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Many have noticed a sharp increase in paid Lightning spam lately. Opinion is divided - some love the free sats, some hate the constant notifications and spammy messages. In any case it's an interesting development in the ecosystem! ⚡️ We have just implemented a change on our server to detect payments that are likely spam. You'll still get the sats and can look at the messages in your payment history if you want, but this should help minimise unwanted system notifications starting now! 🙏

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with obvious ponzis being advertised this is the right move. while self custody is still a minefield for newbies and some think adoption at all costs is worth it, this is precisely an object lesson in why it's better for technical people to be the focus of this stage of development, and influencoors to consider the danger they are creating by putting "go self custodial" as a headline and not considering how many sats the LSPs might hit you for, or the not so infrequent occurrance of stuck payments getting stuck for days, even over a week. we can't have mass adoption of beta grade tech without blowback, and we can't have it without custodians protecting the safety of users funds. think more carefully about what you say about the custodial lightning wallets and mass adoption. they are there precisely in order to facilitate mAsS aDoPtIoN. that's what you get when you try to push beta tech to the public. View quoted note →
I'd love a few free sats, why not? Notification configuration should be very granular, letting the user decide (of course having some defaults) what fits them best. They could choose to batch notifications every day or hour or something. Or notify for single-payments over X sats and batch others. UX is becoming more and more important, we are far from the beta testing geeks and into the mainstream now.