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I'm putting this post in the conspiracy section because...well, it's cheaper, but also - it really does seem that there's a concerted propaganda effort to push skin cancer fears, and push yearly (or more!) skin checks by dermatologists, and heavy use of sunscreen. 

Check out these articles:

New York Times article: Answers To All Your Burning Questions About Sunscreen
https://archive.vn/IitH4 

New York Times article: What Gen Z Gets Wrong About Sunscreen
https://archive.vn/bwuDL

They're full of propaganda about sun exposure:

>Young adults are often unaware of what sun damage looks like and how best to prevent it, Dr. Shive said. She said she recently saw a young patient who didn’t know tan skin and freckles were signs of sun damage. 

>The average adult needs about one ounce of sunscreen to cover all exposed skin. “We often say a shot glass of sunscreen for the whole body,” said Dr. Jenna Lester, an associate professor of dermatology at the U.C. San Francisco School of Medicine, “but I tell my patients to fill the shot glass up to the brim and use even more if needed so you don’t miss any spots.”

Really? Freckles are a sign of sun damage? The only places on my body that don't have freckles are those that never, ever see the sun. 

The substack auther A Midwestern Doctor (https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/) has a great article on this topic, which goes in depth on the conspiracy aspects of it [Dermatology's Disastrous War Against The Sun] (https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/dermatologys-disastrous-war-against). Here's a few quotes from that article:

>Skin cancers are by far the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States, so to prevent them, the public is constantly told to avoid the sun. However, while the relatively benign skin cancers are caused by sun exposure, the ones responsible for most skin cancer deaths are due to a lack of sunlight.

>This is unfortunate because sunlight is arguably the most important nutrient for the human body, as avoiding it doubles one’s rate of dying and significantly increases their risk of cancer.

>A strong case can be made that this dynamic was a result of the dermatology profession (with the help of a top PR firm) rebranding themselves to skin cancer fighters, something which allowed them to become one of the highest paying medical specialities in existence. Unfortunately, despite the billions that is put into fighting it each year, there has been no substantial change in the number of skin cancer deaths

I don't use sunscreen anymore, and I haven't for a year or so now. It's part of my general skepticism towards the heavily advertised "it's for your health" and "but you'll get cancer" propaganda that we've been subject to. 

Once you start being aware of it, you see what people are influenced to do by the propaganda. For instance - absolutely slathering themselves and their kids in sunscreen, to the point that they're these white masked creatures. 

Also - I heard from a friend of mine that after a long, coast to coast bike ride, slathered in sunscreen every day, she got a very strong reaction from the sunscreen, and can't wear it without her skin getting raw and red.

So now, I sun myself regularly (when it's not too hot out). And in situations where I would have previously worn sunscreen, I skip it, or just wear a hat, and maybe a long-sleeved shirt. And if I'm out in the sun for a long time, say on a long hike, I'll use an umbrella, which incidentally can be very effective in preventing overheating. 



Sunlight - is it really bad for you? Sunscreen - is it really good for you?

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The Perils of Premature Protocol Ossification

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I think in my 30s is where I really felt comfortable in my own skin, started to figure out how to take things one day at a time, as well as finally settling down and having kids. My 20s, I didn’t know WTF was going on haha. 

If you are a pleb like me, and you like zapping sats over Lightning, but you are NOT technically savvy, **the last few years have been R-O-U-G-H**. 

I don’t know if anyone remembers, but back in 2020-1, there was huge momentum with self-ran LND nodes, hosted over Umbrel when they initially launched. There were other node-in-one services around as well, like MyNode and a bunch of other ones, all equally good. We were all tinkering and opening channels with each other, there was real buzz and excitement around it. It felt like what ordinals was like a few months ago. 

Then, it allegedly turned out LND was not on our side, and had the WEF pulling strings, despite their vehement denial. So, like any responsible pleb, I closed all my channels, removed LND and the whole stack of apps, and gave them the middle finger. 

**But the problem remained.** How to use lightning? I tried running CLN (used to be c-lightning), but back then they did not have any implementation with the node services, so unless you were to spin up your own node and build every piece software from scratch from source, you simply had no choice but to go with wallets like Phoenix. I had never opened github in my life, much less interface with command lines nor compiled anything from source. That was a no-go. So I ran to Phoenix.

Phoenix was not ideal, but at least it was non-custodial. Besides, you did not have to manage channels, a win-win according to my lazy self. ACINQ, the company that runs Eclair and Phoenix, seemed to be advancing the right tech, like incorporating splicing and announcing their intention to have BOLT12, something LND is still dragging their feet about today. CLN eventually launched a GUI app for the node-in-one services. And it looks great, but to this date, it doesn’t have a one-click backup option, which is why I didn’t feel safe putting my corn on there. So yeah, I got really comfortable and complacent.

**Well, we all know what happened next.** First, Wallet of Satoshi, then Phoenix voluntarily left the US, while all the mixing services got shut down. And this is just the first salvo. Things are only going to get more draconian from here, or has the potential to be. They are coming for everything they can put their chokehold on, including things that need centralized servers like LNURL. It was naive to think we could rely on 3rd party-ran lightning nodes, and the bankers would just take it sitting down. 

**There is no choice left. Much like the Fellowship of the Ring, which unsuccessfully tried the path South to Rohan, then was equally foiled over the frigid Pass of Caradhras, there was only one option left: The Mines of Linux and the creatures hiding beneath the shadows of the Command Line Interface (CLI).**

In Part 2, I will list a compilation of everything you will need to build a node from scratch, compile most everything from source, with step by step instructions from the many wonderful developers and shadowy supercoders out there. I am not saying that any competent monkey could do it, but it's close enough. Remember, Gandalf is victorious, sort of. And once your are done, you can start using BOLT12 right away; it has been fantastic to receive my mining rewards over BOLT 12. So if you are mining with Ocean, you have extra incentives. 

