Exploring the Bitcoin Lightning Network

We celebrate five years of the show, chat about self-hosted Lightning, and why Alex loves his NanoKVM. Plus, it is a self-hosted replacement for Amazon Wishlists and more.

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• Patreon Policy Updates — The Community Guidelines have been rewritten to be clearer and more uniform in terminology, tense, and tone. Trust & Safety moderators have also been equipped with new support language to ensure that their interactions with creators are more educational.
• New Patreon policy updated on tuesday
• 30% fee on Patreon payments through iOS is cause for concern
• Patreon issues are causing paused payouts and canceled subscriptions — Some Patreon creators have noticed a dip in subscribers, and fans have gotten notices that their payments are being flagged.
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• Bitcoin Mining Council Survey Confirms Year on Year Improvements in Sustainable Power and Technological Efficiency — The results of this survey show that the members of the BMC and participants in the survey are currently utilizing electricity with a 63.1% sustainable power mix. Based on this data, the global bitcoin mining industry’s sustainable electricity mix has improved marginally to 59.9% and remains one of the most sustainable industries globally.
• What is the Lightning Network? — Essentially, the Lightning Network is a way to transact bitcoin faster, cheaper, and more privately than on the Bitcoin blockchain.
• ZEUS — Controlling and managing your Lightning node channels has never been easier.
• Onboarding to lightning | ZEUS Documentation — ZEUS' embedded node has many different ways to get onboarded onto lightning with payment channels. This doc details all of the different ways and tradeoffs.
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• Umbrel - Personal home cloud and OS for self-hosting — Store your files, run your own VPN, download and stream media, run a Bitcoin node, and more — all in your home.
• Alby Hub Introduction — Alby Hub is more than a lightning wallet. It's your Hub for instant bitcoin payments across a growing ecosystem of apps and flexible enough to serve your very own use case.
• Alby Hub v1.7.2: Friends & Family App — Friends & Family app let's you quickly onboard your friends and family to Bitcoin and Lightning via your personal Alby Hub instance. They get a wallet without having to understand lightning or have their own channels, and not rely on large custodial services. They can also get their own Lightning address with an Alby Account, or connect their new wallet via the Alby extension. Soon, they will also be able to connect to Alby's new mobile app, Alby Go.
• Lightning liquidity
• How do i get incoming liquidity and start routing payments?
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• NanoKVM — Affordable, Powerful, RISC-V Nano KVM over IP
• wishthis — wishthis is a simple, intuitive and modern wishlist platform to create, manage and view your wishes for any kind of occasion.
• Microsoft to host CrowdStrike and others to discuss Windows security changes — Microsoft, CrowdStrike and key partners who deliver endpoint security technologies will come together for discussions about improving resiliency and protecting mutual customers’ critical infrastructure,
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• Untrusted Source Store
• AutoPi: Telematics IoT Infrastructure for Fleets and developers - Built on Raspberry Pi — Get the most out of your vehicle or fleet. AutoPi provides the tools you need to extract and visualize the data that matters most to you or your business.
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