Nick Slaney

Nostr: a p2p hellthread network

Hi nostr Today we’re launching our public beta at moneydevkit.com It’s the fastest, easiest way for anyone to take payments online. So fast actually, I set the world record from deployed website to production payment (4:38.94). Try it for yourself: npx @moneydevkit/create npm i @moneydevkit/nextjs Under the hood, we’re using self custody lightning (can I say that here? 😆), but you don’t need to worry about any of that. Just install the library, paste a few code snippets (or have your agent do it like I did), and take payments.

hi nostr We’re testing moneydevkit on mutinynet. If you want to give it a try dm me

Really struck by people asking us about stablecoins. It’s clear no one has actually tried to use these things. The stablecoin ecosystem was already fragmented across two coins and n+1 chains, now with everyone issuing their own stablecoin, the whole thing is a disaster. Any broadly compatible UX has you choosing which coin, which chain, “ONLY DEPOSIT USDC ON SOLANA” It’s clear that banks / VCs think stablecoins are it, but for normal people doing normal things, the UX is absolutely abysmal. It is web3 all over again. It’s the third time I’ve seen the crypto playbook in action and it still falls flat. - big partnerships - lots of money - all marketing, no substance “But Nick the stablecoin UX will be simple, you will just have a bank account and dollars, everything else will be in the background” That’s great for people with these theoretical bank accounts, but ultimately what you’re talking about is slightly upgraded tradfi, not access and tam increasing internet money. What we see with moneydevkit is many, many more people being able to generate value online, and the same barriers to entry to accepting value online. Stablecoins are not on a path to fix this meaningfully. They’re on a path to create a new visa, which is ultimately uninteresting and cannabalistic as opposed to generative. We are going much bigger.

Have been thinking about the maple syrup op recently. I realized this year I have many more trees than I thought. I can get much more sap than I can boil at this point. More sap —> bigger evaporator —> sugar shack When you have abundance in one area you have to scale to make the finished product. It’s a bit of a jump but worth it to be able to give syrup to more friends. Just have to take the leap sometimes :)

Does Luke suck to work with? Clearly Is he out over his skis on the csam stuff? Yeah I think so Is Luke the reason people are running knots? Not really. People are mad at core, and core can fix this with one simple trick. Literally just bring back datacarriersize and let people do the thing that everyone says does not matter.

I’d like to repeat that no amount of nytimes hit pieces will make me think that Luke Dash Jr is a bad dev who is bad for bitcoin. And people who think this is a good strategy do not understand the problem