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Its been a month since exploring btc, lightning and nostr - goes without saying I am blown away ..

Here are the things that I have done so far .. need pointers for course correction ..if any

- Installed #Umbrel on Ubuntu 20 - works like a charm

- Installed #LND and Bitcoin node - Pruned it to 150 gigs cuz I have only 250 gigs of total storage on my

#Mac running #Ubuntu

- Hard wired the internet to save from my iffy wifi. #BTCnode synced with a day. It is quite a thing to do on Macbook Pro cuz they don't have RJ45 port :-)

- Installed #thunderLightning and connected to

#amboss for buying some liquidity. It was probably the most difficult piece to get my head around that

#lightning is actually a liquidity network - Still many doubts

- Installed #Alby firefox extension. Transferred some sats from my #cashApp to limit my funds for the exploration to 500000 sats. Used Alby to send money to LND. Tried out #walletOFSatoshi on #Android. Both of them are production grade pieces of software.

- #Nostr account on snort.social as I am mostly on laptop. Tried out #Iris and #freeFrom on Android. All the Nostr clients are bit slow but seems like it is only a matter of time. Zapped a bunch to my own posts to check out the payment rails - 100 % - zero failure.

- Tried out #habala.news - what a beauty for long text. Posted a long post almost 6K words. Simple cut paste from a #markdown was awesome.

- Installed #lightningTerminal .. breaking my head on the #loop. To my credit , I figured out #LnC but it somehow didn't work with #snort. May be I am missing the purpose. Anyways , I have Alby lnurl into Snort. I guess I was wondering if I could connect my LND node to snort.

The difficult part

- The jargon takes a while

- lightning is all about liquidity and channels

The fun part

- with just one nostr ID I could go through snort, freefrom, iris, habala, nostrChat

- nostrapps.com -- many thanks to whoever built it . Its a must for the beginners.

- Umbrel makes it as easy as Android to install and manage server grade apps .. just wow

there'll be more to come as in life 😬

Did reply guy go away or was that single relay I disconnected from the remedy

#863272 THE 58K GANG IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND FUCK OFF CUNTS THIS BULLS COUNTRY

hot take

if you were free your whole life you wouldn’t know it

Some thoughts on KYC vs NON KYC

1. I think that if we have to rely on NON KYC bitcoin, bitcoin has failed

If people have to worry about spending their bitcoin, we will never get to a bitcoin standard

2. KYC bitcoin will be fine (and necessary) in the future

Banks will want to hold your bitcoin

And you don't want to pay tax for living off of your bitcoin stack

So instead of spending, use it as collateral

*which will require KYC bitcoin

3. There are plenty of ways to earn NON KYC bitcoin

ZBD

Fountain

Nostr

These small amounts will add up if you're earning them consistently. This will be more than enough NON KYC in a decade

4. This 👆 combined with getting some P2P (meetups, bitcoin communities, etc) and P2P exchanges (HODL HODL, Bisq, Peach)

8. The more organized you are with wallets the better. This will ensure you are not mixing KYC and NON KYC

Use tools like Aqua to combine your NON KYC sats and swap into UTXOs in cold storage

My prediction: it will become legal tender (CURRENCY) in most countries

Moral of the story: don't stress about it

One of Bitcoin’s many impressive properties is its divisibility.

1 Dollar (USD) can be divided into 100 cents (pennies).

1 Bitcoin (BTC) can be divided into 100,000,000 satoshis (sats).

There’s a sucker born every minute.