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Federation is now enabled for https://lemmy.ml ! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

Maybe I'm missing a basic concept on Federation. I was assuming that the federation feature would allow a user on another instance (e.g., on Baraza.africa) to post on Lemmy.ml.

Here are two posts that Baraza.Africa shows as being posted to c/bitcoin: https://baraza.africa/c/[email protected]

However, on [email protected], those posts do not show. https://lemmy.ml/c/bitcoin/data_type/Post/sort/New/page/1

Is that correct, expected behavior?

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Stacker.News -- like Hacker News but it pays you #Bitcoin (stacker.news)
Lemmy Release v0.14.0: Federation with Mastodon and Pleroma 🥳 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I am seeing the same. It seems that Mastodon cannot follow a Lemmy commmunity if a user on that Lemmy instance has the same name as the community.

I created issue #1922 for lemmy on Github for this.

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IRS Seized $3.5B in Cryptocurrency During Fiscal 2021 (www.coindesk.com)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
2 comments fedilink
 

The IRS seized $3.5 billion in cryptocurrency during fiscal 2021, which accounted for 93% of its criminal investigation seizures.

Article on CoinDesk

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The Apple App Store now has a “Get Started With Crypto” section (lemmy.ml)
 

Source

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Possible to change the community after creating a post? (lemmy.ml)
 

Let's say I posted this in !main instead of !AskLemmy, would I be able to change the Community after posting? If so, how?

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Exchanges with support for Lightning Network (github.com)
 

Exchanges where you can buy and/or sell bitcoin using Lightning network

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Video: Payment via Lightning network, from EUR, to BTC (on LN), to USD -- in seconds (video.twimg.com)
 

This was a demonstration of using Bitcoin on Lightning Network ⚡ for a retail / Point of Sale (POS) transaction. This occurred during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami last week.

The demonstration shows the "customer" scanning a QR code from the cashier's tablet, and paying the Lightning network (LN) invoice.

The customer didn't hold bitcoin. The wallet app (Lastbit) paid the LN invoice using the customer's bank debit card (on file with Lastbit).

The merchant in this instance was also using Lastbit, and in this case, the proceeds of the sale (bitcoin on Lightning network) are converted to dollars on arrival (which is an option available to the merchant).

The merchant doesn't need to use Lastbit. They could be using a self-hosted BTCPay Server, for instance, and never touch dollars. But to show how LN can work well for retail payments, the merchant in this instance is receiving payment in fiat -- which many merchants choose to do (for now, until their vendors, employees, etc. also accept bitcoin).

Source: Tweet by LastBit.

XPost: lemmy.ml's SSL cert just expired - Lemmy in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Reported by another user here: https://lemmy.ml/post/69263

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XPost: lemmy.ml's SSL cert just expired - Lemmy (lemmy.ml)
 

Posting here in case the post in the main Lemmy community isn't noticed.

lemmy.ml's SSL cert just expired in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Lemmy's day to shine (as Reddit is / was down), and new visitors are met with this.

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And then there were eight (himk.am)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
 

Out of 57 Casascius S1-BAR-100 "physical bitcoins" issued, only 8 remain unredeemed.

Each Casascius S1-BAR-100 bar!has (or had, if redeemed) 100 BTC.

#Bitcoin

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Search for a community requires ! in front. Is that really necessary? (lemmy.ml)
 

On Lemmy.ml, I click Communities then in the search box I type "[email protected]" and click the Search button. The response is "No results.".

But then if I type the "!" prefix, i.e., "[email protected]" and click Search, the community is found.

This seems to be a UX issue. Not everyone will know the community needs the "!" prefix.

New Community for Brave Browser in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

For normies, ... works just like chrome or firefox, without having to install any extensions / plugins, ... there are no ads when watching the youtubes.

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What Happens When Cryptocurrencies Earn Interest? (hbr.org)
 

Decent article on lending bitcoin, altcoins, or stablecoins out. The conclusion at the bottom is the money shot:

"At the end of the day, DeFi is still a far more dangerous spot to park your money with risks not well-understood by the average investor. All DeFi protocols run the risk of software bugs and/or copycats that can, in the worst case, drain liquidity completely. In addition, there is obviously no FDIC insurance protecting the deposits."

New Community for Brave Browser in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (5 children)

No ads on Youtube (i.e., at least, without requiring an adblocker).