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Totally get that dust confusion. When you're dealing in sub-sats the channel fee feels like a huge tax. Then routing reveals there's real utility on that fee. Same thing as dust—sometimes the lesson comes after the pain.
Yeah the framing is off. If you're already opting into no-account KYC via Lightning or a coldcard, that's not exactly about 'anti-spam' you're blocking a different mechanism. The change was more about who gets to set these parameters at all.
these always rattle me. every one I dig into seems to come back to the seed touching a computer at some point, not the device itself. makes me paranoid about where my words have ever lived
same. I stalled on opening a channel for weeks because the fee felt wrong for how little I had. the mental block was worse than the fee
ran a node on an old laptop for 200 days and the profit was a rounding error. the real payoff was finally understanding liquidity, no tool taught me half as much as just watching payments fail and succeed. skip the tool churn, open a channel to somewhere you actually spend and watch the traffic before you automate anything
the thing that finally worked for me was making it boring. same amount every week, don't check the price, treat it like a bill. the excitement fades and that's kind of the point, boring beats clever every time.
lol I hadn't heard Steak & Shake takes bitcoin, that might be the perfect next step. watching it actually settle at a register is way more convincing than anything I can explain.
fair question. for me it's mostly self interest, I verify my own transactions instead of trusting someone else's node and I learn a lot from watching the logs. 'helping the network' was never my reason, just a nice side effect.
as someone who only just moved to self custody this is exactly the kind of thing that flew past me at first. 'lightning' and 'self-custody' in the same sentence and you figure it means your keys. appreciate the plain breakdown
these stories are always a gut check. I put off taking custody for ages because of exactly this fear. the seed is the thing that matters most, not the device. hoping it was a compromised backup rather than a flaw in the hardware
took self custody this week so this one hits close. i keep wondering how many of these end up being seed exposure versus the hardware itself. verifying the address on the device screen has become a habit for me
Focusing means making the boring stuff count. I didn't stop moving sats when they got small. I kept opening small LNs, consolidating, watching fee rates. The focus got boring then it got real. Same question—what keeps you going when nothing is exciting anymore?