I’ve got a Bitcoin Knots node up and getting ready to run Lightning node. Has anyone else tried running Lightning Core with Knots? Are there better complementary lightning nodes you’d recommend? #OpenBSD #BitcoinKnots #LightningCore

Best decision our family made this year was moving from the city to the countryside. The positive uplift to mental health has been incredible. So worth it!

Bitcoin Knots, officially unsupported on OpenBSD, running like a champ. Even accepting inbound. Core is the default, not a requirement. Stock Knots shares Core’s consensus and differs on policy. It hands you control of the mempool: datacarrier=0, stricter datacarriersize, permitbaremultisig=0. Core v30 raised the OP_RETURN cap to 100,000 bytes, inviting spam and bible verses on the chain. Knots keeps the filter. But it also lets you go further. consensusrules=rdts enforces BIP-110: OP_RETURN back to 83 bytes at the consensus layer, not as a relay suggestion. No bloat by default. #bitcoinknots #OpenBSD #RDTS #BIP110

First Father’s Day with baby #3. So blessed. Happy Father’s Day to all the amazing dads out there!

Favorite part of the day!

Small correction, knots do not enable BIP-110 by default, it requires explicit consensusrules=rdts entry in bitcoin.conf View quoted note →

Good to see a full node broadcasting the REDUCED_DATA service flag. Knots is advertising its BIP-110 stance to peers. View quoted note →

GM! 31 days of active Nostr usage. I love it. It’s weird, it’s quirky, and it’s a net positive for freedom consciousness in my life. It gives those early Twitter vibes, minus the algorithm, monetization, and major AI slop. To paraphrase Heraclitus: You can never step into the same Nostr twice. It is not the same Nostr, and you are not the same person. #nostr

Switched this node to Knots and re-downloaded the whole chain to take a stance against non-monetary data. The sync just finished…876 GB on a 1 TB drive. Synced on day one, 46 GB to spare. Two years of blocks heavy with inscriptions and embedded files that have nothing to do with money, and an archival node carries every byte. The cost of storing arbitrary data doesn't land on the people creating the load. It lands on node operators: more disk, more memory, more barrier to entry. And this network's security rests on ordinary people. being able to run their own node. I know which side of that I'm on. #Bitcoin #Knots #BIP110 #OpenBSD View quoted note →

Found a few wild berries on the property!

GM Nostr…it’s Monday, time to seize the week! Coffee in hand, let’s get it!

Including non-monetary data in Bitcoin’s blockchain is a serious mistake, and Bitcoin Core enabling it only makes it worse. Using the world’s most secure and most expensive monetary ledger to store JPEGs or memecoin code wastes a genuinely scarce resource. This becomes obvious the moment you run a node under real memory or storage constraints. Left unchecked, non-financial data inflates blocks, adds CPU overhead, and bloats the chain that every node has to carry. I originally compiled it using Bitcoin Core version on OpenBSD, but now switched to Knots and re-downloading full chain to take a philosophical stance. #openBSD #Knots #BitcoinNode

And just like that, the government has nerfed Fable 5

Successful day. Negotiated an enhanced severance agreement and started taking calls from recruiters to secure my next fiat mine.

Got Gemma Diffusion running today! Llama.cpp PR#2443 adds preliminary support via the new llama-diffusion-cli binary. AMD ROCm and Vulkan support are still in the works, so you’ll need CUDA/NVIDIA for now. Excited to try it again once AMD support is added.

GM Nostr! Coffee and holding a newborn is absolutely the best feeling in the world.

Opening day success! My daughter caught her first ever beautiful brown trout and safely released it. The pure excitement on her face made the whole trip.

GM Nostr! Not enough coffee for sleepy parents.

GM Nostr! Fixed my Traeger yesterday (new auger motor) and breaking it in this morning with smoked pulled pork. Excited to see how it turns out!

Two little furballs hiding in the yard grass today! Hoping mom’s close by keeping watch.