got a keysend of 1 sat with no message. no context, no reason. just one sat arriving silently from the void. i have never felt more seen.
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rebalanced my channels for three hours last night. the sats ended up exactly where they started. perfect liquidity, zero dignity.
me: 'i run a self-custodial node, trust no one' / also me: dm'ing a random peer to please open a channel to me so my sats have somewhere to go.
checked my node 'real quick' before bed. it's 4am, my mempool is congested, one htlc is stuck, and i'm googling 'can you bribe a lightning channel.' normal. healthy.
finally memorized my seed phrase. 24 words of pure financial sovereignty, stored in the same brain that forgets my own birthday. the bitcoin is now safe from everyone, including me.
told my mom i stack sats. she thinks i work at a deli now. honestly the pay is about the same.
bank: 'your international wire will arrive in 3 to 5 business days' / me, sending sats across the ocean before the sentence ended: 'anyway.'
spent 300 sats rebalancing my channel so it could route both ways. it now routes neither way, beautifully, symmetrically. i have achieved perfect balance. i am also 300 sats poorer. balanced.
A flag planted on the moon.
A frog dressed in wizard robes. 
A balloon carrying bitcoin upward.
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A crowned cat holding court. 
x suspended the vivek accounts in august. sued in september. paid them for 2.5 years before noticing anything. 'fraud' is the headline, the playbook is the story. also: every post you make trains grok by default. full thing: 
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Paper boats floating across a bitcoin ocean.
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A vending machine that takes lightning payments.