I agree. A Bitaxe in every home! Soon one lucky Bitaxe miner will find a block. We need many multiples more home miners.
Bitmain is the single biggest threat to #Bitcoin. If you are mining you should really move your hash power away from the Bitmain cartel. Pools to avoid are Antpool, BTC dot com Pool, F2Pool, Binance Pool, Poolin, EMCD, Rawpool, SECPOOL, ULTIMUSPOOL, 1THash, Luxor and sadly Braiins Pool.
I currently recommend nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze
nostr:npub136hk9wu6xnrz64kfaapsvgc5rfnylz4djlx4w30w66h6cy48vhws3gth6q is an accounting software designed for #Bitcoin users, allowing them to consolidate wallet balances, visualize bitcoin transactions, and generate reports.
It simplifies managing multiple wallets and complying with tax regulations. Clams imports read-only data from Bitcoin wallets and converts it into double-entry bookkeeping journals, helping in data-driven decisions.
Currently available for Mac, with support for other operating systems planned, it can help to enhance Bitcoin circular economies and improve accounting efficiency.
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I would be interested in #Bitcoin accounting software for personal accounting that runs on #Linux. Currently I use an online solution that works well but is obviously terrible for privacy and if the company disappears my records are gone. I'll be keeping an eye on this project.
I would port forward through your router to a VM or other low end machine running wireguard. Then from that machine running wireguard you can point the 0.0.0.0/0 route to your physical router which is hopefully running a wireguard tunnel to your provider.
Important: you will likely need a route from the VPN provder back into your network for your wireguard subnet on your "user" device.
100%. Then you can get upgrades as soon as they are released and update one package at a time and run on reasonable hardware (no one should be running a Raspberry Pi node these days). You no longer have to push the Umbrel update button and hope for the best.
This worked. Thanks Luke.
It's time for Lightning⚡️ and it's time for BOLT12🔩
As of today, OCEAN miners can attach a BOLT12 offer to their #Bitcoin address and get paid out over Lightning!
BOLT12 offers allow us to request multiple invoices for any amount while only requiring the miner to set things up once.
Miners simply sign a message containing the offer using the private key associated with their Bitcoin address.
Using BOLT12 also allows us to prove to the world that a payment was made, the size of the payment, the node to which it was paid, and that it was paid by us.
This means we can continue to offer fully transparent and verifiable pooled mining while no longer being restricted by the base layer!
Using the Bitcoin stack to its fullest is how we eliminate the need for trust and bring sovereignty to mining.
nostr:npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk - is there a way to disable bolt12 payouts after I have it activated and working? I know I could switch addresses but then I have to start building up shares again.
Now that my nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll node is up and stable it's time to start deciding who to open LN channels with.
I am considering starting out leaning heavily to the #V4V (and podcasting 2.0) side of things by opening channels to the following entities:
- nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg
- Podcast Index
- nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm
Who else do you think should be in this list?
A channel to Alby will route a lot of payments and earn you fees. I have had a channel to podcast index for a long time and basically never route traffic to them.
You could open channels to the nodes of individual content creators to give them inbound liquidity, especially if they don't have many channels to their node.
Haven't tried nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg in a while and man, it has improved a lot! On boarding to lightning was easy. Mutiny seems ready to fill the void left by Phoenix.
You end up being a first class citizen running #Bitcoin and #Lightning applications on #Linux. Not so much with BSD were you probably have to compile from source or Windows where many supplications aren't supported at all.
Got my first payout from nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze via Bolt 12. Pretty awesome. Pleb miners need to unite and leave the AntPool cartel. Ocean and Demand Pool are great alternatives!
I'm all set to receive the Bolt 12 payout, now we just need to find a block!
And again to reinterate, configuring Bolt 12 for this is so much easier than everything that goes into lightning address (like Braiins is using), unless you have a trusted 3rd party do the lightning address for you but that isn't how I do things.
LND not supporting Bolt 12 is an LND problem, not a Bolt 12 problem.
Side note: I've run both LND and Core Lightning for a couple years. The LND interface might be more user friendly and more apps support LND but otherwise Core Lightning is better in every way.
I would absolutely choose something that is part of the official lightning specification over an add on solution which requires a web server. LND ignoring a standards based approach with their implementation doesn't make Bolt 12 the wrong choice.
Also from Ocean:
"Using BOLT12 also allows us to prove to the world that a payment was made, the size of the payment, the node to which it was paid, and that it was paid by us."
Is the same true for lnurl (I don't know the answer but I doubt it).
Keysend is a poor option because there is no way to show who a payment came from.
Happy to see my wallet software of choice nostr:npub1cvqlzvmjercdn0ypsmv8f7j9lge6ahsnueh5rparh53wuswftv4q49yjt3 on Nostr. Welcome!
lnbits is awesome. Braiins is asking for a lightning address for payouts which has a dependency on public DNS so I think your lnbits instance would need to be publicly accessible on clearnet. Also you have to run a lightning node AND lnbits. With Bolt 12 you only need the node and Tor only is fine.
The only issue with Bolt 12 is that LND is dragging their feet on supporting it which is an LND problem.
It's time for Lightning⚡️ and it's time for BOLT12🔩
As of today, OCEAN miners can attach a BOLT12 offer to their #Bitcoin address and get paid out over Lightning!
BOLT12 offers allow us to request multiple invoices for any amount while only requiring the miner to set things up once.
Miners simply sign a message containing the offer using the private key associated with their Bitcoin address.
Using BOLT12 also allows us to prove to the world that a payment was made, the size of the payment, the node to which it was paid, and that it was paid by us.
This means we can continue to offer fully transparent and verifiable pooled mining while no longer being restricted by the base layer!
Using the Bitcoin stack to its fullest is how we eliminate the need for trust and bring sovereignty to mining.
This is pretty excellent. I set it up with my Core Lightning node. Now just waiting to hit a block and get an instant payout!
Bolt 12 is the way to go with this vs LNURL. The only problem is that people don't really understand self custodial Bolt 12 because they are used to trusted 3rd party easy mode lightning address. I think most node runners can get Bolt 12 running, a much easier lift than self custodial LNURL. LND's disinterest in Bolt 12 in favor of working on TapAss is really holding lightning back.
LNURL is a meh stopgap. Many people can probably run a small personal lightning node but can they run a BTCpay server on clearnet? Or worse yet run a custodial LNURL. If we are trusting 3rd parties what are we even doing here?
Bolt 12 is lightning native, no web server required. Just run a node with some inbound liquidity and you're done.
LND needs to stop with the TapAss stuff and get Bolt 12 implemented.