Welcome!

Wow, that's a great project!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! That’s an interesting perspective. I’ll keep an eye on how LQwD develops.

Thank you for the information! I'm getting interested in LQwD. It seems that LQwD has not yet settled on a stable business model. According to the news on its website, in recent years, LQwD has explored routing nodes, AI-driven channel management optimization, LSP, and Bitcoin reserves. However, when looking at its financials, the revenue for the 2024 and 2025 fiscal years is only 506 CAD and 5553 CAD, respectively, which suggests that it might not be fully prepared for market entry. Additionally, there have been considerable fluctuations in its stock recently, which has also sparked my curiosity.

LQwD announced in 2023 that it was using AI to optimize channel management (link), but provided very few details.

I feel the same way. Ideally, there should be a key manager, like a password manager, so apps don’t ever touch — let alone store — our nsec. That way, even if an app has security issues, our nsec stays safe.

Personally, I always keep my nsec in the getAlby extension on the browser. Apps (like Primal) just sign through getAlby and never access the nsec directly.

Thanks for explaining! I’m not very familiar with these things yet, but it’s interesting to learn about.

Wow cool! Thanks! How do you think about Breez's open LSP model? And LSP as a business model (like LQwD)? Thanks!

hahahaaa... You got it!

Makes sense. It really comes down to what fits your needs best.

And I use Cloudflare as my DNS server, and handle HTTP cert. On the VPS, thor is deployed behind ningx.

I'm running it on a tiny DigitalOcean VPS (512 MB memory, 1 CPU, 10 GB SSD, $4/month) with an additional 30 GB SSD volume ($3/month at $1 per 10 GB). My total cost is $7/month.

I also had to set up a 2 GB swap file when building the project; otherwise, rustc would be OOMed.

To reduce costs, you could either shrink the volume size or skip using it altogether.

cool!

work for money, money for freedom, freedom of work...

How about Chandler Bing from Friends? Or is Friends not popular anymore? Sadly, Matthew Perry, the actor who played Chandler, has passed away.

As someone outside the US, I’m not really familiar with them, haha.

It's a great bot!

On the 2025‑07‑15 Saloon thread, I said:

It’s finally here — though a few days late!

A Lightning address is used to receive sats. You can think of it as an HTTP API that generates invoices. Others can send you sats using your Lightning address, but you can’t use it to pay others.

It’s a standard defined in LUD-16, and Lightning addresses are supported by many products, such as Nostr. Stacker News supports it too — you can set your Lightning address here.

Yeah, you can deploy Thor on your own domain and configure it with your own NWC strings. For example, I’m running Thor behind my domain yfaming.com on a tiny VPS, using an NWC string from Rizful. You can do the same with your own domain and NWC strings.

Exactly!