Bitcoiners have been saying this for a while. The firearms community needs to adopt bitcoin before they have no other options. Few have headed this advice. I went to YouTube today a saw a video from a very popular firearms training channel called Hickok45. The released a video titled Bad News - YouTube where they let their subscribers know about the uncertainty of their future due to YouTube's new policy banning firearms advertising.
YouTube is of course within their rights to do this but that's not a solution to the problem. The problem goes deeper. Credit card processors and companies as well as banks have and could increase their censorship of firearms purchases. Bitcoin fixes this.
As far as the video hosting problem there are other platforms that will likely open their doors to these trainers and educators but that isn't good enough. Nostr is new but I see it as the most hopeful solution coupled with bitcoin over lightning. Over the past week I've been experimenting with satellite.earth CDN file hosting service. I've been pretty impressed by it. Its very new but it seems like a real solution to the file hosting centralization problem for Nostr.
I've tried in the past to make the case for bitcoin to gun owners and few seem to see the problem. I think this is largely due to their faulty belief in the state. There are some companies that have adopted bitcoin. The only one that I'm aware of is Fenix Ammunition. Anyone aware of others?
It still not so reliable, there's many payments that fail and on the node's side there's still many failures that lead to force closed channels. I believe both issues are being solved progressively, but imo that's 2 of the most important.
Before having hundred different features, it should be robust and reliable.
@ekzyis is kind of a big deal. Really pushing Stacker News forward not just on the dev side but also with engaging original discussions.
Loved by many stackers from afar, and always raising the bar 👏
Most people under authoritarian regimes immediately grasp the power of a currency that is not controlled by a government.
Of course, they are very curious: how is it beyond the control of the state? What gives it value? Why is it volatile? How do I get some?
The onboarding process takes time, months or years, and demands patience and an open mind :)
Yeah this won't work for that. You'll have to update to 0.5.X or manually fix it.
For umbrel 0.4.x you'll have to edit the
./umbrel/docker-compose.ymlfile manually.In that file you'll see a list of services.
If you scroll down to the lnd section
... networks: default: ipv4_address: $BITCOIN_IP lnd: container_name: lnd image: lightninglabs/lnd:v0.14.1-beta@sha256:810f290f4da51adaf57d53bc1f1e65b52b03c543f322da0b98fb8c47be94a27a user: 1000:1000 depends_on: [ tor_proxy, manager ] volumes: - ${PWD}/lnd:/data/.lnd environment: HOME: /data restart: on-failure stop_grace_period: 5m30s ports: - "9735" - "$LND_REST_PORT:$LND_REST_PORT" - "$LND_GRPC_PORT:$LND_GRPC_PORT" networks: default: ipv4_address: $LND_IP dashboard: container_name: dashboard ...you should be able to manually edit the container (on line 7 here) to
lightninglabs/lnd:v0.15.2-beta@sha256:a011b06c622c947a3039d76a5a08b4896fc6a02dea6add3afd345019f8737923and then restart the node, or run
sudo ./umbrel/script/startto just apply the update
world peace, aka eltoo.
people make a lot of noise about how great the penalty system is for keeping nodes honest on lightning, but the burden of that penalty data is actually enormous. it weighs down every single lightning node, especially the most "productive" or routing heavy ones. you end up paying on-chain fees to close channels to be able to compact your database to a manageable size -- there's a real world cost to the ability to enforce penalties in those extra onchain fees.
eltoo fixes this by bounding the required state storage per channel update to 1, rather than n.
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Maybe it would be nice to have the option of choosing light or dark mode? I like the current color, but it hurts my eye to read it.
Now it's login first then able to create, how about having the option to fill everything first and then require to login? maybe some people want to see how it works before logging in.
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I'm trying to set up an LNBits instance on my node (Umbrel) to act as a custodian for family and friends using Bluewallet.
I'm struggling with performance. Right now, I'm setting up the BW config to reach the node through Tor and performance is crap. I'm trying to understand how to potentially reach LNBits through clearnet, or perhaps put the LNBits container on a VPS, to get acceptable performance (hopefully, excellent performance even :)).