It feels so damn great to top up an anonymous e-sim card with Bitcoin paid from a Chaumian mint.

Surprisingly, I've gotten more spam on the #Nostr than on the birb app.

One thing that worries me about the future is someone can gen many pubkeys and use bots to spam the shit out of someone.

Or, use it for harassment. You'd basically need to never turn on notifications or open the app as it'd be like a DDoS lol

The process from start to attack is far easier to employ with Nostr than traditional social media with having to register a throwaway email, check activation email, send a few responses, rotate IPs, before getting banned. Rinse, repeat.

Curious, what our mitigation options will be to thwart say tens of thousands of spam comments from destroying one's experience. Or, straight filling up a relay's disk and bringing it down.

Some form of rate-limiting? #AskNostr

Could’ve waited. 1sat/vByte is almost here with just under 5000 unconfirmed transactions in mempool now.

Today I learned a lot about Lightning. For example, if you have very old LND channels, it's possible that they won't be of the ANCHOR channel type. These cannot be CPFP fee bumped. It's also possible that older CLN channels are this way too. I have 43 channels and 4 of them are of the STATIC_REMOTE_KEY type. Those 4, if they get force closed, cannot be fee bumped.

My bad luck left me a channel with a lot of sats on my end, of a channel that was remotely opened to me and a non ANCHOR channel. Essentially the worst combination.

This left me with a pending transaction of 1 sat/vbyte. It could take 6 months for the mempool to almost clear again. But, there's also a chance that my transaction never gets through too. Especially with the upcoming bull run next year, we just don't know what it's going to be like.

So, what does a Nostrich do in this situation. Well, for starters, I got annoyed and freaked out. I then spent two days trying to resolve this.

And then I paid F2Pool 147K sats for them to include my transaction in an upcoming block. That may seem like a lot, but I had 6.5M sats on the line here. That's an incredible amount of Bitcoin to me. This gives me peace of mind.

To prevent this from happening, I'm probably going to close the other 3 channels that I have open that are not ANCHOR channels so that this does not happen again. I'll reopen what I can when I can.

At least I can now go to bed a happy Nostrich.

Goodnight!

Anyone tried we are 8? I’m in a rare moment to mainstream ads… should we have #nostr ads? lol

Normies don't want more responsibility. The solution will be those that have nodes making accounts for family and friends, provading the service of wos in a community level.