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
