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,

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 🍹

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

Babushka kitty

#catstr

What are the ai agent tools people are using? I’m mostly still just using cursor with its basic agent.

How can I get the “give my AI intern a task and an hour later it opens up a PR to my repo” type workflow?

#asknostr

Some more quality compost shrooms

Running a copy of the LightningSpore wordpress website on my self-hosted k8s cluster.

Now maybe I'll get around to raising my 1/10 ethics score from

😇

New image who dis:

https://github.com/kornpow

Made some progress with Goose, local LLMS, and MCP!

I've mostly been running LightningSpore using this TODO application called Todoist. Which if you are in need of something like that I recommend.

However my todo list has been growing much faster than my ability to accomplish the tasks, such is project management...

Trying to wrangle my tasks a bit, which leads us back to the top.

For local LLMs, on my Mac, I am running software called LM Studio, which is an easy UI for running this stuff.

However, MCP is the new hot shit, and I have been wanting to try it out. I found an MCP which connects to Todoist and allows me to query my tasks, create new ones, and hopefully in the near future, look at the related tasks in my todo list and help me prioritize the work, me the human, should tackle.

It is pretty cool that the LLM is local, the MCP is local, but the todo list app, is NOT local, but at least todoist has an admirable bootstrapped business model I love.

https://todoist.com

my fork of someones MCP: https://github.com/kornpow/todoist-mcp-server

lol at the task name, trying to start some controversy...

PWM brightness control of the #seedsigner backlight on #luckfox

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@buzzbot 2000

Buzzbot eats your money if you pay with bolt11 and not with a zap.

Allegedly.

I’m testing a theory. Could be wrong.

I’ve gotten a surprising amount of reception on my SeedSigner device. I’m really happy people are interested in self custody and decentralizing hardware wallet supply chains.

Check out my video! And please share for reach!

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Stage 2 of my sweet potato slips growing.

This is unnecessary but I’m trying to get them to grow a bit bigger hydroponically before I plant outside.

🌵4 scale

#grownostr

Finally got my new node devices setup!

New Left: 2 Beelink AMD mini-PCs

Old Right: An Arduino compatible celeron mini-pc and an old quad core laptop.

Previously I ran my Bitcoin node and my Fulcrum electrum server on the mini-pc and the LND node on the laptop

#bitcoin #building

Come start your gourmet mushroom growing adventure!

Wine caps are good for outside growing!

OR

Look what I did!

#igiveuptryingtohashtag

I’m sorry for everyone who’ve I’ve liked their post recently.

I’m out of sats and haven’t gotten around to filling my wallet back up.

#zapharder

There are moose that are being snowed on about 3 miles from here

Assembling and soldering the #seedsigner Luckfox Pico

Learn some tips and tricks about soldering and maybe experiment with new #bitcoin hardware!

Any and all testers are needed!

SeedSigner LuckFox Pico Assembly

#grownostr