Now that transaction fee storm has passed I'm back to heating my living space primarily with wood in a rocket mass heater instead of Asics.
https://v.nostr.build/Ee2K.mp4
Wood is burned in the small firebox and heat radiates from the barrel warming the space quickly while the fire burns.
As the exhaust gasses make their way to the chimney, they pass through ductwork in a plywood box filled with pea gravel.
The majority of the heat from the exhaust is transfered to the gravel before exiting up the chimney. By the time the gases exit the box, they are cool enough for me to put my hand on the chimney pipe.
After the fire burns out, the heat absorbed by the pea gravel slowly radiates out into the living space until the next fire is burned and the gravel is recharged with heat once again. I built this rocket mass heater for a fraction of the cost of a wood burning insert, with no special tools, materials, or skills.
It has been an unusually warm November and December here at the homestead. Normally we have to start burning wood in the rocket mass heater early November to stay comfortable but this year, the bitcoin mining dehydrator was enough to stay warm and do some food preservation simultaneously.
Transaction fees started climbing and I was shocked to see the most efficient miner I had approaching break even at my electric rate.
I didn't have the circuit to run it wired yet but this bump in fees was the motivation I needed to get the miner hashing. Coincidentally, the weather also started to get colder finally so getting the miner up and running was a win/win.
It successfully kept us and our guests warm through the holidays, even earning some Bitcoin beyond the cost of power at times, all while allowing us to save our firewood.
We did have to fire up the rocket mass heater a handful of times, but so far we've burned less than half the amount of wood compared to previous years. This is thanks to the combination of the warm weather, and high transaction fees allowing us to stay warm with heavily subsidized electric heat.
This might be the first winter we make it through with wood leftover for the next year, typically I'm scrounging for the last couple weeks.
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Nice work, Rev!
The setup reminds me of the old Czech kitchen stoves (Austria, Bavaria had the same ones - kachelofen).
They usually build a stove top over the fire for cooking & tile up the rest. And mainly, build a day bed of sort and benches around the ducts. It's famously a very popular lazy spot in the house in the winters - warm, and easy access to the stove top goulash/stew :-)
How often are you withdrawing the money? Maybe you get more privacy at reasonable UX convenience loss if you just manually provide a single new withdrawal address each time making the withdrawal?
#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=864x1079&blurhash=_JB%3ABFM%7CD%25ogEgxtEM%7EBR*IUbbOEt6NHRjxaS2R*t7R%2Bs.9GxatlV%3FsoWFxED*bcx%5DnNaeoMn%24EMX8xas9WBe-ofE*s-s9f%2CsSRis%3AO%3Fr%3DjFXTs9R*jsozjEf8bvada%23a%23&x=fcc5eb75110fcabd1ff4c7f60db5251f5317aa3f9783b94ab205a70356518737Great for looking at the Bitcoin charts. 😅
Ja mel za to, ze nikdo netrumfne blaznovstvi Chorvatska prijimat euro v roce 2022. And here we go...
Doufam ze si za to Pavel odnese solidni facku. I kdyz asi spis ne...
Na druhou stranu, by to byl solidni boost pro adopci nestatnich penez v CZ 💁♂️
Maybe too late, but try their support email / DMs. They were honoring some late requests still in the summer.
#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1440x1920&blurhash=_xBOLCodShbGs.bGa%23Xrf5aif6nhjYa%23NPf%2Ca%24a%23WVj%5Bj%5DWZbJs*kCbcf%2BjFVrfRnzjYWsayayV%3Faxbbf5WXWVkCn%7DaebJaxjXkBj%5Bt7j%3FWYj%5DoIjYbHkCj%5BWEbIjZayay&x=2c7557cb505fa4c39642d6274b1be2136033c8179e1eb7e05ca264b0ac541754At the country club golf tournament with uncle Ricky? Don't scare everyone away.
You can't respond to calendar invites forwarded through Simple Login to Proton. Despite them being a single company.
Nostr fixes this.
It's quite consistent as long as it's designed to give them a better position for more effective attacks, no?
Preemptively ceding territory to regulators is not the right move. Rather the opposite. They should be preemptively bitch slapped and laughed out of every room they show up in, regardless of their intentions.
Of course, easy to say... But you can't even sue or blame them for their actions if you make all their moves by yourself first.
Could they replace the escrow holds with lightning?
They already have the bisq tokens, but that seems little cumbersome if you're not a frequent user.
Ln deposits could also improve the privacy from chainanal creepy eyes, no?
Makes sense. Competing with AI is already tough. Imagine few years down the road.
Damn, are we in the same pool with Microsoft now?
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/tech/ai-chatgpt-water-power-usage-b1106592.html
Solid list to start with:
note1r5x4dq8hzcyqqcew5967w358g5zlshd9243ru9wkzmqv5p2x4myq3hvn80
. nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 has a lot of awesome nostr projects that don’t get enough attention:
- khatru: super modular relay library. Can be used to build lots of cool relay experients such as https://pyramid.fiatjaf.com
- Eventstore: an abstraction around nostr databases, one backend is very similar to nostrdb/lmdb called badger https://github.com/fiatjaf/eventstore
- njump: cool static note renderer that uses eventstore as its database https://github.com/fiatjaf/njump
- Nostr-tools: the swiss army knife of nostr javascript libraries https://github.com/nbd-wtf/nostr-tools
- Nak: command line tool for creating nostr events and bech32 nostr objects (nevent, nprofile) https://github.com/fiatjaf/nak
- wikistr: a wikipedia-style nostr client https://github.com/fiatjaf/wikistr
he doesn’t always like being in the spotlight but the work he does is some of the most important for the overall health of the protocol. thank you fiatjaf! Excited for what’s in store for next year 🎉
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Good point. It varies.
But I generally expected the amounts to stay there longer than in the hot wallets. Months - up to few years.
Satscard could be technically a reliable storage for 10+ years easily.
It made sense to me for little gifts. And it doesn't anymore 😒
That sounds fair with today lenses.
~$1,300 in todays dollars.
~arguably 5k - 10k within next few years
That makes it pretty terrible even for just the medium term storage. All the open dimes attached to the art work, etc are becoming the proverbial dust.
Tall order, but it might teach people some nuance.
The shakedown on the review sites could be fun to watch.