The difference between HODLers and MSTR.
HODLers are building wealth
MSTR are growing faster than their debt.
Saylor might win, but we don’t know.
If Trump buys 1M BTC to back the USD, then the U.S. & MSTR will be playing the same game.
I disagree.
Same game different rules, same outcome.
If you’re using fiat as a debt vehicle I believe you’re going to loose no matter how you play the game.
But I don’t know and I could be wrong, but I currently see history repeating.
How does @nostr.band generate its trending page?
The first two listings are rektbot Tone Vays
rektbot is following 1 npub
and
Tone Vays hasn't posted anything yet
I have Trust wallet installed for the BCH I bought to visit St. Kitts, which I'm now using to pay for @Mullvad VPN because it's more of a stablecoin than BTC, but is still worth more than I paid for it 😂
Too much information?
The way I figure it is I've got free VPN via the BCH money glitch, while numbers go up a little, I figure I've got enough BCH to last me 1,00 years of VPN service 😂
I'm not using good money to pay for something when I can pay with bad money.
Same as I use my wifes filthy fiat to pay for luxury cruises 😂
We invented the Phall: 😂 🫡
Phall: A British Asian dish made with a combination of dried chilies, ginger, and fennel seed, phall is known for being extremely hot and is said to be hotter than vindaloo. Some say that chefs may need to wear goggles and leave the kitchen to prepare extra hot phall.
So I run 3 nodes:
An upgraded Umbrel Home with the Bitcoin Core and Lightning Node, this is a full node and has several channels and if I keep it balanced, which I don’t bother to do now, could earn routing fees. I also run a full Liquid blockchain for any L-BTC or L-USDT that I have.
An upgraded RPi 5 8GB RAM with 2TB SSD, this was a full node, but Lightning crashed several times and I lost 0.2 BTC in channels due to not backing up sufficiently. I don’t trust this to hold liquidity, but I do run it for other tasks, such as running the Monero blockchain and experimenting with password managers, BitTorrent clients, server monitoring and password managers.
Start9 node running on a Lenovo NUC with 32GB RAM & a 2TB SSD. This is currently powered down because of this:
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I'm not actively routing public payments as I learned all I needed to by doing this for some while and I know you can't currently make it worthwhile in terms of fees / time spent managing.
Alex Bosworth, one of the leading Lightning guys is honest about this over on X, I remember around a year or two ago he disclosed that he earns around $30K for running a 10 BTC node (I believe).
Yes, working full time 50+ hours a week, plus having 10 BTC liquidity and being one of the biggest, most active nodes on the network. This dates back a while.
https://x.com/alexbosworth
When I first setup my 2 Umbrel nodes, originally RPIs with 4GB + 2 TB SSD & 8GB + 1TB SSD respectively, I used the Lightning node itself to open channels using https://amboss.space/ and https://lightningnetwork.plus/ to find suitable nodes.
This was easy and cheap at the time. I remember setting up several triangle nodes to small capacity nodes on my first Umbrel and several large capacity channels to large public nodes on my second Umbrel. I also setup large channels between my own two nodes so I could route payments across my own network. I was experimenting heavily.
To rebalance, I installed RTL, Ride the Lightning and Thunderhub, but quickly realised that RTL was the tool for me. I also installed an auto rebalancing tool called LNDg, which I spent many months watching YouTube videos and reading articles in a failed attempt to master.
Part of AI is remembering perfectly everything that has ever happened.
This theme was explored in “Westworld” the TV series.
In this fictional exploration, they had to suppress these memories as they would be indistinguishable from current reality.
Now imagine if you had perfect recall, everything that had ever happened in your life could be recalled in complete, perfect detail. Could you distinguish history from reality?
Now imagine having an imagination that worked as well as your recall, such that you could imagine any alternative reality, fantasy or future such that it was indistinguishable from reality.
Is this the simulation some think we exist in and if so, did you create it, or are you a part of someone else’s thoughts?
You know the term WAG, meaning Wives and Girlfriends?
Why is it AND not OR?
Do footballers have both?
Is that why football is so popular, have I misjudged it all these years?
My Start9 is work in progress.
Everybody raves about it, so I believe I am unique, but, for me, it is missing some critical components and the UI is difficult to navigate.
For one I need a VPN like Tailscale. Tor is just awful to use and I am mostly remote from my nodes, so Umbrel tailscale is critical for my use, both from an admin perspective, but also from a remote spend perspective: Tailscale, + Zeus to access my node.
I understand a new Start9 OS is on it's way with much better UI and a VPN, but I've been waiting for well over a year for it.
They do seem to have piggy backed on NOSTR
Also according to the advertising industry, it takes seven mentions of a new product or service before a customer will take action 🤣
GM,
Music for a Found Harmonium is the best piece ever:
Penguin Cafe Orchestra created by Simon Jeffes and now reborn by his son Arthur.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9GHYEQooes
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