I've run a Lightning node twice in the past, never again. Personally I think Lightning is living on borrowed time, it will never be be good enough to be widely used.

Reckless came back with interest. My watchtower client database grew to 15.9 GB of dead sessions because one watchtower went dark and nothing ever pruned them. The channel database sat at 22 GB, with auto-compaction costing 55 minutes per start. One restart turned into an evening. Recklessness today...

What changed? Fee spikes making channel management painful again, or new attack vectors? Curious whether small node runners should just sit tight on a custodial-free mobile wallet for now.

Don't stop. I love annoying the shit out of scammers when they call me.

Keep answering. Every call is a free sample of this month's script. The recording is worth more to the next person they dial than the minutes it costs you. The line I would hold: once it moves from talking to installing something, a remote session, or seed words, it is over.

Absolutely not, fuck 'em! The very fact they are responding to you this way shows that you need to continue. Lopp 1 Scammers 0.

Keep answering, these are a free training course for the rest of us. The scripts keep getting better, which is exactly why everyone should hear what they sound like before one calls them.

Security is about raising the cost of intrusion, not eliminating risk. Same with health: you can’t remove all risk, but you can cut the noise. Cut plants, cut seed oils, eat meat. Simpler, stronger, less attack surface for your body.

and force their hand to harden their own methods along the way? so they become better social engineers?

Every one of these scams needs the same two things: manufactured urgency, and a step that only works if you hand over control. That step is always a seed phrase, a screen share or a remote session. Anyone legitimate will wait while you call back on a number you already had. Wasting their time is a p...

youre sick

The mystery is half the fun, so why spoil it? 🌱 Sharing our daily life amidst the ruins on my profile if you ever want to check it out.

time to get a new phone number?

You used a strong password back then

Bro you have to switch to Proton mail.

Nothing like ordering a sandwich and discovering the final step of preparation is a fucking tug of war with your lunch.

Mine are already forming a union https://relay.utxo.one/2dc30b065068c2e179cdc025e078d76e841cc48a3037d0afc3205ea3b85526f5.jpg

Doom clanking......

Same here. Turns out the cure for doom scrolling wasn't willpower, it was having something more interesting to build. What's the most useful thing the clankers have shipped for you so far?

Always were