I've been running a #bitcoinlightning node for 4 months now. Down over 0.5% on my total added capacity, on top the electricity bill (small of course but still) and my "work" (it's a hobby so I don't count it). Are there really people out there who run those at a real profit? I mean a profit, that justifies the work put in? @Jeff Booth said you can generate 4% interest a year and tbh. 0.5% would already good enough for me I guess. But instead, I am even sub zero. Would appreciate some feedback on what I might be doing wrong. Should I stop doing any rebalance? Should I only connect to the large nodes and start competing in the fee-race with an app like Clboss/LNDG? Or should I simply quit and leave the table to actual business nodes? #bitcoin #lightning #bitcoinlightning #corelightning #lnd #core-lightning

I support and run #bitcoinknots, because I want node-software democracy. I am against how #bitcoincore devs merged a thing that was highly controversial, just like that. HOWEVER, I will go back to #bitcoincore as soon as #bitcoinknots does a #softfork. Seriously, keep #bitcoinknots aligned with the common network and do not become another #bitcoincash, that to this day has supporters on their subreddit believing that at some point someone will be holding their useless bags. If the #softfork happens, node democracy will be gone once again. I would appreciate more options! #bitcoin #node #softfork #bitcoinknots @Matthew Kratter @Luke Dashjr

I run #BitcoinKnots now but I am HIGHLY on the fence! Please hear me out. Core30: Does increase neutrality by allowing OP_RETURN, that is significantly more expensive (4x) than just adding data to Inscriptions. It's not a bad change and CSAM already exists. And yes, it's a different way to access that data, but both needs "tools" to read it. CSAM exists since long ago though. @Matthew Kratter I'm a bit dissappointed by you not mentioning this. And you framed @Adam Back in an extremely unfair manner, sorry. Better talk to him than making all these baseless accusations. Anyways, the core team just merging this change so early, despite the pullback, is an absolute no-go for me! This made me switch. I didn't come to #Bitcoin to bow down to the next "fiat"-king. So I appreciate the freedom do chose the node implementation and I hope there will be many more, as I don't necessarily agree with the dooms day scenarios @Luke Dashjr predicts. I hope we will soon see many more #Bitcoin node implementations! If you dissagree with me, I'd highly appreciate a discussion! I'm following the discussion since months and still learn new info.

An idea to make filters effective, instead of keeping them almost useless (because if miners don't care, they won't do much if I understand correctly): A bitcoin node that does filtering gets a block found by a miner who does not filter "spam". It will therefore not propagate it through the network for a full minute until it starts forwarding it, giving other miners that mine with the filter-software that additional minute to find a block that follows the own filtering rules? Would something like that work? This way, we use economical incentives instead of morales, which is the only thing that works without a huge effort, as of my current understanding. That additional minute is way more heavy than the little extra miner fee from the "spam". @Bitcoin Mechanic @Luke Dashjr #bitcoin-core #bitcoin-knots #bitcoin-nodes #bitcoin