Caught a palindrome dollar amount on the Blockclock today: #bitcoin #blockclock

Here is a great tip for Core Lightning node runners. I have found that the automatically chosen fees when performing a cooperative closing are too low to confirm quickly during these times of high fees. Here is how you can close a channel and specify a fee: lightning-cli -k close id=<PEER PUBLIC KEY> feerange='["52000perkb", "96000perkb"]' This says to offer your peer (who is currently online) a range of 52 to 96 sat/vB. I found with another Core Lightning peer that we agreed upon the low fee that I offered so you should expect the same. I find that I would much rather have any lightning related transaction confirm within a block or two rather than leaving open the possibility for fees to jump and have a channel end up in a limbo state.

Hello #Bitcoin node runners who have some ability to monitor bandwidth usage! Have any of you noticed a large increase in bandwidth usage over the last 24-48 hours? Optimistically I'm hoping this is due to new nodes being bootstrapped and performing IBD. I'm just wondering if others are seeing this or perhaps I just had a handful of nodes that were downloading a lot from me over the past 2 days.

Fellow #Bitcoin node runners: If you are running Bitcoin Core 26.0 please enable this in your bitcoin.conf file: v2transport=1 This will enable BIP324 v2 transport protocol which as I understand it causes communication to be encrypted between nodes that have v2transport enabled. I can see from my own node that there are very few other nodes have have BIP324 enabled! Lets bring those numbers up! You can check your own node with: bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | grep transport_protocol_type and hopefully you see a few "v2".

Merry Christmas!

Testing LNURL Withdraw. Doesn't seem to be working with Phoenix or perhaps not working at all. You can try to claim the free 111 sats!

@ODELL - The guy that you are talking about on RHR the last two weeks who goes back and from between pumping and fudding #Bitcoin is Scott Minerd of Guggenheim Investments.

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At what point do we have to stop saying "we are so early"? #Bitcoin

ETH is 100% riding on the coat tails of #Bitcoin. It absolutely needs an ascending Bitcoin to pump. The ETH Dev team has done everything they can to constrict supply to get the turd to pump but there is no long term value in that approach and the market is realizing that.