I am improving my CLI and security skills to become a better node operator. I stumbled across Over The Wire, a site where you can SSH into the server to solve security related problems. I'm halfway through the first game and it's quite challenging, but for me it's the best way to learn these things.

Just finished first Sphinx bounty writing command line script to split up video using ffmpeg. Now working on second adding tribe member mentions to Sphinx.

Setting up a personal Ghost blog and experimenting with weaving LN payments (either a v4v donation widget, or a small faucet for early readers, or something along those lines) into it. Anybody have any experience with this?

I love this thread. I hope this weekly trend continues. It lets me know that others are out there building more great tools that we all need and want.

I just published this article yesterday (https://www.whatisbitcoin.com/security/store-your-seed-phrase) and am working on getting the glossary page all sorted to make it easier to navigate and get to the content you actually want.

One more article to go in this mini-series all about seed phrase security.

As a media professional with over 13 years of experience in film, broadcast, and video, I offer my services to Bitcoiners around the world and those local to me in the PST timezone. I am open to working with individuals or companies, both remotely and in person. I am eager to collaborate with others and use my skills to help bring their projects to life, especially those who need assistance with the technical aspects.

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Improving Alby onboarding UX :)

Honestly, I'm not a builder but I am working on increasing my knowledge so that when the time comes for my friends to want to learn and be orange pilled, I will be ready.

Right now I am just seen as a lunatic. I hope to become someone who people look to for onboarding when the time is right :)

As every week I'm working in a Bitcoin video. This episode is about Bitcoin Christmas gifts, so far, the list includes: OpenDime, Ledger Hardware Wallet, Sats on LightSats, some items from https://shop.lnbits.com/ and others from https://vulcan21.com/product/seedsigner-open-pill/

The video will be release next week.

Cheers

What am I working on? A beautiful rhyme I like basil, mint, and thyme You say "I am", I say "I'm" I want sats, you can keep your dime

Laboring in the fiat mines today. Doing fine!

Last week in Luray, I found out there is a homeless shelter, but the government doesn't allow them to house homeless people.

I sat for a full day with the owner of a tea shop who knows tea so well she has to ask you what medications you're taking if you order certain tea because it could cause you problems (she must have like 100 different teas in there). She talked to me about the fact that the young people there have nothing to do. They hang out in her shop out of pure boredom and about all the headache of paperwork running a business has. These young people have skills that they could be using to serve the people around them, but the paperwork to work with the state for them to run a business (something as simple as preparing lunches for people going to work) makes it impossible to go that route.

The only business opportunity for the young people there, is the businesses where you don't ask the government for permission. So drug dealing.

It was during this conversation that I found out about something called a "business manager". Could also try a shared commercial kitchen and/or maker space for this area.

The biggest issue for people there is medical, but I have no solutions for that.

Building a chaumian ecash system for bitcoin called Cashu. It now runs in LNbits: #104427

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I finished a low effort donate page yesterday. Going to see if I can jam through turbo tipping today. Then I'll probably round of the week with something low hanging from the backlog.

Finetuning my CV

Direct donations to Lightning Addresses in Donat4.Fun extension

Promoting the use of Bitcoin via LN

For example:

I’m working on getting musicians paid daily (EOD) for their streams.

Working on a Marketplace to allow cashing out Bitcoin lightning via Prepaid Visas, gift cards, PayPal, Zelle etc. Globally.

Also adding more inventory of actual things you can buy via Lightning (love the speed) like iPhones, Pixel Phones, consumer electronics.

Added Canada, Brazil and EU offerings recently. :)

We are live.

Thanks for asking!

Tommy from AllArk