Cloning https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news and learning enough of codebase to complete a good-first-issue.

This afternoon I helped my 15 year old nephew to use the lnp2pbot to get some SATS for his first time.

He create the offer on the bot, I took the offer, I send or block the SATs on the bot, he sent the invoice to the bot and we arrange the payment in private chat, in this case he got the SATs for free. Then, I pressed the release command.

Now, he has a very important skill. He knows how to buy NO KYC Bitcoin, he live in Australia, the bot is not very popular over there yet, so if you see a offer to buy BTC for a small amount, that's probably my nephew.

Optimising SatsFlow

We are passionate about all things Bitcoin, and after struggling to obtain some metrics in free services, we decided to generate them ourselves;

With our statistical and data analysis background, we developed quite a good number of sophisticated techniques to extract, process, and analyze Bitcoin data directly from our full nodes;

After all this work, we perceived it would be a shame to keep this work only to ourselves, so we chose to make it available freely to everyone in this webapp, with beautiful visualizations!

We also added the ability to download the raw data in .CSV or .XLSX (Microsoft Excel) formats via a subscription that costs only a few sats;

Some technical details: the data is updated hourly and all references to dates and times are in the UTC time zone.

Next steps in Nostr-based Lightning Offers

Here in shockwallet I defined a webhook for lightning.pub to pass certain variables (some inherent others payer defined) to an external system when paid

the expected data from the payer came in via nostr as required by the offer, along with the invoice request, and was forwarded back out on payment...

the record of which being reportable directly in wallet

feel free to play along with demo.nip69.dev and the shockwallet/pub test branches... going to need some UI inspiration if anyone is up to it.

Right now I'm trying to finish at least 1 book a week that is about bitcoin or bitcoin adjacent while I'm at work (I drive a truck so I have time to listen). I'm also slowly working my way through @DarthCoin sub stack in my off time, but that's going to take a while.

As for help. I'm going move to a multisig solution pretty soon because currently I'm not comfortable having only 1 point of failure. It would probably be a good time to ask if I should use segwit or taproot for my long term storage. I plan on doing further reading on both, but I only have finite time every day. Any insights would be welcome.

Family affairs

I just did a little diagnosis and configuration on a S9 space heater that someone I met on nostr asked me to work on. Just sent it back today to a happy pleb!

Holding a pistol, horse and a cowboy hat all at once. I think I finally got a few channels opened that are working well with my node and stacker. Feels good..