Hi π Jeff! Loved this episode and wondered if you could elaborate a bit more on what you mean with economic nodes vs regular nodes and how you spend your sats if most of the goods and services donβt really accept BTC or lightning payments?
I would really like to spend and replace, but canβt see the possibility yet in my country (NL) π¬ππ
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Running an economic node means using your node regularly to verify the Bitcoin you are receiving. Simply holding Bitcoin does not make your node economic. So you need to be either stacking regularly or spending and replacing. A nice thread on it here (refreshed my memory too π)

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tl;dr Your node becomes an economic node when you use it to accept payments in bitcoin. Also: hodlers have no special power to affect the outcome o...