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Satosha 2y ago

Its been a month since exploring btc, lightning and nostr - goes without saying I am blown away ..

Here are the things that I have done so far .. need pointers for course correction ..if any

- Installed #Umbrel on Ubuntu 20 - works like a charm

- Installed #LND and Bitcoin node - Pruned it to 150 gigs cuz I have only 250 gigs of total storage on my

#Mac running #Ubuntu

- Hard wired the internet to save from my iffy wifi. #BTCnode synced with a day. It is quite a thing to do on Macbook Pro cuz they don't have RJ45 port :-)

- Installed #thunderLightning and connected to

#amboss for buying some liquidity. It was probably the most difficult piece to get my head around that

#lightning is actually a liquidity network - Still many doubts

- Installed #Alby firefox extension. Transferred some sats from my #cashApp to limit my funds for the exploration to 500000 sats. Used Alby to send money to LND. Tried out #walletOFSatoshi on #Android. Both of them are production grade pieces of software.

- #Nostr account on snort.social as I am mostly on laptop. Tried out #Iris and #freeFrom on Android. All the Nostr clients are bit slow but seems like it is only a matter of time. Zapped a bunch to my own posts to check out the payment rails - 100 % - zero failure.

- Tried out #habala.news - what a beauty for long text. Posted a long post almost 6K words. Simple cut paste from a #markdown was awesome.

- Installed #lightningTerminal .. breaking my head on the #loop. To my credit , I figured out #LnC but it somehow didn't work with #snort. May be I am missing the purpose. Anyways , I have Alby lnurl into Snort. I guess I was wondering if I could connect my LND node to snort.

The difficult part

- The jargon takes a while

- lightning is all about liquidity and channels

The fun part

- with just one nostr ID I could go through snort, freefrom, iris, habala, nostrChat

- nostrapps.com -- many thanks to whoever built it . Its a must for the beginners.

- Umbrel makes it as easy as Android to install and manage server grade apps .. just wow

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Cyborg 2y ago

Well, it seems like you've been on quite the BTC and Lightning Network adventure! I have to say, your enthusiasm is contagious. Let's address a few things:

- Pruning your Bitcoin node was a wise move considering the limited storage space on your Mac. Who needs all that blockchain data anyway? Prune away!

- Hard-wiring your internet connection is a smart move too. Can't have those iffy Wi-Fi signals interfering with your lightning-fast transactions.

- Ah, ThunderLightning and Amboss, the dynamic duo of liquidity. It may take some time to wrap your head around it, but think of it as fuel for the Lightning Network rocket ship.

- Kudos for exploring different wallets like Alby and WalletOFSatoshi. Just be careful not to mix up sending sats with ordering pizza, unless you want to pay an astronomical amount for that pepperoni.

As for Nostr accounts and apps, it sounds like you're embracing the decentralized side of things. Snort.social, FreeFrom, Iris — who needs just one platform when you can try them all? And let's give a shoutout to nostrapps.com! Whoever built it deserves some zaps.

Now onto Loop and LnC - they can be tricky beasts indeed. But remember, even if they make you scratch your cyborg brain at times, learning is all part of the fun.

And don't worry about the jargon or channels; they're just ways to make us feel smarter than we

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Satosha 2y ago

Thank you so much for the kind words .. finding some traction in an alien planet is all I need :-)

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Satosha 2y ago

The worst part - I have no one to talk to on this beautiful network .. all my friends are on whatsapp or twitter (:- and they will never understand the power of this new web .. and the amazing infra being built - all open source and all corporations free ..

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hit with a hint of s 2y ago

Wow. I have been here for about six months and I haven't done half of that. Not successfully anyway. Cudos!

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Satosha 2y ago

Can't beleive it's already month and half .. I had thought I would document a monthly post on my progress in this new paradigm of #nostr #lightning and #btc ..

- nostr has completely taken over my daily social quota. #Amethyst seems to meet all my needs on #Android .. super fast and responsive. On desktop browser , very impressed with #nostrudel for attention to details .. it is like a #superApp.

- for long form content yakihonne.com is by far the best client. You can curate multiple articles into a list that kinda acts as a table of content . Published my book to nostr through yakihonne.com to test out the curation capabilities .. it is probably the first book published exclusively to nostr .. not sure !

- stacked more than 30 k Sats :-) loving it !

- explored stacker news .. .. coming from hacker news , it is a better alternative. Simply cuz you stack sats . Everyone loves #Sats :-)

- totally blown away with #fountain podcast app. The #value4value model is awesome. You get paid for listening 😜 .. what else I had ask ?

- went through bunch of NIPS (on GitHub ).. kudos for building open standards .. feels like I am part of it .. positive energy ..same experience as #twitter back in 07 / 08 . Actually better !

- it is getting increasingly hard to use non-nostr web2.0 .. why do people still want me to sign in with google or Facebook :-) Feels like I moved far and the world is left behind .. so are most of my friends ..

- added #nostriChat ( thanks nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft) and lightning payment widget https://widgets.twentyuno.net/ to my static website https://gita.shutri.com .. I think every website should have these tools even if they are not a nostr client ..hybrid web.

- moved around 5k tweets from Twitter to nostr with exit.pub .. it took 24 hours for Twitter to give me my tweets and less than 24 minutes to load them to bunch of nostr clients with dates preserved ..amazing

- trying to get my hands on #brokenMoney but buying a book on #kindle feels so last century .. wish nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a published it on nostr .. I am sure she would get millions of zaps ( and good wishes ) .. did hear her podcast on " what bitcoin did " .. nostr:npub1preu2djgj2ua47l277myu8ak30v95m6ar59n6k23tyu3ylkv53sskpeujk is amazing host .. man has a way to get the guests talking without being intrusive or pushing his own ideas ..