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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

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