Cointastical

[Cointastical @cointastical]

@typerbole @BlitzWalletApp @milessuter @CashApp Pretty sure I've figured it out.

tl;dr:
If funding source is USD balance, @CashApp will not pay an LN invoice that is less that $1.

The error it shows is an unhelpful message:
"Sorry, your withdrawal could not be processed"

This new behavior began ~10 days ago, I believe.

[Cointastical @cointastical]

@typerbole Am unable to DM you without verifying (which I won't be doing).

Will update the post on SN, with the latest.

[Cointastical @cointastical]

@milessuter @CashApp Was LN support collateral damage then?

https://t.co/vl8rpB4Mdz

[Stacker News @stacker_news]

Cash App: Sorry, your withdrawal could not be processed [LN payment issue]

by cointastical in ~bitcoin
1,382 sats and 0 comments so far

https://t.co/cEYOOnPiUN

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin's earliest developers, just released a new version of Nostr VPN, an open-source mesh VPN that replaces the entire trust model of traditional VPN services.

Traditional VPNs route all your traffic through a central server operated by a company you have to trust. They see your data. They require your email. They can log your activity. They can be subpoenaed, hacked, or shut down. Even modern mesh VPNs like Tailscale, which improved on this by sending data peer-to-peer, still require you to authenticate through a centralized coordination server using third-party accounts like Google or Microsoft.

Nostr VPN eliminates the central server entirely. Your identity is a Nostr keypair, a self-generated cryptographic key pair with no registration, no email, no third-party account. The underlying transport layer is FIPS (Free Internetworking Peering System), a self-organizing encrypted mesh network where nodes authenticate each other, route traffic for each other, and establish connections without any central authority or global topology knowledge. Each node's Nostr public key (npub) serves as its network address.

The architecture uses two layers of encryption: hop-by-hop encryption between peers and independent end-to-end encryption between mesh endpoints with periodic rekeying for forward secrecy. When direct connections fail due to NAT issues, the system falls back to Nostr-based multihop routing through other FIPS nodes rather than relying on company-operated relay servers. Peer discovery and NAT traversal happen through public Nostr relays using encrypted gift-wrapped messages.

The new release adds native desktop apps for macOS, Linux, and Windows, an Android app, Nostr-based multihop routing for when NAT holepunching fails, and improved network management. It supports UDP, TCP, Ethernet, Tor, and Bluetooth transports simultaneously on a single mesh.

This is what happens when you apply Bitcoin's design philosophy, permissionless, self-sovereign, no trusted third parties, to networking infrastructure. Built by one of the people who helped Satoshi build Bitcoin in 2009.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Check it out here:

https://t.co/X7Cj64W5B0

[Cointastical @cointastical]

Excellent to see https://t.co/tDhxBrcPS6 (Community-built Bitcoin-powered WiFi Networks) supported!

[OpenSats @OpenSats]

FIFTEENTH WAVE OF NOSTR GRANTS

This wave provides funding for work on agentic AI tooling, decentralized video infrastructure, and community-run internet access, all built to utilize nostr for identity, discovery, and communication.

https://t.co/HhxwcbZnGB

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Samourai Wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez sentenced to 5 years in federal prison, the maximum penalty, prosecutors allege laundered $237M.

[Justin Bechler #BIP-110 @1914ad]

@Excellion Inb4 someone tells us how cheap storage is and therefore Bitcoin should be repurposed.

[Hodler without borders @HodlerWB]

Running Knots means:

✅ Lower resource usage
✅ Cleaner mempool
✅ Less exposure to spam and illicit data

[Hodler without borders @HodlerWB]

Core’s philosophy is neutrality:
“If it pays the fee and follows consensus, relay it.”

Knots says:
“Let’s not relay junk that bloats the network.”

[Hodler without borders @HodlerWB]

This isn’t censorship.

Knots still accepts valid blocks.

It just refuses to relay or display non-monetary transactions like NFTs, Ordinals, or Runes.

[Cointastical @cointastical]

@TweetExpress2 @zerohedge For some reason, suddenly ZeroHedge(dot)com now gives a 404 unless it has the www. in the URL.

Using https://t.co/LID1Jlcyf3 works fine

[Cointastical @cointastical]

@IanAD_R @zerohedge For some reason, suddenly ZeroHedge(dot)com now gives a 404 unless it has the www. in the URL.

Using https://t.co/LID1Jlcyf3 works fine

[Cointastical @cointastical]

@KoboBunny @zerohedge For some reason, suddenly ZeroHedge(dot)com now gives a 404 unless it has the www. in the URL.

Using https://t.co/LID1Jlcyf3 works fine

[Cointastical @cointastical]

@srwojna @zerohedge For some reason, suddenly ZeroHedge(dot)com now gives a 404 unless it has the www. in the URL.

Using https://t.co/LID1Jlcyf3 works fine

[Cointastical @cointastical]

@RemiLazerus @zerohedge For some reason, suddenly ZeroHedge(dot)com now gives a 404 unless it has the www. in the URL.

Using https://t.co/LID1Jlcyf3 works fine

[Cointastical @cointastical]

@KoboBunny @zerohedge For some reason, suddenly ZeroHedge(dot)com now gives a 404 unless it has the www. in the URL.

Using https://t.co/LID1Jlcyf3 works fine

[Cointastical @cointastical]

@_hungarian_ @zerohedge For some reason, suddenly ZeroHedge(dot)com now gives a 404 unless it has the www. in the URL.

Using https://t.co/LID1Jlcyf3 works fine