I just had the same thing happen on Snort. To bad you are unlikely to see my reply to your message! 

 I think that's right.

One thing I've learned from failed attempts at "orange pilling" is that you can't sell something to someone who believes they have no need for that thing. If "normies" are generally happy with their current social media platforms they don't have a strong enough incentive to learn a new platform. If/When they realize they need a censorship resistant platform #nostr will be there for them. 

 This is insane! Someone opened a channel to me with a fee that was too low to confirm. I took the TX ID and used this tool and viaBTC mined the TX! I'm not sure why they are doing this since it is costing the pool money so I wouldn't expect this to be around long term but enjoy it while you can! 

 I currently have 198 peer connections to my #Bitcoin node and have only 1 peer with whom I have a v2 Transport connection. At least I know it works but we have a long way to go! 

 I think it will go lower. The degens will run out of money eventually. 

Now fee pressure from an ETF approval and #bitcoin price ripping, that fee pressure will be pretty persistent. 

 Well it works so that's cool!  What wallet were you using? 

 Look at it as the KYC-free premium. Also I'm not having to use natural gas to heat my home in the winter. I'm going to be mining for a long time! 

 As a node runner for a couple years now I generally agree with your sentiment. However you aren't doing yourself any favors running LND. Switch to Core Lightning and be happy (or happier at least). 

 I think this is the right move for Braiins and I hope they attract more hash as a result of the change.

The only downside I see is there is no way to accurately pay out the transaction fees since miners are paid proactively rather than based on the fees collected in a block. Those fees have been pretty material for a while now.  

 Here is the problem. On a new Phoenix wallet with a newly opened channel all of the liquidity is on your side of the channel. As a result you don't have any inbound liquidity to receive a lightning transaction so Phoenix does a submarine swap which increases the size of you channel but is an expensive on chain transaction due to the current backlog of transactions in the mempool.

If you were to do a bunch of spends from your Phoenix wallet in the form of many zaps or a purchase at Bitrefill or something, those sats would move to the other side of the channel. You would then have a good amount of inbound liquidity and a transaction like the one you are trying to receive would come through as a regular lightning payment with very minimal fees.

Phoenix is an excellent wallet but since it's non-custodial you do have to think about channel management to a degree. 

 In that case I don't see the problem. On chain transactions are expensive at the current time.  

 You are a legend!

@ODELL gave @MartyBent a hard time about getting on normie social media but if this wakes up a couple of people by "meeting them where they're at" it is 100% worth it.  

 IMO pools can mine whatever transactions they want and miners can choose to mine with them or not. 

Ocean's sin was acting in bad faith by false advertising about their pool. 

 From what I've seen from salty no-coiners on Twitter and at my workplace we are already past that point. 

 I think so and hope so. I always marvel at how many things Satoshi had right out of the gate. These inscription folks can broadcast transactions forever but at the end of the day they have to pay the fee. Only they can decide how long and how much they want to pay. Most likely they will reach their limit and then I can force close my AWOL lightning channel partner. 

 I don't know why more people don't set this up. It's no problem!
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 Same. Self-Sovereign Zapping is the way.
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 I don't understand why more people don't do this, it's easy!
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 My primary account includes only F-Droid apps and a few that I sideload that don't depend on Google Services. I spend 98% of my time here. 

I have a secondary user account with sandboxed Google Services installed and a handful of apps that require it.  

 Some apps require Google Services and won't function without it. Most often it seems to be for notifications but it can be for other things as well. 

As an example I sideload the Twitter app. It works 100% except for notifications which is cool with me. Other apps just won't work without Google Services but I find that most do minus notifications. 

 Core Lightning is fantastic and noncustodial. You could open one channel to a large node. That gives you a pretty good spending experience. 

Receiving Zaps is a much bigger issue. Noncustodial Zap receiving requires a BTCPay server and is technically challenging to set up. You also probably need to have your node connected over clearnet to reliably receive which presents privacy concerns.  

 You can do this!
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 Well to be honest I'm pretty locked in to amethyst because I find it to be the best experience.

I do use Snort on the desktop though.  

 The only thing keeping me going is that all of the electricity I'm burning for the last 49 hours with no reward is heating my house. 

 Yeah, you have to close all your channels and start from scratch. If you don't have too many channels it's completely worth it in my opinion.  

 You can certainly feel them trying to program you.

