Yes but not because I have any faith in the system. Voting takes little effort and it might cause me to be less persecuted as a Bitcoiner. 

 They appear to be 100% down. I can't get to the dashboard page and my miner has failed to a backup pool. 

 They replied on the bird site that they are aware of the issue and that they are working on it.  

 Back online as of 20 minutes ago or so.  

 Download Alby Go from zap.store:
https://albygo.com/

In Alby Hub app store add the friends and family app - scan the QR code with Alby Go, you are ready to go.  

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 Got it, thank you! 

 What's your point? Don't vote for Trump? Vote for Harris because Trump lies?

I don't have to simp for Trump, donate money to him, or campaign for him. Taking 5 minutes to vote for him and maybe he will #FreeRoss is pretty low effort. If he lied about everything we are still almost certainly better off than with four more years of Obama 2.0.

I get that no politician is going to save us but I'd rather not try to push for my own persecution. 

 Absolutely! Trump won't save anyone but based on his past administration he will very likely leave us alone. #Bitcoin was largely left alone to flourish between 2016-2020. Would Bitcoin look the same today if Hillary won the 2016 election? 

 It works for me. Have successfully received payments with Ocean and Bolt12. 

 My dog does the same. Sometimes I think she is cold blooded and needs to absorb sunlight like a lizard. 

 GPG sign all the things! 

 I think you are correct. I'm very sure it has always been mandatory. Who would sign up otherwise? If you wanted to serve you would just enlist.  

 Zapped but it didn't show up. 21 sats. 

 Tried to zap this one too, 21 sats. Not showing up.  

 I zapped you. I run my own Core Lightning node and use Zeus to manage it.  

 Yeah, zapped the wrong post there. 

 What we know:

The Biden administration has been hostile toward #Bitcoin for the last 3 years. 

The previous Trump administration was a disorganized clown show. The establishment used it's full energy to eject the outsider from politics. Bitcoin was mostly left alone to flourish.

We can't expect politicians to help Bitcoin but based on past history and current political pandering it appears likely that Trump won't get in Bitcoin's way.

A pro-Bitcoin single issue voter should vote for Trump. 

 Voting is pretty low effort so maybe it's worth it but whatever. Just don't vote for the guy that has been openly hostile toward #Bitcoin for 3 years.  

 Ouch! That's a big channel! 
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 What pool are you mining with? I thought you could only solo mine with #bitaxe 

 I love Braiins and have mined with them for years. Sadly I can no longer support them as long as they are part of the Antpool cartel.

I also run a Core Lightning node which supports BOLT12 so Ocean pool is a great fit for me.  

 This is what I was referring to:
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitmain-antpool-pool-of-pools-report/
Historically Bitmain has been an enemy of #Bitcoin dating back to the Blocksize War and their support of bcash. 

 Not mentioned in that text is the fact that 3rd parties invented the app store and then Apple adopted it. People jailbroke IOS and installed 3rd party app repos line Cydia. After Apple saw that there was demand an official Apple App Store followed.  

 Down to one cup a day. Going to go to zero in the next week, trying to taper so the headache isn't as bad.  

 I agree. A Bitaxe in every home! Soon one lucky Bitaxe miner will find a block. We need many multiples more home miners.  

 I would be interested in #Bitcoin accounting software for personal accounting that runs on #Linux. Currently I use an online solution that works well but is obviously terrible for privacy and if the company disappears my records are gone. I'll be keeping an eye on this project.  

 I dumped #Signal after they pushed scam coin "mobilecoin". 

 I would port forward through your router to a VM or other low end machine running wireguard. Then from that machine running wireguard you can point the 0.0.0.0/0 route to your physical router which is hopefully running a wireguard tunnel to your provider.

Important: you will likely need a route from the VPN provder back into your network for your wireguard subnet on your "user" device.  

 100%. Then you can get upgrades as soon as they are released and update one package at a time and run on reasonable hardware (no one should be running a Raspberry Pi node these days). You no longer have to push the Umbrel update button and hope for the best.  

 A channel to Alby will route a lot of payments and earn you fees. I have had a channel to podcast index for a long time and basically never route traffic to them. 

You could open channels to the nodes of individual content creators to give them inbound liquidity, especially if they don't have many channels to their node. 

 That literally made me lol. 

 You end up being a first class citizen running #Bitcoin and #Lightning applications on #Linux. Not so much with BSD were you probably have to compile from source or Windows where many supplications aren't supported at all.  

 Bolt 12 is lightning native, no web server required. Just run a node with some inbound liquidity and you're done. 

LND needs to stop with the TapAss stuff and get Bolt 12 implemented.  

 LNURL is a meh stopgap. Many people can probably run a small personal lightning node but can they run a BTCpay server on clearnet? Or worse yet run a custodial LNURL. If we are trusting 3rd parties what are we even doing here? 

