love noble house, went a bit out of order to read that

#asknostr

So Frens and Plebs,

I've orange-pilled some friends and they are moving some significant savings to bitcoin. They also want to begin using bitcoin for daily spending, and would like to set up a lighting wallet. Here I am, supposedly the "expert" helping them, and I really don't have any good recommendations for them because I haven't used lightning very much at all...

I have used Wallet of Satoshi for a while for modest amounts of BTC, which was great; but that's no longer an option for them. I like Minibits, because it seems to work well for both Cashu and Lightning, but I don't know of a good way to fund the wallet with lightning SATs...

I am beginning to learn about setting up a lightning node, which I fully intend to do on my Start One server running Start9... however, I find the whole lightning setup thing rather intimidating...

Bottom Line Question:

Any suggestions for simply funding a Minibits wallet with a modest amount of bitcoin for a reasonable fee? Say, around 200k sats?

Thanks in advance for any "Quick and Dirty" suggestions, as I'm going to visit my friends in a couple of hours...

Using the always on feature instead of every 10 min check, I am seeing 40%

A few snaps from the talk I gave yesterday during this country’s tech week.

I got the whole room to download a LN wallet and encouraged the two brave volunteers (second pic) to work out how to zap each other.

It’s especially nice giving talks to a room full of people with (mostly) hair longer than mine!

Massive thanks to Peter K for giving me this opportunity 💜

Until battery issues are solved it would not receive wide adoption. I cannot convince anybody to use it just because of this. I feel battery issues would be priority number one for development. With signal I have instant messaging without battery drainage. Thank you

Dear #nostr.

I’m beginning to feel a bit excited by what’s happening here. It’s different to any socials I’ve been on.

To be clear, I think social

Media has completely fucked the world up the ass.

But this seems different. Positive. Optimistic.

What do I love?

#bitcoin

#yoga

#hiking

I think the combo of those 3 is potent. I feel like if we all did this we’d be ok.

Keep stacking take deep breaths, mediate, stretch and laugh.

Namaste Motherfuckers!

FOSS is very difficult when it comes to making ends meet. I've been a "user" of FOSS since the mid 90s, and used it exclusively in my professional life since the early 2000s — just to avoid myself and clients becoming prisoners of a particular platform. Until recently — and for ideological reasons, certainly not for financial ones, my only contributions were relatively meager donations to particular projects behind the tools I needed professionally.

But lately with OpenSats, HRF and others, empowered by appreciative folks who donate like heroes to make freedom possible, there is finally hope that FOSS might be something that can help pay the bills and not just be a "loss-leader" effort of passion for contributors.

Speaking for myself, I wish we could pile-on tremendous support (written, meme-etic, financial, screaming-from-the-rooftops, etc) behind contributors who apply for grants so that they can focus on a particular project. Whether developing specific new features, keeping "working" code working, or reviewing and curating others' contributions, it is required that developer minds are not wandering between the projects they love and how they'll keep a roof over their loved-ones' heads with food on the table.

Keith, if you think that my written support might help, I'd stop what I'm doing to express support for you to decision makers. If they're already reading this here, then I'll say that I know Keith as a key player whose focus on seedsigner results in real-world value that many (even ones we'll never know about) benefit from seasonally as they revisit their self-custody setups. His focus also results in magnifying the efforts of new contributors who may lack the scarce historic perspective that Keith, SeedSigner and Nick have gained over the lifetime of the project; I can say that from first-hand experience.

Thank you Keith for arriving here and doing what you've already done, for pressing to find a sustainable long-term financial reason to continue being here, and for staying here anyways even when it's difficult to find that reason.

And thank you to all of the other heroes keeping solutions for freedom moving forward. In my gut it feels inevitable, but in our lifetimes — sooner than later, is what keeps me going and checks the "purpose" box.

Lean on that needle! ...a little harder now ...I think it's budging... Onward!!!

This was a very good day on the bike 🤙🏻☀️

#Gravel #Nostrides

I think it’s exceedingly unlikely signal is compromised given the way they are open source with various ways of verifying builds.

Is it really custodial? Or is that an error msg?

I didn’t know you could side load! How do you do that?