Recognized and caught myself auto sabotaging 2 different times in less than 24 hrs.

It's a full time job, you can't let your guard down, kill the hero.. kill the ego.

Isaac Asimov Foundation series.

Observation: No-coiners aren’t having fun being poor. Rather, they simply cannot bear to admit they were wrong about #Bitcoin, and thus view that admission as worse than being poor, even if only subconsciously.

In time, most will overcome this.

Maybe but dollars have a 200 year head start... and you can express both with the $ symbol. why not express both with the ₿ symbol? the issue is the insane number of decimal places in bitcoin, so that is why i used the placement of the ₿ to denote unit.

My goal is to orange pill Alan Watts fans and Alan Watts pill #Bitcoin fans.

How am I doing?

- You are sending/receiving bitcoin, not “sats”

- The asset is bitcoin, the most well-know asset in the world, the symbol should be there

- Sats is very confusing if you’re new to bitcoin. Easy to confuse the asset and unit if you're new. Good to know you have bitcoin and learn more than think you have sats

- There is zero confusion even if you can’t keep pre/suffixes straight since there is a 100m difference in value (if there is then that’s a good problem to have)

- ₿ looks way better than “sats” and is already is a symbol that exists everywhere

Sats is one of the worst UX mistakes in bitcoin, so open to other ideas, just trying one out!

End of week’s burden,

freedom whispers through the air

Friday’s soft release.

Have a great weekend #nostr

Tell me the story of your bitcoin journey in 5 lines or less.

Best story wins 100k sats.

This quickly turned into a bait and switch, haha.

- self custody LN's easy bro.

- oh yea.

- 🤪

Canada has a similar issue: Those who settled in Canada were too afraid to fight the British, and thus remained loyal to the crown. As a result, Canada more readily bends to the globohomo communist agenda than America. nostr:note159ncyvw3ym4zggghd3nvlyyngkv9x5yxnp90u4dwqgwap230kqhst97dmx

Hahaha it gets involved quick, yes. Just open a channel to Kraken if you're in USA and your use cases are USA based to skip the "which channel?" part if you wish. Wallet of Satoshi channel might be more interconnected w/ European nodes and use cases, I guess. While it's true that opening one single channel to a big player is causing centralization in the LN system and it's not ideal use, and ideally you'd want to open many channels to less centralized nodes to use it closer to the initial spirit and ethos of Lightning Network philosophy, in reality it can get more frustrating when you open a single channel to a low key node/player in the network and get frustrated when you find yourself you're unable to route payments ¯\(ツ)/¯

Lightning is very fascinating in idea that it's completely removing centralized ledger and making it more decentralized in some ways. Having to rely on big nodes/players is a hurdle at this point I can only hope we'll overcome via protocol improvements/upgrades in the future.

If you're thinking about mobile/remote nodes I'd like to warn you that I haven't experienced necessary levels of stability w/ them. Once I got my Mutiny wallet LN channel had force closed, and twice I had my Zeus on mobile device node channels force closed during getting a payment. IDK about Mutiny a lot but Zeus mobile light LN node uses a thing called neutrino mode and I found that can leave you vulnerable to forced channel closures if/when there's bad wireless latency during receiving a payment. My best guess is that the mobile wireless latency rising from wifi connection and neutrino mode is causing channels to appear down momentarily or something, which's causing force closures when someone tries to initiate payment to you. I've found a wired connection and a 7/24 online full LN node (no neutrino mode, light wallet) on a raspberry pi to be much less annoying and much more stable in terms of maintaining stable LN channels w/o force closures. Personally I used BTCPay Server's LN node functionality. to have access to underlying OS while still having an easy to setup LN node. Also Zeus LSP (lightning service provider) has expensive channel opening fees vs what you can open a channel to a known big node yourself, and worse routing fees than you can find via opening a channel yourself. I opened a channel to Kraken's node and it's nearly free to send/receive for me now.

Well yea that's correct, you'd ideally need enough BTC as big as your channel size, and that's monetary wall/requirement. I already keep some BTC and I work in tandem w/ a CEX to open channels and move the lightning sats back to my CEX to retrieve the amount to HODL personally, and I understand that's not something everybody do/prefer. And I receive payment in lighting and sell things, not sure I'd go through all of it just as a hobby w/o that given the requirement of learning all that and channel opening fees (although they're much cheaper than I thought they'd be in right mempool environment).

You don't need to be a node aficionado w/ many channels. Just open one single big channel to a well connected node and you're good to go. Top up when your channel balance is low just like you need to make sure there's some money in your physical wallet.

Thinking about the metaphysical significance of $58K in #Bitcoin

Lightning is in a very sorry state. Alby is the only thing that works, but when even Alby doesn't work there is no alternative. LightningTipBot was the only thing until it shut down. Is there any other option? We have dozens of clients with zap support but users who can't access it without getting a PhD in Lightning.