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berean jones
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Bitcoiner. Engineer. Christian. Theologian Writer. Husband. Father. Trapped on Prison Island UK. #Bitcoin #Christian #Family

I was following a few feeds already, thinking these enlightened folk had already shifted to nostr

For example

703e26b4f8bc0fa57f99d815dbb75b086012acc24fc557befa310f5aa08d1898 is #[5] or rather, an RSS for his Tweeter.

Turns out, we're so early.

Check out this guide: https://openoms.github.io/bitcoin-tutorials/Zeus_to_RaspiBlitz_through_Tor.html

Zues is a pretty good mobile tool for LN management. I don't have my own node, but instead connect it to Alby because...

managing liquidity is going to be your next challenge. You need to have outbound and inbound liquidity for those sweet sweet zaps.

I found:

https://coldsats.io/

https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/liquidity

https://deezy.io/

https://voltage.cloud/blog/news/how-to-sell-liquidity-and-earn-sats-with-your-lightning-node/

to be good sources of information.

TLDR; open an outbound channel with a big node enough to send out the goods. Optionally, find some inbound liquidity so you can receive zaps too.

Good luck!

Zapped my thanks for actionable advice.

Please boost the original post to help me cast the net wider... and find more raspiplebs 😁

Hey 🤙

Any #raspiblitz node runners here?

My node is ready and I want to explore lightning ⚡

What's the best set up for 'non-custodial' fun on nostr? Useful actionable answers will be suitably zapped.

🫂🙏

PS - Can I create an address like wallet of satoshi, but on my node? Or do I point my nostrplebs address to a long address on the blitz?

Definitely identify with the Nostrian School

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Replying to Avatar Susiebdds

PV!

You boiling a nostrich for Sunday lunch?

Forget the attention economy.

Try real mind-sharing instead.

V4V and Pura Vida.

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Surprisingly good induction to libertarian values and austrian economics.

Read them with your kids and then go down the (further study) rabbit hole yourself afterwards.

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Just saw your 'building' note and came over to check your feed ⚡💜⚡

Where can I see your previous videos?

My brain needs transfer learning and embedding before I can answer your question.

😁

You're in a corn delorean going zap to the future ⚡😁

Replying to Avatar jleger2023

FREEDOM OR CONTROL - YOUR SUPPORT SHOWS YOUR CHOICE

I saw a long thread discussing another spam attack on Nostr last night. That's not going to stop for free relays. Spammers will always use free services with large audiences to spam. Stopping them is a game of whack-a-mole that even the big Social Media companies have failed to win despite their deep pockets and teams of engineers.

The solution is value-for-value: pay for what you use and find valuable. If Nostr benefits you in some way, be willing to pay for the tools you use that provide it to you (relays, clients, etc). If you can't pay but you can build or support it in some other way, that's great, too.

I had a person (jokingly I assume) say they were sad I didn't ⚡ them. The first thing that jumped into my mind when I read the note was "What benefit are you providing?" I had never seen any other post from them before.

If you want to live in a free world, you need to ask that question often, both of yourself and of others: what benefit are you providing? Because any time you're getting something "free", it's not free. Somebody is paying for it. If that person isn't you, then someone else is setting the agenda for what you consume. Is that what you want?

For many, the idea of freedom is like the idea of owning a boat. They daydream about how great it would be to have a boat, take it out on the water, fish, swim and enjoy it all. But they never buy a boat. Why? Because boats cost money and take work to maintain. All that pleasure has a price. Either you're willing to pay it, or you're not.

Freedom is no different. I hear a lot of talk about freedom today, and that's good. Freedom of speech is a big one. But what are you doing to support those that are building the tools that give you that freedom? Are you content to daydream about that freedom and how nice it would be while never taking any action, or are you willing to put some skin in the game to turn that dream into a reality both for yourself and others you care about?

We've been conditioned to get things for "free", but it's a lie and a trick that's resulted in us selling ourselves and our choices to the highest bidder. For me, Nostr is the path to freedom, but Nostr is not free. It costs money to run the relays, servers and services, and it costs time (which results in lost earning power) to code clients that provide the experience you want and create great content on an ad-free platform.

So if you believe in freedom, and I know you do (that's why you're here) then support the builders that are providing value to you. Show that freedom is not just a daydream. Governments and nefarious actors have long taken advantage of the masses just daydreaming about freedom. Let's wake the world up from that dream and make it a reality. This is our shot. Let's not miss the target.

My deepest thanks to all of those that are supporting the builders already. You are true heroes. 🙏

Investing in the community you want to live in, be that physical or digital.

Bitcoiners talk forever about citadels, but nostr is a training ground for that kind of aspirational living.

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Replying to Avatar MaxMoney21M⚡

Here is the full guide to using paid relays:

1. Visit https://relay.exchange

2. Look up some relays (operator npubs are listed so you can see who is running it)

3. Pick one you like

4. Put your npub in and pay the invoice

5. Add the relay to your list of relays (be sure to set both read & write)

Done.

What's the criteria for choosing one I like? So far, I worked on

1. It has a cool name

2. It "got shilled on nostr"

3. It has been verified

It's all still a bit hit and miss.

I don't think it's a case of using Bitcoin that way.

More that the Bitcoin rabbit hole forces a post modern relativist mind to confront the reality of objective truth.

From there, it's easier for a seeker to explore, among other things, the claims of the gospel. Some presuppositions are already aligned, and there are analogies in Bitcoin that shine light on conceptts in the gospels.

It's a new genre of thought. JM Bush, Patrick Melder, Jimmy Song... these guys 'get it'.