The easiest #bitcoin node setup I've tried so far is:
* Debian 12 w/XFCE desktop gui
* Umbrel
Debian installer is good. Simple enough for almost anyone.
Only other task is to get Umbrel installed... in just TWO SIMPLE COMMANDS!
* `apt install curl`
* `curl -L https://umbrel.sh | bash`
BUT THERE'S A "BUT"!!
It's only this simple if I log in as `root`. The user that the setup creates doesn't have `sudo` access. Obv I can add the user to sudoers, but now we're getting deeper into linux and losing the total noob simplicity.
I'm not a linux security expert. At all.
Is it a "Nope, unacceptable!" to install and run the Umbrel docker containers as `root`?
Yeah, Debian is kinda stupid in this way. I don't think exluding the default account from sudoers helps anything...
I tried Phoenix before and had issues with it, so now I'm checking the new "single channel" version released like 2 days ago.
I'm a fan of Breez, but it always needs to do syncing exactly when I need to pay, which is annoying experience.
Podcasts in #Breez are the top experience imo. I kinda wish that would be standalone podcast app with all podcasts, not just v4v enabled.
Ok, the new Phoenix wallet 2.0 with splicing is actually amazing!
Somehow the transactions are really fast - like 2-3 seconds at most. I tried different combinations and no problems so far. I think this will probably be my top self-custodial recommendation.
#phoenix #lightning
Looking at the trends - mempool size will go negative around September 36th.
Somehow scammers never want to talk to me 😢
No matter how nice I am, even the fake nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 is not replying to me anymore 😭
Yaaay! I'm particularly slow today 😉
... three interpretations of your reply come to mind.
1. I'm busted for some reason?
2. Jameson is busted for some reason?
3. The app name is Busted!, but it's hard to find?
4. You are predicting that jailbreaking will result in people being busted?
What app is that? I think jailbreaking big multi-modal models is going to be a big topic going forward.
Yes, exactly! There is a lot of nuance in all of this, but overall you got it!
No, the newly mined bitcoins get assigned based on your hashpower. If you have more hashpower, then you get more bitcoins, if you have less hashpower you get less bitcoins. But even a small player can still get some bitcoins. As I mentioned you also need to pay for more electricity if you have more miners.
Now, when you are only an individual person that has one or two mining boxes, the way that Bitcoin works you would actually get some Bitcoin only really rarely (e.g. once in 2 years if you are lucky) and so that's why people join "mining pools" where you have somewhat guaranteed steady payouts of the bitcoin based on the hashpower you contribute to the pool.
It's quite interesting how this is actually done technically, I'm happy to explain that, but it's a bit more complicated.
Generally it's hard to manufacture a lot more miners, you need big factories, etc. But overall nothing prevents states from mining and they should start mining (El Salvador does for example).
Miners don't have that many powers over the network, so even if states mine, it just makes Bitcoin stronger.
Yes. The main thing that matters with miners is the hashpower - how many hashes it can do per second.
If you get stronger miner it can do more hashes per second, but also if you get 2 miners (they look like desktop computers without a monitor), then you will earn twice as much Bitcoin. The miners consume electricity, so you need to think about your electricity bill...
It really depends on which client (= app) you use and which relays you connect to.
