What are the nostr accounts that are building something other than Nostr, Bitcoin, or AI slop? I'm already well aware of the honey, beef jerky, and leather wallets. They're good. I want more of that and also some cool tech account to follow. #AskNostr

My significant other picked some flowers for me. 😋 #iykyk

I feel like the Fediverse is a lot of complaining, largely with good cause, and then no meaningful action. Nostr has been where I go to see people doing interesting stuff and they might mention the problem they are solving in passing. Buy lately, my #nostr feed has been pretty boring, and wuiet too. I guess everyone is distracted by the circus, and I have enough filters I am able to tune most of that out. Then again, maybe I'm part of the problem. I've been removing sod to release it with mulch. It's just chores, so I don't post about it. Perhaps others are in a similar situation, hence the quietness? I can post pictures of the little shed I'm going to build. That'll at least be entertaining.

I'm waiting for a true vibe coder to write a better AI tool.

SITREP: - Self-hosted LND/LNBits: failed (I'll check the logs when I get home) - Coinos in DDG browser: failed, crashed browser - Coinos in Vanadium: failed, unable to route (with a 66 sat fee) - Coinos in Vanadium with a 166 sat fee: success! The register didn't lose my order, despite the extended amount of time it took me to pay (probably 4-5 minutes). So good job there, kiosk dev team. I'd still be hard pressed to recommend a non -custodial lightning wallet at this point. I hope to change that by continuing to post my experience and help test with real world transactions.

This is America. 🤦‍♂️

77 meshtastic nodes at #thotcon (and counting!)

@kidwarp see you at Thotcon?

Future work: set up a lightnning address for my self-hosted node No point of putting it on Nostr until I get some inbound liquidity, but that will come in due time.

Today I opened 4 lightning channels, all .onion addresses. I then sent someone 1K using a lightning address, from my phone. Which means that it was able to lookup the address, get an invoice created, route properly, and actually transfer the loot. And I'm not directly connected to any large lightning nodes (AFAIK). This feels way cooler than I expected, and I'm probably enjoying it far more than is reasonable. 😆 Thank you to the plebs who joined forces with me to grow the network! You are the real heros of this story. You have earned zero fees from me for life. Next up, we'll see if I can route to people I am not directly connected to. Should be fun. I'll have a good time or a food story.

Any home LND noderunners out there who would let me open a 100K sats channel to them? Give me a pubkey & address (DM or publuc if you like). I'd rather open a channel with a random person on nostr than a random person on the internet at large. Plus I'm seeing minimum channel sizes of 5M and that's too rich for me right now. Someday, maybe. No catch, just free incoming liquidity for you (well, once I get some inbound liquidity myself). I get to learn. That's the benefit to me.