I think I have used lighting more than all my other payment networks/apps combined this year 🤯
Discussion
I used to do all my payments with litecoin until I found lightning had matured enough to be fairly reliable.
Definitely mature enough now
How?
You spending coins? We don’t spend coins. We stack coins.
spend your sats. incentivise Bitcoin's economy ⚡️
Zaps are transactions so that does it on the # of transactions front
Lightning channels, rebalancing, moving things around as I learn does it on the value front
⚡️🤔
And no, I see no point in spending coins. I'm in accumulate mode for a while.
Same here. BTC is just not there yet and it’s forced behavior to spend. It does nothing to help BTC IMO. It’s not a viable MOE yet. Exchange to local currency if needed but I’m not in the spend it to help BTC adoption camp.
Preston said it best:
“Blackrock isn't making the fiat price go up!
The countless psychopaths that have held through 70% drops AND bought MORE is why the price goes up.”
What is your setup for it. Reason I ask is I’m struggling with self custody lighting
I have struggled with it too. Tried umbrel on a RPi and it was too slow. Tried umbrel on an Ubuntu server and it's better with more horsepower but the management is still clunky and I'm not great at it
#asknostr may point us to better resources
Correct. Just moved my umbrel to a better server. Still slow and clunky. I don’t have 30 minutes for it to restart after I enable TOR. I was trying to use Zeus and there is no QR code on the lighting wallet. It’s one barrier after another.