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How hard is the "80 GB of storage with pruning" requirement for #BTCPayserver. I'm having trouble coming up with a good rationale for why 20GB wouldn't work. #bitcoin

One of the biggest barriers to merchant adoption of tools like #btcpayserver is hosting costs. While it's a no-brainer to pay for a $10/month VPS for btcpay if you have consistent BTC transactions coming in, most merchants lack surety that they will. I want to help merchant adoption by getting them started for free. What are some of the best cloud providers that have generous "firsts x months free" or "first x credits free"? Currently looking at vultr but curious as to other options. Bonus points if they take BTC. Many cloud providers I've seen charge a significant premium for storage, like the VPS is $4/month but 80GB of chain storage is going to cost an additional $15. #bitcoin

Looking to follow somebody who posts about #entrepreneurship self-improvement and building companies. Think the "knowledge of the top 1%" video clips you see shared everywhere. Any suggestions? #asknostr

Accepting lightning for merchants requires a lightning node be online 24/7. The common solution for this is #btcpay server, but this is quite heavy (and therefore impossible) for many online merchants on shared hosting. But nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 "node in a phone" is lightweight enough to be run on Android. Can a BTCPay server be configured to use a "node in phone" style node? Is there some similarly lightweight option we can use which does what #BTCPay Server does but with the overhead of #zeus? #bitcoin #asknostr #lightningnetwork #asknostr

About two years ago, I decided that I wasn't going to donate to any non-profit or open source software project that didn't take Bitcoin. When asked for donations, I would ask if they took Bitcoin and if they didn't, I'd say "that's too bad, hopefully you change your mind in the future". Reception to this has gone pretty well, a number of them have come back later and asked me for help in taking Bitcoin and I've pointed them to some resources and got to be their first BTC donor. This year, I have a new plan: I'm not donating to any non-profits or OSS projects that hide the fact that they take Bitcoin donations. Many of them take BTC, but you'd never know if you went to their donate page, it's squirreled away somewhere on their website. I get that your regular checkout flow doesn't support Bitcoin, so you need a separate page for that, but it really should be mentioned on your main donation page as an option. I think some places do this because they're ashamed to take BTC or they think it's controversial. If you're ashamed to take my money, you won't get it, end of story. We'll see how this new plan goes. #bitcoin #nonprofits #donations

So sad to know this project will soon be coming to an end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cohVHaVMBl8

Bitcoiners are really, really bad at branding. Examples: Custodial vs non-custodial: Who chose these words? Nobody knows what they mean if they aren't steeped in BTC lore. Self-custody? Much better. Nutzaps: Cool tech, but 70% of people are going to not use this tech because they don't want to be "nutted on". I get the memes are cool but c'mon. Nostr: Primarily pitched as a tool where "you can't be censored". Most people's minds instantly go to that ONE ANNOYING GUY who got kicked from their discord server for posting racist memes. "Un-cancelability" is of interest only to the minority of the population. You know what is popular? Better privacy. Being able to choose how your feed is sorted. Not having ads. Being free. Not having divisive bullshit shoved into your feeds. Being decentralized/not feeding Meta et al. Bitcoin for merchants: ZERO PERCENT FEE. WE SHOULD BE YELLING THIS FROM THE ROOFTOPS, instead, most promotional things I see about Bitcoin are about: supply, inflation resistance, fast transaction times, etc.

My nostr dudes, what would you say is the closest male equivalent to the Barbie movie? Something that explains a unspoken but nearly universal experience among your gender? #asknostr

Sometimes my client has to go "find" a note from a random relay, often because my relay got the "re-tweet"/reply but not the original. There's no reason a relay should be needed for this operation, a DHT like a magnet link or IPFS would work fine. I assume event IDs aren't hashes, but given that they are signed, you have a similar way to verify authenticity of the note.

What is the closest to "negative zap" or "downvote" in nostr? Are there any clients, for example, that hide content once it gets enough "thumbs down" reacts or similar from your WoT? These spammers are getting out of hand #asknostr

Who in the US is working on ending capital gains tax for Bitcoin? I want to send them money. NO OTHER FOREIGN CURRENCY has to deal with this tracking every coin and reporting gains/losses bullshit. #asknostr #bitcoin #regulation