I’ve tried three different wallets to pay the fee to open my first channel with @Alby Hub. All three failed. I’ve got to be missing something… 🤔 Do I have to have my own LN node up and running first?

I’ve been thinking a lot about The Man in the Arena this week. Basically, how what happens isn’t as important as how we respond to it. It’s now hanging on my wall. If it’s still there in six months, I’ll frame it. If you want a hi-res copy for your wall: https://downloads.colterreed.com/public/Man_in_the_Arena.pdf

GM. It’s Friday! #ProofOfWorkout

This. Too many people sit back and live the life others tell them they should live. It’s your life— write your own story! View quoted note →

How is the Bitcoin transfer fee (on-chain) determined? Is it just a percentage cut or is there a per-transaction fee, too? Put another way, should you move your coin off of an exchange after every DCA buy or wait and transfer several buys together to minimize your fees? #asknostr

If you have to enable an admin account, don’t call it “admin” or any of the other 5,000+ names on this list. Also, keys > passwords.

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GM! You’re going to make mistakes today. That’s okay—you’re human. You’re not here to be perfect. No one expects it. Now that we’ve cleared that up, go have fun! Being your best self isn’t supposed to be boring.

I would have loved to see them bring in some Klingon opera here, but I get it. You’ve got time constraints and it needs to fit with the other songs and so on. So they did something completely over the top. NGL—I almost fell out of my chair laughing. #StarTrek

An untested backup plan is no plan. On that note… I can test restoring from a 12-/24-word seed phrase by setting up a new wallet with that seed, right? Then just destroy that wallet? Or is there a better way to test the backup plan? #asknostr

This is why I’m experimenting with turning leaks in spending into sats this month. A little impulse control now, huge wins later. View quoted note →

Nice analysis on Pavel Durov and our expectations of privacy from Andrey Meshkov writing for AdGuard.

AdGuard Blog

On Pavel Durov's detention and consequences for privacy | AdGuard

The detention of Telegram's creator Pavel Durov can ensue consequences for privacy.

Testing AVIF compatibility. I’m not hopeful, since Primal gives it a .bin filename. https://m.primal.net/KPET.bin

Can someone tell me why I’ve got the warning badge next to my NIP-05 handle? Or why noStrudel isn’t showing my avatar? I get the purple check and avatar in Primal and Damus. 🤔 #asknostr

My coding companion in her sun puddle. #InternationalDogDay

I really should go to bed and play with setting up my own Nostr relay tomorrow…

Focus on what this makes possible. For example, saying no to gelato means saying yes to 4700 sats.

What do you do with a drivable, slightly blind par 4? Add a bell to ring as you walk off the green. (We didn’t know we were supposed to wait when we teed off.) #golfstr

The arena will beat you up. That’s its purpose. It's not there to give you glory, honor, and fame. If that's all it did, people would line up to be the man/woman in the arena instead of sitting on the couch eating potato chips. Those who win aren’t the ones who hit the hardest, the ones who are stronger than anyone else, or the ones that walk into the arena singing “Tubthumping”. They’re the ones who learn to take a hit and keep moving forward. They’re the ones who understand that true victories are scored on a card that no one else will ever see. They’re the ones who realize that in the arena, they’re only up against themselves.

GM. It’s time to step into the arena. Let’s roll.