It’s been an exceptionally busy time. I’ll admit I’m quite tired of it!

Landed in Chengdu Tianfu Airport. Hassled by police because they never saw a foreigner make it through the e-channel gate. Fun times.

Great day presenting decentralized identity using Polygon ID at the HSBC booth at the HK Fintech Week. Zero knowledge proofs can help both traditional finance and digital asset adoption in regulated institutions

Great to see the growing interest in digital assets in Hong Kong. Eager to see Bitcoin become an option for banks to provide #hkfintech2023

E-HKD on Bitcoin… using drivechain. Interesting.

Learning about Drivechain

Live relay from #nostrasiajp

Great to meet nostr:npub1ejxswthae3nkljavznmv66p9ahp4wmj4adux525htmsrff4qym9sz2t3tv at #nostrasiahk

Playing with Polygon ID to issue decentralized identity verified credential passports. You can use GROTH16 to calculate zero knowledge proofs, and see on chain that the issuance has not been revoked

I agree that wallet of Satoshi is the best user experience. I still use Zeus because it’s the best for self custody when you run your own node. If you go that route, I highly recommend using nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg. I installed it on an intel nuc10 i7. It runs like a dream!

Success from Zeus using my own btcpayserver node with lndhub

Figured it out! It was Cloudflare “Bot Fight Mode”. I tried using page rules to exclude this feature but failed. I found out you need to either disable the feature or use a WAF exclusion to bypass it for your nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg url. Success! I used lnurlpay.com to troubleshoot the issue, find the 403 error, and then use Cloudlfare logs to see the bot detection issue.

Anyone able to explain why nostr:npub1hcwcj72tlyk7thtyc8nq763vwrq5p2avnyeyrrlwxrzuvdl7j3usj4h9rq is failing to decode the invoice for my new nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg wallet ben@pay.benchodroff.com? It seems to work in every other wallet (Zeus, Blue). Appreciate any help!

Eager to see what professional guide you find.

My gist steps are DCA on River.com, use a Trezor with seed phrase securely stored in two offline locations, and set up auto withdrawals. Use Wallet of Satoshi for less than $300 of assets.

I, for One, welcome our new corporate overlords. Hahaha

Raid1, UPS and BTCPayServer set up. Love the integrated cloudflared and so many amazing fragments to play with. Tested backup and recovery strategy. Time to get TEOS figured out next.

Demonstrated leadership characteristics

Never give up. I recovered all the missing funds from my corrupted CLN database. On the bright side… I learned a lot about the workings of Lightning, the differences between P2WSH and P2WPKH, and how exactly CLN stores all the details. I am hardening my new server to ensure I never have to go through this pain again: UPS, RAID1, use BTCPayServer instead of rolling my own and ideally going to figure out watchtower too.

Higher

If people learn anything this next cycle, let it be “only buy bitcoin”