every time I open X they shove the most stupid US culture war into my face. feels like that has become the main purpose of the app. every post in "for you" is some form of degenerate left vs. right propaganda and the comments are both sides dunking on each other in the meanest possible way. erosion of civilization.

this is not how the world works but an ever growing number of people experience reality exclusively through social media. when you feel upset consuming media, question the source of your anger. any information you absorb on X is filtered for maximum engagement. any emotional response you have is pre-programmed. you're not making your own decisions. you're a bot.

the Internet is designed to trigger you. In this game of humans vs machines, you lose if you get triggered.

Let's get a selfhosting thread going to inspire more people to selfhost services.

What are you selfhosting? #selfhosting #asknostr

#asknostr

Is there a good visualisation of all active Nostr relays and how much notes they accepted?

bro

Is your rating based on routing volume and channel utilization or on some other type of reliability metric? If the latter please let me know!

The last 24 hours of #LNBiG #Stats:

Amount transactions: 31291

The sum of transfered BTC: 16.04263519

Percentile 0%: 1 sats

Percentile 25%: 56 sats

Percentile 50%: 848 sats

Percentile 75%: 12320 sats

Percentile 95%: 173687 sats

Last 24 hours fee earning: 9582 sat (0.00009582 BTC)

#LightningNetwork

Hello everyone! I decided to try out a new optimization algorithm that came to my mind recently. It works as follows: channels that haven't been used to send payments in the last 14 days are considered suboptimal for maintaining liquidity, and I close such channels.

Also, to avoid closing channels that were opened less than 30 days ago, because I take on the commitment to keep a channel open for at least 30 days, I exclude those channels from this closing condition.

Previously, I thought a channel was well utilized when the amount sent and received exceeded the channel's capacity, meaning that payments at least once fully utilized the entire channel. But now I realized that's not entirely correct, because there could be channels that were used well and actively several months ago, but for example, no payments have been made in the last two weeks. Does it make sense to keep such channels? I think not.

Today's closing algorithm, it seems to me, won't lead to a decrease in the number of passing payments because it will close channels that haven't used a single payment through the #LNBiG network in the last two weeks.

What's most interesting is that there are actually a lot of such channels. It's approximately one sixth of the total capacity I'm using on my side in open channels at the moment.

Yes, and I almost forgot, I decided to execute the channel closures right now because the Bitcoin transaction fee is currently at its minimal level, and channels can be closed with a fee of 1 vbyte/sat

#LightningNetwork #Lightning #LN

I have a feeling that the node "c=" is experiencing some issues. The thing is, I've noticed that its capacity has decreased over the past few days. You can verify this yourself using the viewer at amboss.space. Another indirect sign of problems is that when I tried to cooperatively close channels with it a few minutes ago—channels that haven't been used for payments in 14 days—several channels were unable to be closed cooperatively, even though the node is online. This usually happens when a node has lost data about the channels. The node itself is online, but when a remote peer connects to it and requests, for example, to cooperatively close a channel that was with it, the node doesn't respond because it no longer has data about the channel. With this node, I have the feeling that this exact problem is occurring. It would be interesting to know from the owners of this node whether they are indeed experiencing any problems currently, whether they've had a failure or not. I think they have. #LightningNetwork

So many notes about bluesky, and many points missed.

- topical reasons: 99% of notes are about nostr or bitcoin, not only are these uninteresting to Normies many are repulsed by these topics.

- onboarding: bluesky protocol was designed to accomplish a specific goal, a goal that decentralization takes a back seat to. This means they can more quickly achieve UX that closely aligns with what people EXPECT.

- philosophy: the majority of people "fleeing" to blueksy are statists. That other 1% of content on nostr is overtly anti-statism. Not only would an influx of statists be catastrophic to our culture, you are batshit crazy if you think you can impose a dumptruck of philosophical pivots on tens of millions of people before they shift the direction of the protocol to one that resembles statism.

nostr's strength is not building another twitter. nostr's strength is that it is a protocol that enables possibilities that facilitate the invention of new experiences that nobody has yet conceived, possibilities that none of us EXPECT. These possibilities cannot be atomized and codified into a coherent roadmap created by any central committee. Nostr is a place of possibilities.

Being capable of facilitating what none of us expect is nostr's strength. It can't be forced. It can't rushed. The time will come. excercise patience and embrace the unknown.

Me and felix weis still holding down the top 2 oldest nodes still running on the lightning network 😎

Doesn't seem correct the value. To download even 3 PB from a beefy server you'd need a powerful web uplink and that would be running 24/7 at max load.

in the past 330 days, the damus relay has transferred 104 TB of notes