What is wss:// ?

What does it stand for and what is the protocol defined as?

Yes, next step is most definitely to move to at least an SSD. Even lightning transactions move at a snails pace over it. 😂

I’d love to upgrade my main server machine to a 2-4TB NVME (the current 1TB is too small with all the stuff I have on it) and host the data folders there over a samba share and 10 gig networking to the node software server. 48 gig of memory on the host machine for the MyNode install if I move it over.

It would be a nice upgrade over the 10 gig of RAM it has allocated now. I didn’t realize it would be so IO-intense! It’s been quite a long time since I last ran a node. Blockchain was probably in the 200-300 GB range, then. Lightning was just invented a few months before that. Lightning is actually what made me run a node last time. I wanted to learn what these “bar tabs” were that they were building on top of the base layer. 😂

Running a Bitcoin Node, LND, LNDHub, Mempool, and an electrum server from a HDD is the stupidest shit I’ve ever tried. 🙄 🤦‍♂️

How are we at 8 sats/byte? We keep this up, we won’t need layer 2. 😂

All jokes aside, probably just a lull in network activity because it’s the weekend. 🤷‍♂️

I know I’m not a big zapper (I usually only zap a sat, unless I find something particularly valuable to my life), but I zap everything I would normally like on other social media platforms.

I would zap more, but when you are a father of 4, in a household of 6, with the income we have, we are lucky that we have Bitcoin as a possible (if it goes up 10-20x in the next 5-10 years) “last Hail Mary” because we are screwed, if not. Since COVID, things have been really hard.

Sad to be in this situation considering I was CPU mining Bitcoin in 2010-2011. Of course, I did this instead of SETI@HOME and then my grandpas laptop got lost over the years. Had to have at least 500 Bitcoin in that drive’s wallet.dat. I try to just not think about it. Crazy how much different my life would be with that 500BTC in a wallet still. Of course I would have sold some over the years and lost them to Satoshi Dice (damn you, Erik, you got me way back then!! Didn’t know what I had) but maybe I’d still have 5-10 left over after all of the risky behavior in the beginning.

Anyway, I was digressing; I loved the idea of the tipping bots on Twitter over the past decade, but I’m really loving Nostr and the community feeling like home. It’s so cool to know almost everyone here knows at least a bit about crypto and privacy and everybody is just into all the things I am into as well. Glad we have Nostr as a last bastion of hope in an endless ocean of centralized billion-dollar data stores.

I been taking advantage of it to open a few lightning channels. Consumed maybe 10 TXs the past few days. Nice to get in for 10-15 sats/byte on all of them. Used mempool.space, connected to my node to watch the fees on the prior 3-4 blocks and made sure I was one sat higher than the fees being paid on them. Worked like a charm. Had one transaction get in a block within 2 minutes, for under $2 in fees, actually!

Bitcoin is the ultimate ego test.

You will get exactly as much Bitcoin as you deserve until you can get out of your ego's way of thinking and doing things. :)

Anybody else having a hard time getting away from #bitcoin these days? It's like all I want to do. I am now on rabbit with 8 tabs of streams running... I watch Simply Bitcoin every single damn day. I'm on reddit at least once a day looking at r/bitcoin. I'm playing with my btc/lnd node all the time if I'm not doing one of the other things. IT'S. ALL. I. DO. I might need professional help. #ZapsForTherapy lololol

What do you find motivates you the most?

BTC Core synced? ✔️

LND synced? ✔️

BTC Node Liquidity? ✔️

Channels opened? ✔️

LNBits set up? ✔️

LNDhub extension added? ✔️

Verified Bluewallet/Zeus work with LNBits? ✔️

Happy AF I'm fully integrated with the Bitcoin blockchain? ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️

Appreciate anybody running a lightning node that opens up a channel to help grow the number of connections to the Lightning Network!

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Come on block 835885! I need that last confirmation! 🤩

This is me, sitting on my throne in my citadel after weathering all of the Bitcoin bear markets for the next 50 years.

Right, it wouldn’t work to the same people I had zapped before. 🤷‍♂️

I’m just glad it’s working now! 😃

It hasn’t worked for days. Oddly enough, I sent a zap to nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev manually from the wallet, it sent… then I tried zapping posts, and as you can see, it’s working. Guess whatever has been broken for me for days now, got fixed with the wallet changes they made over #zapathon. Thanks guys, for breaking it so that my long-running problem got fixed as well. 😂 ❤️

Primal wallet doesn’t zap.

Damus doesn’t post my notes.

I’m about fed up with my Nostr experience the first week or so. 😔

I want to love Nostr!!!!!!! 💔

What does this mean?? I can’t zap anyone! :(

Block 835835! :)

In a room, dim and tight, dwelled a man with a digital light,

A single bitcoin, his treasure, his fight,

He watched the world, with keen delight,

As banks and bonds took their flight.

"Ah," he chuckled, with a spark in his eye,

"As empires crumble, and the old riches die,

My coin, my dear, stays aloft in the sky,

A digital phoenix, soaring high."

Once laughed at, scorned, a fool among men,

For shunning the gold, the stocks, the yen,

But he, in his corner, knew even then,

That the tides would turn—just didn't know when.

The banker elite, in their suits and their ties,

Once ruled the world, under moneyed skies,

But he, with his coin, saw through their lies,

A new order, he sensed, would rise.

He hoarded his bitcoin, not for greed or for show,

But for the promise of a world, free to grow,

Beyond the chains of gold, the financial woe,

A world where wealth wasn't the highest plateau.

And now, as chaos unfurled, and markets did quake,

The man with his bitcoin had reason to make,

A laugh that was hearty, genuine, no fake,

For he rode the wave, others struggled to take.

So here's to the man, with his digital shard,

Who saw beyond the present, gazed forward, hard,

In a world obsessed with the immediate reward,

He found his strength, his future, unmarred.

Let his laughter echo, through halls of power,

A testament to the changing hour,

Where not gold, nor silver, but information tower,

And a single bitcoin, can unleash a new power.

Just realized Damus hasn’t been posting my notes for days nor saving them to a drafts folder or anything. Going to have to try to log out and log in again.