Potentially retarded question... If a relay says it requires payment, like NostrElites says it does from the info I see here in Amethyst, but when you open the URL in a browser and there's no mention of payment, what's going on?

Bitcoin node: 100%, been relaying transactions for the past 24 hours Fulcrum:

On a self-hosting spree right now. Karakeep is especially useful. I'm using that shit 24/7.

About to post a tutorial to help fix this right now! View quoted note →

This is a super cool thing you've coded here @daniele! It's literally exactly the thing I was looking for and you made it. Gonna write a tutorial helping people set up their own, I really like this project :)

Almost there 😁 #noderunner

Switched my Lightening address to xanny@cake.cash gonna try this out, seems cool, don't even have to manage channels and you can swap between on-chain and LN in the app. My reading of their docs seems to suggest Cake's LN implementation is roughly as non-custodial as Phoenix, where you own your keys but they manage the infra. Needs NWC though that's the only big thing that seems to be missing.

Okay this is really cool... we can now generate on-chain taproot addresses derived from our Nostr keys and do on-chain zaps from within Nostr clients. Woah. I love how whenever I come back to Nostr it has a bunch of cool new features added. This one in particular fits perfectly with Nostr.

Considering a Blockstream Jade Plus or a BitBox2 Nova to replace my Trezor. Anyone got either one? Do you like it? Would you recommend it?

You can't make this shit up... Right after I posted this glazing Phoenix, I opened Phoenix on my phone and it just closed my channel. Gives me no explanation why... View quoted note →

So since I'm spinning up a new Bitcoin node I'm also looking at running my own Lightning node again too. When I last did this years ago, it was fun running a full relay node but it was also a constant source of headaches managing liquidity and channels and everything else. I've noticed that Phoenix now has phoenixd where you can use that as a backend for your own self-custodial Lightning wallet. They run the backend infra but you still hold the keys. I use Phoenix on my phone and it works fucking great tbh, it's the only non-custodial Lightning wallet I've used that's never caused me any problems (touch wood...) Anyone got any experience using phoenixd as a backend and if so what's your stack? Looks like it's pretty new so everything is still adding support, but LNbits just added support for it and Alby Hub too. Trying to work out exactly how to structure everything so I can have a Lightning wallet + NWC run off my own box, ideally would like to use it from my phone to send and receive sats via Lightning in person as well. But maybe it'd make more sense to keep using Phoenix on my phone for that? Not sure yet.

Damn that's a lot of uptime

Rebuilding my home node.

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"Above all else, we need to brutalise the size of the state. I mean brutalise. Like nothing that has ever been seen. A public sector bonfire that is visible from space - that is what Restore Britain would do." This Rupert Lowe guy seems pretty based.