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Let's start a Fedimint together!genesis.ctrb.io/about/

7002 sats \ 24 comments \ @ctrb_actual 7 Jan bitcoin

I've followed the project for some time and finally wanted to try it out after the recent release. Currently, I'm running a single guardian Fedimint, but where's the fun in that? If you managed to set up a Fedimint and want to start a bigger one with someone else please reach out! I think we need to be at least 4 people.

My Fedimint: fed11qgqpu8rhwden5te0vekjuem9dejhx6tn9e3hgunz9e5k7tmhwvhsqqfq5a2sy0f26k6ndld2qpassl0gd4cx2szmfv98zfn83ywp4mja3m4s7yz4zq

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114 sats \ 5 replies \ @erict875 7 Jan

I thought the point was to join federations run by people you know and trust...

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @garyKrause_ 7 Jan

Why does this post negate that point?

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @erict875 7 Jan

The author is anon. Not saying he's a bad actor, but this is definitely an "anti pattern"

61 sats \ 2 replies \ @freetx 7 Jan

Liquid is an alternative approach of publicly known federation members - as opposed random people that we need to spend significant effort in vetting.

The entire "push for fedimints" is interesting, but feels misguided. It seems that most proponents are thinking more than 1 step ahead....

At best, you're going to wind up recreating Liquid (ie. publicly known and trusted federation members, who by nature of their public stature can be coerced by state forces). I'm not saying recreating Liquid (or multiple competing Liquids) is a bad thing, its just from a practical perspective its a long way around the block to achieve what already exist.

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @orangecrush 8 Jan

I agree. Liquid has a lot of nice advantages over linking up your UTXOs with internet frens.

DYOR, then plot this on the FA / FO dot plot where you will.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @erict875 7 Jan

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284 sats \ 1 reply \ @janetyellen 7 Jan

Jerome P, Larry F and myself would like to join!

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @ctrb_actual OP 7 Jan

Let's ask Christine L too! :P

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @TonyGiorgio 7 Jan

Nice, glad to see some people experimenting with it! I have been thinking about this for a little bit, but I've gone ahead and created a ~fedimint territory if you're curious about joining and posting things there as well: https://stacker.news/~fedimint

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @garyKrause_ 7 Jan

https://github.com/EthnTuttle/fedimintd-startos

1 sat \ 5 replies \ @ACYK 7 Jan

Figured I’d paste this federation code into Mutiny just to see what would happen. Survey says: gets stuck at the red loading wheel and never proceeds

1 sat \ 2 replies \ @TonyGiorgio 7 Jan

I can investigate later. Shouldn't be a problem for any 0.2 fedimint setup.

@ctrb_actual do you have TLS and everything setup with it?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ctrb_actual OP 8 Jan

TLS should be active. Are you using meta.json? I had lots of trouble with that and ended up leaving it in the last state that worked with Fedi:

  "meta": {
    "federation_name": "Cyphertribe Genesis",
    "meta_override_url": "\"https://fm.genesis.ctrb.io/meta.json\""
  },

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ACYK 7 Jan

Update: it works for me in the browser, but not my PWA instance. Adding wallet connections can also be pain sometimes with the PWA, as the app I'm linking wants to take me back to Mutiny in the browser, not back to the PWA. Maybe I should just move back to the browser instead of the PWA. That would be as simple as making sure my PWA isn't open in the background, then going to app.mutinywallet.com, and restoring with my seed words, correct?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @avg 7 Jan

Worked for me using Mutiny as well.

@ctrb_actual will shoot you an email!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheWildHustle 7 Jan

Worked for me! Its wild seeing Mutiny utilizing nostr and fedi, the start9 news had me shook.

1 sat \ 3 replies \ @BountifulB 7 Jan

I downloaded Fedi alpha (from Fedi.xyz) ran into crashes that made me pause. What is the most stable way to access Fedimints at this point in time? Mutiny?

100 sats \ 2 replies \ @wbobeirne 7 Jan

Hey, I work on the Fedi app. Would you mind submitting a bug report in the app? If you're crashing before you can even get into the app, can you share the message on the error screen?

Sorry you had a bad experience!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BountifulB 7 Jan

It wasn't a hard "crash" so much as I couldn't get coins from the Testnet after carefully following instructions - it returned some kind of error. I already reported it in the English Telegram group. Other people posted with very similar issues.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @wbobeirne 8 Jan

The faucet has gotten slammed by a lot of people thinking it's free bitcoin so sometimes it runs out of liquidity and needs to be topped up. But if you can share the specific error, I'd definitely like to confirm that's the case.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Turnspit_Dog 7 Jan

Don't put serious money on it or don't complain if you lose it.

If this federation is shutting down due to the founding of a bigger federation I'll give a 30 day window to withdraw funds to the new federation. Any funds left after that will be viewed as a donation.

Seems like begging with extra steps.

1104 sats \ 2 replies \ @ctrb_actual OP 7 Jan

It's more honest to be abundantly clear what happens if the service is discontinued.

For me this is an experiment, not a public service I intend to run past its useful life. Once there are federations with more key holders these would be much preferable to a random online anon holding the deposited BTC.

If you have a good suggestion for where the BTC should be donated to in case people don't withdraw in a reasonable time on shutdown I'm more than willing to send the BTC there. But I won't commit to keeping software I'm not familiar with running forever, because realistically I can't.

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @TonyGiorgio 7 Jan

Consider setting the expiration date in the metadata field of the federation.

https://github.com/fedimint/fedimint/blob/master/docs%2Fmeta_fields%2FREADME.md

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ctrb_actual OP 8 Jan

I will, once a shutdown date is determined. I went by the Fedi meta.json and a lot of messing around rather than the docs. That is what works in practice already.