2026-04-08 02:47:11 UTC

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wait i thought peter todd was a bitcoin whale? why is he raising money?

2026-04-08 02:44:07 UTC

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ask him to look up “fractional reserve banking”

2026-04-08 02:42:13 UTC

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that is a hilarious term… By the way, I can’t zap you. I think something is wrong with your lightning address.

2026-04-08 02:40:12 UTC

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explain the “ball boy” thing to me like i’m five…. I don’t understand the reference

2026-04-08 02:37:31 UTC

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“missing received zap receipts” is something we like to debug. sometimes this is because of lightning address services not properly formatting or sending zap receipts. one good thing to do is to try to send to various different lightning address domains and see if you can decide if certain domains are misbehaving. To debug this properly you need to try to separate out if it is a client misbehaving or if it is a lightning address service misbehaving.

2026-04-06 06:34:55 UTC

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i think there are only regular blimp flights in NYC, Miami, or LA

2026-04-01 03:23:43 UTC

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This book from the 1950s started me down this path recently: https://todaytelemedicine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/The-Wisdom-of-Insecurity-A-Message-for-an-Age-of-Anxiety-Alan-Watts.pdf

2026-03-29 02:04:24 UTC

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probably best novel of all time

2026-03-27 02:10:08 UTC

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yes. use alby hub on your own hardware (instead of rizful) to increase the decentralization of the network.

2026-03-24 16:29:23 UTC

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here is our end-to-end tutorial for amythest in case it is helpful: https://docs.megalithic.me/using-rizful/use-amethyst

2026-03-21 21:21:39 UTC

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Looks like you are are using a primal.net address now.
https://image.nostr.build/94676547dc51093fd49d0dd262b46d5087713849c255734a77420efe13c6223f.png

2026-03-20 14:39:15 UTC

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We recommend Alby Hub / Alby Cloud for keysend compatibility. You can also do it with Rizful Node -- https://rizful.com/node_in_the_cloud -- But Rizful Node is neither simple nor free....

2026-03-19 03:37:14 UTC

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nice, what range is this? Rockies? Sierras?

2026-03-19 03:32:34 UTC

@nprofile…xjm3 sent you a nostr DM

2026-03-18 13:19:58 UTC

@npub16c0…6nvr I want to apologize for talking too much smack about your usage of Spark in Primal 3.0 -- it came off too strong and that was my error. I'm sorry.
Ultimately the most important thing is to onboard normies onto Primal, and get them zapping.
If Spark is the best way for you to do that for now, then you're right to use Spark.
I'll keep my opinions on this to myself going forward.

2026-03-17 18:25:46 UTC

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All reasonable points and I want to apologize if my post about this was overly alarmist.
I would just suggest: Before using the new Primal wallet, it could be useful to be sure you're comfortable sharing your I.P. address and device user-agent with LightSpark.
Probably for most people, like 95%+ of users, it's fine.
If you care, you can read up on LightSpark here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Marcus

2026-03-17 00:33:47 UTC

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Sure -- but is it too much to ask for LightSpark to be honest about the service they are offering?
They seem to be marketing it as "self-custodial".... when in fact it's nothing of the kind, and users have no choice but to allow LightSpark to collect sensitive data like their I.P. address and browser details?
But in principle -- Rizful vs. LightSpark -- you are basically right. There's nothing necessarily better about Rizful.
But: Rizful isn't literally a Lightning "compliance" company with prominent ties to Israel? Maybe that matters?
Again -- for users who actually give a shit -- use a proper solution like Alby Hub.
For all others, do your research about who you are "doing business with" and don't be taken in by false claims about "self-custody" or think that "no KYC" means that there won't be "eventual KYC".....

2026-03-17 00:10:06 UTC

Who thinks this BTC pump is for real and who thinks it's just a bear market rally? I personally have no fucking clue.

2026-03-16 21:09:56 UTC

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Wow! That's amazing. Even though every transaction -- IP address, user-agent, everything else, is monitored by LightSpark, controlled by a family so close to the state of Israel? That seems incredible.

2026-03-16 21:02:04 UTC

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Is Agora something to do with political activists? Please tell me it isn't using the Spark/LightSpark API??!?!?

2026-03-16 20:54:51 UTC

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Parts of Spark are indeed "open source" -- but not the important parts, which shows how it interacts with Lightning. Anyway, it doesn't matter -- as of right now, only LightSpark is running the back-end, so if you use Primal's new wallet, you should assume that all your transactions, I.P. address -- basically your entire online identity -- goes into LightSpark's database. Not something I would personally be comfortable with.

2026-03-16 19:00:14 UTC

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DANGER!
First, I'm a big supporter of Primal, and I know why they've compromised and used a permissioned & centralized API like Spark for their wallet. It might be the best choice for many of their users.
But also, you need to realize when you use Spark, you are trusting one very politically active, very wealthy, family (the Marcus family)..... to custody your funds, approve your transactions, and monitor your transactions.
When Primal says that your Spark wallet is "non-custodial" - this is basically a legal fiction. In reality, LightSpark ( https://www.lightspark.com/ ) is controlling your funds -- they're running the centralized Lightning nodes that handle your payments.
Again: For some users this might be fine.
But if you are not a supporter of the state of Israel ... or ... if you are engaged in anything where you need privacy, or, for example, you don't want your data shared with certain governments..... please be very cautious with Spark.
More details: https://github.com/buildonspark/spark/issues/64

2026-03-16 14:41:38 UTC

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we can do some testing but first you'd have to allow 1 sat zaps....

2026-03-16 14:40:12 UTC

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{
"status" => "ERROR",
"reason" => "Amount 1000 is smaller than minimum 10000.0."
}

2026-03-16 14:36:50 UTC

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just tried zapping Lightning Goats from two different nostr apps. Got "failed to create invoice" -- this is an issue with the web server you are using to handle incoming zaps.. it's not really related to the Lightning network because the payment is never attempted... What are you using as your Lightning Address server?

2026-03-15 18:31:50 UTC

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yes. all of our tutorials include this step https://docs.megalithic.me/category/using-rizfulcom

2026-03-14 17:02:50 UTC

maybe it's better if governments can't endlessly print money to finance wars

2026-03-11 19:21:49 UTC

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yes, they are fucking with you. that said, for some kinds of users, breez might be the right solution.

2026-03-11 16:07:03 UTC

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https://docs.megalithic.me/using-rizful/your-first-steps-with-rizful

2026-03-11 02:57:04 UTC

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https://docs.megalithic.me/rizful-tips-and-tricks/phone-or-tablet
https://docs.megalithic.me/using-rizful/use-alby-go

2026-03-10 19:44:56 UTC

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