Tried to zap, but his info disappeared in his profile halfway through. Also easier if he says Hi so we zap the note. Not all of us are fruit phones.
Hershey highway...
If glass, then car rescue tools might also work. And come in stylish colors to match your orb mood.
(not this one, but I've seen similar with ceramic coated hammer tips - seriously, I would buy a hammer-style one of these anyway, instead of the piston style. But this one has colors!)
My thoughts after running for a while, might not have been a full year, but at least 6 months, were that I was not seeing enough routing fees to make it worth risking my bitcoin, and that in order to be competitive, even within the hobby nodes in Pleb-whatever, I would need to put significantly more bitcoin at risk than I wanted to, especially on raspi hardware which is basically a hobby science kit.
If I were a multi-coiner, maybe having a full coin or more in Lightning would be fine, but that wasn't my reality - but that's what I'm competing with for routing.
I did come up with a two-node lightning design that should effectively de-KYC my bitcoin, and spinning up two nodes to make it work is as simple as harvesting some old laptops from my junk bin, or even better, someone else's junk bin.
I also almost lost a full channel in a database recovery nightmare that happened around a system upgrade, and that was the final straw. Took weeks to recover it, with lots of help from the guy that built the recovery tools, and even then it seemed more luck than anything else that saved me. This wasn't a test channel, it was millions of sats.
And then there are the opsec risks... Tor by itself is an opsec risk...
Yeah - anyway, it has to stay simple, and the custodial models are just fine (in my opinion) for amounts of sats you would be comfortable losing. If you're not comfortable losing it, it should probably be on chain in at least a hot wallet, no need for lighting channels, liquidity issues, lightning nodes, etc.
But yes, every household should eventually run a BITCOIN node. It is just as easy as running an Alexa or a Nest or whatever, and it doesn't have to be a huge security leak! If the reality of running a lightning node becomes as risk-free and easy as running a Bitcoin node, then fine - but that isn't true today, and probably won't be true for another halving cycle if ever. I would actually rather run a Nostr relay or Simplex smp server than run lightning channels.
This isn't a popular take. Thank goodness I'm not all that popular!
And a cold, climate controlled heart it might be, if you've been the recipient of roya's hvac services! I bet you'd never regret a conversation about ducting. It makes me so happy that you and my wife are both in the hvac industry, and thanks to companies such as yours, my top-story office is pleasant year-round.
I know I lost quite a few sats (far more than I keep in my Alby wallet) trying to set up and use my lightning node, pay fees for channels, additional liquidity, etc. Then if I factor in the sats I lost on dumb user error as well - I could zap for the rest of the year on that.
I no longer have any open lightning channels on my node, by design.
And I'm relatively technical, had no problem at all building a raspi or working in a linux CLI. I can't imagine what it would be like for your barber.
I would start with The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine. After that, have fun!
GN Stella 🌜
Sparrow as an active wallet or wallet manager. Seed plates (the ones from ColdCard are fine) for true cold storage, using a combination/variety of signing devices, wiped after use.
gm #nostr.
up early, making the best of it.
Goodnight #nostr.
May need to decrease my scroll time a bit.
Love you, nostrich fam!
Here's my #coffeechain submission for today.
Probably my 5th or 6th one of these, and I got motivated before taking the picture and drank some of it.
Victor Allen Italian Roast k-cup (cheapest I can reliably find, which is about 31c per cup). It is cheaper at Big Lots than Amazon.
Tap water from my en-suite bathroom sink.
Farberware cheap knock-off k-cup brewer.
Cup is a fall collection reusable Starbucks plastic cup.
Utility. Commodity. Convenience. Savage.
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I would like to have about 25 million more sats. I could pretty easily raise this through debt, but I don't want to. So I'll be thinking of ideas to somehow provide 25 million sats worth of value in some way. I would actually like to know how I can provide 1 million sats worth of value, or even 500k sats worth of value, in a way that is repeatable.
This is not stay humble stack sats, collect your pocket change, save around the edges, etc. This is real value that I want to provide, in such a way that I don't disrupt my fiat mining too much, or sacrifice family time. It really comes down to better focused use of time, I think - but let's say I could find an extra hour in each day. I think I can do that. How would I focus that time to actually provide value?
I believe strongly in small intentional actions, repeated.
In other news...
Over 1 million sats acquired today, so I expect a sharp decrease in exchange rates shortly. You'll thank me later!
#spergy - with colors.
Same thing we do every day, Pinky. Take over the world.
Just some objective proof that the world appreciates a spergy, snooty bitch. And I'm sure we haven't seen anything yet!
For those who don't remember, it might be worth it to read a little about the history of x.com, a failed e-bank that later got wrapped up in PayPal and E-Bay. Understanding this history should enlighten you quite a bit regarding the current direction of X app.
x.com was ahead of its time, along with wingspanbank and a few others. now we have banks like Ally, which is the same thing a couple decades later.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/economics/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/xcom
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/10/15949862/elon-musk-x-com-paypal-tesla-spacex-domain-name
(Try and find links to publications that haven't been too heavily scrubbed by EM and his handlers at WEF)