40: Warm and Brown for the Holidays

Hey also, keen to know how you handle gifting sats to non-coiners. Thinking I might do that this Xmas for a few family and friends.

Reporting back regarding CoinJar. So far so good. Have updated my Jupiter party subscription to use the attached Mastercard, now paying for my membership with sats! Few retail purchases this week too and it’s working great. Hurts to spend those sats though! Also flipping back to core with config tweak given the knots BIP444 shenanigans. Buy store brands: stack sats!

Oh and sound bites, have any of you seen Spies Like Us with Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd from 1985. Full of absolute crackers! Check it out if you haven’t!

Gents! GitHub:SaumonNet/proxmox-nixos actually works pretty well. I’m running a few VMs on there that can’t be done with modules or docker containers. Cheers

Been playing with LibreNMS for a work project to monitor radio repeater sites via a microwave network. The monitoring also includes the radio repeater devices and DC power equipment. Alert notifications are excellent with many platforms to choose from. Wonder what your thoughts are or have you used it? Had a Quick Look at Zabbix, but the UI seems clunky. Keep up the great work team, I wouldn’t be doing what I am now with out LUP and Self Hosted! PS don’t forget about those ham radio licences!

Boosting from Fountain with my Alby hub connected via Nostur connect! Re tax implications for spends on the CoinJar Mastercard setup in Australia, they report to the tax office directly or you can easily download transaction reports for your accountant. Also got my node setup dialled in now with clearnet and Tor working smooth and BTC Explorer to monitor it. I’ll get my act together and put the compose file on GitHub and report back. It gets easier every day: stack sats.

Gents! Been a while. Bitwarden, self host, been amazing for a couple of years. Linux router, just moved to NixOS as my router from OPNsense a couple of weeks ago. Using technitium for DHCP and DNS on the same box. Just started playing with Hermes, been using OpenCode for a couple of months. What a time we live in! Oh under powered system, still running a Pentium II 266 as my win 2003 server for my retro gaming PCs when having a good old LAN with mates! Cheers from Aus.

Hey Chris, I’ve been looking for a product in Australia similar to Fold you always mention. I settled on CoinJar. They have a prepaid Mastercard that you can instantly setup and use. It uses onchain BTC to fund purchases directly. Seems like a good product and trusted company since 2013. Of course it’s custodial, but unavoidable I beleive. I’d been keen for other Aussies to boost in and let us know what they use. Alby hub is still my main savings account. Skip the coffee: stack sats!

Been using frigate for a couple of years. Blake has done an amazing job! Started out with a USB Coral, but switched to using an Intel Arc A380 for all the detection a year ago. This card is shared with my Jellyfin box. You might find the iGPU in the BLink works too? All works a treat for me and far better than the Coral. I’ve been using some old Hikvision PoE cameras and Tapo (TP-Link) WiFi cameras inc. a pan and tilt one, flawless. Cheers lads!

Hey Chris. I just switched to Knots 29.2 from core. Ended up using the Linuxserver.io docker image. It’s getting pretty simple to setup a node these days! Slowly catching up on TWIB. Cheers for the high signal content.