Death & #Bitcoin

#Zaps are digital prayers.

When you receive a #zap from me - I am giving you some of my energy. Use it wisely.

Having terminal cancer has changed my dad into a pure being. The lessons I am learning from him through this feel like a fatherly crescendo. A pure mind, free from desire, caring only about what matters. Family. Love. Friendship. Thank you, Dad. For everything. Literally.

Social media isn't the problem. Social media COMPANIES are the problem. #OptOut #Nostr

Time doesn’t heal. You heal yourself with time.

I see a lot of posts on Reddit about bad managers, but it is always from a sub called r/antiwork. Makes me wonder what the real story was. I own a business that employs 30 people and genuinely believe that I work for my employees and not the other way around. Yes, I have the “power” to end their employment. Really that power is just responsibility. I have a responsibility and burden of sometimes making unpopular decisions for the betterment of the company so that my people can prosper. I am nothing without them, I own nothing without them, I make nothing without them. Last year I was the 3rd highest paid person in the company. That doesn’t happen every year, but those people worked their asses off and 100% deserved to make more than me. All the business profits were re-invested. Watching my people flourish is worth more to me than more money. This mindset has turned the business into a magical machine that you put a quarter in and get a dollar back from.

GM, time is scarce. My hero is dying of cancer, and every time I fly home after visiting him I am not sure if that will have been the last time I get see him. The last time I get to tell him I loved him, and thank him for making me who I am. The last time I am able to get advice from him. I hope some day I can look back and say all this made me stronger, but right now it just feels like a black hole. Don't sleep walk through life. Love boldly. Live boldly.

What is your favorite non-custodial desktop #lightning wallet?

@voltage - do you have any plans to launch an email service? Would make for a powerful stack. #Lightning node ✅ NIP-05 ✅ Lightning Address ✅ Paywalled Email ❌ Would pay good Sats for this. #Nostr #PlebChain

GM - Don’t take today for granted. Get after it. #plebchain #coffeechain 💜⚡️🧡

Been working through various ways to run a #Bitcoin #Lightning node. Here are some footnotes / recommendations: For the non-technical (EZ MODE): @Voltage (https://voltage.cloud) **** - Cloud hosted - Pay with #Bitcoin (Roughly $12/mo for lite node) - For a personal (non-routing) node their "lite node" is more than sufficient - #Nostr integrations (NIP-05 & lightning address) For the moderately technical: @Umbrel ☂️ (https://getumbrel.com) **** - Self-hosted (can run on raspi) - Offers both Core-Lightning & LND (go with LND to start) - Tailscale is integrated, making everything work really fast (tor sucks) Option#2 for moderately technical: @Start9 (https://start9.com/) - Same benefits as Umbrel, but more security minded. - 2nd place because the only option is to use tor, which is slow and leads to a bad user experience For the technical folks: Homelab w/ everything installed on a Linux server. **** - You can build whatever stack you want. ********************* I will post about my setup in a future note. I want to let the dust settle and use it for a while to be certain that it is solid. (Homelab w/ Proxmox + Umbrel / LND / Thunderhub / Lightning Terminal / Voltage Flow) *********************