Might start nut-zapping P2PK-locked (locked to npub) nostr notes to incentivize people to learn about how it works so they can unlock the money (using a signature from their nsec).

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I dislike the general consumerism of Christmas.

//insert whatever gift giving occassion you want in place of Christmas if you have some other holiday//

I grew up in a household without Christmas or Birthday parties. We did visit relatives for Thanksgiving, and my grandmother did give gifts and birthday cards with a fiver, some years a ten, so its not like Ive been completely sheltered. Even so, every schoolyear, fellow students would get excited about the things they wanted for Christmas, and then inevitably be wearing fresh clothes and showing off their stuff in the new year.

As an adult I got to start doing Christmassy things, like decorating, buying, wrapping and giving gifts, occassionally being invited to a party. But it seems all so superficial. Theres this sense of obligation to give gifts, and it makes me realize how much stress it is to try to guess what someone would like, what would be useful, how much to spend, etc. And it happens not only for Christmas, but birthdays too. Its exhausting, and not in a way that makes the work involved worth doing. It needs simplified.

There was a time that giving cash was tacky, an example of not knowing someone well enough to give them something with thought put into it. In recent years thats been turned 180, as if you dont get some big gift like a new phone, car, playstation 8, a vr headset, YABA TV, then cash is preferred (sats are better)

Ive been trying to give consumable gifts in recent years to reduce the long-term-total-cost-and-hassle-of-ownership burden on gift recipients. They can use and be done with it, or simply trash. Theres no worries about needing to remember who bought what, and having something prominently displayed in the home if they are over for dinner.

I dont know what to gift this year and the clock is ticking. The stress is heating up. Maybe i dont give anything. Maybe i make a last minute dash to TJ Maxx or something for some random stuff i can wrap. ugh. no good answers.

Highly experimental Lightning address that will lead to loss of funds:

@cashu.me

All channels are finally closed and cleared, everything is finally back on-chain. My node is officially ded now, only keeping it up until I build a new one. The total damage from this in on-chance fees was 560K sats. Thanks to you the loss was offset by 380K in donations from generous plebs! Here is the screenshot of lifetime of my node 🐶🐾🫂🫡🪦

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Yes, it'll come out of what you receive when that invoice is paid. For 100k and 15k sat fee:

The invoice is for 100k. You receive 85k, a channel will open for about 200k (you get extra inbound potential with no setup fee).

A much needed release is underway!

The fee for channel opens is now dynamic based upon the current fee rate estimates. Previously it was hardcoded and needed to be updated manually when we had huge price fluctuations, but now it'll always be based on current chain fees.

Right now it's about 15k sats. A huge drop from the 40k the LSP previously set it to. Get your channels while they are hot!

We also do web caching for the PWA version and will notify you when a new version is available. This gives you a chance to decide to upgrade later or refresh immediately to apply the new change.

We have much more changes later this month but let us know what you think of these! 🙏

Good morning 🐶🐾🫡☕️☕️☕️

A much needed release is underway!

The fee for channel opens is now dynamic based upon the current fee rate estimates. Previously it was hardcoded and needed to be updated manually when we had huge price fluctuations, but now it'll always be based on current chain fees.

Right now it's about 15k sats. A huge drop from the 40k the LSP previously set it to. Get your channels while they are hot!

We also do web caching for the PWA version and will notify you when a new version is available. This gives you a chance to decide to upgrade later or refresh immediately to apply the new change.

We have much more changes later this month but let us know what you think of these! 🙏

Got a second interview 🥹💜🫂 want to hug someone but also am so sick I don’t want to do that to anyone 🙏🏽

"Alright Lyn, time to stop wasting time. Go back to tracking global liquidity flows. This is important. Stop telling the AI to make D&D character portraits."

Three minutes later:

60 hours have gone into the first drawing of my 4-part Bitcoin Halving series. A few eastereggs have already built in, but there's much more to come.

Trying to get a lot of work done today but keep doing generative art instead.

There are two impossibilities in life:

- "just one drink"

- "an honest politician"

And I can prove it here:

Id direct my hash to Antpool before Ocean

Where are you in your Lightning journey?

How much are you supposed to tip your Bitcoin mining pool boy for Christmas?