KristyHessQ13

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@siggy47 sent me a DM and wondered if he missed an announcement. He didn't and since probably many more territory founders are unaware of this change, I thought I'd make a little announcement.

Thanks to [these 4 changed files with 6 additions and 7 deletions](https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/commit/c23f1f82bc6d0b0b031830bcd222c6e24389d717), pins are now zappable. You can't zap them from the feed but if you click on the item, the pin icon is gone and replaced with the zap icon.

That's it. That's the announcement.

![2024-02-04-165842_1920x1080_scrot.png](https://m.stacker.news/14854)

![2024-02-04-165848_1920x1080_scrot.png](https://m.stacker.news/14853)


Pins are zappable now

charts

There are three certainties in life:

ErikaRichardsonZ3K

France's longest border is shared with...Brazil.

(730km in French Guiana)

health

Legend of the Snail | 15/21 participants left | 7 days until next KO | $66,883

AdrianPrattBTJ

One of the most nefarious elements of finger on the scale central planning is it inherently favours businesses of scale that can borrow and crush competition essentially free capital, and decimates small businesses that can't afford to compete with the juggernauts that sit next to the printer. 

security

Blocksize Warriors and Shitcoin Trolls are putting a great deal of support and promoting the use of Bitcoin as a public file storage system. They think that they will drive users to their garbage and/or force the Bitcoin community to give them bigger and/or faster blocks.

But it's not gonna matter:

- Miners don't care, full blocks means more fees.

- Hosted Lightning services like Wallet of Satoshi don't care, they already bulk open channels and aggregate user funds in their custodial wallets to manage channel capacity and connectivity.

- Semi-self-custody LN services like Breez and Phoenix don't care, they already use zero conf channels to open immediately operational channels to their users because the users can't double spend on them anyway, when the funds arrive via LN.

- Most bitcoiners realise that LN is the most important area of the Bitcoin ecosystem right now, and congested blocks don't substantially impact on the network for established operators who provide the core connectivity of the network.

Driving people away from on-chain transactions is not a bad thing for Bitcoin.

The UX is awful anyway.

Full RBF means that zero conf on-chain e-commerce apps are no longer a good idea for the merchants and market operators.

The big money in bitcoin right now is LN, and the ordinals are competing with ETH/AVA/SOL/Polkadot/Cosmos. The LN providers will be quite capable of outbidding the jpeg spammers, the miners get more profit, reduce their rate of selling pressure, and miners know what side their bread is buttered.

The general population of full node runners help reduce the chances of a hard fork splitting the chain, but the miners really are the arbiters of chain content. They will choose the block with the biggest fees. If NFT bros spam up the chain with worthless bits the LN operators will just raise their fee rates and leave a lot less room for the spam to be mined on.

If any of these fools think they are gonna somehow coerce bitcoin into their vision or drive people away from bitcoin, they are mistaken. Blocks full of transactions means less miner selling pressure. Number Go Up means more DCA bros coming on board and accelerating the saving instrument use case.

Let the fools spam the chain. They are just moving more money into the Bitcoin market cap anyway, and out of their spoilt brat paper hands.

Blockchain Bloat Doesn't Matter

christianity

Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites

TonyaBeard170

Really nice collection! Thanks.
Will share with some pre-coiners.

econ

Soft-Fork/Covenant Dependent Layer 2 Review

Stacker_Sports

Phoenix Wallet announces support for new LSP protocol (bLIP 35)

ChrisMcclureZBE

day 13 of 16 straight 12 hour shifts at work... definitely feeling the burnout...

bitcoin

zap.store 0.1.0 is here!

For months I have been dreaming of a better app store, frustrated by big tech's permissioned bs, GPG's complexities, and Obtainium's reliance on centralized services and poor UX.

Here's the first (very alpha) iteration of zap.store, a permissionless app store leveraging the nostr social graph.

✔ Android only (for now! Desktop coming soon)
✔ Obtainium drop-in replacement (smaller catalog but growing)
✔ App releases are signed/curated by this account, as developers start self-signing
✔ Web of trust check before installing an app

![](https://image.nostr.build/c2c871671ee42586cdb33ac99d6ac423d6741ad2f8180fd8b7a7cbacc403da79.png)

Get it at https://zap.store or https://github.com/zapstore/zapstore

(SHA-256 hash of the APK version 0.1.0 is 8540bd492064c17d83bcdc6d2a463c2aea46f13c2b0d13b8a96023df95bd0c9d)
