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anyone else been seeing this from nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg when they try to follow someone?

#asknostr

We're live for take 2 of our stacker news AMA! https://stacker.news/items/681168

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Beef up your online bitcoin security by using a private home network 🥷

Self custody is important, now ensure you can always interact & transact without censorship ⚡️

Below is the hardware and software I chose for my simple private home #bitcoin network 🧶

1) APC 1500

Surge protection and battery backup for loss of power without downtime to the network & allowing for proper shutdown of hardware/software.

Plug all your hardware into this.

Screw your internet cable into the back and run an internet cable out.

2) Arris Surfboard SVB3202

This is just a modem, no wifi, no bullshit. Just a nice, but really stupid modem that is just a modem.

Stop using your ISP gateway.

Screw the internet cable from APC into this modem and plug a WAN ethernet line out.

3) Protectli Vault fw4b

This is a four port firewall router plus an auxiliary wifi interface.

This device runs FOSS OPNsense firewall software to protect your home network.

You can decide what comes in and out, separate devices on the network and so much more with this firewall.

Free Open Source Software runs on this dedicated micro computer to control your internet flow.

This is bad ass hardware and Protectli has been rock solid with customer support.

Plug your WAN ethernet from the modem into the WAN port of the vault and plug a LAN ethernet line out.

4) GliNet Flint 1800 WiFi router

This sleek piece of hardware is the ultimate wifi router!

Take complete control of your home internet all from a very nice web based GUI.

This wifi router has four ports and four separate wifi networks each with own password protection.

Easy to add VPN with wiregaurd on the router and run tor on router. Covers every device connected.

Too many features to list including Adguard & DNS.

Plug the LAN ethernet from firewall vault into the LAN port on this wifi router.

5) Start9 DIY home server

I took a used Dell Optiplex 9020 with 8G and put in a 1T SSD in it.

Flashed it with StartOS and added Bitcoin Core.

Sovereignty in bitcoin is to have your own keys and your own copy of the blockchain and verify your uxto sets against your copy that is in consensus.

Tor web GUI allows you full configurations of what services you wish to add such as LND and mempool.

Pair with your lightning wallet and Sparrow Wallet on laptop.

Plug an ethernet line from your server / nodes into an ethernet port on the GliNET WiFi router.

6) Classic X Thinkpad

This is a Bitcoin only dedicated laptop.

No bullshit, only necessary bitcoin things on this device. I got mine from MiniFree.

Coreboot/ Intel ME disabled

Debian

Sparrow Wallet

Tor

Terminal

OPNsense GUI

GLiNET GUI

Start9 GUI

This is the work station you interact with the Bitcoin network on...a clean linux laptop, behind a fire wall, thru a VPN and over TOR on private network isolated network!

All on hardware you own, running FOSS, in your own home.

7) De googled Pixel

Purchase unlocked with cash so as to not have identity tied to an ime number.

Run Graphene, wifi only, airplane mode

This is a secure private mobile device simply for running your hot/ lightning wallet, #nostr and connecting back to Start9 server away from home.

Can add Silent link service if needed.

Now is the time to take back control of your home network. Build a private home network that is representative of the value of what you hold.

Ensure you can always transact without censorship!

Excellent suggestions!

Primal on the web. Main gripe: When I create a post or reply, it doesn't show up on the feed right away. At first I thought it was just lost. Re-typed it only to find later that I had posted the same thing twice.

Tomorrow morning I'll be running laps around Trout Lake in Vancouver in support of the Running Bitcoin charity event!

Please help us reach our goal of $1000 by supporting our team here:

https://secure.alsagoldenwest.org/site/TR/Endurance/General?team_id=5650&pg=team&fr_id=1240

Any support is appreciated for this good cause.

#runningbitcoinchallenge #nevergiveup

I made a tool to create and spend from old school single address paper wallets with bip38 encryption:

https://paper-flame.vercel.app/

Refactored the bip38 library in the process https://github.com/bitcoinjs/bip38/pull/91

https://github.com/asoltys/paper

Yeah we've been trying to make it as easy as possible to get started with Lightning payments. There are about 300 merchants using the app worldwide, including about 30 in Vancouver.

nostr:npub168dqt5c8ue3uj8ynlk0lhwalnp7uy39lvzf9tm09wy3htxwmw7qq5nerj4 in Brazil has onboarded hundreds of them!

About a dozen are using the receipt printers for notification in Vancouver. I'm hoping to get more printers distributed out since I think it provides the best experience for both users and customers.

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I went to a local burrito shop to donate to his pay it forward food wall. He had a high tech looking square terminal.

I asked the owner if he ever thought about accepting Bitcoin for the pay it forward meals.

Then we had a 20 min convo about how he wants to learn more about Bitcoin, he was even aware of nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m leaving Twitter to focus more on Bitcoin.

He said he almost bought at $60k, but he didn't.

He even said it's a shame everyone relates ape jpegs and ftx to Bitcoin, he didn't think the other coins were interesting, Bitcoin seemed like the only one to have a real shot at competing with the banks.

What merchant focused resources can I send this man to help him learn why Bitcoin, and how to easily accept sats for burritos.

He can register an account at coinos.io in a couple of seconds and join hundreds of other merchants using it to take retail lightning payments for free.

We'll list him on the map on our homepage and btcmap.org and start promoting him to the community in an effort to send some new business his way.

From his settings page he can generate a QR code linking to his coinos profile page which can be placed up at the cash register to direct customers there. See https://coinos.io/shawarmacorner as an example.

That way customers can generate an invoice, add a tip and pay all from their phone without him and his staff having to do anything.

We tell all our merchants to enter their bitcoin sales as "cash" transactions in whatever existing PoS and accounting software they already have in place. We track the CAD value of all transactions at time of sale and provide a CAD total of all payments for the day/week/month etc.

If he has a tablet or phone to check for payment confirmation, that's great, he can install the app on the homescreen as a PWA. Otherwise we'd be happy to ship out one of the custom thermal receipt printers we've been working on which provides a very easy paper receipt confirmation. See this video for more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiGoOJZUrP8