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Contemplating the shift away from Alby custodial service as it approaches.... there's so many ways to spend money on nostr now 😂

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

i use their hosted hub service

it's no different to hiring a VPS and running it on it myself, ultimately

spending and issuing invoices requires a signature that i hold the key to here locally on my pc

keeping stuff connected to the internet can be a big hassle when you have shitty domestic consumer grade internet, so, it's something to think about

i have a pc that could run a lightning server perfectly well but keeping it online is a lot of effort and pain when something goes wrong, power goes out, internet goes down, router downstairs crashes... the cost of having that level of reliability, better than 80%, goes up fast for each extra bit of reliability you chase after, and that 20% downtime amounts to zaps you can't receive

idk, it's not that important for just zaps anyway, i run LN node now so i have my sats ready to go regardless of what degenerate bullshit the ordinals brigade gets up to, like today's epic 7 blocks of mental retardation

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Dawn 1y ago

I was debating on that but I already spend a fair bit on various services. I can't really increase my spending without justifying it. Lol

My home internet is stable but I hardly use it. My lightning node just kind of hangs out, waiting for me to get over my grudges. But that also requires time for me to be home, and sitting still.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

well, setting up the alby cost tme 21k sats, more or less, so it's not that expensive

not trying to shill for them here but they have been really solid through the time i've been on nostr, so they have earned my respect

i still have a WoS account on my phone that i use to bounce sats around to my channels - alby hub is kinda dumbed down but i'm finding it pretty reliable for the most part and it's nice now that xapo enabled inbound LN i can just keep my spendings in alby hub and only zap them out literally just before i go to the shop to spend the sats on the card, and use it directly via the extension to pay my bitrefill to do amazon and other things

Dawn 1y ago

You're right. Alone it's not expensive, but that doesn't change my budget.