CHILLYCALENDAR's Posts

Dear Fellow Lightning Network Node Operators,

I hope it's OK for me to announce this here.  I have created a new community over on Amboss Space for Bitcoin Lightning Network node operators that would like to help support the payments of businesses involved in providing sex related products and services or adult entertainment including sex work, strip clubs, host and hostess clubs, online adult entertainment and so on. 

The link to the community is: https://amboss.space/community/f34223dc-c881-4b93-a631-70f751e775f0

I want to create a network of lightning network nodes that are committed to achieving censorship free payments for the sex industry worldwide to permanently solve the issue of debanking and payments censorship for the industry and to use this as a test case for other industries that have similar issues with payments censorship and banks. 

The overarching goal of the community is to create a network of sex industry and sex industry friendly lightning nodes connected to each other with payment channels open between nodes so the sex industry globally can process payments 100% free from censorship.  Payments that cannot be blocked, censored or frozen. 

My ultimate goal: A Bitcoin Lightning Network node located (or providing services to) every major red light district in the world. 

I maintain a website where I have created an interactive map of lightning nodes that have joined me in this quest:

https://intjbilling.com/redlight/map/contents/jsmap/INTJBillingSexIndustryLightningNodes.html

If you're interested in this please join my new community on Amboss.space and I will add your node to the map on my website.

You can learn more about my open source project Bitcoin is for Everyone on my YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBCeDhvU_40&t=386s

Kind Regards,

Clarke

Clarke Towson
CEO
INTJ Billing

Hi Everyone,

My node CHILLYCALENDAR was down for the past 22 minutes approx.  This was caused by a brownout and a power spike in my area Spotswood Victoria which caused one of the connected UPS to cut out and alarm.   The server and associated infrastructure needed to be restarted.  This is the first time such an incident has occurred on my infrastructure where a UPS has spiked and alarmed. 

The infrastructure has been restarted and my node is back online.

Kind Regards,

Clarke

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick note to let you know that my node is currently down.  It's due to an issue with my BTCPay Server NBXplorer is stuck syncing meaning my node is stuck on 99%.  

I believe this is what's happening: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver-docker/issues/519

Hopefully I should have it fixed in the next day or so.  I may take the downtime opportunity to upgrade my BTCPay Server to the latest 1.7.5 version as well.

Kind Regards,

Clarke

My node Chillycalendar has been uncontactable for around 4 hours due to a fault with my web host hostpapa which handles the DNS for my BTCPay Server.  Sorry about that to the peers connected with me that I have open channels with that I found via this website.  Hopefully the issue should be resolved shortly https://hostpapastatus.com/

Our server health team is still working on a permanent fix for the networking issue.

We will post further updates on this page until the issue is fully resolved.

Some servers (sXXX, ws01-ws09, c100/c101, and VPS) are experiencing some connectivity issues that may affect the ability of clients to access services/accounts on these servers.

This has been identified by our server health team, and they are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation in regard to troubleshooting this issue. We will post further updates on this page until the issue is resolved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0MuWmcE7_o

In this video I demonstrate purchasing drinks from The Pride of Our Footscray Community Bars new BTCPay Server online drinks app using Bitcoin via the Bitcoin Lightning Network.  The Wallet of Satoshi Bitcoin Lightning Network Wallet is installed on my iPhone.  

The Pride Bar Point of Sale App runs on an iPad which sits behind the bar.  The Pride Bar BTCPay Server Sombermontana runs on a laptop which is currently attached to INTJ Billing's corporate network but will soon likely be placed on premises at Pride Bar in Footscray and connected up to their network.  A payment channel is open between Pride Bars node Sombermontana and INTJ Billing's node Chillycalendar and inbound liquidity has been purchased from Bitrefill, Yall's and Coincept.  The laptop in the video is my laptop which is connected up to my phones wireless hotspot.  The laptop has Ride the Lightning opened on Pride Bars BTCPay Server located approx 5km down the road in Spotswood at INTJ Billings premises.

We may be one of the first if not the first bar in Australia to accept bitcoin lightning network payments!  

The bar estimates that if every customer was to pay using bitcoin via the bitcoin lightning network it would save the bar approx $40,000 AUD per year in not paying the middle men payment processors and bank transaction fees!

I have put together a YouTube video and spreadsheet based on Bitcoin LN nodes and Freedom in the World Country Freedom Scores:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDo0G_Q0DIc

I used 1ml.com for the node list.  Something similar I'm sure could be done but using the list of nodes from this website instead.  Would be interesting to see. 

I think it's really important we encourage people located in countries which are not free and partly free (if they can and if it's not illegal) for them to create LN nodes and become node operators.  It would be amazing to see more growth of the LN in these not free and partially free countries.

My node Chillycalendar has been uncontactable for around 14 hours due to a fault with my ISP.  Sorry about that to the peers connected with me that I have open channels with that I found via this website.  Hopefully the issue should be resolved shortly.  I have put through a fault notification with my service provider Aussie Broadband.   This is the longest downtime my link has ever experienced unfortunately.