I've been thinking about Ross Ulbricht a lot recently following the SBF sentencing. I've decided that it was time to make a small donation to #FreeRoss. Many of us have been squeezed by inflation but we are almost certainly in a better spot than Ross. This man has done so much to further #Bitcoin adoption and we all owe him a debt of gratitude. If you can, throw him some sats:

Bonus: The site accepts donation via PayNym so I was able to send to Ross anonymously at +FreeRoss

#Zapathon

Looks like Braiins Pool is down.

How's that blue check privacy Seth?

Hello lightning node runners! I'm looking for a channel partner, preferably running Core Lightning. I would like to try a dual funded channel open. Contact me if you are interested.

I apprentice @npub1qny...95gx keeping the pressure on Barry but lets not let the Winklevoss twins off the hook. They served their customers up to Barry on a silver plater and got a piece of the action risk free. When there were signs of trouble with Genisis they took their funds out and effectively used their own customers as exit liquidity. The Winklevoss twins and Gemini are just as bad as Barry.

@npub1qw6...2v52 - I didn't realize you were on Nostr. I really enjoy your work. Zapped!

Here's an easy way to improve your privacy. Since I know you all run your own nodes, you should be aware that it is possible for a motivated entity to determine that a given transaction originated your node. Blockstream and Mempool.space offer a way to broadcast a transaction on your behalf. You just need to extract the raw transaction data of your signed transaction from your wallet. I believe this should be possible with most wallets, I do this with Electrum and Nunchuk. Blockstream offers a page to broadcast from over tor. By using their tor address and the tor browser you have privacy from Blockstream as well.

Caught a palindrome dollar amount on the Blockclock today:

#bitcoin #blockclock

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Here is a great tip for Core Lightning node runners.

I have found that the automatically chosen fees when performing a cooperative closing are too low to confirm quickly during these times of high fees. Here is how you can close a channel and specify a fee:

lightning-cli -k close id= feerange='["52000perkb", "96000perkb"]'

This says to offer your peer (who is currently online) a range of 52 to 96 sat/vB. I found with another Core Lightning peer that we agreed upon the low fee that I offered so you should expect the same.

I find that I would much rather have any lightning related transaction confirm within a block or two rather than leaving open the possibility for fees to jump and have a channel end up in a limbo state.

Hello #Bitcoin node runners who have some ability to monitor bandwidth usage! Have any of you noticed a large increase in bandwidth usage over the last 24-48 hours? Optimistically I'm hoping this is due to new nodes being bootstrapped and performing IBD. I'm just wondering if others are seeing this or perhaps I just had a handful of nodes that were downloading a lot from me over the past 2 days.

Fellow #Bitcoin node runners: If you are running Bitcoin Core 26.0 please enable this in your bitcoin.conf file:

v2transport=1

This will enable BIP324 v2 transport protocol which as I understand it causes communication to be encrypted between nodes that have v2transport enabled. I can see from my own node that there are very few other nodes have have BIP324 enabled! Lets bring those numbers up! You can check your own node with:

bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | grep transport_protocol_type

and hopefully you see a few "v2".

Have any other interest groups besides Bitcoiners made their way to #Nostr yet?

I do think the technically minded outside of #Bitcoin will arrive at some point. I don’t see the normies ever coming over though. They value simplicity and convenience above all else and happily depend on centralized platforms to validate identity for them.

My feeling on donating to Luke Dashjr or any Bitcoin Core developer. The amount of Bitcoin they hold is irrelevant. Their ongoing contributions still require their time and they provide value to me. I’ll donate as I see fit whether they have 200 Bitcoin or zero.

Welcome from #Mastodon Dr. Chris!

Welcome from #Mastodon Dr. Chris!