If only! I mean, if we're holding people responsible for where their money goes, shouldn’t we get a pass on taxes because we "should have known" the government was going to waste it? Imagine telling the IRS, “I didn’t pay because I was just trying to prevent more potholes, endless wars, and bad public transit. I knew better!”

Hi Nic. My "feed" is alllllll you this morning. (Good morning, fellow normie. 🫶🏼 )

And you're cracking me up bc IT'S ALL SO DAMN (multiple layers) COMPLICATED. I'm like you, I *get* it. But I'm gonna need this to be a little more user-friendly before I can invite the family over.

Adding hubs and relays and paying for services and... what's a channel? Why do I need to watch a video or have a call with support to set this up?!

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

I'm trying to UN-complicate myself here.

I'm just here for the freedom.

And the quality content.

But I don't wanna PAY for it.

And I'm not gonna burn my precious sats to do it. That, to me, defeats the whole purpose. Plus it's another obligation, another middleman.

#gm from the #bitcoinjungle where we have an office with in-person angels who provide support for allllll of this. For free, because wider adoption of #bitcoin makes their own lives better too.🌱

Gm plebs, what betterment are you doing this weekend

You livith!!!

That’s from the original workflow. The purchase channels in advance workflow is new. It’ll work nicely.

That’s from the original workflow. The purchase channels in advance workflow is new. It’ll work nicely.

You don’t need to start w that much! If you hit purchase inbound channel on the channels view you can get a channel for less than 10k sats

I hate having to write negative performance reports.

It feels good to be able to congratulate someone for their hard work and recognise them for it but I find it tough when you need to put the harsh feedback in writing.

It's bad when you can't even do the old "compliment sandwich" because you don't have enough bread!

Yo, other people have covered it well, but I recently did what I think you're trying to do:

- swapped onchain sats to ln, using Boltz

- sent the ln funds to Zeus wallet to set up non-custodial lightning

It all worked well in the end, just take your time with it. Happy to answer questions if you get stuck.

You might not want yet another option but if you are wanting to swap to non-custodial lightning then you might want to try AlbyHub. You can even book an onboarding session with them and they will walk you through the setup process and get you going. This option is not free though as you will either need to host the hub yourself or pay Alby 21,000sats per month to host the hub (10,500 for first three months).

As a correction, this note was supposed to begin by saying "Aqua is a non-custodial wallet".

Derp.

If it's helpful, here's a screenshot so you can see the basic layout:

I use wallet of Satoshi, it has also #btc wallet too. ☺️

That will be next Mae 😂 Data collection is becoming obscene!!! 😱

yeah, I checked them out too and decided it was not for me. Imagine if they actually ask for our bra size 👙? Are they going to sell us bras? LOL 🤣🤣🤣

That said, I think it runs on boltz, which others have already mentioned.

Could just cut out the middle man, but I've enjoyed Aqua, and it's at least a good tool to familiarize yourself with.

It like when one of your kitchen lights goes out. You come into the kitchen and are like “something is off here!?” Happy to have you back

You’re learning the hard way like most of us. Persist and you’ll end up on the right path