I grew up with warsh (usually wash) rags. Those were for the body. Never use the dish rags for your body. Shop towels were just rags. Everything else was a towel referenced by size, not purpose.

Thars a 'g' in War-shin-ton? mmm whoda thunk

That is perfect. Life fulfilling cliche. 😂

I get the daily spin. That's it nothing else.

Nothing is free. Everything has a cost to someone at some point. Thus the limited speech we get will be obtained and defended by those with limited liberty.

My Embassy is a Raspi with a good hdd. I upgraded for a BTC full node, lightning and other e stuff. The raspi is currently flawlessly running Bitwarden, a personal file server and my Nostr private relay. It shouldn't be a problem.

Building would be great. I'm doing my part but...

The number of nodes and channels are at three year lows and falling steadily. Capacity is still okay. This shows consolidation among fewer and larger nodes who seem to channel more with each other than with smaller nodes.

It's a market. I get it. It's plenty diversified and decentralized for my comfort.... for now. Like many, I hope my node earns a useful spot among the survivors enough to support the network and at least it's own expenses.

I'm pretty sure WoS didn't give you a seed phrase. It was custodial and you backed up by simply setting an email and password. They have that but they can't download the app on their iPhone because WoS withdrew their app for American customers.

I'm just wondering if WoS had a way to return American's their funds still after all this time. I emptied mine in Nov of last year when the news broke.

nostr:npub152ve9j85lam9mujf8m5d7yp2x34ql2qrwlv5yl5a65k5npuuxqgqa5uta2 's point as well as nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev 's response made me think. I started a longer response, but it was too much. I was left with this.

What, most certainly is comming, will be very painful. I can't stop it. I've found my best shot at getting thru. Im headed that way. I can't save many, certainaly not everyone. I can point at the tidal wave with one hand and at the life boat with the other. Beyond that, me and mine take first priority. I will remember sadly those who drown. I will not feel guilty for what I didn't/couldn't do for them.

Thank you. On a hunt now to see what that means, then.

Haven't used anything else in almost two years now.

Okay, starting to second guess my views on censorship. Maybe I'll feel different when the pesto kicks in. lol

Welcome aboard!

For the start9 angle, start here: https://community.start9.com/ and here: https://docs.start9.com/0.3.5.x/service-guides/lightning/index

With rare exceptions like opening a cooperative dual funded channel (be careful with that), when you are the one opening the channel it's all outbound liquidity. Generally speaking you gain inbound liquidity as you spend from that outbound liquidity.

Example: You open a channel with me for 1,000,000 sats. It's all outbound. You can send to me (pay me) or send through me (I rout your payment where you need it to go). Lets say thats 50ksats. You would then have 950,sats of outbound left and 50k of inbound liquidity. Before you could spend up to 1mil and you couldn't receive anything. Now you can spend 950k and you can receive 50k. If/when the channel closes you receive the outbound liquidity and I receive what you see as your inbound liquidity. What I see as my outbound in that channel you see as your inbound and vice versa. The same amount of sats is always in the channel. Some is mine (my outbound). Some is yours, (your outbound). Fees and such enter in but that is the basics.

Now, if you're setting up a store or are wanting to receive payments over lightning, you'll need inbound. You can get it over time by spending through the channels you set up or you can rent/purchase/lease it in chunks as needed. You can also purchase it as needed with some lightning service providers and it's dynamically and automatically maintained... again for a fee.

My routing node runs on a Start9 box, using an LND node and other tools. Ask away or check the above links for more details.

THEIR... not there. Man I hate myself for that one.

Just had someone realize that WOS disappeared from their IPhone. ANY one know if they can still get there sats and how I can help them?

#asknostr

at least with Abbott and Costello did it it was funny

A isn't A.... we don't care what Aristotle thinks. The people who make and manage A have found dozens of ways to tell us that A isn't A. Besides A doesn't even matter according to them. I don't know why it's important anyway. I'm pretty sure A doesn't really exist.... but if it does.... it's not A.

First, there were some great posts for gaining forgiveness and reconciliation. I'll leave that alone.

Next though might be a little rougher. You called it, "protective dad mode". I'd like to question that a bit in a moment.

My version was my little girl and her mother (my now ex-wife) with anger issues. 13yrs and I'm shaking a bit just thinking about it. She did hurt her in an out of control moment. That scream that you just know isn't a booboo woke me up and I flew into action from dead sleep already knowing the basics.

Now, here is the difference. I would have been in protective mode but, mom was already out of the room. My first concern was my daughter. I comforted her, calmed her down, checked for injury (yes there was minor injury). If it was another child, I would have waited for her to calm and get a clear story. There was no need. Nothing could justify this. I had nothing more to 'protect' in the moment. I stayed with her for about 30 minutes.

Protection, evaluation, comforting over. Then I went into a different mode. No, I was not violent or loud. The look on mom's face told me what she saw in me with my slow, measured, restrained but clearly enraged direct command that this would never, ever, happen again. She looked scared, and she needed to be. If it ever did, I would be in vengeful dad mode. That's what you were in.

Be honest with youself. Protection, comforting, tending and mending are different than justice, punishment and vengence. All are okay in their time and place but, keep them straight and prioritized.

In the movies the good guys always tend the wounded (if there is time) before moving on. You had time. Your daughter was with you and out of danger.

You said this was the first time. Cut youself some slack. I knew the potential was there so I was mentally prepared and rehearsed. I knew what I might do and what would result. Jail, divorce (which came later anyway), and separation from the little girl I had to protect.

A really wise man once said, "Be angry and sin not." You were caught by surprise. It'll happen again. Think on this and be prepared. I'm sure you're most of the way there already.

Cool. I remember the Magic the Gathering card trading origins but never put it together with the name of the exchange. I got started right after the Gox crash. So, good on ya for the detailed history!