Happy New Year, friends, and God bless you all. Work hard on yourself in 2026 and be kind to others. - Phil

Die Hard is a Christmas movie

Are people on here still selling subscription services for "nip5 identies" or whatever? Was that low-key a scam? I bought one and I feel scammed 😬

I'm actually worried that Bitcoin will destroy quantum computing

Who wants to be zapped? Currently, I can only receive zapa. I used to be able to send them, but now I can't, and this used to be way easier to set this up. Wth happened? Can anyone explain what I need to do? Simplest answer with steps gets zapped once I set it up. Thanks 🙏 I really want to use nostr more, but every time I get back here something is broken that was fine before, and now it's way harder to fix.....every time

I spoke to a mother today who really believes in Bitcoin. She runs events for Bitcoiners with her daughter, but she is super frustrated because, "Bitcoiners don't spend their bitcoin." She pours her heart out into her events, but she never even breaks even. She has become disheartened in this space and even thinks Bitcoin could fail because it is not being used as a medium of exchange. We should remember that @jack said the same exact thing not too long ago. This mother did recognize Jack and @cashapp's recent efforts to push Bitcoin as a MoE for merchants, and she is hopeful on that front. But I completely understand her concern. I also spoke recently to a Bitcoin film maker. He poured his heart and soul into a Bitcoin documentary and had high hopes of it going mainstream. He was left in utter disappointment when he came to the realization that his film was not catching on. He told me, "Bitcoiners just aren't sharing it with anyone." How tragic is that? Bitcoiners really need to put more effort into supporting other Bitcoiners, because no one else will! Normies won't give a shit until they have to! Bitcoiners need to step up!! Share posts from Bitcoin artists and creators. Shop products made by Bitcoiners. Help other Bitcoiners. Build things together. PAY BITCOINERS WHO OFFER VALUE FOR YOU. Stop expecting Bitcoiners to show up and work for free (I'm looking at you, conference organizers...)!! Thanks for reading my rant. I hope ya'll can share this for visibility. Bitcoiners are cool, but we gotta help each other or we'll be alone forever.

Is Snowden on here?

Pluribus. Yes or no?

My health update. Full transparency #NEEDhealth 🟢🟢🟢🔴 2025 was red. I put back on all the weight I lost and more. I am at my all-time-high today. It sucks, but I have nothing to blame but myself! I have set some new goals, and I am committed to get back at it now. Bought some home-gym equipment. Taking up boxing again. Bought an air-fryer to cook more at home. Gonna create some routines and stick to them. Focusing on being more disciplined and saying NO to a lot more to things involving food/bad habbits... I'm not going to go crazy and burning out from workouts either, gonna just get in small workouts as consistent as I can, including lots of walking (pogo helps, and good music). Also going to get more serious about intermittent fasting again. That was going really well for me last year. Thanks for the encouragement and tips. I appreciate you guys and I will post more updates through 2026!

Well done! ⚡⚡🎵🎵

Has anyone got a guide on relay set up in 2025? Who is the btcsessions of nostr? I want to follow him

Test

My 1 month pleb Lightning Node update With minimal micromanagement and 11 total channels, these are my stats over after 1 month of routing Forwards = 728 Volume = 18,164,162 sats Average route = 24,951 sats Fees earned = 5,744 sats

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My Pleb Lightning Node update: ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ In less than a month, my pleb Lightning Tor routing node with only 10 channels has routed 315 transactions. Volume =12,879,127 sats Fees earned = 3,320 sats I will be back to post a full month update next week. Cheers! ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

Home Mining Update...Winter is coming! It's fall right now in New England, 41 degrees F outside right now at night. My Avalon Nano 3S doesn't produce enough heat for my entire apartment (my toes are freezing right now!) because it is too efficient of a machine (props to Canaan)! Therefore, I just had to turn on my S9. I'll be warm soon. I also have a Bitaxe Gamma going (negligible heat). In case anyone is curious, there's where I'm sending my hash: 1.1 Th/s from Bitaxe -> Solo public_pool @Public_Pool_BTC 1 Th/s from S9 -> Solo CK pool @ckpooldev 9 Th/s from S9 -> Ocean pool mining @ocean_mining I'm splitting my S9 hash using BraiinsOS @BraiinsMining I haven't calculated my pooled rewards yet because I literally just turned on my S9 right now. But I'll report back in a week on how many sats I'm earning per day (not accounting for electricity cost, of course). Also, I'm working on self-hosting an instance of Public_Pool and also will soon be "non-pool" mining through my Start9 server with Datum Gateway. Work in progress

On today's episode of NEED runs a node from his @start9labs home server... - I purchased some inbound liquidity using @getAlby Hub. This was really cool and definitely wasn't this easy back when I was running a node just 2 years ago! Alby Hub has so many great features and ways to connect to other Lightning apps/wallets. ✅ - I moved a good chunk of on-chain sats to my node in anticipation of opening a few channels. I'll be opening first to @predyx_markets to continue my support of their awesome Lightning-enabled platform! ⚡️✅ - I did my first server wide backup including all apps. Not trivial, but again, easy-to-follow instructions are included by Start9, and so far, every single issue I've run into has been promptly solved after asking a question in their 24/7 live support Matrix forum ✅ - I followed more instructions to ensure I have a secure https local browser connection. ✅ - I found a nostr relay service in the Start9 registry marketplace - I'll be exploring these instructions soon so I can start my own nostr relay! This is all frickin' awesome and so empowering. Every Bitcoiner should run their own server and node. Do it!

Do you see this? Day 3 asking for help on which relays I should add and how to add them

3 days in a row posting on nostr. How am I doing?

This has been very helpful. Thank you everyone. I realize my problem with relays means that no one can even see my plea for help so I guess I'm infinitely just stuck here talking to myself. Yippee. Also, how is there not one single guide on nostr relays that exists online. What have you guys been doing? View quoted note →