Get real, US is f*cked, get out and support a government that actually gives you freedom.

There are many to choose from.

Plan B

“Go where you’re treated best”

Nobody in their right mind would move to america

I get what you’re saying, and it’s the good fight, but it seems.. pointless

Just move and pay taxes to governments who truly earn it, and spend it sensibly (not on bombs and mandatory vaccines)

What would be the next best alternative for smart contracts?

For those whose vpn exits are not favoured by forbes: https://archive.ph/ZyHFl

I would say taxation is a choice - but only for those fortunate enough to hold a travel document

There are plenty of lands whose ruling thugs choose not to impose taxes on resident humans

Go where you’re treated best, as one successful entrepreneur would say

I presume the post is actually suggesting we sign our details onto some billionaires centralised website and engage with some content there?

Not with family but in cafe on xmas eve with gf.

Asked the usual “can I pay with bitcoin” to the waiter

Which was a no, so followed up with “can I pay YOU with bitcoin”

Which turned out to be a yes!

It was his first time so I on boarded with a lightning wallet, and sent the amount + tip to cover the bill

Orange pill + circular economy = win

We self host and have never had issues.

We don’t do bulk mailouts though, if we did we’d use a provider.

I would like to see less hype, and more contributions..

Read the article. You will see more ways.

Let’s hope this isn’t the end game, nation state adoption is key.

Actually the fedimint project would agree with you

Lightning is layer 2, to service 8 billion people we will need layer 3

Fantastic!

I agree. It just works.. Reliably.. and it’s easy to use

That said, I’ve never tested the recovery kit. Have you?

#lntools

Paywalled, here’s the archive: https://archive.ph/cw8Ma

Sounds like a chat gpt response

so is Telegram. It's a centralised messaging app, subject to subpoenas. Plus, they love shitcoins.

Use Sphinx, or Simplex Chat for better privacy

it's just this:

Start 9 works great, and in a few weeks there are some big things coming:

It's also nice to be able to run your own Sphinx server and send IMs over lightning. All using your own hardware (no need to dox yourself with a centralised cloud provider, or depend on one)

Apologies, you are right, I just checked and indeed my cloud btcpay instance is just 50gb disk / 2gb memory. Didn't realise it wasn't actually a Full Node, thanks for correcting me.

For full node I do run a Start 9 personal server on a RasPi which has no cloud dependency. The cost for that is ~250 eur inc. peripherals (just hardware)

EDIT: just checked the pricing for a VPS with 1TB of storage. Wow!! Home node is surely the way to go if you are cost-conscious.

EDIT2: Thank goodness for small blocks!

I also quit r/bitcoin (and reddit) after discovering SN

Are you kidding? You can run BTC Pay server on a $10 P/M digital ocean instance with full ~650gb blockchain

You shouldn't look to charge more than $20-25, and that should include lightning management