I would like to dump it completely but I do feel like there is good value in the macro content as well as the diet and fitness content.  Not too much in the way of quality #Bitcoin content like there was several years ago. 

 What about a "crypto" reality show? Best (or worst) of both worlds. 

 This is outstanding! Thank you for adding this. I run GrapheneOS with no Google Play services. I install the X app via APK and without Google Play services there is no possible way to receive notifications (I'm fine with this actually). Now with Amethyst I am able to receive notifications. Amethyst is more of a 1st class citizen on my anti-Google phone than the X app! Great work! 

 Very likely you will have to allow write all for the Amethyst topic. I've set this up for my Synapse Home Server and that is the recommended approach for a locked down personal NTFY server. This guide is very helpful for a personal NTFY server:

https://docs.ntfy.sh/config/#access-control 

 It worked for a Zap with my own NTFY server! I found that it didn't work for a direct message. 

If people have access control setup on their NTFY personal server they will need to run something like this to allow the notifications:

ntfy access '*' 'up***********' write-only

https://bitcoinlizard.net/nostr/ntfy.jpg 

 Ah, i didn't get the IM from the test npub I setup so DM probably works. Someone please send me a test DM. 

 Charlie has a really interesting past with #Bitcoin. He is a true OG. Too bad he went the altcoin route in recent years.  

 Yeah, I don't feel like he is a grifter like most altcoin folks. He ran a business that helped a lot of people stack early on, went to prison, and when he got out #Bitcoin had moved on without him. I think he was just trying to get back in and altcoiners will welcome anyone with own arms. 

 Any chance you could implement Unified Push for us non-Google services users? 

https://unifiedpush.org/ 

 You've done the hard stuff so you can get there if you want to. BTCPay server is like magic and does so many things well. Getting up and running with BTCPay takes some work but once you have it running and have a Lightning Node connected the LN Address and Nostr parts are easy. 

 And then after all of that I can't Zap you! Looks like I need a channel to StackerNews as well. Jeesh!

I have no idea why Core Lightning won't bother to try more than 1 route.

https://bitcoinlizard.net/nostr/error.png 

 This is because the fee is too high as a percentage of the total payment. I can Zap you via the Core Lightning CLI. I suspect I can put something in the Core Lightning config to have the small payments be reliable as long as I'm willing to pay routing fees that are greater than the actual invoice amount.  

 With WoS shutting down in the US I thought this might be relevant to some. Roll your own Lightning Zapping setup and become unruggable!
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 Very cool, I'll check back later to see if the payment completes successfully.

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 Regardless of the recipient's ability to solder the proper etiquette is to provide the Raspberry Pi Zero with the headers already attached IMO. 

 Congrats and boosted! 

 Thanks for the sats! 

 A lot of open source Android programs leverage NTFY for notifications, you may want to check it out. It works for users that don't run google services. It works great!

https://ntfy.sh/ 

 This note is absolute fire. I've never heard "Our Democracy" described so accurately. You have hit the nail right on the head with this one. 

 This is outstanding! 

 Never! 

 Fall is the best time of year. Nice weather, football season in full swing, and time with family ahead in the upcoming holiday season.  

 This is very good news. I have a forced close lightning TX that has been floating in the mempool for months and i think it has a great chance to confirm this weekend or sooner! 

 Nah, I'm doing chest and triceps.  Who do you think I am?  Batman?

https://bitcoinlizard.net/nostr/batman.jpg 

 If this is resulting in force closes then I think blocking is completely valid.

Also, no one should run LND. 

 How do you block zaps to a certain lightning address domain? 

 Well I guess that won't happen! 

Ironically I use Zeus as the front end to my CLN node and I'm not going to be coding up any changes to block LNURL to zeuspay! 

 They are a pointless waste of sats in my opinion but they are paying customers so they can do as they wish. I hedge by mining at home to offset my higher transaction fees.

Also, a number of shortcomings in Lightning have been exposed thanks to the high fees. I look at the whole inscriptions thing as a tool to further harden #Bitcoin 

 Did I miss something?

I mean, I agree. It's terrible. I've run Core Lighting for a year or so now and been much happier.

LND sure garnered a ton of network effect by being fairly user friendly and getting application support out of the gate.  Now the technical debt is piling up. 

 On the plus side it looks like your email alert worked.  

 They are going to generate a 5% return by lending #Bitcoin. I'm sure this is going to end well!