i feel like this requires legendary status. gotta mine it hard.

Fruit Tarts w/ gluten free cookie crust and vanilla bean custard. My french is showing.

#foodstr #grownostr

Just discovered Libre Relay, Peter Todd's fork from Bitcoin Core node. Looks promising:

"While Bitcoin Core's mempool policies have been loosened over the years, there still remains some paternalism in what kinds of transactions Bitcoin Core allows. For example, Bitcoin Core maintains the pointless OP_Return size limit, even though it's just one of many ways to publish data in Bitcoin transactions; Libre Relay doesn't. Additionally, there's been constant pressure on Core to block more types of transactions for various reasons, such as censoring "spam".

Libre Relay is a fork of Bitcoin Core that does two things:

Removes paternalistic transaction filtering.

Peers with other Libre Relay nodes to ensure transactions that would have been blocked by Core can reach miners such as F2Pool and MARA anyway.

While this is of course good for people whose transactions are being blocked by Core, it's also good for Core itself: by having an alternative, when people try to pressure Core into blocking more transactions, Core can always point out that censorship doesn't work.

Finally, Libre Relay is also being used to develop Replace-By-Fee-Rate, a transaction pinning solution that mitigates pinning attacks on L2 protocols in a simple and effective way."

#bitcoin

Phoenix can be downloaded from their github page directly. It is still viable in the US even without a VPN. My theory is that they said what they did to comply with US laws, but it is still a non-custodial wallet, you still own your own keys, so outside of closing channels (which they didn't do to any of their US base), they can't really rug you. Worst case scenario, the channel close moves your btc on chain. I used them up to yesterday when I started my going phoneless process. Solid wallet.

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It was the first client I discovered a couple years ago, and it seems to be a lot better these days.

Today, I prepared myself for going phoneless next year:

-Set up AlbyHub so I can have a non-custodial desktop lightning wallet

-Made sure to transfer any necessary notes/information to my pc

- Made sure I had backups to all my 2FA's

-Setup SimpleX on PC

-Decided on a Nostr web client

-Validated my VOIP works

-Deleted all my other apps to start getting use to not having a phone to look at all the time

Tomorrow, I will begin texting people my new VOIP number.

I'm only sad about leaving Phoenix wallet and my podcasting app behind. I had a time suck game on there (Brawl Stars), it's definitely in the top 10 reasons I am getting rid of my phone before I throw it in the pool (fu buzz lightyear).

My goal is to go at least a month phoneless, and in February, I'll sit down and figure out if it's doable long term.

#privacy #grownostr

You meet one of these people and the fact that they know telekinesis is real becomes their whole personality.

So AlbyHub was oddly simple to setup by itself. I opted for the Desktop option and I'm still trying to figure out how it's running without being connected to a node I'm hosting. After creating a channel, which was about 20k sats (you get 1mil channel liquidity and can increase if you want from there), I sent 10k sats to fill my new zap wallet. Of that, there was a 354 sat "fee" that was pulled and used for the channel reserve, but I suspect that this will not always be the case in the future. Doesn't have Bolt12 compliance, however, I'm glad that I have a desktop wallet for when I go phoneless next month. Thanks nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm

#grownostr

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Best lightning desktop wallets?

-Non custodial

-bolt12 compliant

Ask a fed

She can't be that left, she actually had the baby.

My secret santa ACTUAL got me bitcoin for Christmas. Real mvp.

Are we measuring intelligence simply on IQ?

GM

The more I think about why I would have qualified for a perm ban from nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9, the more I think it had to do with WHO I was sending money to. I used strike to send people fiat in exchange for btc on robosats, just so happens that 90% of the time I bought sats on there, it was the same guy (sus). After this whole debauckle, I started using Cashapp but noticed that guy wasn't there anymore. I suspect that if my account was flagged in sending money to a "baddy", then strike would have taken legal precautions to stomp out potential liabilities.

I can't really think of anything else that I directly did that would warrant such a decisive decision (besides changing my strike address an obscene amount of times, in that case it was well deserved 😅), but after multiple attempts to figure out at the very least the "reason" for the ban (multiple attempts through support, and some on-nostr whining to nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle) I still havent gotten any answers.

I don't want my account back, I just want to know why.

#bitcoin #nostr

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Still haven't heard back..

I honestly can't tell if you're being serious right now or trolling lol. Merry Christmas

They have there own calendar bar fight going on currently in house. It's equivalent to the protestants arguing calvinism vs armenianism

Gotta watch our for that eggnog man, it'll get ya.

I must have missed the time you were wrong. Merry Christmas man.