1) you must've set up that channel. Did you ask for a channel and have to pay a lightning invoice for the channel? Or did you open it yourself to someone? Best way to answer this question: do you have receiving capacity? Or spending capacity?

2) the sats you send to the node are there for you to open channels. Considering Alby hub needs to be online at all times, I recommend NOT using it for long term storage, but that's up to you. I think I have 9000 sats or something on mine because it's what was left over after opening a channel.

3) the node itself is an on-chain address and can't be used for lightning payments. You use the channels that are open to send/receive lightning payments. There's easier wallets out there to manage the on-chain payments than having to go back to your lightning node.

Great! I look forward to minting my own and see how it comes out!

Awesome! Thank you sir! I'll ponder colors and get my order in in the next week or so. What's your normal lead time?

I gotcha! But just so I understand... The Cordovan crossover... Using the Max as my example:

The shell is the white on the outside.

The pueblo primary is white

The pueblo secondary is orange

And the thread is orange.

Did I get that correct?

Think of all the no coiners I'm out stacking! By that logic I should stop until they catch up.

Hmm... I'm still on the fence about this and need to do some research, but I like the idea of having a zap wallet with primal that doesn't touch my own node directly. It feels like if someone got your private key they'd be able to zap themselves through your connections. Seems better to only have a few thousand zap wallet and if you lose it, no biggie. IDK though. Does the NWC carry over if someone uses your private key? These are questions I need to research

I realize for us this is probably the harshest insult you can tell someone, but there are a few people I've met that I legitimately want to tell them:

"I hope you never buy #Bitcoin"

Yes it's for everyone, but some people are so regarded they don't deserve the generational wealth opportunity.

GM Ben! Hit that wine press. Or grow grapes faster.

(I don't know what wine makers do)

When I was fasting I made sure to only do it on off days. I have a heavy lifting routine and it 100% affects my ability to lift. I would still do my 3 mile walk though.

I never did a water fast, food only.

This is hard without defined terms. People use the word "miners" interchangeably. Miner can refer to an organization that mines #Bitcoin or it can refer to an individual machine. For this instance I will use "machine" to describe individual hashing machines and "miner" to mean the person/organization behind the machines.

Hashrate increasing means that more machines are being turned on, whether that's a big miner like Riot or Marathon getting in a new shipment of machines, or individual miners turning on more machines to try their luck solo, or pointing towards ocean.

Each machine has a hashrate, ie 110TH/s (tera-hash per second) so if the global hashrate is going up, it's because more of these machines are going online.

nostr:npub1v0tfjv5ahr3c260jtzdk5w48krerrnkg8fmcnc5lpguk0qda04eqzm3m3e also, when doing the Cordovan crossover...I notice it doesn't say it'll be RFID shielded. But I can't find the place to add that... Or is that just standard practice now?

nostr:npub1v0tfjv5ahr3c260jtzdk5w48krerrnkg8fmcnc5lpguk0qda04eqzm3m3e can you help me understand the minting your own process?

I don't understand which part of the wallet I'm choosing colors for. Also, I realize it's probably not feasible but I really wish you could pick the colors and see what the model looks like to know if I'll like it or not. But that aside:

What's the pueblo primary vs secondary.

Also do you have a photo of what the jungle green classic would look like on the outside? That's the color I definitely lean to on the Italian Shell cordovan. Not sure what pueblo colors would go with that though.

Welcome Dawn! Now I can enjoy your recipes you share as I'm hardly ever on Twitter anymore. Need to get Cary over here too.

Blue wallet for watch only so I can see and copy addresses on my phone. Hands down the best I've found.

Broadcasting, I really only use Sparrow with CC.

The thing I really like about #nostr is that I don't feel like anyone is pushing propaganda one way or the other. Just a bunch of people sharing viewpoints, dreams, daily activities, or funny nonsense.

Makes me feel like I'm in a big ole party where no one cares if you pop in for a second or not. Just high five each other and see you on your next circuit of the social group.

This really depends. Are you dipping into your stack to pay these transactions?

My best advice came from Saylor a year or so ago:

Say I want to tip a waiter/waitress in #Bitcoin, I have my lightning or liquid wallet preloaded with sats, I go on an exchange and buy $20 worth, and then however many sats that gets me, I send it to him/her. This doesn't create a taxable event because I bought and gave it away same day for exact same value.

I do the same thing with purchases. I pre-ordered nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak gold standard book. Bought the $30 of Bitcoin and then sent the lightning payment to him. No taxable event.

The only time you need to keep track is with your cold storage purchases that you sell. For that I usually keep a spreadsheet. Or have to look at the exchanges where I buy and calculate that way.

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Gotta show appreciation both ways.

Actually I really enjoyed that full line of thinking!

I agree with you on your train of thought.

It's not that the one node has a ton of power individually. It's the fact that it stops other individuals from trying to push whatever agenda they want.

You're holding the status quo by running the node. Which if #Bitcoin fails decentralization, let's face it, #Bitcoin fails all together. It's incredibly valuable to have more nodes although you can't see the benefit except abstractly.

Pretty much all the nodes decided they weren't valid. If I remember correctly they tried to spend from an address that didn't have any BTC because they messed up their order of operations. At that point the only way to receive the block reward is to fork the chain, or reorder the transactions before submitting a block again.

Again, you keep coming back to a single point of failure. This is why the book "block size wars" was written. This has already been done with BCH and BSV.

They have nodes that decide something else IS a valid block. At that point you become a whole new network.

But the bootstrapped plebs that ran BTC nodes in those early days kept it alive by not altering their consensus rules. Even though all the money in the world tried to shift to bigger blocks.

We're still in the gradually since 95% of people think they missed the suddenly and won't buy.