Do British websites use "biscuits"?

Get it?

When Satoshi suggested for us to fork Bitcoin and innovate, he meant it. So think about that for a moment if you're a "Bitcoin Only" maxi.

Looking into this now. Thank you!

I have a public and a local node. I will open a dual funded channel between them to practice. Then ping you back for more dual channels to up my game into higher tier node status.

BTW, tor or clearnet?

For the right price, I’ll set the universe on ⚡️

I’ve never understood there being a battle between science and god, as real science is the study of gods creation.

Go to your local Bitcoin meetup! You meet so many great plebs and learn so much!

I had some of #[0]​‘s delicious baklava and that alone was worth it. 😋

Why do we need decentralized social communication? #[0] wanted to know why Nostr was better than other supposed "free speech" social networks like Gab or Truth Social. Here's why:

Increased Resilience: Decentralization can make protocols more resilient by reducing the impact of a single point of failure. In a centralized system, if the central authority fails, the entire system collapses. In contrast, decentralized protocols are less vulnerable to catastrophic failures, because there are multiple nodes, relays, or clients that can pick up the slack in the event of a failure.

Increased Security: Decentralization can also increase security by making it more difficult for bad actors to attack the system. In a centralized system, if a single point of failure is compromised, the entire system can be compromised. In a decentralized system, however, attackers would need to compromise multiple nodes, relays, clients, etc. in order to take down the entire system, which can be much more difficult to do or even impossible.

Improved Efficiency: Decentralization can also lead to improved efficiency. When decision-making is distributed, it can be done more quickly and efficiently. This is because decision-making can be delegated to the individuals or groups that are closest to the issue at hand, rather than having to wait for a central authority to make a decision.

Increased Transparency: Decentralization can also increase transparency by allowing for greater scrutiny of decision-making processes. When decision-making is distributed, it is easier to track and audit the decision-making process, which can help ensure that decisions are made fairly and impartially.

Increased Innovation: Decentralization can foster innovation by creating an environment where different ideas can be explored and tested. This is because decentralized systems tend to be more open and inclusive, which allows for more experimentation and collaboration.

If these sound familiar, it's because these above reasons are why we favor decentralized money. Bitcoin and Nostr go hand in hand in these schools of thought. I hope this helps! 🤙

Coincorner checkout, that’s a good system with a 1% fee but with the option for the merchant to exchange to fiat at time of sale, so they don’t have any price fluctuation risk. This is good for people who aren’t sure about bitcoin yet.

I’ve also suggested a mixture of Muun and wos. I understand the trade offs here.

I’ve had a couple of problems with Muun, the merchant has trouble going through all of the clicks between opening up the Muun up and creating a ln invocie

Will be taking a look at Swiss bitcoin pay next and also BTCmap is releasing their own POS soon

Lnd with all cool tools does not support pruned nodes at all (per BTCpay docs).

c-lightning claims to support but a lot of stars need to align for that to work. The problem is c-lightning keeps requesting a block that has been pruned. I had to use rescan option to give it a block number to start scanning.

It has been working for couple of weeks. Today after a backup and restart, it ignored the rescan height and got stuck. magically came back, but lost my confidence for prod setting.

Explain why please 🙏

Yes very friendly ☺️

Using a popular VPS for hosting my btcpay server. I had to prune it a while ago as storage costs are through the roof. This is forcing me to use c-lightning and deal with all sorts of issues pruned node is causing.

Makes me wonder what other node owners are using. Looks like I will migrate it to home VM.

On boarded a local cafe, a local pub and a local mountainboard centre this week. They’ll all be live and accepting bitcoin as payment before the end of the month.

You love to see it.

Are you referring to the background colors?

I use Lunanode, but I think also Namecheap offers VPS and support Bitcoin.

I also use Voltage for 1 of my LNURL servers.