Landed in Chengdu Tianfu Airport. Hassled by police because they never saw a foreigner make it through the e-channel gate. Fun times.

Great day presenting decentralized identity using Polygon ID at the HSBC booth at the HK Fintech Week. Zero knowledge proofs can help both traditional finance and digital asset adoption in regulated institutions

Great to see the growing interest in digital assets in Hong Kong. Eager to see Bitcoin become an option for banks to provide #hkfintech2023

E-HKD on Bitcoin… using drivechain. Interesting.

Learning about Drivechain

Live relay from #nostrasiajp

Great to meet @Sherry at #nostrasiahk

Playing with Polygon ID to issue decentralized identity verified credential passports. You can use GROTH16 to calculate zero knowledge proofs, and see on chain that the issuance has not been revoked

Anyone able to explain why @Wallet of Satoshi is failing to decode the invoice for my new @BTCPay Server wallet ben@pay.benchodroff.com? It seems to work in every other wallet (Zeus, Blue). Appreciate any help!

Raid1, UPS and BTCPayServer set up. Love the integrated cloudflared and so many amazing fragments to play with. Tested backup and recovery strategy. Time to get TEOS figured out next.

Never give up. I recovered all the missing funds from my corrupted CLN database. On the bright side… I learned a lot about the workings of Lightning, the differences between P2WSH and P2WPKH, and how exactly CLN stores all the details. I am hardening my new server to ensure I never have to go through this pain again: UPS, RAID1, use BTCPayServer instead of rolling my own and ideally going to figure out watchtower too.

If people learn anything this next cycle, let it be “only buy bitcoin”

Trying to rescue 4 closed channels from my corrupted CLN database. After looking at the source code for core lightning… yup, those funds aren’t moving for awhile. Going to need to figure out how to sign a transaction manually. I hope the data is in this broken database somewhere. I came across another person in the support channel with the same issue. Sounds like we should help fund some dev time to create a rescue utility.

Managed to get all my lightning node channels closed back on chain even with a corrupt database… now just have to figure out how to get CLN to find those on chain funds. I swear the only way I learn about blockchain is to literally end up breaking everything I touch and then figuring out how to get the pieces back together. I should find a better way to learn and avoid these issues, but I don’t know what I’d do with all my extra time. (Wife glaring at me…)

Finally moved my core lightning node to a dedicated box with reliable hardware. Now… time to fix the corrupt SQLite database issues I’m facing.

Sigh. Core lightning crashed the other day. Seems related to the fact that I set a “rescan” around the same time due to some odd logs. Devs are helping… but SQLite database appears corrupted to CLN, but perfectly fine to SQLite. I’m guessing some gremlin might be in that rescan process — or perhaps my incredibly slow hardware is again to fault. Next time I get this thing working, I’m moving to a dedicated Intel NUC10 i7 with a fast nvme hosting btcpayserver instead of this ancient synology NAS running a Frankenstein docker mix.

Adding a -10% price alert in TradingView against TSMC 2330 stock as a doomsday alarm to book the next flight out of China. Only the paranoid survive (funny that Intel’s ex-CEO coined that phrase)

Is there a better service than River.com to DCA and automatic withdraw to cold storage that doesn’t require KYC? Asking for a friend…

Is anyone else working on decentralized identity? Eager to hear what technology you are using or considering.

#coffeechain today in Shanghai.