This year started off good. I’ve learned a lot, took a deeper dive into the BTC LN aspect of ownership and self sovereignty. I have more to learn, and, I am excited about it. I think how much things have changed in my life to this point. When I grew up; you actually needed a TVGuide to know what’s on TV (10 channels in NYC). BTC is moving super fast and is an enormous instrument of change. (Going to be interesting 🧐). I plan on sticking around as long a possible; see how much of this change I can witness!

I enjoy Dante and definitely Rustin. I won’t sell ever, I paid in Sats to transfer Sats to set up a node and connect it to a wallet and this app. Write now I don’t want to lose Sats in any way. Today my stack shrank by 40k, I just hope setting up a Node to hook to this app was worth it? I’m not wealthy just a humble old man working through this life hoping to stay as long as possible and see how this all unfolds. I think now it’s still necessary to be increasing your stack not depleting it! If I can break even with Damus and it’s Wallet, I’d be cool with that? It seems like college; I had to pay to get in and then I had to work and spend time there to get something back hopefully something back I could use to earn a living later. Not sure how I do that here? Either way you need to pay to send Sats. It seems if you want to transact as privately as possible then you will need to start using Sats on a node. It would seem I had this 40k thing wrong that’s the cost of doing business. Everyone needs a node! I need a node, I want to transfer and receive Sats directly with the person in front of me. View quoted note →

I like fires 🔥 and being outdoors

I like fires 🔥 and being outdoors

It seems I’m making progress setting up the Alby Hub I connected the old wallet with the 107 Sats and the 300k Sats were on the Blockchain and I seen them on the Hub and have initiated something says my channel is being opened waiting for 3 confirmations? I don’t know how long that takes been at this for 6 hours already. I scheduled an onboarding session with Alby next week? I’d love to have it done on my own before then? I partitioned my HD to have my own connection to the BTC network. I’d still like to do that if that’s not what all this is about. I’ve been trying to figure this out for 13 years watching Max Keiser not wanting to be poor. I have stacked Sats but it took so long to find an on Ramp in NYS everything was shady until CoinBase, then Swan came along then I lost them and went to Cashapp the only on-ramp available besides BS CoinBase (not a fan at all). Of course I have a wallet but it’s useless if you can’t get Sats. Now I just use Cashapp. Nice 1 confirmation in that’s cool! We’re on the right track. I’m tired of X advertising sucks that the people I follow for my education and learning on things other than BTC aren’t on here YET. I’d like to do more on here maybe earn enough stats to keep all this going at minimum. That would be cool. Cashapp is becoming my bank I am moving on from my local credit union. I’m glad I am finally getting some stuff done in this realm. My wife heard I moved 300k Sats and had a small panic attack (had to take a breath). 2nd confirmation is in!

Someone just sent me 99 Sats giving me 108. I have set up an Alby Hub and now it changed the Damus wallet. I don’t have the wallet with the 108 sats on my AlbyGo on my phone nor is it in my Hub. I tried to send it to the Hub. I want to keep as much of the 108 as possible pay the transaction fees and move the rest in a working wallet with my Damus account so I can actually start learning the Zap ⚡️ system to and from. Some nice people sent me sats and I almost lost them already.

I lost the 8 Sats trying to set up this new wallet. Not sure where the other wallet went it just created a new one

Setting up a wallet on this app is extremely difficult. I have put hours into it. I don’t want more wallets or more subscriptions for cloud’s services or additional wallets. This is the reason I couldn’t get Sats in the early stages 2010 and on. I could not figure out how to set up a secure wallet or find the people I needed to help me. Living in NYS was no help. Now I’m trying to set it up and use my encrypted hard drive and the process locked on my hard drive and I have to figure out how to get it off. I am retired so I have time to figure this out majority of people don’t none of my family or friends could find time or would make time for something like this even with the huge long term upside.