the best tools to use while traveling and your lightning node is at home. I write this from now years of experience with my pi node constantly losing connection, power outages, and syncing errors only happening when I'm on the road. For the laptop/miniPC node fanboys, I also have one of these. I may switch to it full-time. but in the meantime: -Tailscale app to a clearnet URL only you know -Tor link to manage -Zeus app -Using a smart plug at home connected to an app (and resetting if necessary) -Using TeamViewer or SSH into a local machine or server on your home network Am I missing anything else?

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10,000 Bitcoiners in Prague?? If all goes well, that'll be the plan at @BTC Prague We've got Matyáš, co-founder and organizer, on Fix The Money this week to get all the details. We discuss some high-level aspects of the event, the genesis of Bitcoin life for Czechs and Slovaks, how to best travel with Bitcoin, and why it’s vital to have a Bitcoin community near you. Both @Niko Jilch and I will be there in person, and we’re stoked to be a part of it. If you want to attend, use the code NIKOPRAGUE to get 10% off your ticket!

10,000 Bitcoiners in Prague?

The plans are ambitious, the schedules are jam-packed, and the Czech flavor of freedom money is strong and intoxicating. This is BTC Prague.

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why does the peers.dat file in bitcoin core get corrupted so often? this happens with basically every node I have

Thankfully the folks at GitHub are shipping important “pronoun” updates

If you’re in D.C. on May 16, Consumer Choice Center will host a rooftop cocktail reception celebrating smart consumer policies from a particular Scandinavian country with plenty of festive treats… DM for an invite!

Have there been any recent LND bugs? Lightning nodes going out left and right…

Turn up the Gordon Lightfoot

WSJ going hard

It’s April 30, 2023. The US gov’t still requires non-citizens to demonstrate proof of vax before they can board

Ascension of Bitcoin versus the DC Leviathan — In a first, a national policy summit focused solely on Bitcoin and the promises it brings to both the US and the world

Ascension of Bitcoin versus the DC Leviathan

In a first, a national policy summit focused solely on Bitcoin and the promises it brings to both the US and the world.

Flight marathon: vienna - DC - vienna - Munich - Charlotte - Munich - vienna DC- vienna in 8 days What are your best long haul flight tips?

Our fav Senate Sat Stacker, Sen. Cynthia Lummis, in the final fireside chat at #bitcoinpolicysummit on ways Congress can appreciate #Bitcoin’s ascension and prospects for both individual freedom and financial prosperity

“Do you want to build up Black Wall Street again? #Bitcoin gives us the tools to make that happen” —Adrian Hale lighting the fire on stage at #bitcoinpolicysummit

“Of course I bought the dip” —Sen. Ted Cruz on #bitcoin

“Liberty is the great parent of science and virtue; a nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free” —Thomas Jefferson

Coolest thing about the Bitcoin Policy Summit here in DC will be seeing the various congressional staff, lobbyists, and corporate representatives who will essentially out themselves as Bitcoin-aligned. Each has a separate contribution they can bring to Bitcoin, but the community plus impact will help inform future policy discussions

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In DC this week for the Bitcoin Policy Institute Policy Summit. Full signal!