Just had an exciting moment that my normie friends will never appreciate.

I bought a couple beers.

...But it was more than that. I bought a couple beers with Bitcoin.

...But it was more than that. I bought a couple beers in Lugano Switzerland with lightning, through Zeus wallet with my own lightning channel, connected to Alby Hub, running on my Start9 node, on my shelf in my office back home in Canada.

So yes, I just bought a couple beers. But it was fucking exciting.

https://image.nostr.build/49abde134e31b5a4d25b8d029402d771184a46a2699fe0ae45721acb1ad83d32.jpg


:Gigachad:


Just topped up my #silent.link esim, using my nostr:nprofile1qqsrf5h4ya83jk8u6t9jgc76h6kalz3plp9vusjpm2ygqgalqhxgp9gpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekxzmnyqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueq555fk2 wallet whilst in a cab in Russia. I know your excitement.
#fucksanctions


For your friend I have this message
https://m.primal.net/LgrW.jpg


Just set up  nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm on nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll today too. This is great stuff.


Onward 🫡

Onward 🫡


I just send money.

But not just money... The best money that ever existed.

But not just that...  I didn't need any company, and it could not have been stopped, by anyone!

But even crazier: it doesn't even matter how I send the transaction - any communication channel to anyone in the network is sufficient.

.... Yeah I send some money.


How does one connect to albyhub? Is free?


:orange-heart:


:fire:


:btc:


:zap:


Nice 🤙

Nice 🤙


Just wait until everything can be bought with sats!

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Zappy Zap ✌🏻

Zappy Zap ✌🏻


LFG!! 🚀

LFG!! 🚀


And when your normie friend asked you how that all worked you pointed them to about 10+hrs of video tutorials and several links to suppliers just for the how... Yeah, we're early... And you're earlier than most.


Tax that bitches 🍻


Simply amazing!! 🤩


You stole the spirit of the post I was going to make when I did this for the first time in Lugano 😆

Been using Alby Go in the same way and it’s so fucking dope


Wait how did you connect Zeus though? Does it accept NWC now?


We get it. I just zapped a pleb. It was fucking exciting.


🧡 this.


Unlicensed Beer Purchaser

Unlicensed Beer Purchaser


Unlicensed Beer Purchaser.


Onward 🫡

Onward 🫡


Fuckin’ A

Fuckin’ A


Aye 🏴☠

Aye 🏴☠


OMG its crazy cool, this part "...But it was more than that" adding more and mode depth)

nostr:note1c9tvygctwwepdntjktfxqtztzf5rq5wwwllupsfzpndqu4d35xequh2nfp


🍑GM

🍑GM


Be your own bank.

nostr:nevent1qqsvz4kzyv9h8vske4et95nq9393y6ps28880l7qcy3qeksw2kc6rvspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygqe3yp5u44c7crvwf85tgfvap9prpqkyx40wxp2rajkgwqtn3p8dvpsgqqqqqqszwvv4c


They will … long-game 😉


Fantastic!


Cheers 🍻

Cheers 🍻


Zeus does it via lnd connect, which there's an option for on the web interface.


You can self host on your own node for free or you can cloud host for a monthly fee.

If you have start 9 or umbrel just download the app on it and follow the steps 👍


Getting my node going with channels and nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 was THE game changer


Need to set that up on my Umbrel


Just my...

Just my...


He's like, "I can buy beers too bro."


This is the way.


So beautiful that I'm crying...


Nice!  I know how you feel. I just bought 3 donuts at a coffee shop in Portland Maine, using my Zues wallet, connected to my lightning node running on my Start9 server. That was my second LN purchase and it happened this past Saturday

The cashier had been working there a year and I was the first BTC customer. The owner had to come out from the back and we had to do a lot of math to get the USD to sats conversion. I also had to have my sister restart my start9 an hour earlier as my Zues app would not connect. So still some technical difficulties to smooth out. But yeah…. Hell Yeah!


Onward 🫡

Onward 🫡


An average day in a bitcoiner life.
I mean: an amazing one 🤗


See you there!!!
Arriving tonight, really pumped for my first in person international Bitcoin conference!!
Have been listening to talks and pods for years, couldn't attend a international bitcoin conference till now


Great !

Great !


That moment you realize 80% of everything you've done has been facilitated by at least one 3rd party and you don't need them any more.

Pretty fuggin' sweet if'n ya ask me.

nostr:note1c9tvygctwwepdntjktfxqtztzf5rq5wwwllupsfzpndqu4d35xequh2nfp


Lfg


Zap Zap 🕺

Zap Zap 🕺


Just had an exciting moment that my normie friends will never appreciate.

I bought a couple beers.

...But it was more than that. I bought a couple beers with Bitcoin.

...But it was more than that. I bought a couple beers in Lugano Switzerland with lightning, through Zeus wallet with my own lightning channel, connected to Alby Hub, running on my Start9 node, on my shelf in my office back home in Canada.

So yes, I just bought a couple beers. But it was fucking exciting.

https://image.nostr.build/49abde134e31b5a4d25b8d029402d771184a46a2699fe0ae45721acb1ad83d32.jpg


Zapped by Horszt!

Zapped by Horszt!


Did you install Alby Hub over an existing instance of LND on your Start9 with open channels? If yes, how?


I can’t wait til I grow up one day and I too can wear my big boy pants


Self-custodial zap from my Alby Hub 🫡

Self-custodial zap from my Alby Hub 🫡


cheers to that 🍻


You guys still have Normie friends??


💪🏼Fuck Yeah🔥

💪🏼Fuck Yeah🔥


Fuck Yeah!


primal won't connect to my start9 private relay...any troubleshooting tips?


