Honest question #asknostr #plebchain In an environment where onchain transactions are high, what's the point in learning how to run a lightning node? All I see are high costs, and extremely steep learning curve, and non-zero risk to your sats. To be clear I'm not looking for 'passive income' or any such nonsense. But I don't see a reason to embark on this if I can't at least keep overall losses minimal. What am I missing? I don't think 'growing the network' is going to convince a lot of people unless/until the fees go way down.

GM Bitcoin pumping or dumping is a reminder we don't have any control over the market. All we can do is accept that we started accumulating when we did and allocated our resources to the best of our ability.

I'm learning that basing fantasy names on Latin words is not a great idea. So many words and fragments of English come from Latin, that all of the obvious choices sound terribly hokey. I'm having to reach pretty deep to find bits that are usable.

Might be a good idea to review your cold storage setup, test your backups, and make sure you have a plan for when they start fighting us for real. Knives are going to come out soon. Politicians are going to start squeeling about the unfairness of crypto speculators wrecking the economy within the next 6 months.

Don't Look Down is a hugely underrated pop/punk band from the mid 2000s. I picked up their album The Fear in Love on a whim from a radio station CD sale in 2005 and it blew me away. It was a regular fixture in my rotation for the next couple of years. One of the few albums where I thought every track was great.

I feel like Saylor is making a play to become a figure like Jean Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, or Niander Wallace.

Yearly self-review is done. I need a drink to wash the cringe out. Ugh 😬 Every year I spend climbing the ladder makes me think I should have just gone into the trades.

GM and welcome to the last stretch of 2023. Be the beacon that your friends and family need.