This time of the year where I work, I got a 12% bonus of my salary, which is below 10k$ CDN. I use it to pay debt and buy Bitcoin with the rest

I have had a hardware failure with my home server hosting my bitcoin lightning node. I can't live with downtime like this so I've setup a new permanent node in the cloud with my data. I will be running the node in pruned mode (60GB) and it is now synching the blockchain (couple of hours to complete)...

Anyone know what was the highest bitcoin fee in sat/vbytes for medium priority in mempool that occurred in the past? I'm asking to guage if 40 sat /vbytes is high.

In Amethyst, the relay section shows many icons and some trigger on and off. I could not find documentation about it. What do they all mean?

#[0] I was wondering if you hash images you host to find duplicates and reference them to a single copy? Saves a ton of space.

If you want Bitcoin to succeed, think about running a full node. With every new node the network becomes more decentralized and secure. You can run a full node at hone with an old computer that you leave running 24h/7. This site is a directory of those nodes

Bitnodes

Bitnodes estimates the size of the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network by finding all of its reachable and unreachable nodes.

I can see a lot of nostr users getting rekt soon with malicious badges. What could go wrong by pasting your private nsec key in a website? Your account will start posting spam or write atrocities on your behalf. Want your account back, you will have to pay the ransom.