LightningSpore

There is some great

work being done by

and his AI minions. He did some ground breaking work which will enable seedsigner on many new cheaper hardware devices and I challenged him $150 (in sats) to make the work even better (upgrade to latest version of lvgl). He got the work done in the challenge week so now I am paying out.

(Paying in chunks)

Happy new year! Still here, sorta.

Multiply

Hit me up for some reishi. I have 0.25lb bags available. Name your price

Dog genetics

Life is ruff for a little dog

I want to let you all know, that I’ve lost my screws, and that is very upsetting.

Picking up eggs from my egg dealer

Always nice when you go check up on your Lightning node and gang is doing alright

{
    "version":  "0.19.3-beta commit=v0.19.3-beta",
    "identity_pubkey":  "0200000000727d3b67513c916f16975e3bf8f3304cf3fcf0ed855e2ae41888f461",
    "alias":  "lightningspore.com",
    "num_active_channels":  28,
    "num_inactive_channels":  0,
    "num_peers":  28,

#foodstr

Pickled beets and almonds after a 10K

New way to grab people’s attention just dropped! Just go live and anyone who follows you gets a big display on

MatchDayBuzz got nothing on this!

My potatoes have grown really long dangling vines so I bought some dirt and buried them in buckets. A little late, but hopefully I can get some extra potatoes out of this! #gardenstr

I’ve gone down a OpenCV on the Raspberry Pi rabbit hole recently and after many hours of compilations and failed attempts, I have wrangled the beast!

No more being limited by version incompatibilities!

I have hit this problem so many times over the years, but finally I don’t have to work around the problem, I can just tackle it head on.

I have a bucket of like 10 USB-A to USB-C cables where the data doesn’t work. Not sure why so many have gone bad. makes debugging problems really annoying

Posted a new video to my YouTube channel. It just takes repetition with editing to eventually start to improve at it.

Come see what mushroom lab work looks like!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=avCdPIx116M

Beautiful weekend in the mountains, only saw a couple of mushrooms

Storm barely hits us at Steamboat State Park lake

#timelapse #colorado

I’m off to the store to buy an incandescent light bulb

Testing mushroom liquid culture LC before distribution to partners.

2 days of growth

#mycelium

This is my go-to YouTube for learning about prehistory, but he decided to make a different kind of episode commenting on culture. I thought it went well with the ideas behind Nostr and our relationship with social media. And also why Nostr businesses seem so wholesome.

Give his channel a look!

Started muting all the filter discourse words on X. Wake me up when there is more interesting stuff to talk about.

But the recent comcast "excessive data use" controversy got me moving a little bit.

I added this line, to limit my data usage of my node to 10GB per day, to my bitcoin.conf.

maxuploadtarget=10000

You can check your data usage like this:

$ bitcoin-cli getnettotals
{
  "totalbytesrecv": 1584250,
  "totalbytessent": 449445,
  "timemillis": 1756049077506,
  "uploadtarget": {
    "timeframe": 86400,
    "target": 10485760000,
    "target_reached": false,
    "serve_historical_blocks": true,
    "bytes_left_in_cycle": 10485310555,
    "time_left_in_cycle": 85966
  }
}

But now to the analysis part, if you are still here!

$ du -h --max-depth=0 /media/blockdata/bitcoin/
828G	/media/blockdata/bitcoin/

The bitcoin blockchain is 828GB on my machine. That means with my current limit, it will take ~83 peers like me to do a full IBD. Your copy of the bitcoin blockchain is precious! You should back it up from time to time, so that if you nodes database gets corrupted, you don't have to download it all again from the public network.

If there are 100K connectable bitcoin full nodes, all with 10GB data cap, as a network we can only onboard 1207 new full nodes, per day. Thats a lot but also not that much.

Im sure there are a lot of people out there running with no limits on a large connections who are doing the bulk of the work bootstrapping new nodes, but it is interesting to think about it in the worst case.

I think it is a smart move to enable maxuploadtarget setting to whatever you think is best, as a general rule. Regardless if people are toying around or not, this is an adversarial network, and you should treat it as such. Don't give people permission to do what they please with your internet connection.

Came home from a relatively short trip and I check my mushroom tent. Looks like the humidifier was dripping a bit somehow on the floor. This weird scobby/mold/mushroom thing was growing on the floor.

I post progress, success, and failure

#moldstr #mushstr #kombucha

#photography #artifax

Harvested a good chunk of Reishi today #mushrooms #grownostr

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Yo sats for stars ⚡️4🌟⭐️✨💫

Sorry for spamming all of you. Just tagging people I know with bitcoin jobs.

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I wrote this code for a job interview, but I didn't get the job so I have made it open-source. It might be a good reference for someone?

Also if you star my github repo I'll pay you 1500 sats.

https://github.com/kornpow/lnd-kube-ha

1. It uses lndinit to initialize and/or unlock the LND from a stored secret.
2. Configures LND to use the postgres DB backend
3. It uses ETCD leader election, so you can have a high-availability LND deployment where if one goes down, a second replica, (on a different machine) can take over the Lightning Ops.
4. It runs the Aperture server to create a Lightning Paywall.

