Went to the brewing shop to return my wine bottle corker.
Talked to the owner and discovered that because this brewing shop also sold #mushroom spores, one day, randomly, Mastercard, closed their account for the entire business. Luckily they had a backup option, which I won’t mention…..
This is why we #bitcoin so we can provide value to the people around us, without fear that we will get rugged by the banks just for doing legitimate, consensual, commerce.
Petite Syrah wine bottles today!
Couple months ago I bought the handheld corker because I thought I’d save some money but it was dogshit! My back was in pain and the cork job was terrible. Went out and rented a floor corker and in half the time and effort I got all 24 bottles corked!
Drank a couple mason jars of the wine with family today and it turned out decent enough for first wine! 👌🏽 
It is in the “chantools” repo by guggero
I want to finally announce my new lightning node, and the beginning of the pubkey proof-of-work standard.
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I have claimed the top spot for the node with the smallest pubkey from pay.lnrouter.app.
(except for this Zero node which has an impossibly impressive pubkey.)
https://amboss.space/node/0200000000727d3b67513c916f16975e3bf8f3304cf3fcf0ed855e2ae41888f461
Maybe lnesim. Worked well for me in El Salvador
Immersion mining with canola oil to concentrate maple sap more quickly
https://v.nostr.build/n997.mp4
I'm using a single S9 hash board immersed in canola oil to heat maple sap to increase the effectiveness of the reverse osmosis sap concentration system.
The weather conditions this season have caused the maple sap to be cold and stay cold which drastically slows down the ability of the RO system to filter water out of it. I ran into a bottle neck where there is more sap than I can keep up with concentrating so I needed to come up with something quickly!
Ideally if the temperature of the sap is 77°f the filter will operate most effectively without damaging the RO membrane. Of course, my mind immediately turned to Bitcoin mining for the heating solution. What I came up with was an immersion system using the homebrew equipment I already had to heat the sap just before it entered the RO. This would allow the majority of the sap to stay cool keeping it from spoiling and still remove the most water possible.
The only thing I didn't have for the immersion system was the dielectric fluid. I had no idea where to find the proper fluid nor did it make sense to pay the high cost for it. The application for this system is very specific and I will only need it until April. I had been joking about using canola oil as dielectric fluid for almost a year but for this situation it seemed like the perfect fit. Canola oil is 70% cheaper than bitcool before shipping and was immediately available!
Amazingly, I put everything together and it worked very well without major adjustments. I tip-toed the voltage and frequency of the single S9 hashboard up slowly to find the right balance in temperatures between the two fluid loops. Ultimately, I ended up with an overclocked board drawing over 600w! By the time I got the system setup and dialed in I was already half way through concentrating this collection of sap. The next collection will offer more concrete data on what this system is capable of. For now, even with the worst S9 board I have, I'm getting a 15% rebate on the total power usage of the whole process and it's definitely concentrating sap more quickly. All for ~$10 of canola oil... 👀
#homesteading #permaculture #permies #plebminer #meshtadel #grownostr #immersionmining #seedoil #homemining #homeminer #bitcoin #bitcoinmining #maplesyrup #maplesugaring #reverseosmosis
Squad goals. A perfect use for Canola oil.
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It would be nice if it indicated public or private or something
Definitely wanted to make some DMT for a long time 🤪 I’ve been reading teks about it since I was like 16.
Definitely takes a bit to get started with business but I also don’t wanna be cash flow negative for too long.
Do you know if the color codes in the relay selection screen mean anything?
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Sometimes I wish I had a more normal business/product. I could still accept Bitcoin, but I could accept fiat, and dump ads on instagram and facebook, and not feel like I am a criminal.
My CashApp and Credit Card payments has been shut down by CashApp!
It lasted a whole 24 hours.
I always wanted to run a bitcoin only business, but I wasn't really getting hardly sales, so I tried to cheat and use the legacy rails.
Glad #bitcoin can't shut me down!
Alright this is what I will do! I've been wanting to self-host more of my Nostr stack.
New blog post on the site up!
Come learn about different ways that mushroom cultures are packaged by vendors and why you might choose each method.
https://lightningspore.com/index.php/2024/02/21/mushroom-culture-packaging-options/
I think I fixed my zaps.
I was attempting to test it by zapping myself from a secondary account. Had to add multiple accounts to my Alby extension.
In the process somehow I cloned my entire profile to my secondary account. 😵💫
Thoughts:
1. Super weird that primal web app doesnt have a log out button. In order to switch account you just have to refresh the page after updating your settings in Alby.
2. I now understand how people with Metamask get hacked all the time. Alby asks me to approve stuff constantly, and I don't always know what I am approving or why.
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I like that it is one of the mini form factor NVMe drives. So cute!
I spent the evening playing with my MilkV Duo board and buildroot. Making progress but a little slow. mind if I DM you some device tree questions tomorrow?
Just got CashApp Pay (CashApp + Credit Cards) working on my site!
As much as the name implies, I am really focused on the Bitcoin payment experience, but unfortunately trying to build a sustainable business by living in a niche hobby within a niche hobby (bitcoiners who are interested in mushroom cultivation) is not going to pay the bills.
Now I can actually do some more traditional marketing to normies, and incept #bitcoin into their consciousness by offering discounts for #payinginbitcoin.