Heck yeah boi 🚀


You guys have friends?? https://m.primal.net/KaiX.png


Let's go 🚀

Let's go 🚀


Few


Onward 🫡

Onward 🫡


Bitcoin is not for buying beers


It's a process over time and space.  Well done and thanks for sharing.  Inspiring.


Do you understand how insanely complicated that is?


Nice post! 😁

Nice post! 😁


You can install Alby Hub over LND and open/manage channels there, which is easier than in LND. nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 has a great video about it.


Free if you host it, subscription to use their hosting.


Watched your excellent video on Alby Hub. I now have a similar setup.


Crispy


Bitcoin is for buying everything and anything


Do you understand how insanely self sovereign it is?

Also the main point is that all this will be automated and obfuscated for the average user.


Initially I did it with my existing lnd but my channels were pretty wonky so I started from scratch and it works WAY better now


“Sacrifice convenience. Until then, you are not free.”


It's not though...


Yeah my LND connect has been giving me tons of trouble. Been super disappointed. nostr:npub1wnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn66gf2c428tdrptqq3n3wr has said it works fantastic for him. I just get constant disconnects, and the past 3 weeks it’s almost nothing but random RPC errors for seemingly no reason.


I got same setup with Alby Go and S9 living in ES


This is cool. I want to find places to do the same thing 😉

nostr:note1c9tvygctwwepdntjktfxqtztzf5rq5wwwllupsfzpndqu4d35xequh2nfp


Onward 🫡

Onward 🫡


🐝 Self-custodial zap straight from my Alby Hub 🐝


That's how I feel for 3 weeks now travelling in Guatemala and El Salvador

nostr:note1c9tvygctwwepdntjktfxqtztzf5rq5wwwllupsfzpndqu4d35xequh2nfp


Enough to make a grown man cry 🧡


Awesome to read that  nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8. I am travelling across El Salvador and Guatemala, paying for stuff multiple times a day, EVERYDAY, in different citties, with my Alby Hub on Umbrel Home that's in Warsaw, Poland, connected through  nostr:npub19hg5pj5qmd3teumh6ld7drfz49d65sw3n3d5jud8sgz27avkq5dqm7yv9p to Alby Go.

I though it will get boring, but hell no, feels magical EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.


It’s a sublime feeling.
Had that in 2021 when paying at McDonalds and the beer tap at the Sheraton in El Salvador. The setup, however, was more simple with a Raspiblitz connected via Tor through a nostr:npub1psl8hfx9dx49vkepj8tcm8t30pv2l408nqfchfhj2kqtk3rl0e9sf2th8t Lightning-Node.
Felt like a pioneer.


Just had an exciting moment that my normie friends will never appreciate.

I bought a couple beers.

...But it was more than that. I bought a couple beers with Bitcoin.

...But it was more than that. I bought a couple beers in Lugano Switzerland with lightning, through Zeus wallet with my own lightning channel, connected to Alby Hub, running on my Start9 node, on my shelf in my office back home in Canada.

So yes, I just bought a couple beers. But it was fucking exciting.

https://image.nostr.build/49abde134e31b5a4d25b8d029402d771184a46a2699fe0ae45721acb1ad83d32.jpg


Beer day 2034


Great post 👍

Great post 👍


self-custodial zaps? 🐝 From #AlbyHub

self-custodial zaps? 🐝 From #AlbyHub


Glad to see you Ben, enjoy the forum and Switzerland


What's the name of the shop? How much did you pay? Have prices been stable? How does the business pay its suppliers?


Lets go 🫡

Lets go 🫡


@ronniegrob @schweizermonat

@ronniegrob @schweizermonat


YES YES YES

YES YES YES


Very Kool beers!


What version of everything? Any shitty service that's restarting all the time on your server?


I’ll investigate again when I get back, sessions was saying he was getting the same thing until Albyhub, but it’s connecting with the same tool. Seems like it’s likely something weird with whatever service that’s running it rather than LND connect specifically.


I know this feeling. At the 4 day German BTC Event "Zitadelle" me and my son paid everything with Zeus connected via LNC restricted accounts from our home node. Only bad internet connection was annoying sometimes.


Onward 🫡

Onward 🫡


No Stronly 🫡

No Stronly 🫡


Not as cool as buying beers, but I used the EXACT same setup last night to zap a guy his first non custodial zaps.


I can imagine how happy you were. But somehow I got tired just thinking about how much work it was for you to do this. The energy you used, which could have been used on other projects. It makes me think that it's not scalable, which makes it very difficult for the community to get on board. It would be much easier to just use #Monero.


Man I barely didn't get it.


and on top of that, a couple of strangers zapped you sats to buy even more🧡 what a beautiful world it could be


This is my goal for 2025. Maybe not for beers in Lugano, let’s instead make it beers in Vegas at the end of May.


Great post 👍

Great post 👍


yeah I know that feeling!


It is and 99% of the population will never go through this


Sure.

But 99% of the population will never go through this.

Most can’t even understand it.


They don't need to.


It’s really cool that it just worked and that you were in control of pretty much all of it.  Things should be like this without being told when and where you can spend your money.


It's a great feeling being sovereign
nostr:nevent1qqsvz4kzyv9h8vske4et95nq9393y6ps28880l7qcy3qeksw2kc6rvspzamhxue69uhkzarvv9ejumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtczyqvcjq6w26u0vpk8yn695ykwsjs3sstzr2hhrq4p7ety8q9ecsnkkqcyqqqqqqgz54lax


Doing too much. Global adoption may be just a little longer than I anticipated 😔


this could be improved , npub log in or something


#nostr 🫴❤


new link https://defconradio.github.io


omg


Cheers 🍻

Cheers 🍻


Onward 🫡

Onward 🫡