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celestal 2 years ago
The biggest irony of my life atm is working in a cheap chain store that sells cheap high time preference crap that breaks down after single use. But what keeps me from drowning into nihilism – without of which the world looked sightless to me when I was young – is bitcoin. What keeps me sane is that soon the day will come when I have reached my stacking goals – and/or can find enough income from alternative sources/business/side hustles – where I don't need this part time fiat job anymore. It has served me well by allowing me to stack but I cannot wait to leave it behind me. I cannot wait to fully focus on the projects that are aligned with my values. I think that time will come this cycle. Soon.
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celestal 2 years ago
If there are any solid lightning node operators (with clearnet address) willing to open 50/50 3-5M sat channels, hit me up for one! I'm on my second node looking to grow routing capacity with solid peers and long lasting channels. My node is running on NUC mini-PC with Raspiblitz and I have practiced migration process for longevity so that there's no need to close and open again when upgrading hardware. Hybrid mode for good availability and routing performance. LNDg for dynamic fees for good routing flow. UPS for networking and node hardware. Future plan is to upgrade for RAID setup once I've reached decent capacity.
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celestal 2 years ago
Critique toward Bitcoin and custodial Lightning Network usage seem to suffer from nirvana fallacy: "Bitcoin (in it's current form) won't allow every single transaction in a hyperbitcoinized world to take place in L1 or even L2, thus Bitcoin is trash." Yet they miss that an immutable final settlement layer and a "trustless banking layer" aka. Lightning Network results high competition for custodial solutions which results with IMMENSELY better banking services compared to the government granted banking cartel we have now. Just because Bitcoin transactions don't (at least yet) scale to easy global trustless payments, it doesn't mean it's not an improvement.