All these early adapters will one day be legends!
With the disappearance of Wallet of Satoshi for US markets, now it's more important than ever to become an "Uncle Jim" for your close friends and family members. What is an Uncle Jim? Simply put, he's a person that lends a helping hand to those in need, providing a service for them, one that they cannot provide for themselves.
You can fairly easily do this if you're not afraid of getting your hands dirty by digging through the technical trenches. You'll need to run a full Bitcoin node, a Lightning node, LNBits, and Nginx. You'll also need to buy a domain name use a service such as Cloudflare,
You'll setup a Bitcoin and Lightning node as you normally would. Then, you'll need to setup LNBits and configure the LNURLp and LNDHub plugins for each wallet that you're going to host.
The hardest part of this whole setup is the local networking portion of this. You'll need to have a server or a dedicated machine to run Nginx. This is a web server. You'll need to setup this web server to act as a reverse proxy to point to your LNBits installation. In this example, you'll setup your Nginx configuration to use wallet.mydomain.com and do a reverse proxy to your LNBits installation and port number. Then, to finalize the local networking, you'll configure your router to do port forwarding to your Nginx installation.
For example: Router Port Forwarding 443 -> Nginx 443 -> LNBits 5000
Then, you'll need to create a free account on Cloudflare and point your domain that you registered to Cloudflare. You'll then need to add your home IP address and a subdomain. Maybe you'll use wallet.mydomain.com.
If all goes as planned, you should be able to connect to https://wallet.mydomain.com and view your LNBits. You now have a Zappable Lighting address user@wallet.mydomain.com.
This isn't the best guide. I wrote this very quickly after reading a Bitcoin Magazine article about being an Uncle Jim. Hopefully this gives you enough information to ask the right questions or perform some advanced Google searches. Good luck!
I like the technical breakout of making your own wallet but... wouldn't a VPN be more simple?
Mine was an addition to nostr:npub1jfn4ghffz7uq7urllk6y4rle0yvz26800w4qfmn4dv0sr48rdz9qyzt047 not a criticism also Charlie already passed. Now we are waiting for Buffett!
Sometimes less of more, I am thinking photos that just show your eyes. They are your highlight and it would allow one too deep dive into a million different possibilities.
Nice but get rid of the cane and put in a whip and add a ball gag.
Resentment is like taking rat poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Looks like bitcoin under a microscope and we are watching its cells divide and expand.
Sorry, it was Warren Buffett's friend who just died... Charlie Munger! What a tag team allowing me to buy the dip.
I wish I had planned my children's birthday on every bitcoin halving. Then my wife couldn't complain when I have parties on these days.
Thank you Warren Buffett for taking bitcoin out of weak hands and allowing me to buy the dip! 💎👊🏼
nostr:note1x500upel5hnm7wqhz3rf6u3d839v4ttwu08xezxu5agtx754z8lq0q8e0kGM Stacy, welcome to nostr and the bitcoin community. 😉
Makes no sense is a perfect way to describe etymology and language. Hope I don't offend and English majors.
I do agree that bitcoin is the founding cryptocurrency but language changes over time. Buzzwords are killing your precious idea of cryptocurrency, your time would be better spent fighting the shitcoiners and directing investors away from them.
I agree with that, but the shitcoiners don't.
🤣 Harsh reality??? You are the one having trouble changing your definition of crypto to shitcoin. I bet you're a grammar-nazi too? (Side note: nazi is another buzz word that has lost most of its meaning.)
"which one is the best CRYPTO asset? bitcoin is the best CRYPTO asset. what's the second best? well, there is no second best." - Michael Saylor
https://video.nostr.build/b44b5f04eaeeee34f33b899ed822f89e72267c18b427bad49934139e9bc88f88.mp4
Let me put it this way, buzz words kill definitions. Crypto has been over run by shitcoins, this is why Bitcoin is not crypto. Yes it was the original crypto but it has shredded that language because of the filth that has moved in. Don't complain to me, go complain to the bitcoin marketing team. 