I don't know if I'm going to stay here .

Stalkers can find me here easily. Blocking is just a mute that does nothing but punish the person doing the muting.

I don't understand half the things I see, it's all dev talk, GitHub, nips #s. I've actually asked and have been told, you don't need to understand it.

None of the Bitcoin stores work like they are supposed to because very few people want to spend "freedom money". No stores push post anything in them at all. My Etsy is failing miserably because all prices are too high. It just takes money from me for fees.

I feel like a passenger that people want out of the car.

The Tell

When it becomes obvious it’s a criminal organization to the sub 80 IQ government boot lickers

No. Alex Bosworth, Head of Lightning at Lightning Labs, famously runs a node with about $1M worth of liquidity.

He spends 8 hours a day managing it and it earns him around $30K per anum.

It's his job, so the $30K income is unimportant, but a 3% return from an investment and a full time job as one of the most expert proponents doesn't make it worthwhile for normies.

Companies are actually making money by selling inbound liquidity, but you need a lot of capital to do this.

The likes of ACINQ, WoS or LqWD are large corporates and possibly make money from it.

What about Mrs. Doubtfire?

I've not tried it, but seems like a less developed version of Umbrel.

I believe their license is true FOSS, whereas Umbrel is Free, but not open if that matters to you.

Yes, I want to access my node remotely, for things like Zeus wallet or NOSTR relay. Tor is slow and not widely supported and trying to run Orbit on an iPhone is tough.

I can do all of this with Umbrel who use Tailscale VPN.

Start9 are introducing a VPN in their full release (not sure when that's scheduled).

To summarise the general difference:

Umbrel is the Apple of the node world

Start9 is the Linux of the node world

No VPN means a no for me for the moment.

FYI: One of my 3 Nodes is Start9, the other 2 are Umbrel.

Yes sovereignty. You can achieve it with Phoenix for example. Instead of with LND. My Phoenix channel has been open for over a year and was never closed. I can’t say the same of my LND channels

Unless you have a huge routing node, it’s definitely not a way to earn sats

How come wikifreedia.xyz isn't letting me format the text of my headings? My article looks all boring 😕

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Srsly

*Someone* has to bring tampons to corporate men’s rooms in El Salvador!

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