I can neither confirm nor deny.

given canada's recent great history of leaving people alone i'dnt necessarily run towards a canadian domain registrar :)

yes, i also started one that snowballed into much more - the history of bitcoin ljubljana

i've since left the country but the meetup goes on. I do understand the opsec implications of it and if I'd do it all again I'd remain a nym

trying to get back into the work mode after some time off but being away from my battlestation is proving more and more of an obstacle

I feel any kind of health insurance nowadays is extremely antiquated in their ways. I'm mostly nomadic and I find the international insurance I have completely useless. Its only useful for the asymmetrical risk of some accident where the cost of putting me back together will be very high. It is completely useless for any kind of preventative health since you need to find a GP and then the GP needs to prescribe that for the insurance to even consider your claim which is retarded.

Every year it comes around I'm thinking of cancelling it, maybe this is the year. (I dont qualify for crowdhealth given the US nature of it)

We just redesigned nostr.net which has a lot more nostr things on it

Hopefully more of things I like and less of things I dont.

Thats the problem - they want you to think its your interest vs the employer but its a misconception that you win. The state wins by being involved and getting half of every year you live (or whatever the rate in particular EUSSR country, they are all obnoxiously high). You lose because companies pay less, invest less and risk less due to overhead and complexity. So you end up with shittier jobs and less pay working on less interesting stuff just because someone said you need months of protection in case you get fired?

Of course you can find narrow examples where you can milk the EU/local subsidies and it works out. If you know how to play the system and are willing to struggle through the endless paperwork and other nonsense.

But keep in mind that employment laws fuck you over, taxation fucks you over and regulation fucks you over. Employment laws are complicated and archaic, completely nonsensical for dynamic startups or small companies. Every jurisdiction has its own tricks so hiring people from 3 different countries is an endless nightmare of paperwork and legal advise.

I've had companies on 3 different continents and while they all suck EU is by far the most restrictive and makes the least sense.

There is a separate initiative going on to make dvm's trivially simple to run on start9 atm which would be ideal for distribution

Yeah yt downloads would be the test case as its simple (the only part that i'm still figuring out is file delivery)

There are other use cases popping up already where people need to grab lots of publicly available data from api's which tend to be limited

it will just strengthen the ecosystem because all the people who "run a node" with some out of the box software will need to learn enough to migrate this.

the developers of various node in a box solutions will have to provide better solutions for those people so software will get better

and bitcoin wont care.

but it will be interesting to see how many LN nodes will die because of that

I have an old bolt fun hackathon project that did something along those lines 😅

Cardio without and strength training is not optimal as they each have different benefits

my routine varies a bit depending where I am at the moment but some variation of this tends to happen everywhere:

i'd gladly spend some btc on a home gym if i had a garage to put it in :D

Noone is saying that everyone needs to lone wolf it. People organizing in groups does not immediately result into a dystopian nanny state that is trying to inject itself into every facet of your life. There is incredible benefit of companionship and community and that has been proven through the history of civilization.

the point of individual freedom is that organization is voluntary, not coerced. Which is a bit different that the current reality. Seeking solutions within systems that depend on them not finding solutions is basic incentive misalignment, not a fail of any libertarian idea.

i hope at some point the world sees that no politician will solve all of their problems. Some might do some good to improve quality of life for people (like bukele in el salvador) but as long as politicians exist as profession their interest is ultimately never aligned with yours because they need someone to rule over and steal from.

I think you are mixing up hosted channels (virtual, no chain footprint) and 0-conf channels (node giving you the ability to spend/receive before channel opening tx has the first confirmation)

I think there is a decent size of huge channels connecting some of the bigger players that might be unannounced (priv channels), but not necessarily completely cut of from the rest of the network. There is very little upside for doing that unless you have a completely closed ecosystem, which is hardly ever the case.

What you call decoy nodes are also very practical for various reasons, first of all plebs will give you lots of capacity due to the brand name and you can make sure you are well connected within the network, but you want to keep the node doing any kind of business activity separate so you don't have routing revenue etc polluting your accounting books, you just do one (or two just in case) priv channels to your routing node from the business node and do the actual payments from there.