 This is pretty excellent. I set it up with my Core Lightning node. Now just waiting to hit a block and get an instant payout!

Bolt 12 is the way to go with this vs LNURL. The only problem is that people don't really understand self custodial Bolt 12 because they are used to trusted 3rd party easy mode lightning address. I think most node runners can get Bolt 12 running, a much easier lift than self custodial LNURL. LND's disinterest in Bolt 12 in favor of working on TapAss is really holding lightning back. 
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 lnbits is awesome. Braiins is asking for a lightning address for payouts which has a dependency on public DNS so I think your lnbits instance would need to be publicly accessible on clearnet. Also you have to run a lightning node AND lnbits. With Bolt 12 you only need the node and Tor only is fine. 

The only issue with Bolt 12 is that LND is dragging their feet on supporting it which is an LND problem. 

 I would absolutely choose something that is part of the official lightning specification over an add on solution which requires a web server. LND ignoring a standards based approach with their implementation doesn't make Bolt 12 the wrong choice. 

Also from Ocean:
"Using BOLT12 also allows us to prove to the world that a payment was made, the size of the payment, the node to which it was paid, and that it was paid by us."

Is the same true for lnurl (I don't know the answer but I doubt it).

Keysend is a poor option because there is no way to show who a payment came from. 

 I'm all set to receive the Bolt 12 payout, now we just need to find a block!

And again to reinterate, configuring Bolt 12 for this is so much easier than everything that goes into lightning address (like Braiins is using), unless you have a trusted 3rd party do the lightning address for you but that isn't how I do things. 

LND not supporting Bolt 12 is an LND problem, not a Bolt 12 problem. 

Side note: I've run both LND and Core Lightning for a couple years. The LND interface might be more user friendly and more apps support LND but otherwise Core Lightning is better in every way.  

 @Luke Dashjr - is there a way to disable bolt12 payouts after I have it activated and working? I know I could switch addresses but then I have to start building up shares again.  

 This worked. Thanks Luke. 

 Yes, of course! 

I tried to leave the TB1 showing from the address and the low block reward of 0.46 is a give away.

I was trying out Stratum v2:
https://stratumprotocol.org/ 

 Ha, in the process of doing the same thing. BitcoinLizard's days on Twitter are numbered. I think the domain and lightning/btcpay server will survive but no guarantees. 

I have a new nym picked out as a Nostr identity but I'm not sure how much I'll post. 

 I took Matt's advice and tried out Stratum v2 on Testnet and mined a block. It's not that difficult! Certainly the big corporate miners should be able to figure it out.
https://bitcoinlizard.net/nostr/mined.png
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 I love that little pickaxe icon so I extracted the public key from core. I couldn't resist! 

 I ran a #Bitcoin Core testnet node on my main beefy desktop machine and then the required rust applications as documented on the Stratum protocol website. I used an s9 but that was taking too long to find a block so I pointed an s19 at it for a bit and found 2 blocks in 30 minutes or so.
https://stratumprotocol.org/ 

 I don't care to debate the morality of the redistribution of this money. I just see this as another eye opening moment - If you have a disagreement with the party that controls the money they may take it from you and give it to your enemy. 

 No BS #Bitcoin is the best! Just subscribe to their RSS feed and you no longer need to scroll #Nostr and Twitter all day to know what's going on. Throw them some sats if you can!
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 The taproot activation was fun because you showed the p2tr receiving addresses popping up in the mempool and ultimately getting the funds confirmed. We could see that the soft fork had worked! This is not as exciting. 

 Very interesting feeds for the more technically minded. The taproot activation feed was excellent.
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 Dinner is served! 

 Congrats Peter!

I imagine next season or the following it starts to get pretty difficult to advance on the first try but best of luck to you to keep it going! 

 I would like this as well, I guess maybe I should throw in for a bounty if I want is so bad!

Indeed, it seems to be slower than the old c-lightning-rest shim. I used to use RTL with c-lightning-rest and now use it with clnrest and it was faster with c-lightning-rest. Still, I'd rather use the native option and shut off c-lightning-rest. 

 @ZEUS - FYI I think your ability to receive Zaps is busted. I couldn't Zap you from my node or Phoenix. 

 It went through. I did 2 payments of 100 sats, they just took a while apparently.

Keep up the good work, love your wallet! 

 Delete you profile picture and other profile information. If anyone asks if you posted that stuff say "It wasn't me" Shaggy style. 

 I'm disappointed to see that Braiins seems to have joined in as well. 

We are not doomed, we just need Stratum v2 now and miners should only mine with pools that allow them to use their own block templates.  

 But spinning up a web server and depending on public DNS is a pretty meh solution. Also Bolt12 has reciever side privacy. 

People with influence should be calling out the LND team for their lack of support.

https://bolt12.org/ 

 Bolt12 is better in every way except for the fact that the development team behind the most popular Lightning implementation would rather work on TapAss.