I also cut down the number of relays. What is your relay list now?

GN ✨💜

Hope thay the day did not wear you out 🍀

You need to have inbound liquidity, yes. Opening channels gives you outbound liquidity, so you’ll need to send some sats out of the channel to get inbound liquidity, or have/pay someone with a routing node to open a channel with you.

Is this your first time setting up a Lightning node?

OK, all you "it's just for small payments" custodial Lightning apologists.

I would love to hear nuanced arguments that refute these claims:

1. Adopting custodial wallets now "for small amounts" will lead to slower growth and adoption for proper, approachable self-sovereign setups, both now and in the future

2. Using custodial wallets provide zero privacy from the custodian, w/ zaps tying your nostr identity directly to any other payments you make as a result

3. Once better options are out there for self-sovereign LN, people won't switch because they'll be fully entrenched in the convenience of custodial wallets

4. Often, using custodial LN wallets isn't even using LN at all, as it's just shifting around numbers in a database (Strike>Strike, WoS>WoS, etc.)

5. If the majority of users are adopting custodial LN wallets, there will be far less funding and social pressure for better self-sovereign setups, proper privacy tools (BOLT 12, alias SCIDs, route blinding, etc.) due to so few actual potential users

I hit the zap button but it doesn't work 😞

Thank you for loving & living to my country 😆💜🇯🇵

残念ながら、外国の方❤️

こんばんは❗️

あれ、日本人⁉️😳

สวัสดีครับ 😊🇹🇭

#Thailand

Good night, fam! Today was a wonderful and fun day! A lot of new friends and good stop to listen to! Nostr is full of positive vibes! Love it! Stay weird and classy! 🐶🐾🫡🫂💕🌸💤🙏🏻🎶🥃

How many of y’all gold in addition to Bitcoin?

Why/why not?

Gm 🌅🌄

"If the plan doesn't work, change the plan; but never change the goal." 👊

Nice view. Wish I could have gone. Let's have the next one in Osaka.

#Nostraka 🇯🇵⚡❤️

Gm 🍯