Well that lightning channel open at 13 sats/vB ain’t going anywhere in the #bitcoin mempool. 4 days and counting. Sadly, I spent the entire utxo and there seems to be no way to fix it. Live and learn.
Benjamin Chodroff
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I tried the Maotai Baijiu Luckin coffee today. I have to say - it’s actually pretty good. An Irish coffee with Chinese characteristics 😂
It must be insanely hard for a brand like Maotai to take a risk in doing this. Kudos for whoever pulled it off - and executed it this incredibly well. 
Still searching for the best way to manage my CLN node. I tried RTL but can’t figure out how to circular rebalance - the option is missing. Anyone recommend clboss? Another suggestion?
Is there an app that has a map and let’s people find businesses that support #bitcoin #lightning payments? Would be fun to pay a few sats to post businesses.
Eli had a great time at my sisters wedding in Luzern, Switzerland. Rain or shine, always make the best of it 
#Bitcoin has not required a single bullet to set its price, and will never require one to defend its value
Zug, Switzerland has joined the list of places I would enjoy living in. 
Respect the grind. Really proud of my son for practicing up to an hour each day on violin — only to nail his song in front of his teacher. You don’t need to become a professional violinist but you need to appreciate what it took for anyone to get there.
I didn’t spot any books on bitcoin in the Shanghai library, but excited to read Mastering the Lightning Network and some Rust web programming. I guess secondary layers aren’t banned… 
Upgraded CLN to 23.08rc2 - hope it fixes the gossip bug I’ve been hitting (so far… no luck…) 
Node Channels: offchain.social | 1ML - Lightning Network Search and Analysis Engine - Bitcoin mainnet
Lightning Network Search and Analysis Engine
Never stop believing 
KPMG issued a report talking about the positive ESG aspects of Bitcoin. https://advisory.kpmg.us/content/dam/advisory/en/pdfs/2023/bitcoins-role-esg-imperative.pdf
Gm from Guangzhou. Glad to see the US dollar has stabilized at 3450 sats, another large financial company has launched a stablecoin, 130 countries are investigating CBDC, and yet I still can’t custody Bitcoin at my bank. Maybe I am the only one, but I love a good challenge. 
Congratulations to OSL and HashKey 
Huge that Hong Kong retail investors can get in on Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Cointelegraph
Hong Kong debuts retail crypto trading with HashKey and OSL
Hong Kong-based digital asset firm HashKey has obtained all necessary licensing to expand its business from serving professional investors to retai...
If you are a US citizen and looking for a good way to daily dollar cost average buy Bitcoin and withdraw automatically to cold storage or free lightning network access, I recommend River Financial exchange. Low fees, US regulated, and Bitcoin only.
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Looking forward to the next release of Core Lightning. Anyone know when it might ship? Eager to get a bug fixed to get my node gossiping again :)