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@nikotsla
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24 sats \ 1 reply \ @nikotsla 8 Jan \ on: Teaching my low-progress learners Education

OT: I always figure you as the teacher of Assassination Classroom anime hahaha, really good teacher.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nikotsla 8 Jan \ on: Why run your own node? bitcoin

I found that the main issue for newbies isn't the node, they have no fucking clue about network, router, ip, internet, the plug and play selling point as best could be maintain for a couple of months.

  • Learn about how the internet get to your home
  • Learn about how to be safe out there (own your network)

Then it's a good time to setup a bitcoin node, so in case of errors at least the user know what an ip is, how to use the shell and some common problem solve skills.

A LN? wait a couple of months, read about PSU and how bad could you fuck up your btc.

I run my own node because I want to first... fuck the banks.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nikotsla 3 Jan \ on: I work at a financial company - how can I convince them to onboard Lightning? AskSN

As already be said, maybe the Steak 'n Shake case could help, I look into the company and I don't think that LN is an option for them, the business seems to use the fiat rails as a moat.

Are they already using bitcoin?

With a LN wallet on both end (consumer/provider) the company will be obsolete.

323 sats \ 2 replies \ @nikotsla 3 Jan \ on: The ‘Invisible Wallet’: Why Lightning Must Be a Background Service, lightning

I am a little tired of the UX guys :) <start rant>, they forget almost all the shitty paper work that allow the "seamless product experience", go to the bank or use a shitty bank app that spy on you, leave all your personal data and more, receive a card an then start using it, try to recover o revert a txn, fuck that ux.

We need people that understand what a fuck is going on an WHY we do the work, the electricity analogy doesn't take into account that if you are a moron you can be killed to put your fingers in the UX power plug, but most of us are not that stupid.

I want a lion as enduser not a sheep.

True adoption happens when when people get out of the cave and understand the WHY. <end rant>

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @nikotsla 2 Jan \ parent \ on: Nokthar's Lightning cheat sheet lightning

We are lucky, a p2p network change so this picture is not the whole film, second order chaos, but valid for a couple of months, all depends in the actors.

101 sats \ 1 reply \ @nikotsla 2 Jan \ on: Nokthar's Lightning cheat sheet lightning

Wow, looking into my node in relation with the rest, nice numbers for a tor shitty node, a LOOT of info there.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nikotsla 2 Jan \ on: I've routed an entire damn bitcoin lightning

The sats must flow, nice numbers :)

36 sats \ 2 replies \ @nikotsla 2 Jan \ on: Ocean Has Hit 6 Blocks This New Years Day! bitcoin_Mining

It's nice to have some luck at the start of the year :)

350 sats \ 1 reply \ @nikotsla 19 Dec 2025 \ on: Bitfinex requires basic KYC to open channels with their LN node lightning

KYC is an illegal activity.

Just connect to others nodes that have channels with them.

73 sats \ 1 reply \ @nikotsla 12 Dec 2025 \ parent \ on: Lucky solo bitcoin miner beats 1-in-82-year odds to win $285,000 block reward bitcoin_Mining

The new nerdaxe software has a nice feature to "split" the hashrate between two pools, you could split 80% to pool mining and 20% to solo for example.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nikotsla 10 Dec 2025 \ on: I want to use the lightning network... but what for? lightning

Best onbording user case: Buy a VPN subscription and use it.

90 sats \ 4 replies \ @nikotsla 10 Dec 2025 \ parent \ on: Bitcoin Beginner Saloon #1 bitcoin_beginners

Indeed, so... I research a little and LDK doesn't have that feature :( ... you could try to use the seed with other software in order to obtain the address (derivation paths) and have the feature to sign messages, long shoot and I have no idea how to do it, but that's the path I would follow if I am in the same situation that you.

90 sats \ 1 reply \ @nikotsla 10 Dec 2025 \ parent \ on: Bitcoin Beginner Saloon #1 bitcoin_beginners

This is the way to go if you start from scratch, in case you already have some sat pointing to an address from you couldn't sign, you can wait until reach the min amount to withdraw, or focus in see how could you sign with an specific address from your backend node.

Next time, sign with an address you can control (sparrow is a good default) and as darth said, the bolt12 invoices is from one part of the process and is independent of the address.