Jesse / Jesse de Wit is on Nostr

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2024-10-07 21:51:11

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I have an application that needs to get certain data from the chain, so it syncs blocks off the bitcoind rpc. Parses the blocks, checks if there's relevant data and moves to the next block. I want that application to start at genesis (or some birthday block) and sync the chain from there.
Right now I'm getting the headers first, backwards, from tip to birthday. Then sync the blocks forwards, from birthday to tip. I was wondering whether I could skip the headers part and sync directly from birthday to the tip, forwards.

2024-10-06 12:10:34

Is there a way to sync the chain forwards from the bitcoind rpc? The only way I found now is to
- get the tip
- get previous headers one by one
- then start syncing blocks from the start with the headers you've found
What I'd like to do:
- get the genesis block
- get the 'next' block
- etc.
Is there way with the bitcoind rpc?

2024-09-22 07:12:14

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Yep

2024-03-21 17:42:37

Tip about CLN:
When CLN forwards a payment and it has multiple channels with the same peer, it selects the channel with the highest available balance out of channels with the same fee policy as the one the sender specified.
Say you have 3 channels with the same peer.
- A has fee 10ppm and is depleted
- B has fee 10ppm and has 100sat sendable balance
- C has fee 5ppm and has 1 BTC sendable balance
Sender computes a route that contains channel A, sends a payment.
Your node will pick the channel with the highest balance out of channel A and B, because they have the same fee rate. In this case it picks B because it has the highest balance.
If the payment was more than 100sat, the forward will fail.

2024-03-20 08:26:33

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Yes! Just not for future calendar events or anything like that.

2024-03-08 18:35:12

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Excellent work!

2023-07-15 07:03:45

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Yeah. It's permanent. There's several names for this. Among others:
LND - lightning nervosity disorder
CLN - cerebral lightning nervosity

2023-07-02 17:44:58

Hello World

2023-07-02 11:35:44

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Also when you add a relay, it seems you have to restart the so in order to be able to find people on that relay.

2023-07-02 11:30:49

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Yeah, I just installed.
It looks pretty slick, onboarding is easy.
I would like to be able to find people if I'm not connected to their relay. Either through npub, or through the email address notation.