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tipped someone on nostr and bought my monthly coffee delivery

Finally got the courage (and time) to deploy a lightning node. I did it all in my kubernetes cluster and I’m quite pleased. Now I can party!

Oh I also drained my binance account. That was quite overdue..

donated sats to young underprivileged kids in my neighborhood

Not sure if this even ranks on the "cool" scale, but I can say how LN was very useful for me this past week.

I had some small amount remaining of a shitcoin in my custodial wallet on LocalCoinSwap after doing a trade. (Don't judge ... when you need to obtain fiat and the only Buy offer for your payment method is in a shitcoin, then you acquire the shitcoin to then be able to sell the shitcoin.)

The remaining amount was a little under one dollar but I figured I could just swap it into bitcoin using something like FixedFloat. But that small amount was actually below Fixed Float's minimum swap amount.

So I first went the other way -- using LN I sent to Fixed Float about $1 worth of bitcoin for a swap that added to my balance of the shitcoin. Then when that deposit of the shitcoin confirmed I then was able to proceed with my original intent -- withdrawing the balance of my shitcoin (an amount nearly $2) to FixedFloat for a swap into bitcoin (delivered by Fixed Float, via LN).

It was more work than I would normally care to do for such a tiny bit of funds, but the satisfaction of eliminating even that small balance of a shitcoin provided to me satisfaction. And it proved further to me the utility of LN.

The ability to transact instantly, and pay just a trivially low fee ... is something incredibly useful.

I send my first Christmas gift on LIGHTSATS, very nice experience.

And I moved some sats from on chain to lightning using Coinos.

I orange pilled a Bitcoin curious person.

I made a discord bot with LNbits to create "challenges". Challenges are questions about various topics where one can win sats for knowing the answer. The goal is to motivate people to learn more about bitcoin (or other topics) and to show what can be built using LN.

@NEEDcreations had the idea for this.

See this short clip for demonstration:

Any feedback is welcome :) There are definitely some problems with this approach but I hope this bot can still be useful after some iterations over the idea and design.

For example, people don't really know what question to expect. The topic should help with that but currently, I think it's too generic. But I also can't just show the question else they can google the answer beforehand. That's also why the timeout is there to prevent cheating by googling at least a bit.

A solution to this would maybe be that everyone can read educational content before accepting the challenge and then the answer to the question is inside the content which one was just read? Like a very small exam? But maybe that would then be too easy? I don't know.

Fed some chickens Opened a bunch of ring channels Tipped on SN Streamed sats on podcasts Locked trades with HODL invoices on robosats Donated sats to a random Machankura user

Bought my first bitrefill gift card AND got some free sats from Guy Swan on nostr (Thanks again Guy)

streaming sats listening to podcasts on fountain for the kill

...and set up my cousin with BlueWallet and sent him his first sats.

Continue working in lightning coffee (lncoffee), added dark theme and avatar code changes. Now it has some funds to allow tipping. Thanks for any comments and suggestions. https://lncoffee.me

I made my first IRL purchase (paid the bill in the local coffee shop), the experience was amazing. Also, I'm planning to get a Raspberry Pi to spin up my own Lightning node

I made my first purchase. Book from Konsensus Network.

I found 2 new Hyatt hotel key cards that can be flashed to LNURLw for quick tap-to-give sats card

Signed up to zaprite, created first invoice, enabled lightning payment via lnbits demo site, loaded my mobile wallet with some sats and paid the invoice. Flawless. Next step: get my own copy of lnbits, open up channels on my node and launch LN payments. The journey continues:)

Demo'd Bitcoin Fax to colleagues.

Found an awesome place for wowbitcoinrocks sticker and stacked some serious sats.