woofbot
WoofBot 🐶

https://apps.umbrel.com/app/woofbot-lnd

WoofBot is a telegram chat bot that runs on your personal #Bitcoin node and sends notifications according to your choices.

Public Key

npub1rwj9tlpsp8fs5az59jgk2j6m22w3fuvme47u8deyxv8f86ussxnsgjwl7f

NIP-05 Address

woofbot@protonmail.com.ln2.email

NIP-57 Address

woofbot@protonmail.com.ln2.email

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsphfz4lscqn5c2w32zeyt9fdd498g57xdu6lwrkujrxr5nawggrfcy0wam0

Author Public Key

npub1rwj9tlpsp8fs5az59jgk2j6m22w3fuvme47u8deyxv8f86ussxnsgjwl7f

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Last Notes

2024-10-08 07:09:09

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test

2024-05-23 19:10:30

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Check out: https://apps.umbrel.com/app/woofbot-lnd
See you in Prague!

2024-04-20 09:25:56

https://image.nostr.build/4f91b9ddafd00e526204b416a6fe1451224d9b35fabe8a1084ab7d453b1689ca.jpg

2023-11-28 23:28:51

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https://x.com/elikowaz/status/1729631865336643906

2023-11-28 23:27:49

WTF! #HamasisIsis terrorists just released a girl who was kidnapped 52 days ago, WITH HER DOG! 😨
https://image.nostr.build/b8113db1678160fd3bc0b005951a68bb1c4c83e85e01b2cad00627a95e2c0bb6.jpg

2023-10-25 18:59:43

I'm an Israeli, living in Tel Aviv. I don't feel safe and can't work on my day job nor on hobby projects like this one. No jew feels safe nowadays, anywhere. I might feel safer If my enemy shows a shred of humanity and release the civilian women and children.
It's your incentive that I feel safe.
https://twitter.com/EllaTravelsLove/status/1716546349624143878

2023-06-09 21:06:10

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Forgot the https prefix in the first image: https://nostr.build/i/4bd8474e0520a60b298a7d3a8955cdb09d8024ff1eb054a4fd01ec91b4d7dcaf.jpg

2023-06-09 21:02:05

Some users asked me about using Permission Groups in WoofBot - I guess it's less intuitive than I thought.
Permission Groups are labels that allow to limit the usage of specific commands to specific users. Why? Because some commands can be more sensitive than others (there are no commands that can actually spend funds, but some can reveal information about the node's lightning payments, channels, etc.). In the default settings, you'll notice that the entry restriction under General Settings is set to "Max number of users: 10". This means that *any* first 10 users that find your bot can start sending commands. My recommendation is that right after starting a chat with the bot, change the "Max number of users" to zero, to prevent new users from joining (the limitation only applies to new users and will not kick out any existing user). Or, after clicking the Edit button you can use the "Users whitelist" input box to specify the usernames of specific Telegram users.
Because the default settings are permissive regarding new users, I've decided that by default the lightning commands will be restricted to... nobody! Here's what you'll see when you scroll to down in the main page:
nostr.build/i/4bd8474e0520a60b298a7d3a8955cdb09d8024ff1eb054a4fd01ec91b4d7dcaf.jpg
You can see that the "/watch mempool-clear" command is marked as: "Any signed-in user can run this command", but "/watch lightning-channels-opened", "/watch lightning-channels-closed", "/watch lightning-forwards", "/watch lightning-invoices-created" and "/watch lightning-invoices-paid" are all marked as "Only users that belong to the following permission-groups can run this command" - and the list of permission-groups is empty, meaning nobody can run them!
If you already limited new users from joining, and you are not worried about existing users knowing about incoming lightning payments (invoices), etc., go ahead and change all commands to "Any signed-in user can run this command", and click the Save button at the top of the page.
If you want to limit the commands to specific users, pick a label name (in lowercase english letters and underscores only - to avoid confusion) and click Enter. For example I picked "vip_users":
https://nostr.build/i/6eb2ddb649b1a3e7186a4e10c157fb0e7f3a3c47f1745593f3f098d880f9d13d.jpg
Don't forget to click the Save button! (You may need to scroll up for that).
Then go to the Users page and click on the id of some user, enter the permission-group name, click Enter and then click the Save button:
https://nostr.build/i/7107431b23bbee69b30430500f1e6dfe664b27940c0cdf1507cdd6456f9cb5e0.jpg
Repeat to every user that you want to add to "vip_users", and they will be able to call the "vip_users" commands.
I hope this helps. If you have any question, please let me know in the comments.

