That's like 10x more than I have in the wallet at the moment.

Don't want a node in the cloud though. I run a lot of cloud machines but I think bitcoin node is something I want in my actual house, in my flat, on my hardware.

And I want it's network points hidden this time coz I am not convinced it'll remain legal to run it attached to my ID.

Not in any depth. Looks okay.

I do think that text-post for free and pay to media-host is a very good business model.

I couldn't immediately see any way to make my own instance point to my own wallet, but then I'm not hosting for more than test at this point anyway.

Plus I have plenty of self-owned places to host images anyway.

I'm glad to see groups starting to happen on Nostr.

They may mostly be about bitcoin and nostry, but the groups give a way for communities not about those things to find each other I think, so hopefully that's a good fix for the monotopic problem.

This is pretty interesting, the way the reddit-style groups that the users create can be ranked by either likes or zaps.

Pay to toppost! Is that a great plan? I dunno. Maybe it is? I'm not against paying artists for their work, but I never really liked karma-whoring and that was just for a highscore not even money.

I remain unconvinced that attaching money to every post is a good plan for a community.

It's a pretty nice profile page they got going on over there too.

https://satellite.earth/@0dae2d95f5d2891c27abad36aa4f62d04b6e3fee7f6d54824b58487031371936

And that profile page exists for every Nostr user, even if they've never looked at satellite.earth or even heard of it.

If you're reading this, you got one!

Building new channels

Building my new Lightning node (Under Tor with Umbrel this time) took *way* longer than I had hoped. Blockchain download was long, and hard-drive failures were oft. In the end I had to replace hard-drives two times and the entire mini-PC once coz it just wouldn't stop overheating.

But it is finally done, just at exactly the same time as the hard-drive of my old node failed.

I have managed to move the wallet data to the new node, with only a few weeks downtime, and other than apparently one of my peers is offline now I think that's worked.

In the two years or so of the old node running it helped with a total of about 3 transactions.

So the plan is still to shut this node down and build a new one unassimilated with the old IP addresses/IDs.

I'd like to be more useful to the network with the new node than one and a half transactions a year. I don't really care about making any sats profit from it, just wanna contribute to the liquidity flow and keep the channels balanced.

But I have no idea how to open channels which might do that, or about any search systems that could find them.

Anyone got any advice?

Looking at satellite.earth and this seems ludicrously easy to self-host. I'm posting this from a self-hosted one I just built in the last 15 minutes.

It's lovely, it's got the microblogging stuff on one column and reddit style communities on the other column and some kind of pay-by-lightning-for-media-hosting.

And the Nostr thing where it's all just the same account as if I logged in with Snort or Iris is still really cool.

#nostr #satelliteEarth #satelliteWeb #selfhost

I dunno what happened to Iris. It was nice for about two days, lovely and responsive with useful sidebars, and then it just turned into a single-column snort clone.

I think it was actually snort, that my browser got confused about the URLs?

Fuck knows.

Trying satellite.earth and actually this may well be better still anyway. I like the fact it's got conversation groups as well as just the microblogging.

And now Iris just seems to have changed itself to look exactly like Snort does. Wierdness. Wonder why and if that will fix itself? Confusing.

People who want an algorithm to pick the best social media posts for them but who drive to a supermarket rather than let an employee choose their bananas.

Thing is, the other social networks also have plebs who don't want fame. But you never see their posts, because the algorithms only show you the preening showoffs. It's not that every person wants that, its that the algos only show you the people who want that.

There's a fair chance that Hamas made quite a lot of money trading shitcoins on Binance.

Also a fair chance they held to long and lost it all, you never really know.

That's the thing about the money-for-enemies. A money your enemies can use is a more useful money for both of you, but it does mean your enemies can use it.

Is World War Three bullish 🐮 or bearish 🐻 ?

The UK used to be able achieve things, like even world-domination. And now they can't even build a railway line.

I thought I saw someone talking about cooking once, but it turned out to just be an analogy for money printing.

I tried to buy it on Kindle but i came with DRM, and apparently all books since January you can't break that DRM any more, so I couldn't read it on my Remarkable, so I refunded it.

Can I assume this saif version is free of any DRM?

Oh. Iris is just an amazing amount better than Snort was.

Nost starts to look viable.

Not embedding a Peertube isn't perhaps unexpected: How does it deal with a youtube embed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmMr1qeH8Lc

that is already obviously better.

But yeah, Snort is bad now. I'm fed up with Snort.

This does seem better already.

Snort started getting weird about asking for a PIN I didn't want to give, and it was easier to look and see if there are simply better clients not asking such annoying questions so I asked the chat-bots.

Perplexity AI tells me that iris dot to might be good.

This does seem pretty nice as it goes.

Do you know I made a bitcoin cartoon in VR?

If this embeds from PeerTube then Iris is my new client now and I love Nostr portability quite a lot more:

https://dalliance.network/w/o1nkCuZwvH3UiG1Q868dmd

There's a lot hanging on this: I make maybe one post a month to Nostr so it's all up for grabs.

Does anyone see it?

I think it will fail to embed, and also that almost nobody will actually follow the link either.