I haven’t verified why fees are high but on Stephan livers podcast 565 in MEVil discussion the guest was predicting that fees would go up because of some rate stats shitcoinery and that it’s a bad incentive that centralizes mining

While the dogs of war have yet again been let loose by state actors fuelled by easy money, others around the world — literally all around the world — are celebrating a different vision; one of hope, peace and putting power back in the hands of people. The #BitcoinHalving is an important event because of what it means for the onward march of #Bitcoin and #BTC as money with “rules, not rulers”…but it’s also an important moment and opportunity for us to come together around the world, as a species, under the banner of hope and abundance. Let’s dig in and make a better tomorrow a reality. #BitcoinNotWar

Looks like I was able to get this working again, sort of. It says I'm connected to 9-11 relays, but only shows that I have 100 followers (and even Jack only about 40, so it has to be a data gap), and very few notes on timelines (with obvious gaps even for hugely active accounts). Relay.damus.io never seems to pass me any data (0kb both up and down) to me, which j assume is due to my connection coming via Tor, but honestly I don't know. I'm connecting using Amethyst, if anybody sees this and has any ideas—what's the best, biggest relay for Tor users right now?

Secondly, and most importantly for anyone who sees this note, please make some noise to try and stop the passage of RISAA (the FISA 702 reauthorization) that's about to hit law as soon as this Friday. Please read about it and push it out on all of your socials, if you agree it's a problem. It's going to be hard to stop this thing, even with all hands.

Whoever sees this, thank you for hearing me.

Good fake

I officially have skin in the game for a UFC fighter for the first time. 🤣🔥 nostr:note1a4xeh8pjfm274gf8wxuvjvltu0luukzd4rm7qqyjhekjt97d2x5snhama0

Ubiquiti is the worst nightmare ever dreamed.

Great! Now i know what i‘m going to read next! Thanks random UFC motherfucker!

Having a lazy day and going to listen to Mozart's Requiem tonight 😍

Happy weekend peeps 💜🫂

nostr is still mainly used alongside twitter. in the best rare case, as a replacement. and only because people are running away from something about twitter they don't like.

there is nothing that people want to run to nostr for yet. zaps were promising, but bitcoin is still a hurdle (one that primal is doing the best at overcoming), and it's doubtful lightning could scale to a massive adoption moment.

nostr needs a feature or experience that's unique and sets it apart. i *think* that is the ecosystem of microapps over the long term...but it's definitely not in the short term. and that might be ok.

for twitter the initial draw was the simplicity and weirdness of 140 characters (we started with zero network effect, facebook had it all...that's built over time). later it became the conversation which lead to the "public square" (owned by a private corporation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). and then as it grew, it had a single point of control/failure people could attack.

nostr doesn't have to worry about that last bit. it's an incredible feature. but not one the average person cares about (no matter how much they yell "FREE SPEECH!"...if people actually cared about free speech, bitcoin and nostr would be all they used...they don't).

all this to say, we're not doomed. but what we think is the killer feature isn't right now. who's going to discover the one that is?

Every time I restart my lightning node it does a full rescan?!

I am 100% sure I removed the reindex from my lnd.conf

It does after a restart a full resync with the blockchain:

Started rescan from block 0000000000000000000bff39e6f912e50d933ab77e71e02cfcd9a5131496a1ad (height 666362) for 2500 addresses

This process takes at least 24 hours and the node is offline for all my connected channels.

Again I am 100% sure I removed the reindex from the lnd.conf!

Anyone has ever this problem?

Lmao this is not a joke, this is a real fiat economist research paper