1278 sats \ 11 replies \ @Natalia 17 Feb \ on: Stacker Saloon
I'm constantly amazed by how skilled people are here, and a girl I met two days ago told me that because it's hard to find jobs here, people need to learn how to produce; for example, she picked all these flowers in the mountain and packaged them to sell, so cool.
https://m.stacker.news/16433
Then you have many people who are living in big cities, earning a monthly salary ( the so-called safety ), living an artificial life even with many debts, and then spend most of their time thinking about what to consume because they need to treat themselves better compensating for doing a job they hate and look better than others - spend more and work harder to spend even more!
Honestly, I think the first thing one needs to think about is how to be your own boss instead of being bossed around if you really want to be a sovereign individual, Bitcoin is only a tool to help - it's when you being responsible for yourself can set you free, learn how to create and produce instead of selling your precious time.
Natalia, you bring hope, with your words, into this mad world...
I wish more people could think like that. Will be a much better world.
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skills + sats + free time and free mind to keep learning and creating is the way!
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hahaha I made that meme long time ago for some nocoiners.
So much truth in that meme...
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@DarthCoin, a long time ago I took your advice, closed channels in my node and kept only a few much bigger channels. I don't use it to encourage routing, just for my own needs. Yesterday a big player opened a big (for me) channel, and suddenly my node is routing like crazy. It's interesting, since I wonder if my few big channels look more attractive now since bitcoin's price has spiked.
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Usually that spike in activity, is not real "routing" but just re-balancing (aka they are using your cheap routes).
As I always said: when a pleb want to start running a LN node, MUST answer himself the basic question: WHAT for am I running this public node?
Please pay attention to what I said in these guides:
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/managing-lightning-node-liquidity
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/private-lightning-nodes
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/recommendations-for-ln-users
Running a public routing node (even that you do not want to do pro routing, you are exposed to the public network) is a serious business and should NOT be done by not experienced plebs.
It is absolutely nothing wrong with running a private node (that do not do routing and is not exposed to the public).
But to answer punctually to your question: yes, opening bigger channels (for a public node), helps a lot. A minimum 5M sats/chan will increase your ranking. More small channels you have = less ranking you could have, is dragging you down.
IMHO the whole LN topology must be like this:
- high level public nodes, with big huge channels, well connected between.
- medium nodes, LSP with good connections to the high level nodes, and offering liquidity for private nodes.
- small pleb nodes, but good maintenance and good liquidity, NOT 100k / chan and To only....
- private nodes (like mobiles Zeus, Blixt, Mutiny, Breez, Electrum etc
But people still ignore my advice and use shity Tor only Pi nodes... but then complain why LN is not working well... What can I do more?
Those flower bunches look mostly aromatic to me, and I would guess that they are sold for ppl to use as an 'air freshener'
i.e. something like a potpourri
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As a finish carpenter of 16 years who run my own business, I not only use my skills, experience, and hands to create and produce, I've learn that my work takes time. I feel that often times, creating and producing things, especially things of quality craftsmanship, it takes time. It is inevitable that we are all selling our precious time when we produce; and I think more so when you're trying to create and produce something of high quality.
I think you're trying to encourage people to be entrepreneurial, to start their own business and be their own boss. But that does not escape the fact that you are still selling your time, probably even more so, when you are your own boss.
I believe there is no single best way to do things in this world, but that this world runs on trade offs. From experience, I learned the trade off for being your own boss is more responsibility and accountability in your ability to perform in exchange for more control, sovereignty, and freedom over your time when it comes to work.
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