It's my Crypto Birthday today. 🥳 #HappyBirthday🕯️ #Crypto

1) What

Updated dynopool.com yesterday. It was in need of a facelift. #DYNO

Dirty hands lately: • Got a Strfry Nostr relay up and running — fast, light, and humming along • Threw together two static sites (keeping it simple: no frameworks, just clean HTML/CSS) • Set up Phoenixd + LNURL on a VPS — self-custodial Lightning payments now live ⚡ (yet untested) • Fired up a Minetest server for my kid — mods and all, because why not • Still maintaining the Cardano stake pool, fully synced and on tip — always happy to mint a block 🧱 Always tinkering. Always learning. #nostr #diy #selfhosted #cardano #lightning #minetest #strfry #buildinpublic #DYNO #zapstrdotnet

Phoenix Wallet up and running as I migrate from Alby. Got phoenixd and phoenixd-lnurl humming along on the VPS too. I had to laugh — I just shoved 100,000 sats( currently $117) into two wallets just to open Lightning channels... Just to ⚡️ZAP⚡️ on Nostr! That’s sick — and I don’t mean Gen Z “rizzed up on main” sick. I mean Millennial -- dropped $100 on LN channels just to tip you crazy people LN pennies sick. #grownostr #zaps #lighteningnetwork

Today, I set up a #Phoenix wallet and took the Alby address down from my profile. I replaced with a self-hosted BIP-353 Lightning Address I configured on the zapstr.net domain. This address is resolved via a DNS TXT record that contains a BOLT-12 offer. Zaps ⚡ should, in theory and if the client supports Bip-353 addresses, should be routed to my Phoenix Wallet Lightning through the BOLT-12 settlement address. We shall see. Tomorrow I may try and set up phoenixd phoenixd-lnurl for an LNURL address.

I guess #getalby dropped the free wallet so what the best option now #asknostr? I tried building a lightening node once. The remote liquidity is what killed my ambition.. needing to bolster connections with multiple nodes and exchanges. Anyway, what's the new #getalby here? I need to find a new lightening wallet.

Checking back in after a long hiatus .... with an observation/question: Out of all the interfaces, Google Gemini is by far the most frustrating to use. God I could just pull my hair out everytime I try and use it. --- Perplexity has become my go-to for up-to-date info and newer applications. ChatGPT still wins when I need help crafting flowery text or working through older scripting tasks. What about you, #asknostr? What’s your favorite AI tool or chatbot? Have you found different ones work better for different tasks too?

Checking back in .... I found #Lemmy and am exploring it as a platform .... It is a Reddit alt and seems to have a small group of active followers disenfranchised with Reddit. Somewhat similar to the folks here disenfranchised with Twitter. I found it while reading some background on #SimpleX, a platform I found through #Nostr, but one which I have embraced and use ...

How can I know if I've been shadow banned and hidden by the Algo? #asknostr