I think running your own LN node on a VPS is a better choice.

No — but I once slapped someone. Around ninth grade a male classmate used to play nasty pranks on me; his desk was right behind mine so he would often pull my hair and even took out a lighter to scare me, saying he’d burn my hair. He had just joined a school gang back then and was very cocky. One afternoon, just before class was about to start while everyone was half-asleep and chattering, he started up again. I suddenly stood up and, with all my strength, hit him in the face. Smack — the classroom went quiet and he was stunned. After that he never messed with me again.

It was so long ago that I don’t even remember whether I hit him with my left hand or my right.

Thanks for sharing! May I ask how much it costs for you to run your LN node? Are you using a VPS or something like Start9?

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Google. I was searching for something like "how to earn sats" and it led me to SN. 😂 I kept looking up "how to earn sats" on SN and found some opportunities, such as litstak, sats4liks, fountain and some faucets.

Since then I've been visiting SN frequently. I became interested in LN and nostr and learnt a lot on SN.

I don't post a lot; I mostly comment.

I think the answer is NO. The fundamentals have changed permanently. The Bitcoin (and cryptocurrency) market will follow the US economic and stock market cycles.

Great! 👍 Hope I can get an LN node running this year!

Insightful thoughts. Do you think Empery Digital and Sequans are worth investing in? I mean, buying their stocks.

Just use https://boltz.exchange/. But please do it when the Bitcoin network is less congested.

Thanks! I'd like to give it a try.

Using Neutrino as the Bitcoin backend should significantly reduce disk usage, right? Given the cost advantages, would there be any long-term issues with using Neutrino? Privacy concerns?

Something like LNURL based on NWC?

Great post!

LQWD has experimented with many things but still seems unable to define its core business.

reading nostr NIPs!

It reminds me of https://www.sats4likes.com. I hope it can find a path to organic growth. 😀

As a platform, Nostr is also subject to the constraints of network effects. The more users Nostr has, the more valuable it becomes, and the more likely it is to attract additional users. Clearly, Nostr still has a long way to go.

Just 3, Breez, Muun and Alby Go. Would like to try more!

Thanks!

I'm trying to store all of the nostr events with minimum cost.

Welcome!