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Dear Devs,

If you want normies to join the Bitcoin forces, you have to teach us how.

Simply rolling out Knots doesn't mean we know how to reconfigure a node to run Knots.

Pull your heads out of your asses and realize that most people aren't shadowy supercoders like you.

If you want to win, you cannot stop once you ship. You have to then build support bridges that will allow people to use what you built.

You sink hundreds of hours into developing something that 5000 people use but you won't sink another couple hundred hours into developing it in a way that 5 billion people are CAPABLE of using?

Dumb fucks.

TheRupertDamnit 4mo ago

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Any advice for a struggling normie, guys?

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Mushy Peas 4mo ago

There is this…..

https://community.start9.com/t/guide-switching-from-bitcoin-core-to-bitcoin-knots-on-startos-v0-3-5-1/3140

I moved away from the turnkey nodes a little while ago and now raw dog it on an Ubuntu server. So I am out of the loop with nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll. To my knowledge there is no turnkey option for using a Nots implementation as a lightning node backend on a nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll. They, nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll, are notoriously slow at rolling out new versions and updating. They have been promising a new OS for sometime now and crickets…..part of the reason I ditched them.

My advice would be to watch nostr:npub1txwy7guqkrq6ngvtwft7zp70nekcknudagrvrryy2wxnz8ljk2xqz0yt4x's nodebox series (search Ministry of Nodes on YouTube) and learn. Oh also not run Knots cause it’s a larp. 😆

RedTailHawk 4mo ago

I found some help.

Basically I think Start9 is dumb because when Core is running, there is not an Install button on Knots. When Core is uninstalled, the Install button for Knots magically appears.

My gripe is why couldn’t Start9 program their user interface such that Knots had an inactive, greyed out Install button with a message explaining how to activate the Install button and instructions on how to uninstall conflicting software implementations.

Also, there is not an uninstall button on the main “page” for Core on Start9. Uninstall is buried under the Actions menu. I had, in my mind, encoded all of the menus as “shit I don’t know shit about” so I didn’t look through any of them. I assumed that the devs would have put an uninstall button somewhere near the bottom.

Mushy Peas 4mo ago

Is your lighting node still running after the switch?

RedTailHawk 4mo ago

I would answer you if I knew how but I don’t know what exactly that means.

Mushy Peas 4mo ago

You said you were running a lightning node and after switching you may want to check it.

RedTailHawk 4mo ago

Yes. I know that, functionally, I have a lightning node that I was able to get running with the help of friends. Mind you I was confused the entire time this was being set up. I have multiple programs downloaded onto the Start9 that, to me, seem connected to Lightning. I don’t know which of those things is the lightning node.

Also, I don’t know how to interpret “running”. All I know is right now Knots is doing shit and several programs on my Start9 have yellow triangles with an exclamation point inside of them and they all say “Running…” but I don’t know if that means “fully operational and set up” which would be my definition of “running”. I don’t understand how my lightning node could possibly be running if Knots isn’t even synced yet.

All of this confuses me.

Start9 4mo ago

What? Lightning (and all other Bitcoin dependents) work perfectly with Knots on StartOS, always save. No extra configuration needed.

Mushy Peas 4mo ago

OK so no effect on HTLC through stricter mempool policy or need to adjust RPC. Cool!

🐢 4mo ago

Not a dev, but this individual comes across as an asshole.

Knots is an application, just like core, download, run.

Some shit is as easy as choosing it from a drop down box.

If they figured out how to run bitcoin in the first place, they’re just being lazy.

TheRupertDamnit 4mo ago

He actually figured it out. The option to install wasn't appearing until the other instance was uninstalled or something equally asinine.

🐢 4mo ago

They both use the same directory, so asinine maybe, but preventing data being overwritten is prob a good thing.

semisol 4mo ago

It’s a simple lock on the data directory. So that two instances of bitcoind can’t overwrite each other’s data.

RedTailHawk 4mo ago

That’s fine but noobs don’t know what steps to take to make it work and we are intimidated by advanced options and menus filled with such options.

There needs to be an Install button on Knots even if Core is installed and running.

That install button doesn’t need to be operational but it needs to be there and perhaps it should be colored grey or something to indicate that the button is not yet functional for a reason. Then, when users see the button, they go to click it, and it doesn’t do anything. They ask “Why didn’t the button work?”.

Then they see words that the devs could choose to display that say “in order to install Knots you must uninstall Core. To uninstall Core, select Core, scroll down to Actions, and select Uninstall”

That would be clean.