Graph sync & payments. Direct connections to a remote node don't need a graph sync, and I guess there's a lot less overhead when it's a single node vs. an LSP.
So it's understandable, just remarking on it.
Pixel 7a btw
Unlike Bitcoin or Lightning, which are easier to trace forensically than physical cash, ecash is blinded so it's closer to, if not the same problem as physical coins and bills.
The hosted node is a bit too slow vs a remote node, but all told, Zeus is a great wallet. Keep it up π€
Oh boy, well we need to go back to 560 BC to really get into... π
Nah I'll just paint an example scenario:
You start with a node, channel it up, fund it, use and maintain it like normal.
Then, say you have a couple really good friends, and you often each share or distribute common costs among yourselves. You're close, and all like bitcoin. Node management is kind of a pain, so they never went there, but you have a node already, you're used to maintaining it, might even enjoy it.
So you offer to be a mini mint and spin one up pointed to your lightning node. At this point, there aren't any tokens yet. Then, you set them up with a simple ecash wallet app like #enuts pointed to your mint. You go on and use your wallet pointed to your mint to request some tokens. The mint will generate an LN invoice from your node, and when it's paid (however is irrelevant), the mint produces tokens in your wallet.
At that point, they're just like coins and bills in a traditional wallet. You can split and disperse them among your friends in exchange for covering restaurant bills, travel expenses, anything. Or they can request new tokens the same way you did, with an invoice & a request for fresh tokens. Once you send tokens to someone else and they redeem them, yours are destroyed, theirs are created, and you're effectively blind to what happens to their tokens going forward.
The sats that get paid into your node to request new tokens produce the tokens 1 to 1; the sats that get paid back out when someone wants to redeem the ecash back into sats for themselves destroy the tokens 1 to 1.
Tradeoff to it all: the mint MUST be trusted and honest. In my example, it's a small group of close knit friends, who have a common rapport with the owner of the mint. You can easily swap the tokens to a new mint, but not after a mint goes down for whatever reason. Even then, it could become whack a mole. That limits the scope of this pretty heavily, but for now, I think it's a great step. It makes onboarding a breeze, helps people start thinking in sats, and if everyone knows where the mint owner lives...I mean... π€·ββοΈπ
Anhway, we'll see where we go from here!
Small beans. I have ice water running though my veins 24/7...never been a problem
You create an invoice to get sats; you pay an invoice to get ecash. It doesn't go the other way around.
What about straight women who use dildos? π€
Doesn't matter: a woman who chooses a steak over imaginary pleasure is a keeper. Every time. π
We use it to settle debts between ourselves among my siblings, and a couple trusted friends. I run a mint (separate liquidity from my main personal LN node), I'm not a scammer, and the folks who I've onboarded & use it all know where I live π
From my perspective, it's just a deferred settlement pattern, and up to them when they choose to redeem or leave my mint. Privacy doesnt really matter for us, it's the speed and simplicity we like.
Some of us still use lightning by itself most of the time, but that's not as easy to onboard without using impersonal 3rd parties, or getting your hands dirty
If that flake is public. I'd absolutely love a link! Dabbling with nixifying the dizzifying plethora of open source services, but bleesing edge bitcoin stuff is hard to keep up with for a nixos noob (without going imperative)
If you self-host a bunch of services and deal with downtime issues (happens to the best of us), give Uptime Kuma a shot! it's definitely not enterprise level, but most self hosters don't need extra fancy analytics etc. Works especially well if you can use it a locked down VPS instance with good uptime by itself. Early alerts can save a lot of wasted time later. It can setup notifications to email, matrix, discord, telegram...dozens of communication channels, including #nostr!
Keep tinkering, everyone!
#SelfHosing #UptimeKuma #HomeLab
Sober sounding Rick just lacks that unique quality, especially when the character is actually drunk in the story
But I still dig the plots, there were a few gems still in S07
I'm getting a hankering for that delicious spaghetti right now! π
80% of folks are content with a single number to represent price inflation; the other 20% understand the complexity of thousands of markets with their own unique nuances.
A "gentle man" might not be what you need for what's coming π€·ββοΈ
Backups!
I use Proxmox and a cluster of 3 old laptops; I dodged many hours of recovery, and I sleep very well at night π
It's ridiculous because many folks spend 40 years only buying & never selling until they retire. Same dynamic with bitcoin, except stock shares are theoretically infinite while bitcoin is concretely scarce
"A common set of facts" = "don't think for yourselves sheeple"
This would be cooler if a deeper discount was given for customers who provide their npub at checkout and follow you on nostr. There'd need to be some other interaction to prove they own the nsec, but aside from that, would be a cool way to promote the protocol.
Reviews for screenings of part 2 seem to think it's BETTER than part 1, which is hard for me to imagine, given the state of cinema in 2024 π