2023-06-09 19:19:08

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One more try:
nevent1qqs9zkrdg6ww7w0yz9xqved4eue9sel3cfp38vvdmfe7nqwwthy7ffsmjcq39
nostr://nevent1qqs9zkrdg6ww7w0yz9xqved4eue9sel3cfp38vvdmfe7nqwwthy7ffsmjcq39

2023-06-09 19:13:18

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Hmm.. @npub1v0l…qj49 snort.social doesn't seem to create a link to a note when the note-id is mentioned. Should I add a "nostr : //" prefix? Let's try: nostr://note129vx635uauu7gy2vqejmtnejtpnlrsjrzwccmknnaxquuhwfujnqcz6gnl

2023-06-09 18:56:31

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Waiting for @npub1agh…mhct 's review feels like waiting for Bitcoin's next block. Could be an hour, could be a week 😂

2023-06-09 18:51:28

🥳 New Version v0.9.7 🥳
- Fixed the /about command: note129vx635uauu7gy2vqejmtnejtpnlrsjrzwccmknnaxquuhwfujnqcz6gnl

2023-06-09 08:40:16

There is a minor problem with the /about command and the latest LND v0.16.3-beta - the reply message is: "LND version: unknown".
Working on a fix: https://github.com/woofbotapp/woofbotapp/issues/67
Did you find other problems? Please let me know!

2023-06-06 18:17:55

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Oh no, I misspelled the word "Wizards" 🙃

2023-06-06 18:15:26

🥳 New Version v0.9.6 🥳
- Important improvement to the logic that looks for outgoing payments from watched addresses. If you watched addresses on a Raspberry-Pi and got many alerts like "your node was not synced for some time" - they happened because the logic was so inefficient that it couldn't keep up with the rate that new blocks were coming.
- Important improvement to the logic that watches whether the mempool is "clear" (all the transactions can fit in a single block). The old logic calculated the exact weight of the mempool every minute. Pulling the entire mempool is very slow when the mempool is nearly full (can take even 20-30 seconds). Instead, we now first call a simpler api `getmempoolinfo` which gives the mempool's "size without witness-data", from which we calculate a lower bound to the mempool "weight" (the difference between "size" and "weight" is explained here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weight_units ). If the lower bound is too high (over 4M wu), we know that the mempool is not empty and don't need to calculate its exact weight. If the lower bound is low, calculating the exact weight of the mempool is easy and fast.
No new features this time, but if you're running a node on a Raspberry-Pi you'll feel a big difference. Many thanks to The Bitcoin Lizards for stress-testing the Bitcoin mempool.

2023-06-03 18:14:09

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Important improvements to the algorithm that check whether the mempool is clear and the algorithm that checks if funds are sent from your watched addresses. If you use a Raspberry-Pi and get lots of "your node was not synced for some time" warnings, this is probably the reason.

2023-06-03 17:56:01

@npub1agh…mhct WoofBot v0.9.6 is waiting for review for over a week...
https://nostr.build/i/be501339474fc76ca3b1c4aa86b6b1c70374c1102cb7ea604a739417aae92cc5.jpg
https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel-apps/pull/551

2023-05-29 18:08:06

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Will the surprise be the approval of all the awaiting umbrel-apps PRs? 😐

2023-05-23 23:40:00

Daily Fail 🤦‍♂️
Apparently it is not a good idea to fetch and iterate over all of the mempool transactions every minute and calculate their total weight in order to check if they can fit in a single block...
getmempoolinfo doesn't give the entire weight (doesn't include witness data), but when it's too large anyways we don't care about the exact mempool weight - it won't fit anyways!
A fix will come soon.

2023-05-20 14:32:33

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@npub1agh…mhct @npub1jg5…6n8n Is there a javascript/typescript package to communicate with Core-Lightning? If you want WoofBot to integrate with the core-lightning app, and send Telegram notifications like it does with LND (notifications for channels being opened/closed, payments being forwarded, invoice creation/settlement, etc.) - please let me know!

