Nice work, Hueristic.

Nope.  (lol)

non trivial.

I am all in for him.  God bless.

And 2 final tables in the ME in WSP is amazing.  Whatever place he finishes will be epic. ... Again.

Umm, gentlemen?

This is...

OK... still VERY impressed with this distro/platform. Elegantly made.

But one blip and a warning.  The Umbral CLN app is DANGEROUS to run IMHO.  It works perfectly... but you do not get a seed (CLN does not REALLY work with seeds and uses an unusual scheme for them in the first place... non BIP32 comparable but azseed I believe).  Nor are there clear ways to backup your node.  It is doable manually but takes a fairly good amount of *nix knowledge to do with a non-privileged account.

I am going to close the one fat channel I made to Kraken and PERHAPS try with LND.  I think that implementation is much more built out, supported and used by the Umbral community.

That's the thing with this platform... the basic reason I suck with DIY or Raspiblitz for years... the tradeoff for ease of use is great... AS LONG as you still can do some sophisticated things...

I suppose that was a bit of the royal we.

And just if my point is really about lightning and that lightning instead of empowering the small individual holders, it's becoming more of an Intermediate network for large players, almost what blockstream made liquid sound like at first. They've almost switched places in a way.

But I understand the point you're making.

Later, too, is doing great. Zapping people on nostr is almost foolproof and lots of value goes around there.

Aqua Wallet is an extremely interesting project that works super well.
Misty Breeze is similar to Aqua, not exactly the same. It also works quite well.

If one is technically minded, setting up a lightning node is not terribly hard, I have converted over to Umbral recently.

And Wallet of Satoshi is promising a self-custodial version that works just as smoothly as their original for the states, which is kind of awesome.

A lot of interesting work is being done with chaumian mints and those are going to enable interesting ways to do payments as well.

Layer 2 has not turned out the way we thought it would. Lightning is ended up being more of a backbone protocol for larger nodes, and then a lot of these service providers are building really cool wallets on top, many of which are fully nonscastodial and work like a charm. I really am very impressed with Aqua.

Indeed. The fudfather.

Haiku?  Wait?  No?

I mean...

New Jersey 113.

A fantastic engine.

Carolina on my mind...

So it's interesting to watch Bitcoin tickle the top over and over again. Often the more of that you see, the more chance for going down I feel like. But I also feel like the landscape is a little different nowadays.  With the paper Bitcoin having become such a huge part of the market, there's all kinds of shenanigans we might be seeing reflect in the price.

This sure has made a lot of runs at this all time high, and I would like to see it click this time.

OK.

I totally borked one of my (too many) nodes trying to be clever... and decided to start from scratch.

Installed Umbrel. Never have tried it.

Oh my.  So far I love the thing.. Silky smooth on a stupid little pi5.

I think you've summed it up.