I would not recommend running a lightning node.....🏴‍☠️
 https://image.nostr.build/07b2e77163ff251fda8f14074b425a97dc7f73dff3e00bab06a0ed0b488d5371.png 

 Uhhh...nobody uses the 30k dollars that I have at risk as it is... what would you do....It still runs,just at a super loss..... my sat stack is shrinking as we speak...LOL... 

 Well...I'm no expert, but I have been playing the game and based on my experiences these are some thoughts.. I use a software that automatically adjusts fees based on demand...picking channels is a total guessing game for the most part. most channels only flow in one direction so they don't really balance themselves and It costs money to open any channels in the first place to boot.  Sat's can get stuck in limbo if someone pulls a dick move on you in force closing a channel....one of my channels has been full for a couple of months...It never moves anything out only ever received inbound traffic..I am running 9 channels should be enough reach I would think, for at least a little bit of action. I haven't given up but it sure is a sad story...LOL.. 

 I admire your spirit...what type of content are you aiming to produce? If it's bitcoin stuff especially, you can count me in as a future zapper.... 

 you are truly a fountain of truth. I'm young/old at the same time....lived like a playboy and now well beyond 45 with no kids or "life partner" to come visit me or beg me for satoshis when I'm old and me and my dog are in an old folks home somewhere. I fucked up and I know it....I could just never get the stars to align ever for myself. or maybe I was afraid....who knows......so now I hang with the cool people on nostr for kicks...🦒....(<--this was as close as I could get to a nostritch on short notice.) 

 no problem....let me know what you need me to do. 

 I like it.. initially I only had the browser extension linked to Alby which was linked directly to my LN node... the issue I had was that the wallet showed the whole balance of my node, which was millions on satoshis......once I sideloaded Albyhub on my Start9 I was able to "Uncle Jim" a couple of wallets via the friends & family app and all problems were solved...now I have a wallet just for fun zapping that doesn't have access to the balance of my node... It only shows the 25,000 satoshi balance(when topped up) and I can easily see when someone sends me a zap. Thanks Alby....none of this is easy, but once I figured everything out, I have been having a blast with it. 

 I've only been here a couple of months I'm not really able to set up anything... Boy I got some world class gnarly feet though.... and for a few extra sats I can even send private pics of when I had athletes foot last year... Thank you for responding with actual advice though. 

 This is just something I've personally noticed along the way. I've been here for about 2 months.. People who are here already love bitcoin and they see all the zaps that copy posting gets and in the universal effort to stack sats they begin to do the same thing.. versus the zero zaps or responses you get when you post a new or individual thought without a picture... I want sats personally and have considered just falling in line with the other zombie re-posters.....I run a Lightning node at a loss, I still don't know why, I should just worry about myself. I consider myself a digital pan handler.... no matter how much I react or respond, there is barely any activity in my wallet...honestly Jor. You are my greatest benefactor since coming here.... My whole life practically revolves around bitcoin.. I love it and I love bitcoiners, but jealousy creeps in.. sorry for the long reply, but It's unlikely anyone will read it... Keep the faith and keep those dreams alive.. Give Arnie a pat on the head for me... 

 Thank you Yogi, as you can tell I'm actually elated someone can be drawn in without a graphic. I hope you have a great day!
 

 C'est mon mème préféré de tous les temps... Merci de republier. 

 are you really missing a leg??
 

 I'd still tune in either way...
 

 raw New Englanders are always in tune... 

 I'm here representing Maine... don't judge the whole state based on my jugheadery. 

 OMG....my first foray into Linux...A giant RHL 6.1 book that came with a free disk in the back cover. bought from the bookstore..hard to belive I was alive way back then. 

 noStrudel is my favorite...it's not as pretty as others, but is more capable with the "other stuff". 

 this is whi i follow i saw you on green candle youtube and have been looking for your words since...go preuvian bull
 

 please tell me. im to drunk to think
 

 hello I see you popping up in some of the broadcasts I watch so i'm going to follow you too cheers 

 but corn is yello
 

 Legendary response!.... The original email was poorly written and meant to cause alarm, but carries a valid message within..... the first rule of Bitcoin is do not invest more than you are prepared to lose. Secondly, your transactions are not private and wallets are sketchy, sometimes they may or may not have backdoors......digital currency IS enevitable, we are in a digital age from here on out. Bitcoin still has many challenges, it is not the guaranteed winner. Just because it makes sense to you and me, doesn't mean it will be in the final adoption plan anywhere. We barely got cryptography, just by the skin of our teeth..... there are many bitcoiners, and we surround ourselves daily with bitcoin talk in these echo chambers, but honestly... There really aren't that many of us..... I am personally hopeful for a bitcoin future, the awesome one that everyone else wants, but I live in reality and sometimes things happen that don't make sense. Nobody can see into the future, So God Bless Bitcoiners and my our quest for a better world be fulfilled....Raining love on anyone who read this far.... 

 I agreed with this so much that I decided to declare this fact to my facebook friends too.... still awaiting responses. 

 yea....I wasn't going to mention anything but you owe me 21 sats for this reply.. 

 Primal removed 4 notes from my profile on their page...thankfully I was messing around with noStrudel at the same time and had cached my own data... I was able to post a screen shot of the missing posts. then all of a sudden I couldn't update any of the profile fields...there was human manipulation of my account for sure....  screenshots are still up to see @LocalLegend 

 Great shot of Arnie, what a good looking dog....his eyes are frickin wild! 

 That is the best reply ever.... no...actually...but I will say that Nostr is pretty censorship resistant.....I bet I'm on quite a few mute lists..... after getting banned from twitter back in the vax days....I wanted to see how "censorship resistant" Nostr is.... and I might have told some Nostr "celebrity" that they smelled like a loser during a note exchange because Primal.net deleted some of my notes(so much for censorship).... well that ended me up muted pretty hard....so up comes npub#2..#3..#4... I'm done testing Nostr....I kinda like the place. 

 There was a time when I used to use winamp all day long. I'd be playing music downloaded by 56.6k modem from napster. I'm so old.  

 I'll leave you alone, but I love telling folks about my first 486 pc (my first computer was a Commodore 64 with all the shit.I had the cassette recorder,floppy drive, dot matrix printer with a whole box of tractor fed paper)...Anyways my first 486 had a Pentium 90MHz processor and the board had integrated graphics and comms.... I felt like a pirate back then...things were more exciting. all my friends and I shared a single password for the dial-up so it was free....... now I comment on random strangers posts......you had to go and mention Winamp in a post...LOL...Cheers 

 sounds like the Commodore 64 I had or something similar, everything was in basic...I would buy magazines at the book store and type in pages of codes.....tandy also had a very popular model at the time that I can't remember the name of.....same idea, giant keyboard plugged into back of tv... I had color, but not sure if there were variants....Now I play with Linux distros.  and anything that promotes privacy or freedom. I only recently found Nostr...I dig the mobility of the npub.. good luck.  

 No....You gotta watch it like 25 times along with both T.V. series... before you get the badge. 

 I totally loved SG Atlantis..