I really, really, really want to have a career working with Bitcoin and Lightning, so if you know anyone hiring please send them my way!

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First successful Enoki #mushroom grow! They like cold temperatures and high CO2 so these little guys have been growing in my fridge for a few months now.

#mushtr #shroomstr

San Juan Mountains

Hiking trip not going exactly as planned but I’m posting from 12,800 feet! Starlink has been a game changer I can Nostr post from anywhere

#creede

It’s shipping day again! Spent the last 2-3 weeks speed running a new iteration of the LightningSpore induction sterilizer.

V1.1 is released onto the world!

Prices are going to go up shortly, it’s a new and improved product. I don’t make any money at these prices. Go orders yours now before I update my site!

#buildstr #shipping

Playing with the GitHub MCP server. And le goose.

I made a repo which has a lot of examples of interacting with Nostr using Python

https://github.com/kornpow/nostr-playground

Ordering my latest Seedsigner development board. 30 units inbound. Features:

1. Multiple LCD header ports, so you can solder in the 320x240 screen.
2. Pi Zero or Luckfox Pico embedded Linux support! Look mom no RPi!!!
3. Support for the standard waveshare hat.
4. External buttons for future development and cool case designs.
5. GPIO expander chip to enable future development of Seedsigner on devices with minimal GPIO.
6. I2C grove header so you can plug in a wide variety of potential accessories!

Want to also say very VERY many thanks to Modulo for sponsoring some of my work on this! While I am helping him some, I think the Seedsigner ecosystem as a whole is gaining a lot from him supporting me.

I really do love open-source. But if you are hiring for something in bitcoin and need a passionate and driven individual, please send me a DM or a message.

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New #induction sterilizer PCB coming together. About to do a big order of assembled PCBs from JLCPCB. First time getting my personal boards assembled.

If it all goes well it really is a game changer. The amount of time I will save on not having to solder is immense. The only problem is that the cost of 5 boards is basically the cost of 20 boards. That means the design has got to really work the first time!

#electronics

I can suck exceedingly efficiently now 🍹

Getting a lot of new followers? Maybe from follow packs?

Check out this intense cotton snow storm I was in this weekend

#soundon #buildstr

Not bad performance for 7 days. I might have to make Ube agar again!

⚙️⚙️⚙️🦷🦷🦷

👀👀👁️👁️👀👀👀👁️👁️👁️👁️🤫

#asknostr

One final sort observation about Nostr based shopping. I wonder if others know good ideas.

A lot of you sellers are like “zap me and I’ll send you products”. Like it is never that simple. Even if you had a single product, your next questions are: “where do I send this product?” “What name do I put on the package?”

It’s sorta awkward to ask a bitcoiner using a nym what their real name and address is.

And then the next piece of difficulty is normalizing addresses people give you. People always forget stuff in their address. The benefit of a real website with a form is you can validate this before the order is ever submitted.

Especially for non-US orders, I cannot just look at an address and be like, “yeah that definitely seems reasonable”. So typically I avoid non-US shipping, but sometimes it is worth it. Dealing with customs harmonization codes also makes me wanna scream, so that’s another reason.

Just food for thought. What are some of your internal procedures for handling ad-hoc orders on Nostr (or otherwise) which doesn’t require a lot of back and forth with the customer trying to get the basics down?

#nostrsellers

GitHub notifications are my favorite notifications…

Sending some seedsigner hardware to some beta testers.

Read on to learn more about my thoughts about today…

Shipping physical stuff is kind of hard, especially when you only do it occasionally. I have to take time after a day like today and reflect and improve my processes.

I feel bad sometimes. At lot of you vendors here are posting about how high quality your products are. But for me, selling electronics in particular, it is really hard to get to the level you get even for like lower quality Chinese Amazon products. Maybe the product is junk, but it is packaged so much better than is possible in my home production mode.

All I can do it iterate though. Hopefully if I can get orders more consistently, I can build the processes.

Generally, the move is to have products in stock. I can’t be making stuff to-order.

#bitcoin #building #seedsigner

It’s growing pretty well! About to go purchase some activated charcoal. I’m a fan of this darker colored agar.

GN

Made some Ube agar (purple yam) and then did some transfers. It’s pretty chunky consistency, next time if I ever make this recipe again I’d filter it. But usually it is not worth the effort to play around with different agar recipes. Will post some pics in a week or two with the progress.

#science #mushrooms #lab

Harvested some Reishi mushroom. It took about 4 months to grow to this size. Just kept it inside the bag the entire time, no need for any fancy environment control.

#grownostr

hardware hacking. Kind of nice to use this cheap microscope, can solder with better posture

#buildstr #seedsigner

You can just tape things together and then post them

320x240 screen on the

Even #nature is #purple pilled