Howdy there, partner! Welcome on into the Stacker Saloon.
Saddle on up to a stool and spill the beans about your day, fire away with them questions, or let loose and give us the lowdown on your wild and woolly life. We're all ears, so don't hold back!
We're open round the clock, so mosey on in whenever you please!
Great trip to DC with the family. We need better leaders now in politics
Anyone using Luna Node for cloud hosting?
https://www.lunanode.com/
They got a light KYC, as in don't accept virtual numbers, from what I remember from two years ago.
I tried a few other and they wanted a lot more info. Also didn't accept LN
May I know are you are looking for?
I ended up using voltage to host a Bitcoin node in my case, but then I also stopped using it after one year because I found a better solution.
I'm just looking at different options for hosting a BTCpay server. With Voltage you need to do everything anyway so it may as well be on a cheaper VPS.
Honestly, if it's a small business or just starting, I wouldn't bother hosting it.
That's something I've learned after wasting 12 months of payment, because there aren't many people going to pay you in sats. 😂
cc @AG
I agree! think big, start small.
Any of the isntances that I listed here #1272207 would cover all basic needs, some also offer extra plugins ands that's what mmake the difference for some merchants. @OT ideally, if you setup the bitcoin wallet and add a lighting node, even via NWC, so ideally you could add rizful, alby or any other provider that provides a nwc string.
Thanks, yeah the test one I set up was with NWC and Rizful. I just have an issue with LNURL which he wants available as a payment option. This has been the only real issue as it links to the local node and looks ridiculous with a long TOR string in front.
It for someone that has BIG ambitions. If it were a small shop I would just add it to my node.
subtle, final bug hunting/fixing can be pretty flow inducing
https://www.reddit.com/r/PacificPalisades/s/rQMwZEPsGC
Pacific Palisades update
Finally got around to doing a DSLR photoshoot of my book "A Stoic Resurrection: Notes From the Journal of a Modern Stoic" 🤠
https://image.nostr.build/e95f34ec6dcf7a07c2c369e22e38a445e28cafab0bbd0b826e20e5ee38a05cb8.jpg
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@Team_Predyx
@mega_dreamer
https://beta.predyx.com/market/will-trump-mention-bitcoin-again-in-2025-1760433417
done.
im so so low on sats right now :(
when i was infected, was i bleeding sats? I never caught onto that
no, there was no bleeding sats. Maybe you just need to make more posts so we can zap you?
fair
Which language is the only official language of a country, and is spoken exclusively in that country (i.e., not natively anywhere else)?
Catalan?
👀 #1275699
Hebrew?
👀 #1275366
I wouldn't have thought that's distinct to just one place.
Japan comes to mind first
Japan's a solid choice, but I know there are big, well-known Japanese communities in the US and Brazil that speak the language. My bad, I forgot to mention I was only asking about European countries. Bet @denlillaapan knows!
I meant basically every single one?
It's the default setting... definitionally in "nation-state" too (by Mises' definition that nation = language community)
When you say natively spoken in other places, you're including exclave communities then?
I was thinking in terms of not being the primary language anywhere else, or something like that.
Finland is my next guess, but I imagine there are Finnish communities in other countries too.
In Europe, almost every country has more than one official language, and in border areas, people in almost all of them speak the neighbor's language. But there is one where this doesn't happen. It's not Finland, because Swedish is also an official language there.
Off the top of my head,
But perhaps you meant something different with your question...?
IcelandIceland’s the only European country that’s got just one official language, and it’s only spoken there.
Ok...and what about the others I mentioned?
Nobody speaks Estonian or Norwegian outside of those places either
Cool. I guessed Finland because I know Finnish is fairly different from other European languages.
omg gusto added automated us contractor payments finally. i've been inputing them manually for years and i'm extra masochistic and pay weekly.
wow kinda unbelievable youve been doing it manually
Car has always insisted on being paid before the podcast so I got in the habit. The man wants to be paid!
two self-hosted things i've found myself wanting:
maybe someone will vibe code them eventually
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@justin_shocknet I found the perfect machine to run Lightning Pub
The node is in the pizza box
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Does this rig still meet the minimum specs to run LN Pub?
cc/ @justin_shocknet
LOL you still have a proper box
It's where I stash my shady shit. The police will never figure out it's functional if they pop in! Ahahah
A little WD40 and a pressure washer should make it g2g
Now that's next level opsec
I may buy a TCL nxtpaper to experiment with tablet mode, should have an ideal display for disguising it as a picture frame
now that's punk
Youtube in Firefox quit playing videos for me since yesterday. Anyone else having this problem? I've been having to go on youtube to see my feed, then hop over to Invidious to actually watch.
There seems to be an extra dose of AI doomerism today
Would you be open to selling high resolution files of these images for self printing?
Oh sure. Most of the files I have aren't super high res (I use scans of the original images, but I usually the best I can get is 2000x3000 pixels). They blow up to 11" x17" quite nicely. Even the full movie poster ones look good if you use a nice printer and good paper.
Cool, I might do some research from local print shops and see what I need and ping you again.
