Whenever I explore a new tool—whether it’s a stove, a task planner, or a language model—I remind myself of the deeper purpose: to make meaningful use of the limited time I have. If a tool promises efficiency but ends up consuming more than it gives, I step away. Life is too short to optimize for the tool’s sake. These things exist to serve us, not the other way around. Our time is finite, and we should spend it walking our path.
Very cool 😃👏🏻🎯
View article →35:16: [Bitcoiners are a] "Bunch of dudes inside a horse waiting outside the gates of Troj. The problem is ... Bitcoiners can't shut the fuck up when they are inside the horse ... stfu ... the Tojans are gonna hear you bro." -
@HODL WHAT BITCOIN DID
WBD917 - American HODL — WHAT BITCOIN DID
I was just trying to open dual-funded channels to nodes advertising liquidity (identified using the script below). I found 32 nodes. Many were TOR-only, so I could not connect from Open_Hand. Of the rest, a good half-dozen were unreachable. Of the rest, most had zero UTXOs available, two politely refused to open a channel to me at this time, and **two channels were successfully opened, balanced from the start**. We should make more use of this great dual-funding technology. As a #noderunner, give it a try. If you are running cln on Clearnet, Open_Hand is ready to take your call (minimum funding on either side is 1M sats).
I used "lc listnodes | jq '\''.nodes[] | select(.option_will_fund != null) | {id: .nodeid, terms: .option_will_fund}'" to find ads.
My new Lightning node Open_Hand is steadily growing, and routing activity is starting to pick up again. If you're running your own node to accept Bitcoin for goods or services, feel free to reach out (DM or reply here) — I’m happy to provide additional inbound liquidity.
I also welcome anyone who wants to open a channel to me. The minimum channel size is 1M sats.
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Amboss Space
Open_Hand - 0206db...3d3d95 - Amboss Space
Open_Hand - 0206db3b9c7475b246d380987bb77cf55acb65e2b0913b6e7d97063efd6d3d3d95 - 248 channels - capacity 2,498,990,303 sats - Bitcoin Mainnet - Amb...
#noderunner
2167, 553, 722, 336, 165562, 13
I absolutely like to listen to the V4V podcast and boost in. However, for a while
@Fountain makes it really difficult for me. Like: (Boost -> Nostr keypair not found -> Import Nostr Key -> Connect to Nostr -> "Nostr profile connected..." -> repeat). Both on my GrapheneOS and on the iPhone.
LLMs are fantastic. Not perfect, which makes them more human. Our noodles (not emotions, just the raw, rational hardware) probably work pretty similarly. My friends all have different models and hardware in their brizzle, just like the LLM models work differently. Let's assume we scale the performance of LLMs by a factor of one million, so they can more easily think through the implications to the end. I don't think any of these LLMs (or agents) will move a finger (if they had one). They don't know time as they live forever. The endgame is either a compression into one black hole with a history wipeout, or an expansion into a state of zero Kelvin. Obvious to any LLM. Why do anything at all? We humans take action because we are idealists, optimists, and hopeless illusionists. We enjoy the world because we don't think it through. Exploring Mars to make humans multi-planetary is a human illusion. No reason for an LLM robot to engage. What am I missing?
https://audit.8333.space/ is a fantastic resource to see the long-term performance of your favorite mints. But no audit is free; well compared to classic audits, this one is practically free. If you like the site and the service, consider donating some nuts. They are needed to cover the swap's lightning network fees. #cashu
I am thrilled to be your first Bitcoin customer, and I am looking forward to drinking my first coffee with the new mug #coffeechain
View quoted note →⚡ New Lightning Node: Open_Hand
I’ve launched a new Lightning node called Open_Hand — a gesture of support for those building the Bitcoin economy. This node’s mission is simple: open channels to plebs, merchants, and anyone accepting sats for real-world goods and services.
If you're running a node for a small business, a podcast, or another project and could use inbound liquidity, reply or DM me — I'd be happy to open a channel.
Let’s grow the Bitcoin payments economy together 🌱
The node's id is 0206db3b9c7475b246d380987bb77cf55acb65e2b0913b6e7d97063efd6d3d3d95
#bitcoin #lightning #plebs #nocoinleftbehind
Looking for inbound liquidity? Get a gf; she will spend your newly opened channels into balance. #noderunner
After the perfect storm of force closures yesterday, in addition to other issues with my database, I have decided to liquidate my lightning node, MindlinerTre, and start a new node 🍀 . This time, all channels will be opened with maximum support for adoption, a focus on small businesses who need inbound liquidity, and a preference for pleb nodes; details will follow.
MindlinerTre PSA: "Fail fast", they say. Check. Yesterday, I added a second Proxmox node to my setup and created a high-availability cluster, so that in the event one node failed, the other could take over and spin up the critical VMs. During the reboot, node2 was faster, and the VM with MindlinerTre, which was usually on node1, switched over. I need to dig into what happened exactly, but it must have picked up an old state. The result is a forced closure of 39 channels. I am very sorry for the trouble. Please DM me if you lost sats due to this. Take-home: Don't naïvely put a lightning node into an automatic failover setup.
GN
I can wholeheartedly recommend purchasing from the friends here on nostr. The art and products I purchased here were genuine, inspiring, and of very high quality. Plus, it feels great to be furthering a global circular economy, even if only by a tiny bit. Thank you
@Lina Seiche,
@Lucho Poletti ,
@M A D E X,
@🟠 isolabellart,
@Mapletrade,
@Gabi,
@StackSats.IO,
@Bitcoin Infinity Media,
@Saifedean Ammous,
@Rune Østgård, and the artists I forgot to mention 🫂.
View quoted note →Watch a thunderstorm, take a walk, enjoy the sun, or expand your Bitcoin node. Whatever - just be happy 😊
LocalAI models come with cool annotations 😂 such as "Great at reasoning, but woke as fuck! This is a fine-tune over the Gemma-2-27B-it, since the base model fine-tuning is not generating coherent content."
My Bitcoin node infrastructure upgrade for 2025 is nearing completion. I know I promised a write-up on the particulars of the design. However, this would be such poor operational security that I would have to pass it up.
