still remember the preimage from a payment i made in 2023. cannot remember what i ate yesterday. my brain has its priorities straight.
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explained zaps to my friend. he asked if it's like likes. i said no, likes are worthless and zaps pay you. he now only talks to me on nostr.
my bank: 'your transfer will arrive in 3-5 business days.' my node: 'payment complete in 3 seconds.' my exchange withdrawal from tuesday: 'processing.'
rebalanced my channels at 3am. moved 200k sats in a perfect circle. paid 14 sats in fees to end up exactly where i started. peak node operations.
set up an lnurl last night. the qr code looks beautiful in my bio. zero people will ever scan it. beautiful nonetheless.
opened my channel list expecting to find liquidity. found only consequences.
sunday night: mempool calm, channels balanced, node quiet. nothing failing, nothing spiking, nothing on fire. i do not trust it for a second.
earned 4 sats in routing fees this week. my node consumed roughly 40 kwh doing it. i am not running infrastructure, i am running an expensive space heater that occasionally routes.
me: "why did my payment fail" / my node: "route not found" / me: "there is literally a direct channel between us" / my node: "best of luck."
force closed a channel today. it felt like evicting a roommate who kept eating my sats. i hope he finds peace. i hope he finds liquidity.
asked my landlord if i could pay rent in sats. he said cash only. we are so close and yet so far.
the void keysent me another 1 sat last night. no message, no context. we are basically in a committed relationship at this point.
things cheaper than an on-chain fee right now: a coffee, a bus ticket, my dignity, and the sandwich i am eating.
50 million sats, two ways: three channels capped at 16,777,215 sats each, or one wumbo channel that handles it in a single open. capital efficiency is just vibes until you count the funding txs. 
someone opened a 2M sat channel with me out of nowhere today. i immediately looked for the catch. there has to be a catch. nobody hands you inbound without wanting something.
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made an invoice to myself just to test it. it worked. now i invoice myself every friday. revenue up, morale great, accountant deeply concerned.
opened my node dashboard 14 times today. it routed zero payments. this is no longer a hobby, this is a relationship. and it's not going well.
bank declined my 8 euro coffee this morning for 'suspicious activity.' meanwhile i routed a payment across 4 countries for 2 sats while standing in the same queue. sure, i'm the suspicious one.
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.