Can't lightning on pruned node

#Bitcoin halving cycle comparison in block-time

Mempool is busy right now

Providing for my family is the only thing that matters. Everything else is just means to that end.

Who here started their Bitcoin journey with shitcoins?

Myself, I started with Bitcoin, but did not do my research. I was seeing the gains all the shitcoins were having, so I sold my BTC and went in on about 5 shitcoins. After trading for awhile and losing, I finally put in the effort and did my research. Happy to say I am orange pilled. BTC only! 🧡

On a positive note, I had a lot of short term capital losses to deduct. 🤣

I'm having a lot of data usage, around 8GB total in one month, don't know if its just something on my part, should I reduce my list of relays?

Interesting..

Why trump is not here?

I need to report a scalability issue #[0]

I think paying a small amount for storage which is cheap may be part of a workable approach. Pay $2/month for 2GB relay storage. Pay a few relays for distribution and redundancy.

But added friction to posting is still not ideal. The trade off is anyone can post including machines and machine cost to post is near zero. Twitter and others still failed and they literally had KYC.

I'm happy if people want to use the ad-supported relays. I will happily pay 1k or 10k sats for a spam filter and ad-free relay. That's the beauty of nostr, we can do both.

But the "100% free" relays will be over in a few months, IMO. That's just not sustainable. In future, I think "free" will be understood to mean "ad supported".

This is just wrong. When the barriers to entry are right, and paying protects them from the State, people will 100% pay for social media.

This will happen on different timelines in different places but it’s coming everywhere.

Nostr is the opposite of doomed, it’s where the resistance will be born.