Highlights

• Nolooking app got approved for the Umbrel App Store

Hopefully out soon for you all to try!

• Nolooking got mentioned on Latest Strikes https://twitter.com/FanisMichalakis/status/1587112144675520512

• We have some secret projects going on in the background -- more soon.

Suck & Stuck

• We got hit by the btcd bug which bubbled up to our lnd production node, but the team upgraded to lnd 0.15.4 minutes after the patch was made.

• Inbound channels continue to be an obstacle. Zero-fee routing recently announced its closing its service.  https://twitter.com/zerofeerouting/status/1586053522029936641 🫡

  • We’re continuing to track our options here: https://github.com/chaincase-app/nolooking/issues/40

  • Nick's mind is blown that most inbound liquidity services will not accept US customers 🤯

• We’re fixing broken tests. Who knew isolating a multi-node network for testing involving multiple p2p networks could be problematic? Why won’t docker bridge networking work the same on different operating systems? But we’re not giving up!!

Learn

• We’re exploring new automatable strategies to find mainnet outbound channels (especially those that accept small channel sizes! Yeah we’re testing on mainnet)

• Burak is unrelenting. The Lightning network is still unstable

• There are lots and lots of ways for multiparty transactions to go wrong. We’re stabilizing them and trying to reduce the error surface by making the setup the same all over the place with compatible libraries

• BlueWallet’s PayJoin implementation does not follow the BIP78 spec as far as we have tested.

Help

• If you’re brave, you can run the Umbrel app right now by:

        1. SSH into your Umbrel

        2. Run `sudo ./scripts/repo add https://github.com/nolooking/umbrel-apps.git`

        3. Update your remote apps with sudo ./scripts/repo update

        4. Install Nolooking with sudo ./scripts/app install nolooking

        5. Boom! You’re ready to hit up some payjoins. Please share with us!

• If you’re feeling hardcore, use Nolooking to create a QR code to open like 10 channels, fund it from cold storage via Sparrow wallet.

• Tell BlueWallet to fix their PayJoin or ask us for help

• Tell https://twitter.com/mayankdotch to do the assets for Umbrel App Store. It’s the bottleneck to being accepted

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