For sure! I can adjust aspect ratios for you if needed.
I'd be interested in these ones for 18" x 24" printing:
How much would you charge for the files?
how does 2k sats each sound?
Most of these come from images that have an aspect ratio that is more like .65 (18x24 is .75). Here is an example of what the v for vendetta one will look like if I change the ratio to .75
other options are printing with a margin (wider on the sides, narrow on top and bottom). You could cut these margins off later, if you like.
Sure, in fact I'm happy to pay 10k sats for all three (consider it as a way to support bitcoin creators). The original aspect ratio is fine, I can figure out what's needed to do the printing.
@DarthCoin
You might want to fix your guides. Looks like Fiatjaf let go of a lot of the stuff he used to work on..
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/getting-started-lightning-address
There were a couple of links that don't work anymore
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/darthcoin-announcement
and
https://t.me/btcguides/133
Remember, remember the 5th of November.
Happy Guy Fawkes Day, stackers!
You have been fooled. This is not a reason to celebrate: #752923
It's about the symbology and the cool movie
I see someone woke up on the regular side of the bed today
This is way beyond your (predyx infected) mind can comprehend...
What happened to me? 🥺
You're venomed. Wait until someone cure you. How it works noone can explain
Thanks
Have you ever heard about Lion's mane (Hericium erinaceus)?
People who eat these mushrooms say it help clear their mind, increase sleap quality etc.
Never knew about this mushrooms and if I found it in the forest I'd try to avoid it, it looks too frightening
A friend said it's been working wonders on their daughter. They buy extract though, not foraging from the wild haha
It definitely looks weird, although so much of nature does.
The name reminds me of a Sherlock Holmes story; one of the few written from his perspective, rather than Watson's. The first link is to Wikisource rather than Wikipedia to minimize the chance that spoilers ruin it for folks who want to read the actual story; if you prefer the summary, here's the Wikipedia article.
not in my area...
I'm sorry
It was okay, I showed him this meme and we laughed
Every time you see someone mentioning words about "democracy", "democratic vote", "democratic system" etc you should remember this quote:
- Joseph Sobran - "The Myth of Limited Government"
people have been duped into believing that the only form of slavery is thru shackles and bars; the more insidious form of slavery is free-range employment, like chickens on a farm (digital nomad-freelancers with a special IRS form); the deception is accomplished by propagating the message that if centralized mega-governments are dissolved, there shall be chaos in the streets; imagination is dead - people cannot imagine a free world without a ruling class;
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Day 678 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 426 sats on 4Nov2025!
Running total: 435,863 sats!
Yesterday's comment
Day 679's comment
Do you calculate electricity bills?
Is this ↓ information accurate?
FutureBit Apollo BTC: ~ 125 W in ECO mode and up to ~ 200 W in TURBO mode.
Braiins Mini Miner (BMM 101): ~ 35 W (some sources say ~40 W) at 1 TH/s.
BitAxe Ultra (another/related model in the BitAxe family): similarly ultra‐low, ~ 15–20 W (depending on version) reported.
FutureBit Apollo 2: The consumption is less precisely stated, but the documentation says the integrated power supply is 450 W and typical consumption around ~ 400 W for ~10 TH/s.
I have loosely looked at it but I don’t do it regularly or in any detail. Those numbers seem reasonable but I haven’t measured
Let's pretend these digits are accurate and machines work in top performance mode.
200+40+20+400=660 W per hour
660*24=15840 W or 15.84 kW per day
Electricity cost in my area is around $0.1 kWh, in this case your machines would consume 15.84*0.1=$1.58 of electricity
Final calculation: $1.58/$105'000=~1500 sat. If you daily buy sats instead of paying electricity bills you'd get more sats.
Here comes the question. Do you mine for fun, you have free electricity, or something else?
It’s for fun. I don’t have free electricity. It also earns KYC-free sats
You're a big heart man if you're ready contribute so much into the idea that is going to fix our world.
Have a nice day
See you tomorrow over here
anything worth fixing takes great work; lottery mining is the way to go for the highest level of care for bitcoin, and one shud work on increasing the uptime of the miner; if a man can hash even 1 bitaxe for 5 years under any conditions thru any perturbations at 99.99% (golden standard of four 9's) uptime, then that's a very realiable 1 TH/s out of the 1 ZH/s (or out of a billion bitaxes); that is not an insignificant level of care for the ASIC machine chip;
Happiness Journal 5/11/25
One student who has been giving me grief aplenty asked me in all sincerity, “So, cher, when we perspire and it disappears, right, it’s evaporate?”
He had only internalised the concept of evaporation recently. after his final-year exams, in fact. I could almost see his mental cogs churning.
I beamed brightly at him and said enthusiastically, “Yes!”
I feel like I have unlocked something in him.
Slogan for ChatGPT:
Enabling autism since 2022
I think calling that "autism" is a bit of a stretch, that's just harmless idle curiosity (from the prompter) and nitpicking from ChatGPT (because it has no choice in the matter after getting prompted).
If someone pastes that output as their own words, isn't that more them giving an example of Poe's Law than them actually being autistic?
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