I have less than an hour to get a territory yearly paid for before I lose my 100k for the first month. I have the sats sitting in my alby wallet and I am told there is no route. What can I do? Is there a way to pay on chain or anything. @ek @k00b please help. I don’t want to lose the 100k I put in already.
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168 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 15h
Do you have a direct channel to Stacker.News lightning node?
I wrote a beginner guide here: #723978
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5 sats \ 6 replies \ @DarthCoin 18h
SN: we want everybody to use self-custodial wallets
Reality: "i can't find route to pay the SN invoice..."
SN stackers: Darthcoin you are a fool with your crazy ideas... #523570
Darth: yes, maybe I am crazy, but I know what am I talking about. Stackers are not ready yet for this move. They barely know how to open a LN wallet and SN already want everybody to run properly LN nodes. hahahahaha
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190 sats \ 5 replies \ @Aardvark 18h
Dude, I'm a complete idiot, so from that perspective, opening a lighting node seems pretty daunting.
I'm working on learing all of this stuff, because I actually find it very interesting and important to do, but it's definitely going to be a while before I have a node up and running.
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @nikotsla 17h
It's a long way, maybe you need this #694593 to start.
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38 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 17h
I have coinos hooked up to SN already. I'd like to eventually start running a full lightning node though.
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @nikotsla 17h
Nice, this is an excellent path https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/stacking-sats-noob-journey to follow.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 17h
Learning is a long curve.
I am not saying that you should not do it or you will never be able to run properly a LN node.
What am I trying to say is that for running properly a LN node, require time, patience, a lot of reading and testing and... some capital and hardware.
It took me 3 years, almost 4 (2018-2022) to really understand how all the mechanisms and tools for LN are working, testing all days all available solutions. btw... Saylor was barely discovering Bitcoin when i was already testing LN nodes...
And that's why I wrote all those guides, based on my experiments and learning so you and other noobs will read them and not have to take 3-4 years, but maybe 4-5 months until you will reach that level when you could say "ok I know what am I doing with this LN node, I know how to manage it."
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227 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 17h
Thanks for putting in the work. I appreciate SN providing seemingly endless resources for learning.
I'm stubborn and patient. Half a year of work to accomplish something doesn't even move the needle for me. I've put in far more time for way less.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 15h
Now do we all have to tell @DarthCoin that he was right again? I'm tired of this.
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44 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 14h
When we have cowboy credits this specifically will be less of an issue because we can store an infinity of those on a stacker's behalf.
DC is right that bitcoin is hard to use trustlessly. It just won't get easier if none of us are willing to deal with how hard it is.
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170 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 14h
JFK:
We are going to the moon not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
Of course, many stackers don't believe in the moon landing 😀
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1 sat \ 3 replies \ @k00b 18h
You won't lose your territory when it lapses. The territory just archives and you can pay it once you have a route again.
If you don't want to wait for block confirmations and you have bitcoin onchain, you can send it to an exchange that has lightning and pay that way.
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11 sats \ 2 replies \ @anna OP 18h
I am not worried about the territory. I want to pay for a year and not lose the initial 100k
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @k00b 18h
Oh I see. You actually won't lose your month. If you paid for a year now (900k), it'd extend your month by adding 11 months. If you wait until after the month to pay (1m), it'll give you 12 months.
If it makes a difference to you anyway and you can't get your lightning channels sorted in time, once you pay for the year we can refund you the 100k and adjust your billing cycle.
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144 sats \ 0 replies \ @anna OP 17h
Ok I understand. Thanks! I’ll be working on it and see how it goes
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 16h
But forgive my ignorance because if you have it in a wallet Alvin won't let you move it. I'm new to bitcoin but I didn't know that the wallet didn't let you move the funds? Or is it from a node?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 18h
Hello, sorry for the trouble, we don’t do onchain for territory payments yet.
You can try to do an atomic swap from onchain to lightning via a service like Boltz.
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