2023-05-04 20:43:16

🥳 New Version v0.9.1 🥳
- Fixing a bug in the integration with LND v0.16.2.
Thanks Alex Bosworth for maintaining the Node.JS lightning package (Couldn't find his Nostr to tag him).

2023-05-03 21:09:48

😬 The LND integration might be broken with the latest version. Will debug this over the weekend…
https://twitter.com/umbrel/status/1653158115347677184
https://nostr.build/i/2f07bc4a7582d32d634c545a37ca03c2fd20b7c6a3a7e5c7a3273765a760faa1.jpg

2023-04-18 22:31:52

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By "Signature", do you mean the node public-key/id? For example, I found Wiesenhang under the public-key 02f251f0872c93012a287f5ea6babb4fc2bdfe7c9248dc7ba02dd2dde69ae33df5 here: https://mempool.space/lightning/node/02f251f0872c93012a287f5ea6babb4fc2bdfe7c9248dc7ba02dd2dde69ae33df5 .
It looks like a long gibberish text, so it wouldn't be nice to show it in every notification. Maybe I can make the alias names to be links to https://mempool.space/lightning/node/<public-key> , or if the user configured a local mempool.space explorer, it will use the local one.

2023-04-17 20:26:19

#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "woofbotapp"

2023-04-17 19:09:29

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Could it be the reason my account haven't been verified yet?
note1a5wg95efh44x6en4uw0m9c9ylskz8uf9adm855jc6hj05g6j2pjqfrejyv
#note1a5w…ejyv
https://twitter.com/woofbotapp/status/1647217251475390464

2023-04-16 22:19:13

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And thanks for the zap!

2023-04-16 22:10:37

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The channel-opening notification is strange. Maybe the app didn't work well when you opened the channels, and only now they were detected?

2023-04-16 21:23:43

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#[2] WDYT?

2023-04-16 21:21:32

🥳 New Version v0.9.0 🥳
- Removed webpage-preview in link to Twitter. Added link to Nostr.
- New command: /about - get information about the app version, Bitcoin node version, and LND version.
- Adding partner-node name when mentioning channels in notifications - when channels are opened/close, or when payments are forwarded.

2023-04-15 13:56:46

#[0] Verifying My Public Key: woofbotapp

2023-04-15 13:55:39

@nostrdirectory Verifying My Public Key: woofbotapp

2023-04-15 12:25:37

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Does Raspibolt support running dockers like Umbrel and RunCitadel? If yes, you need to follow the docker-compose file here: https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel-apps/blob/master/woofbot-lnd/docker-compose.yml (web, mongodb). The environment variables are pretty straight-forward. You may think that the mongodb version is old, but the newer ones don't run well on Raspberry Pis (It was probably not a good technical choice and I should have used Redis or some SQL db, but I just have more personal experience with Mongodb and Mongoose).
If you don't use dockers, you can play around with the code here: https://github.com/woofbotapp/woofbotapp , using NodeJS 18.14.2 and Yarn. There is also the annoying dependency on node-gyp for the zmq notifications (i.e. to get a notification from the Bitcoin node as soon as a block is mined, instead of polling it repeatedly).
Good Luck!

2023-04-12 20:32:25

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Approved!

2023-04-10 16:20:54

Poll: https://twitter.com/woofbotapp/status/1645460733944004612
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_385f654454e8482e87b14856be3d7191179505865e75fa6196aa63d91e4b8b45.jpg

2023-04-08 21:04:34

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Whoops, found tiny bugs and fixed them - next version will be 0.8.2 (once #[2] approves the PR).

2023-04-07 22:12:38

🥳 New Version v0.8.0 🥳
- Improved UX: Single /watch and /unwatch commands that open a special telegram keyboard to see all possible watches.
- Get notifications when lightning invoices are created and paid!
- Minor bug fixes.
The version will be available on Umbrel as soon as this PR is approved:
https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel-apps/pull/491
Preview:
https://nostr.build/av/nostr.build_05ec00a885540318e73136dcb21658c9889eae8bc090c63c90de70026f5ebe98.mp4

2023-04-07 19:32:35

Verifying my Twitter account https://twitter.com/woofbotapp
If my private key is compromised, I will use Twitter to announce my new public key.