Are you willing to have lightning channels opened to your node?

Mining would be the way to get them interested. I need to learn this first so I can lure them in with weird side projects that pique their interest

Facts 🤝

On the left is our old rectory fire tube boiler, installed c. 1967. On the right is the new high efficiency condensing boiler, with all the improvements that accompanied it, including asbestos abatement.

Thank God for tradesmen who know what they're doing and care about their craftsmanship. These guys are good dudes, albeit rough around the edges. But they want to know how to do things and do them well.

I, for one, appreciate them.

Young men, take note. Such competence is not a bad way to make a living, even today.

Those creatures are astounding

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The possibility of signifcant increase in buying power for bitcoin is not simply a function of its speculative nature. Buying and holding bitcoin for principled reasons is actually quite difficult and represents significant risk--the factors at play are more than just personal gain and storing the value of one's labor, but also a more sound monetary asset and the separation of money and state. The possibility of significant gain represents an incentive to help motivate those who take these risks to take them both prudently and courageously, and to persevere in the face of extreme difficulty and distraction. That is no small thing. A dictum in this respect would be: Show me the incentives, and I'll show you the outcome. Bitcoiners are serving a noble good and the possibility of monetary gain is one factor among many important factors that helps to incentivize what would otherwise be unimaginably difficult for most people.

Stated by nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7cm9d3kxzu3wdehhxarj9emkjmn99uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qyghwumn8ghj7vf5xqhxvdm69e5k7tcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ukzcnvv5hx7un89uq3kamnwvaz7tm5dpjkvmmjv4ehgtnwdaehgu339e3k7mf0qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgf9qw43 in more forceful terms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCLt7oUl43I

I also think the idea of intrinsic value is a distraction in this discussion. Correct me if I'm wrong: in the sense you're using it here, "intrinsic value" means "good for something other than being used as money, and therefore [more] free from speculative abuse". But the claim is that bitcoin is a new form of money that creates digital scarcity through the binding of real world energy expenditure to an immutable distributed ledger in order to secure it from attack and recalibrate the accuracy of the price signal. Digital scarcity is such a profound innovation that it's hard to make a comparison to other monetary phenomena. "Intrinsic value" is something like a skeuomorph of the prior forms of money that were necessarily physical. A skeuomorph is "a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues from structures that were necessary in the original." But bitcoin is innovative precisely because it eliminates the need to bind scarcity to physicality, offering pure scarcity in the digital realm by the capture of energy through proof-of-work.

(You can weigh in any time, nostr:nprofile1qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjctzd3jjummjvuhszxmhwden5te0w35x2en0wfjhxapwdehhxarjxyhxxmmd9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qyfhwumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetsv9njuetn9uq3samnwvaz7tmxd9k8getj9ehx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvshsqgqr6w2khgwqxwfqylc7232g883ypnlxxa8ex50kmvghmpz3kzvxuvywsart )

SecureSafe was my app of choice before switching to self hosted Vaultwarden.

SecureSafe worked great. And can integrate well into all platforms and browsers. Also had an inheritance protocol included,b which I now miss.

Vaultwarden isn't as functional but is very easy to use if running your own @Start9 machine.

I also think ProtonPass is worth checking out.

Good questions. Off the cuff, I'd say that one's reasons for learning about and holding bitcoin may vary. But the intentions behind the creation of Bitcoin obviously draw on moral sources, especially the devastating effects of unsound money on society and the need to separate money from state. (See Hülsmann's THE ETHICS OF MONEY PRODUCTION.) This in my view is the determinant for the morality of holding Bitcoin even as it is treated as a speculative get-rich scheme by some... which seems far less prevalent among bitcoiners than it does in the spinoff communities that are deeply scammy. By no means is it absent. In the end, I would hold Bitcoin even if it didn't appreciate massively in value. Its qualities as sound money and a savings vehicle for the masses-- an open, permissionless, trustless bearer asset, that cannot be corrupted by any central authority, seems like good enough of a deal to stake one's wealth on in the hopes that it can address the deep and hidden injustices of the current system.

It is the mark

of a great mind to entertain a thought without accepting it.

HILAIRE BELLOC

#quotestr

I believe Mutual of America also has a Catholic Values fund. And, outside the huge investment company umbrella, one of the best smaller investment vehicles is farmafield.com (disclaimer: I know the owners and have invested with them in the past)

Were it up to me, 100% of my savings would go into bitcoin. I have come to believe more and more in the "voting" power of holding bitcoin and focusing on living rather than becoming a part time investor doing research into abstruse company filings and completely out of one's depth: a point first conveyed quite powerfully to me by Saifedean.

But barring the possibility of that particular allocation ratio, yes, finding an ethical investment vehicle is just not optional.

It brings me sorrow...

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A setting in Nostur allowed me to turn on AUTH for my paid relays and we are back in business, connecting just fine now.

No other client I am using had that setting, from what I could tell (Amethyst, Coracle)

That's helpful to know, thank you!

I guess the breakdown is in Coracle, then, being able to correctly report which relays are transmitting the notes it broadcasts? Wine and Coracle don't seem to get along

Having trouble posting and getting stuff onto nostr.wine

Posted this note hours ago:

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Only shows up on the following relays:

This is my relay list:

Any suggestions nostr:nprofile1qyd8wumn8ghj7urewfsk66ty9enxjct5dfskvtnrdakj7qguwaehxw309a5x7ervvfhkgtnrdaexzcmvv5h8gmm0d3ej7qg5waehxw309aex2mrp09skymr99ehhyee0qyghwumn8ghj7vf5xqhxvdm69e5k7tcqyztuwzjyxe4x2dwpgken87tna2rdlhpd02va5cvvgrrywpddnr3jy5ezn0m nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7cm9d3kxzu3wdehhxarj9emkjmn99uq3samnwvaz7tmrwfjkzarj9ehx7um5wgh8w6twv5hszythwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn99uqzq0vy9tlv6h3f8u5tvcnexdcy50acec2n42ga0y9tz8m2w5k5ffpddyknh0 ?

#godstr

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I only have experience with nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll but my experience has been outstanding. I bought a couple different versions of their hardware and have learned a ton, starting from basically nothing—I am non tech. Their customer service is outstanding on Telegram. Once their next OS upgrade comes out I think it will define the standard for self-hosting and ease of onboarding. Look up Matt Hill and listen to some of his appearances on various podcasts (Stephan Livera would be a good example) to learn about their unique ethos.

The developers know their stuff and are breaking new ground in this area…. Very cool to watch.

Found this Spring app (I forget who linked me up with it) from NostrBand and installed it onto Android from GitHub:

https://github.com/nostrband/nostr-universe

Very cool way to access many different Nostr apps in one place, and log in securely on mobile. Everything appears to run like a PWA.

#grownostr #listr

Can verify this works great

Man, I am kind of baffled as to why nostr.wine is so rarely connecting. For a paid relay, it's only working about half the time according to Coracle. I am logged in via browser extension. Any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong?

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Christ the King Story Hour

https://fountain.fm/show/6sRuZlN7d0Ryptu52U7i

Father Nick Blaha Homily Cast

https://fountain.fm/show/J3lhJZHGTxH6FA2O1m2s

Zapped from my own node through nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 on my lightning node. Send this tremendous open source company some ⚡❣️

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AI priests can't catch a break either

I'm just over the river. I'm going to have to lead a recon party to investigate here soon.

Bitwarden does cache everything locally.

Helped a friend sweep his Phoenix wallet channels back to Cash app. Transaction cleared in less than 24 hours. Now, working on getting him back into self custody cold storage. I'm thinking Nunchuk...

Welcome. Don't look back. #introductions