Don't feel bad about being too late to Bitcoin, you could be me. I found out about Bitcoin in June 2011 from a Slashdot post.
I installed the software to mine on my ATI 4890 and joined mining.bitcoin.cz better known as Slushpool and now called Braiins pool.
Google shows that a 4890 mined at 105.1 Mhash/s which at that time would have earned around 2.05 Bitcoin a month. 24.64 Bitcoin a year.
But did I leave my computer on mining Bitcoin, and learning about how Bitcoin is freedom? No I turned it off without mining any as I saw a reply about "how it wasn't worth it anymore, as you could not receive the block reward multiple times a day anymore."
So don't feel bad that you missed out about Bitcoin in 2017, or 2021. It doesn't matter what Bitcoin was worth then or now in fiat terms. It matters that we keep learning about Bitcoin and sharing it with others. Then one day we can all have economic freedom and savings.
this node has 2 channels added in the last day, one for 10 BTC and one for 5 BTC.
both channels are connections to other large exchanges (kraken & okex).
no confirmation from binance yet, but seems likely this could be them.
A key thing is that centralization / distributed-ness is fundamentally relative, and is defined in terms of something. Are 100 nodes, scattered in every part of the world and on every continent, decentralized? They are with respect to geography. But what if they're all owned by the same dude? Then they're not with respect to ownership. What if they're all running Bitcoin Knots? Then they're not wrt software. What if they're owned by 100 random people, but they're all Americans, or they're all employed by Square, or ...
You get the point.
Even going back to the idea that the nodes are spread evenly across the globe, in a sense, they're still not decentralized wrt geography bc they're all on the same planet. This seems a stupid distinction, and at the moment it is stupid, because we're all living on this same planet and their location on this planet makes no functional difference to any interaction someone would have with them. But it's not hard to imagine a context in which having everything collected on the same planet would no longer be decentralized from a relevant functional perspective.
This is what's so important about your last point -- whether some entity or cohort can achieve some goal (blocking something for everyone, in your example.) Decentralization (across the relevant functionality) is a state of organization that makes attacks of that kind difficult. It also makes development, deployment, testing, etc. slow and difficult. But the network lives with the latter drawbacks to realize the former benefits.
With your improvements on the wallet I was thinking... wouldn't it be nice if SN could work like Albi? From my ignorance it seems you're 90% already done towards being a Nostr logger, full with wallet and all.