How hard is the "80 GB of storage with pruning" requirement for #BTCPayserver. I'm having trouble coming up with a good rationale for why 20GB wouldn't work. #bitcoin
One of the biggest barriers to merchant adoption of tools like #btcpayserver is hosting costs. While it's a no-brainer to pay for a $10/month VPS for btcpay if you have consistent BTC transactions coming in, most merchants lack surety that they will. I want to help merchant adoption by getting them started for free.
What are some of the best cloud providers that have generous "firsts x months free" or "first x credits free"? Currently looking at vultr but curious as to other options. Bonus points if they take BTC. Many cloud providers I've seen charge a significant premium for storage, like the VPS is $4/month but 80GB of chain storage is going to cost an additional $15.
#bitcoin
These answers are all correct, but a transaction does not get confirmed until the next block. Blocks are typically 10 minutes apart. If you pay a lower fee, it may take a few blocks. Or you may get lucky and the next block is seconds after your tx is created.
Looking to follow somebody who posts about #entrepreneurship self-improvement and building companies. Think the "knowledge of the top 1%" video clips you see shared everywhere. Any suggestions? #asknostr
Accepting lightning for merchants requires a lightning node be online 24/7. The common solution for this is #btcpay server, but this is quite heavy (and therefore impossible) for many online merchants on shared hosting. But nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 "node in a phone" is lightweight enough to be run on Android. Can a BTCPay server be configured to use a "node in phone" style node?
Is there some similarly lightweight option we can use which does what #BTCPay Server does but with the overhead of #zeus? #bitcoin #asknostr #lightningnetwork
#asknostr
They usually haven't when given the choice because foreign cars where better and/or cheaper. Tariffs may force them to buy American by artificially inflating the price of foreign cars. So we get worse cars for the same price we used to pay for better cars.
About two years ago, I decided that I wasn't going to donate to any non-profit or open source software project that didn't take Bitcoin. When asked for donations, I would ask if they took Bitcoin and if they didn't, I'd say "that's too bad, hopefully you change your mind in the future". Reception to this has gone pretty well, a number of them have come back later and asked me for help in taking Bitcoin and I've pointed them to some resources and got to be their first BTC donor.
This year, I have a new plan: I'm not donating to any non-profits or OSS projects that hide the fact that they take Bitcoin donations. Many of them take BTC, but you'd never know if you went to their donate page, it's squirreled away somewhere on their website. I get that your regular checkout flow doesn't support Bitcoin, so you need a separate page for that, but it really should be mentioned on your main donation page as an option. I think some places do this because they're ashamed to take BTC or they think it's controversial. If you're ashamed to take my money, you won't get it, end of story. We'll see how this new plan goes. #bitcoin #nonprofits #donations
So sad to know this project will soon be coming to an end
Bitcoiners are really, really bad at branding. Examples:
Custodial vs non-custodial: Who chose these words? Nobody knows what they mean if they aren't steeped in BTC lore. Self-custody? Much better.
Nutzaps: Cool tech, but 70% of people are going to not use this tech because they don't want to be "nutted on". I get the memes are cool but c'mon.
Nostr: Primarily pitched as a tool where "you can't be censored". Most people's minds instantly go to that ONE ANNOYING GUY who got kicked from their discord server for posting racist memes. "Un-cancelability" is of interest only to the minority of the population. You know what is popular? Better privacy. Being able to choose how your feed is sorted. Not having ads. Being free. Not having divisive bullshit shoved into your feeds. Being decentralized/not feeding Meta et al.
Bitcoin for merchants: ZERO PERCENT FEE. WE SHOULD BE YELLING THIS FROM THE ROOFTOPS, instead, most promotional things I see about Bitcoin are about: supply, inflation resistance, fast transaction times, etc.
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If you want private prompting, run the AI locally. Everything else is just thoughts and prayers.
My nostr dudes, what would you say is the closest male equivalent to the Barbie movie? Something that explains a unspoken but nearly universal experience among your gender? #asknostr
This was a few weeks ago, so perhaps it is fixed now. I love that shopstr exists and I'm excited to be a frequent participant there once it's stabilizes a bit.
I just tried to load it (Firefox, Linux) and got
Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).
Deleting all private data in the browser solved this, until I went to orders and now I get it again. Here's some stuff from console, hope it's helpful. After a few refreshes this error disappeared.
NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED: Component returned failure code: 0x80004001 (NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED) [nsIAppStartup.secondsSinceLastOSRestart]
Experiment add-an-image-to-pdf-with-alt-text-rollout has unknown featureId: addAnImageInPDF
Would say the same of shopstr tbh. I've placed an order through there but DMs don't seem to work. And I have to reload by browser cache (delete all cookies stored data and re sign in) to make new stuff show up (listings, DMs, whatever). It seems really rough around the edges. I eventually got my order but if I wasn't a level 10 linux tryhard I don't think I would have.
If you just use it (or something like nostr:npub1h2qfjpnxau9k7ja9qkf50043xfpfy8j5v60xsqryef64y44puwnq28w8ch ) to batch together a few orders before sending it to an on-chain or lightning wallet, it seems reasonable. Lightning really sucks at the "receiving $5 at a time over your current inbound liquidity limit" problem. Cashu will fix this.
The "inbound liquidity issue" needs to be solved imo before we see more of this. Luckily cashu seems to have this on lock
Would be helpful if you posted more specifics about how it didn't work, error messages, etc. Pis can run a full node but not all Pis can. Any laptop or desktop made in the last 15 years can provided it's got enough storage.
fair enough. I've just seen plenty of fully-functional P2P protocols over the years and don't think centralizing around relays is necessary or good. I love a lot about nostr, but not that part.
bitaxe. None of them will be profitable unless you have free electricity. I crunch BOINC (help cure cancer) for heating in the winter.
well then, guess we don't need relays to store them, only to keep track of their existence. And storage/delivery can be done by nostr relays, fully P2P, via DHT, IPFS, or any other hash-based storage table.
Sometimes my client has to go "find" a note from a random relay, often because my relay got the "re-tweet"/reply but not the original. There's no reason a relay should be needed for this operation, a DHT like a magnet link or IPFS would work fine. I assume event IDs aren't hashes, but given that they are signed, you have a similar way to verify authenticity of the note.
Would be helpful to post what error message you're getting or more information so somebody can help diagnose it
What is the closest to "negative zap" or "downvote" in nostr? Are there any clients, for example, that hide content once it gets enough "thumbs down" reacts or similar from your WoT? These spammers are getting out of hand #asknostr
look up #vibecoding that will get you pointed in the right direction
Same here. Hadn't heard of Lyn until I saw Lyn's posts on nostr.
They've been trying for years and all they have so far is "increase speed via centralization. Bitcoin solved that scalability issue w lightning, no additional centralization required.
What about other improvements? Bitcoin can take that technology and absorb it. Then people will have the question: do I use "new chain" which is less secure and widely adopted because it has feature x? Or do I use Bitcoin, the most securely and widely adopted option, that also has option x? Everyone will choose Bitcoin.
Doesn't matter, yes.
My understanding is that a cashu mint can rug a user much like any other custodial wallet. Is there a way to somehow "join" cashu mints so that not one but two cashu mints must collaborate to rug you? Kind of like a multi-sig?
#asknostr #ecash #cashu
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