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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @kristapsk 5 Dec \ on: What password manager do you like and why? tech
I use pass, cli with gpg encrypted storage on git.
There is not enough info in that issue to figure out what is happening there. The posted log only says that for some reason LND RPC server is struggling to start. Should start first by looking at Knots logs and check is bitcoin-cli responding. Also could increase LND loglevel.
This has always worked for me - https://raspibolt.org/guide/lightning/web-app.html
I hired a developer to work with me on publishing an Open Source LND monitoring tool, but unfortunately due to both of us having IRL issues, we were not able to make progress
Standalone tool or integration with some existing monitoring system? I am thinking about implementing LND monitoring for Zabbix. I've done in past some for Bitcoin Core / Knots.
Blackrock manages ETFs, it buys and sells BTC when their customers buy and sell their BTC ETFs. They don't buy or sell with their own money.
Institutions and retail investors typically reduce exposure or rotate into altcoins/USDT during these phases.
USDT / fiat is understandable, but who sells BTC for cryptoshitcoins during bear markets?
change should not be spent together with equal outputs.
And normally it will not be, as equal output and change will end up in different mixdepths.
100 sats \ 0 replies \ @kristapsk 25 Nov \ parent \ on: Should the government just ban high prices? econ
Sometime it's monopoly by the law. For example, in Latvia power grid is monopoly of two 100% state owned companies, only power production and selling to end customers have competition. And it's ok that some regulatory board needs to review their pricings, not just their CEO / board decides whatever they want. And you pay specific fee each month for maximum connection capacity and spent kWh's to that state monopoly.
Then there is kinda not monopoly by the law, but it's practically impossible for anybody to enter the market. Say, railways tracks. It will be practically impossible to buy all the land necessary to build your own for bigger distances, even if you have shitton of money (government can do that - they just make a new law and force you to sell to them what they want).
14 sats \ 2 replies \ @kristapsk 24 Nov \ parent \ on: Should the government just ban high prices? econ
Price controls are good in cases where there is total monopoly. Let's say, only one company providing connection to electricity grid. But not when there is competition. Government should incentivize competition instead.
Yes, signing with anything else than P2PKH (old addresses starting with 1) is non-standard, different wallets use different formats. Basically, there are two standards - BIP137 and BIP322.
HodlHodl and RoboSats. If you don't like premium of others, you can always create your own offer and wait. It's normal that market takers pay more than market makers.
how exactly to use it when it is running
Use it as your wallet or backend of your wallet. Otherwise it's more or less pointless to run a node.
The Baltic country replaced all the train lines Russia uses
No, it hasn't been done. You can do that so fast. You need not only replace all the tracks, also buy completely new rolling stock. Which somebody needs to produce, nobody keeps bunch of trains in warehouses, they are manufactured on demand for specific customer needs.
I have read some super interesting things going on in the Baltic like how they have ripped and replaced their existing train lines with the EU standard.
Where did you read such bullshit? There is plan in some far future to standardize railway gauge in all EU to 1435 mm, but that includes not only replacing 1520 mm in Latvia and Lithuania, but also 1524 mm in Estonia and Finland, 1600 mm in Ireland (sounds stupid, why to replace anything on an island) and 1668 mm in Spain and Portugal.
Only active project regarding 1435 mm currently ongoing is Rail Baltica, but that's nowhere near completion (will connect Tallinn to Warsaw) and has big funding problems (due to costs rising multiple times, as it always happens with big government projects).
Btw, before World War II both 1520 mm and 1435 mm tracks were operational in Latvia in parallel, but 1435 mm got demolished by Soviet Union. Back then you could go with a single train from Riga to Paris ("Nord Express").
But, yes, Russia is very dependent on railroads for logistics. Even before full scale invasion into Ukraine began, lot of experts ananlyzed that biggest problem for Russia could be not enough trucks, not not enough tanks. Good that Latvia have already demolished some rail lines going to Russia that wasn't in active use anymore, only single line to Russia and single line to Belarus are left (used for cargo only).