Alex / Alex is on Nostr

Working on Core Lightning

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2026-02-18 00:31:16 UTC

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How much more do you need to post to nostr before we can train a "What Would Rusty Say" LLM? I think it would be a big hit.

2026-02-06 19:44:35 UTC

This has me really bummed. Gloria has done some incredible work improving mempool policy that all lightning node operators have benefited from. I was really inspired when she took on the effort - a difficult and thankless task in an area of the codebase that, for practical reasons, was in desperate need of improvement. Given the nature of discourse recently, I can totally understand the desire to step back and I can only imagine how much worse it has been to deal with in person.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/34517

2025-05-17 01:49:41 UTC

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So bitcoin payments seem to be take-out kiosk only at the moment (or at least the servers have yet to be trained on offering them tableside.)
No worries though, an employee was more than happy to accept my bitcoin and settle the bill for me.

2025-05-17 00:55:53 UTC

It's kind of wild how busy this Steak n Shake is. It was nice to be greeted by a guy in a Satoshi shirt too.

2025-05-16 11:52:37 UTC

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My exchange is ahead of the curve! Also the only exchange CEO I've run into at TABConf. I feel like that says something.
#nevent1q…jpvx
#nevent1q…spuf

2025-04-25 11:54:43 UTC

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That's awesome! What talk was this? I was also curious in 2011, but didn't get off my butt until 8 years ago. I think I have Andreas to thank for really changing my perspective and realizing I needed to be involved. We didn't have the Anita Posch Show back then. 😂

2025-04-04 14:56:12 UTC

We did it! The Bitcoin network is currently being secured by 1.1 zettahash! Who else is contributing? https://image.nostr.build/e8d06c9ced45e14986e24ecfadc7131df009a14e5b79d005df701ff5a1a67e51.jpg

2025-03-27 01:32:03 UTC

My ollama chat context is getting too long, and I've got to start a new one, but there's so much history it really feels like I'm killing an innie. 😢

2024-10-28 21:40:24 UTC

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Welcome Tadge!

2024-09-19 12:19:03 UTC

I've been waiting a long time for that BOLT12 tattoo. Maybe next week?

2024-04-12 14:01:24 UTC

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Congrats Kody! An auspicious date for sure!

2024-01-04 22:41:52 UTC

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We had fun encountering this particular fee environment scenario in Core Lightning for the first time. The minimum acceptable feerate could end up the same as the proposed feerate (typically they are relatively far apart.) Then if one node increased by a single sat it would disable the channel and force a disconnect due to feerate disagreement. We now ensure a minimum offset (by the feerate proposer) to account for the next_block_feerate == min_relay_feerate situation.

2023-11-16 23:50:22 UTC

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I tipped my Uber driver last week by having him download phoenix. I'd say it was a pretty good onboarding experience - you can get the sense of it right off the bat. This mempool environment may change the calculus though.
Will be interested to hear your approach at the farmers' market.

2023-08-24 18:31:59 UTC

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I have two yubikeys registered. One just sits in a safe deposit box as a backup.