Expatriotic 2 months ago

New guide on #Fulcrum 2.0.0 is out on my blog and @Stacker News. Turbo charge your #Bitcoin Core node with a powerful indexer. Blog👇

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Fulcrum 2.0.0 Electrum server

Fulcrum is a high-performance Electrum server that indexes your entire blockchain. This allows your desktop and mobile wallets to query your node f...

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Stacker News

Tutorial for Fulcrum 2.0.0: Your Private Electrum Server \ stacker news ~tutorials

With Bitcoin Core synced on your Ubuntu server, you have the "library" of all transactions. Now, we install the "search engine." Fulcrum 2.0.0 is a...

Expatriotic 2 months ago

Spoiler alert. Hard forks are healthier and safer IMO than soft forks... Despite the rhetoric to the contrary. People may bemoan the BCASH split, but you know what it allowed? Us to voluntarily choose to NOT use BCASH and hse BTC instead... Choice is power View quoted note →

Expatriotic 2 months ago

Listen to Cypherpunk Bitstream. "Conversations about cryptoanarchy, cypherpunk, second realm and autonomous zones from the TAZ 0 in Berlin." Especially episodes 0x02 (Second Realm) and 0x03 (TAZ - Temporary Autonomous Zones). @Frank Braun & @TheRealSmuggler https://pod.link/aHR0cHM6Ly90YXowLm9yZy9iaXRzdHJlYW0vaW5kZXgueG1s

Expatriotic 2 months ago

Running Fulcrum 2.0 in the best #Bitcoin wallet there is, @craigraw's #Sparrow . Thanks @Vibrant for the #ASCII art tip! 💪🫡🏴‍☠️

Expatriotic 2 months ago

Ready to run Bitcoin Core v30 and make the knotzis go wild? Check out my A-to-Z setup for a bare-metal Bitcoin Core v30.0 node. I cover the full stack: 🔸 dbcache optimization 🔸Bare-metal Ubuntu 24.04 install 🔸 dual NVMe + HDD storage config 🔸 GPG verification (DO NOT SKIP) 🔸 tmux for IBD ➡️ systemd service Don't be a lazy cunt, run a node. expatriotic.me/bitcoin

Expatriotic 2 months ago

Shhh, don't tell everyone View quoted note →

Expatriotic 2 months ago

I actually love living in Thailand because I can live off of cash and bitcoin solely. No need to ever use Visa or QR. Last bastian of cash it feels like. Going to Building on Bitcoin Space Friday for their ⚡market. Local vendors selling their wares for ⚡. Taking my son. View quoted note →

Expatriotic 2 months ago

I made a guide with practical examples of how to use the terminal. Useful even if you've been using the terminal for a while.

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Terminal Tips

Learn to use the terminal like a sysadmin. This guide explains why and when to use commands like ls, grep, ssh, and systemctl with practical examples.

Expatriotic 2 months ago

Anyone know how the P2P liquidity is for India and Philippines respectively? Got a Filipina friend working in India that I'm onboarding personally to #Bitcoin. Absolute beginner.

Expatriotic 2 months ago

"Many of the emails are likely from data breach or exposed by the user" Um no, I use unique emails for everything, this has not been used anywhere else and I still got a reset email. View quoted note →

Expatriotic 2 months ago

Anyone have any context on this?

Expatriotic 2 months ago

**The super hack is to:** 1. copy & paste what you want to add to the config file. 2. get your cursor to the front of the portion to be replaced/deleted 3. `Ctrl` + `6` 4. `Ctrl` + `e` 5. `Ctrl` + `k` 6. `Ctrl` + `x` 7. `y` + [enter] View quoted note →

Expatriotic 2 months ago

If you've ever used **nano** to edit a config file or dot (.) file, you should check out my mini-guide.

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Nano Editor Tips

Need to edit files in the terminal? This simple Nano text editor cheat sheet covers essential commands for beginners like save, exit, cut, paste, a...

Expatriotic 2 months ago

It's a work in progress. The guides are modular vs a mega-guide approach. Hence why there's no walkthrough for the #Bitcoin or #Monero node yet. Soon ™️ View quoted note →

Expatriotic 2 months ago

Haha 🤣 View quoted note →

Expatriotic 2 months ago

Just dropped a new guide series for running a #Bitcoin or #Monero node. Heavily inspired by the—probably superior—work of @Vibrant and his latest guide:

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How to Run a Bitcoin Node

Learn to Build a verifiable, Tor‑ready Bitcoin Node stack

My guides cover hardware, router, and the bare-metal install:

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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Server Setup

Build a headless Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server. This guide shows how to ditch passwords and SSH keys, using Tailscale for both secure network overlay and...

Expatriotic 2 months ago

To every person who told me to just spin up a VPS with AWS. Yeah, no. Thank God I didn't listen. Got my home lab chuggin' along. Shill me your favorite thing to self host. For me it's Vaultwarden. Really enjoying it.

Expatriotic 2 months ago

That feeling when AWS shits the bed but you got your home lab cookin' cc: @Tailscale for the good vibes #homelab #aws #diy

Expatriotic 2 months ago

That feeling when your 4-year-old says, "daddy, you cook so good" 🥰😍

Expatriotic 2 months ago

Xubuntu's site serving a crypto clipper is a critical reminder: A SHA256 hash is useless when the server is compromised. Attackers change the hash, too. You MUST verify the GPG signature. Here's how to do it right:

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Verifying Software Tips

Thorough guide to verifying your software downloads, using Ubuntu LTS as our main example.

#DontTrustVerify #OpSec #GPG #Xubuntu