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Sir Spencer, Wolf of KC 🐺
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Co-host of Bowl After Bowl https://bowlafterbowl.com Value-for-Value consultant. Frequently nude, never under-dressed. With nostr:npub19ha7tju4teqp3dmwv4p28wrcy9zd6h6hxkg5mwvjrlfycweazpkse2q0fa since Block 146699 Bitcoin boi, lightning node operations off the chain. Worked with nostr:npub1udgz58rr47hxj963aytu6y4msuvpgmzgfwaz3q3hapj2d5j05clqwpd0ds to produce the world's first music album written, recorded and released exclusively for #DeMu #v4v https://ableandthewolf.com Need a podcast guest? Interview inquiries welcome! Email spencer@bowlafterbowl.com

Bowl's ringing, Dude. In which I wax nodestalgic, nostr:npub19ha7tju4teqp3dmwv4p28wrcy9zd6h6hxkg5mwvjrlfycweazpkse2q0fa web redeems a driver, The Rev is back with a dark punk Moment and callers just want to talk to a real person!

https://bowlafterbowl.com/episode-325/

Nope, just have to have a path from any channel you have! The lightning network is like a big digital spiderweb

If only you had built a node 🤭

If only you had built a node 🤭

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If only you had built a node 🤭

Two approaches I recommend for small business/entrepreneur types to accept their Bitcoin privately:

Approach #1) Run your own node:

This can be done with several node implementations. The most user-friendly are Start9 and Umbrel in my experience, though I have had great results with Raspiblitz as well. Some reading for Start9 if you have any laptop or computer that has an X86_64 CPU (overwhelming majority of machines on the market today are):

https://docs.start9.com/0.3.5.x/diy/diy-x86

The comprehensive guide for getting started on Umbrel is here, and includes many links depending on your use case (including a section specifically for merchants):

https://community.umbrel.com/t/getting-started-with-your-umbrel/3555

Includes a link to how to set up Umbrel on your own machine:

https://blog.thecryptogarage.com/umbrel-linux-ubuntu-node-build/

Approach #2) Run your own BTCPay Server instance

The decision process on setting up a BTCPay Server is a little more convoluted than running your own node directly, but once the setup is complete I find BTCPay Server is a little more straightforward for merchants and eCommerce solutions specifically. Their documentation is very thorough but also can take some time to wade through. I would suggest starting here if going the BTCPay Server route:

https://docs.btcpayserver.org/Deployment/

Once set up, any of the above solutions should be able to handle payments from Strike without issue, and you'll be fully in control of the sats received.

Damn you probably right, I'm never on in the morning tho 😭😭😭

I have been on nostr for at least a year and a half and have dunked on several people and government agencies and yet I still do not have a badge.

I do not understand where the badges come from.

It was Face2TheScr33n's first sesh in the Bowl tonight with nostr:npub19ha7tju4teqp3dmwv4p28wrcy9zd6h6hxkg5mwvjrlfycweazpkse2q0fa and me! Includes all the origin stories and cop stories that you would expect from a Florida Man!

https://bowlafterbowl.com/episode-324/

if you run a node and connect Zeus to it, you can send/receive sats to other nodes as long as there is a route from your node to theirs. Connecting to other well-connected nodes is the good way to do this. Connect to nodes you are more likely to be sending to, and ask for channels from those who want to pay you.

There are plenty of us out there who are happy to open a channel to you if needed.

rebalances do not involve on-chain transactions, but opening/closing channels do.

What wallet are you gonna use once the last Uncle Jim service shutters to US customers, stupid American?

Build a god damn lightning node now before it's too late for you!

It's June already?!? Holy shit.

Harvested all the scapes off the hardneck garlics today

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I did great in high school and was so concerned about being top of my class and always having good grades. Then I did poorly (I thought I did, but not really) on a really important test and was crazy upset about it at the end of my junior year.

My biology teacher, who was a seriously cool guy and had a really solid lookout on life, sat down with me and reframed how I thought about how the relationship between the real world and this ridiculous controlled experiment called “schooling.” Literally blew my fucking mind. Suddenly I saw school for what it really was and all of my frustrations and anxiety about it made so much more sense. SO much of it had felt pointless to me but I couldn’t explain why.

I immediately let go of the weight of it all and had a great senior year realizing that my frame should be on what I wanted to do afterward that was going to matter, and how my high school GPA basically wouldn’t mean shit in that regard. I still did pretty great, ended up 4th in my class, but literally all of the anxiety had vanished when I saw it for what it was.

I’ll never forget what a profound impact such a simple change in perspective was. And how quickly I was looking back on my “old self” and thinking what an idiot he was for not seeing what was right in front of him. Even something that he had felt and had itched at him for years, but couldn’t understand.

I look back now and realize that 99% of what I learned during those years that was even slightly useful, was all in Science Olympiad, which was basically a series of engineering challenges for students to compete on. It had nothing to do with my classes or my grades.

Had it not been for that, I would be shocked at how utterly pointless all of it really was. I can’t believe the amount of time and energy I had put toward something that was so meaningless when it came to the real world.

Homeschool your kids and teach them something useful. nostr:note18t3fcafeq8gxnj520frhleh3lrx2njrjpn9fyktez7dytguafcjs07lh9g

I wish anyone in my school would have told me something even remotely similar 💛

Quality doesn't scale. So stop telling me about what won't scale. Everything that is actually worth having DOES NOT SCALE.

McDonald's cheeseburgers scale, if you're obsessed with scaling why don't you go chug a few of those.

Keeping it tight this week, but it still hits! In which I popped her quiche, nostr:npub19ha7tju4teqp3dmwv4p28wrcy9zd6h6hxkg5mwvjrlfycweazpkse2q0fa can't bear the worms and callers prank other callers while calling us!

https://bowlafterbowl.com/episode-323/

Packed deep and wide, it's a big fatty for ya! In which I get hype for another Bitcoin Pizza Day, nostr:npub19ha7tju4teqp3dmwv4p28wrcy9zd6h6hxkg5mwvjrlfycweazpkse2q0fa gets some titty leaves, and callers 'member!

https://bowlafterbowl.com/episode-322/