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!
Maybe a caffeine reset every now and then but I have a hard time rationalizing stopping forever. After doing a lot of reading about coffee over the years #coffeechain seems to be a clear net positive for general health.
To put it quite simply, the problems with the world today that #Bitcoin is clearly the solution to are so blatantly obvious that if you haven't done your homework and bought some bitcoin, I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry.
Been running Arch as my daily driver since 2014 and very little trouble ever. The fear mongering around rolling distros is greatly exagerated. You also never have to worry about major version upgrades going sideways.
I've been thinking about Ross Ulbricht a lot recently following the SBF sentencing. I've decided that it was time to make a small donation to #FreeRoss. Many of us have been squeezed by inflation but we are almost certainly in a better spot than Ross. This man has done so much to further #Bitcoin adoption and we all owe him a debt of gratitude. If you can, throw him some sats:
https://freeross.org/donate/
Bonus: The site accepts donation via PayNym so I was able to send to Ross anonymously at +FreeRoss
There are so many shady things about Roger but you really don't have to look past this famous incident. He told everyone Mt. Gox was solvent and presumably used the other customers as exit liquidity and got his coins out of of there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP1YsMlrfF0
Glad there is another #Archlinux user on Nostr.
Some smarter people than myself took a deeper look and it appears the malicious code doesn't end up in the Arch binary due to differences in the build system of Fedora and Arch. None the less, everyone should still upgrade.
The arch install guide is pretty good. The only tricky part is the bootloader install, if you don't get that right the system won't boot. Also you probably want to disable secure boot in the uefi bios on your system.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_boot_process#Boot_loader
One thing to keep in mind. If you do install the system successfully, when it boots you just get a command prompt. Arch doesn't make any choices for you. You have to install your choice of GUI and useland tools on your own.
I'm not a developer but it seems far to risky. I think efforts should be put into enhancing monetary use cases with forks that enhance vaults and Lightning.
If Udi promotes anything that is an obvious red flag.
I would implore people to get a low end server, learn some #Linux, and just roll your own.
It takes more effort but you get updates from the developers quicker and I bet it's much more stable. Also you don't have to be #Tor only.
To be fair Fred was recently on the @Blue Collar Bitcoin podcast and mentioned his involvement with EOS. I can give him the benefit of the doubt and conclude that it just took him longer to get #Bitcoin.
However he shouldn't be promoting the use of lerverage shitcoin platforms for gambling on Bitcoin. Trading Bitcoin is a sure fire way to get rekt and especially with leverage.
@MartyBent and @ODELL didn't do a great job explaining the issue on #RHR. What you did is fine as I understand it. I think from what I saw on the bird app was that some people were using the automatic seed generation and then they thought they were adding entropy with dice rolls after the fact but were ending up with seeds with 1 dice roll of entropy and their funds would be stolen as soon as they were sent to the wallet.
I trust dice rolls more than the #Coldcard seed generation. The #SeedSigner has the same dice roll seed generation feature with the same algorithm so I enter my dice rolls into both at the same time to confirm that the Coldcard is using the correct seed (same one the SeedSigner generates). You might say I'm a bit paranoid!
Well you did tell people not to use the dice roll feature which would keep them safe and that's the most important thing.
Basically if you don't understand what's happening with the advanced features don't use them, sound advice.
I only care about the monetary use case of #Bitcoin. Don't you think that these NFT pump and dumps will always run their course when the degens run out of money for the fees? In the mean time this helped the miners when Bitcoin was trading at 20K. I don't think any action is needed to stop the degens, they will always run out of money.
Hi, I'm a Lizard. I used to watch sports ball and play video games. Now I run a Lightning node, exercise, and eat a low carb diet. I guess you could say I'm a cliché Bitcoiner.
Hello lightning node runners! I'm looking for a channel partner, preferably running Core Lightning. I would like to try a dual funded channel open. Contact me if you are interested.
This is the way! Just like #Bitcoin, we can't get people to use #Nostr until they feel like they actually need a decentralized and uncensored medium for communications. These Brazilian folks are realizing that they have that need and Nostr is ready for them.
I tried Fountain as my main podcast app a year ago. My main metric for a podcast app is, will I get in an accident using it while I'm driving. The answer was unequivocally yes with Fountain at that time. It was constantly messing up my queue or losing my place in the podcast.
I moved to Podverse which supports sat streaming and boosting and is GPL3 licensed. It's not perfect but it gets the job done with minimal messups. I don't feel a need to try closed source Fountain again.
The most obvious explanation to me is that Udi messed up somehow and lost all of his coins a couple years ago. He then started hating #Bitcoin and eventually decided to sell his reputation to recoup some of his loses. He is trying to destroy Bitcoin as he doesn't want to see any of his old Bitcoiner friends become fantasticly wealthy while he has fun staying poor.
Udi and his grifter friends will fail, they can't change Bitcoin. They will eventually run oit off money thanks to Bitcoin on-chain fees and they will go away. Another example of Bitcoin working as it is designed.
I apprentice @ODELL keeping the pressure on Barry but lets not let the Winklevoss twins off the hook. They served their customers up to Barry on a silver plater and got a piece of the action risk free. When there were signs of trouble with Genisis they took their funds out and effectively used their own customers as exit liquidity. The Winklevoss twins and Gemini are just as bad as Barry.
Here's an easy way to improve your privacy. Since I know you all run your own nodes, you should be aware that it is possible for a motivated entity to determine that a given transaction originated your node. Blockstream and Mempool.space offer a way to broadcast a transaction on your behalf. You just need to extract the raw transaction data of your signed transaction from your wallet. I believe this should be possible with most wallets, I do this with Electrum and Nunchuk. Blockstream offers a page to broadcast from over tor. By using their tor address and the tor browser you have privacy from Blockstream as well.
http://explorerzydxu5ecjrkwceayqybizmpjjznk5izmitf2modhcusuqlid.onion/tx/push
Wow! The biggest node on the Lightning Network is an Eclair node so it's certainly capable. I went with CLN because I figured that there was good community support and because it's not LND. Never again!
Fellow #Bitcoin node runners:
If you are running Bitcoin Core 26.0 please enable this in your bitcoin.conf file:
v2transport=1
This will enable BIP324 v2 transport protocol which as I understand it causes communication to be encrypted between nodes that have v2transport enabled. I can see from my own node that there are very few other nodes have have BIP324 enabled! Lets bring those numbers up! You can check your own node with:
bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | grep transport_protocol_type
and hopefully you see a few "v2".
If you aren't familiar with the inner workings of Umbrel AND the bitcoin.conf file, it doesn't seem very easy/safe. Here are some people discussing making changes to bitcoin.conf on Umbrel:
https://community.umbrel.com/t/umbrel-5-0-update-where-is-bitcoin-conf/8060/2
I just run Arch Linux and run Bitcoin Core as a program on my system.
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