To be continued...

A pleb’s journal to running BOLT12 with CLN, PART 1

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One small step backwards for bitcoin, one giant crash for shitcoins. 

![attach Nostr Wallet Connect](https://m.stacker.news/53717)
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# 0.0 Intro:

Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) look's like being, lately, the most requested and used option to connect your node to SN! And SN to your node... In this guide, we will go through a few simple steps to _leverage_ the nostr protocol to move sats around wallets: SN wallet and your (ideally NON-custodial) wallet. [NWC.dev](https://nwc.dev/) is the open protocol to connect lightning wallets to apps. Pretty damn powerful, considering its level of censorship resistance and privacy.

There are still not many options that have NWC integrated and working, providing the capability to generate public keys and secret keys to connect wallets and apps through nostr relays. @Alby Hub is the latest one, and THE one we gonna use in this guide. Ready?
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# 1.0 Requirements

- [x] 1 public or private Lighting node
- [x] 1 AlbyHub app installed and running
- [x] 1 [SN account](signup/r/supratic) (Last but not least important!)
- [x] 2 NWC connection keys


![attach NWC error](https://m.stacker.news/53739)
Yes, we'll need two different keys! One for sending and another different connection key for receiving.
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# 2.0 Creating the NWC connection keys on AlbyHub

If you are still learning and or evaluating options for your Lightning node, I highly suggest you starting from @Darthcoin guides, forever available on [github](https://darth-coin.github.io/) and [substack](https://darthcoin.substack.com/) in many languages.

At this point, I'll assume you have your LN node running and some channels already opened with some perfectly balanced liquidity (sats). It's an absolutely vital detail we cannot miss! You ca also check the health status of your node after installing AlbyHub. 👇

![AlbyHub Node Liquidity and Health](https://m.stacker.news/53787)
![](https://m.stacker.news/53691)

The cool stuff about AlbyHub is that allow, not only to check your node and channel status, but most essential for this scenario, it gives much better management capabilities of the permissions you want to assign to specific NWC keys. If you care about your privacy, and to mitigate future issues, it's important to give each key the right authorization access. If you want to learn more about AlbyHub you can open [guides.getalby.com](https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/v/alby-account-and-browser-extension/alby-hub/node/node-health) in another window to read more later ;)

![AlbyHub App Store preview](https://m.stacker.news/53736)
![](https://m.stacker.news/53691)
### 2.1 Select "stacker news" from the App Store
I'll start from the AlbyHub App Store because in this way our Connection will be later featured in the AlbyHub connections page with the beautiful SN icon instead of being a just generic one. 

![](https://m.stacker.news/53745)
![](https://m.stacker.news/53691)

### 2.2 Creating the Connection keys
Let's click on the **stacker news** **[🔌 Connect]** button, and we'll see that by default, the Connection is set to give **Full Access** to the app, you can keep it this way if you like. 

![](https://m.stacker.news/53785)
![](https://m.stacker.news/53691)

My suggestion is to set the permission at a minimum to define exactly what access each Connection key to do just what it supposed to do with your wallet! Check the settings below respectively for sending NWC connection key and another different one for receiving:

| **connection key** for sending | **connection key** for receiving |
|---|---|
| ![](https://m.stacker.news/53781) | ![](https://m.stacker.news/53780) | 


In the Connection key for sending you also have the option to set a badget, in the example below, the connection will be allowed to take from your node until a max of 100k sats a month.

Indeed, if you are really control freak, you could set an expiration date for both connections keys independently. 
> Note: you'll be able to edit all the connection keys parameters after you create it.

![](https://m.stacker.news/53691)
### 2.3 T̲e̲m̲p̲o̲r̲a̲r̲i̲l̲y̲, save the keys somewhere
Each time you create a Connection, you'll see this screen. **Note that after leaving this screen you'll be not able to retrieve the Connection keys provided, and if you close it accidentally just delete the Connection and create a new one.**

![](https://m.stacker.news/53782)
![](https://m.stacker.news/53691)

- 2.3.1 Click the **[Copy pairing secret]** button, it will keep the Connection keys in your clipboard.
- 2.3.2 Paste them in a text file for a moment, don't save the file, just keep them there for a sec! You could also go back and forward between AlbyHub and SN to do one at a time, whatever is easier for you.
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# 3.0 Connecting your node to SN via NWC

Now that we have both connection keys, for sending and for receiving, let's open our [SN wallet > attach wallet > NWC](https://stacker.news/settings/wallets/nwc) also accessible directly from the url [`https://stacker.news/settings/wallets/nwc`](https://stacker.news/settings/wallets/nwc).

![](https://m.stacker.news/53783)
![](https://m.stacker.news/53691)

Make sure you respectively paste the right key in the right input field
![](https://m.stacker.news/53793)
![](https://m.stacker.news/53691)

We are nearly there... just make sure to set:

- **desired balance** = `0`,
- **max fee** to a min of `1%` and...
- . ... click on the yellow **[ attach ]** button.

![](https://m.stacker.news/53435)

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# 4.0 Congratulations, stackers! 
You just did your first step into bitcoin sovereignty! Your sats now should be landing directly in your Lightning node. 
Two NWC keys, One Connection, Zero stress... Happy stacking!

![](https://m.stacker.news/53796)