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πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Programmer β˜•οΈ Coffee lover πŸ”₯ Huge believer in fairness, hard work, nostr, bitcoin and in a better future that we build together

#asknostr #nostr

What is your bitcoin strategy?

Mine so far was stacking, and spending fiat.

Also tried to spend it here and there, but nothing serious. Somehow didn't like the idea because of volatility.

Now doing a self-audit, if I want to continue this, or start spending it more.

Somehow I came to the same conclusion. I first need to do something for everyone, and then I can start to shift time onto things the matter more to me without the need to get paid on it.

Full time devs of nostr and bitcoin ecosystem

How do you make money to eat? πŸ˜‚

I mean seriously. 🧐

My problem with these topics:

- They are cutting edge, but we are quite early. -> Not a lot of interested parties.

- Problems we try to solve are for many "invisible". So they don't need a solution for it. -> Smaller user base.

#asknostr #devlife #nostr

And an amazing amount of pages are already ai generated.

AI + ads = internet is a digital blackhole of nothing inflated

NextCloud as private cloud. It has the Memories app that is an image viewer with some tagging, gps etc features.

Proton, or Mega. But not sure if you get a nice photo viewer to work with them. Maybe.

Good morning!

Day 2

❌ Early wakeup πŸ••

Went in bed with a headache, woke up early with a headache, so skipped early wakeup.

βœ… Coffee β˜•

I am trying to set my sleep schedule for optimal performance, so I go to sleep earlier to wake up earlier since 6 days. Missed 1 early wakeup so far. Lets go!

#morningroutine #nostr

Nextcloud is quite a decent home cloud. If you configure it properly, it runs nice.

Have anyone found a better one so far?

#asknostr #nextcloud #cloud

Good morning β˜•

Day 1

βœ… Getting up early πŸ••

βœ… Coffee β˜•

βœ… Workout πŸ’ͺ

One step at a time!

#nostr #morningroutine

I did an El Camino like experience in the last couple of month. It kind of changed me.

One big thing is, that I realized I have to do my own business. I wanted to do it for long and I was also tinkering with projects before. None of them really took off. For one reason or another. Now the realization was, that I dont want to waste my life working for others on projects I dont find exciting.

But also learning from past experiences, I will start one business, that I like, but keeping earning a living in mind.

If this is done, or is in progress, I want to dedicate my time on several other things that might not take off soon enough either but I feel they are important.

#nostr #motivate #perspective #change

Replying to Avatar Dikaios1517

Yeah, Phoenix and Breez both handle a lot in the background for you. However, because they do this, you can end up with an unexpectedly high fee when you are receiving a transaction and it exceeds the available inbound liquidity. That can be a bad experience for a non-technical person who doesn't understand why the fee is higher and how they could have avoided it.

For instance, because I knew that Phoenix was going to be creating an actual Lightning channel when I first deposited into it, I sent WAY more sats than I actually wanted to have in the wallet (5 million), so that Phoenix would open a really big channel. Then I swapped them back to on-chain via Boltz.exchange, so I wouldn't have such a large balance in a spending wallet. Leaving me with plenty of inbound liquidity in my Phoenix channel.

No non-technical person who doesn't understand how Lightning works is going to know that they should do this. They will send themselves 100k sats or so, and Phoenix will give them a channel of a few hundred thousand sats, and as they use the wallet more and more, they will be comfortable with keeping a higher balance on it, only to get randomly slapped with a higher fee because they ran out of inbound liquidity in their channel.

Breez's new Misty Breez wallet is looking really interesting for non-technical folks to have a better trust trade-off than going with a custodian, though. It still requires the responsibility of holding your private key, but that should be one of the first things a new Bitcoiner learns anyway. For my kids I will stick with hosting their Lightning wallets for them, but once they care enough to hold their own keys, I might be having them learn on Misty Breez.

As for how to find other nodes to connect to, I have seven channels. Five of them are with other Bitcoiners I know and can reach out to personally if there is ever any issue. They also reach out to me and ask what's up when my node is down. The other two channels that aren't with Bitcoiners I know are with nodes that are operated by services I use personally; namely ACINQ (Phoenix) and Boltz.exchange. As such, I have never had need to purchase a channel from a liquidity provider.

The best channel partners are Bitcoiners you know and can contact directly to troubleshoot issues with your channel.

Thank you for taking the time to respond!

I think with a previous version of breez, you got a wrapped invoice and already knew the cost before receiving. Somehow ended up using it for buying sats, and it was cheap. But I played around with multiple wallets at the time. So only for specific type of people.

Sounds logical to do it with other bitcoiners. Then I need some time to make some decent relationships with others here.

Thanks!

So many things to figure out!

How to be a millionaire 101

Take lots of peoples money, and make it in a way, that if you fail, many people fail. Then you cant fail anymore.