Skhron - VPS for Bitcoin, Lightning and Monero

Privacy-first VPS hosting provider. Servers in Poland, Warsaw and Sweden, Stockholm. We use only own colocated equipment and operate own network behind AS215467.

Check us out:
- http://skhroneuxrnchfz3wifchkju6spd3nx4krqe6zbx65hsax7qsbubb4qd.onion/
- https://skhron.eu/
- https://skhron.com.ua/ is our old website

We accept Bitcoin, Lightning and Monero using self-hosted BTCPayServer and bitcart.ai instances

We also operate our own lightning node (CLN): https://amboss.space/node/02f16437c2b9bf9f38bc4a57d7f32d7c36633725392cebf1faadea11b4ea855a7b

Public Key

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NIP-05 Address

_@skhron.eu

NIP-57 Address

skhron@btcpay.skhron.eu

Profile Code

nprofile1qqszvsw9qc8yamyzpz0akty7hpr3ges0mhmuywsp6ucnz9ypnqlszag0h48ms

Author Public Key

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Last Notes

2025-03-28 21:28:43

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primary/secondary vs master/slave

2025-03-28 13:34:25

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I think bitcoin maxis will find your post offensive, so content warning might be appropriate here xD

2025-03-27 07:50:07

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What do you mean by 3rd party os? Android ROM not from device vendor? Well you can estimate by checking xdaforums and similar websites, but from what I can see, smaller fraction of Android users are doing that

2025-03-26 20:42:44

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https://www.pch.net/tools/looking_glass

2025-03-21 16:11:25

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I don't understand birb.it part, but I guess you would like to have recursor infront of coredns, and that way you can have all of the flexibility CoreDNS offers while doing recursion and caching by unbound.

2025-03-21 14:43:20

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I think running own recursor is better in terms of latency introduced comparing to DNS over Tor

2025-03-21 10:44:40

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Maybe I am blind but I haven't seen anyone hating you

2025-03-19 15:25:22

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I thought it is called vibe coding nowadays

2025-03-17 19:41:48

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You should have offsite logging that attacker cannot wipe in case of compromise of this machine

2025-03-17 17:39:10

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I got banned from Discord due to VPN usage a few years ago... This is ridiculous.

2025-03-17 10:30:25

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💯 this. However, I am concerned about trends promoted by enterprises - see modern web for example. It doesn't have anything in common with UNIX philosophy IMHO.

2025-03-15 10:27:53

https://files.sovbit.host/media/2641c5060e4eec82089fdb2c9eb84714660fddf7c23a01d731311481983f0175/d05c024c4296ed9d9bdbdbce3a9ebaa30fa91fc27c213a001feeb92852df81e9.webp

2025-03-14 22:16:19

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What data did you use? Wonder why these drawdowns are at your graph.

2025-03-12 20:01:20

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Btw, we share the list of IP addresses we have detected as performing an unsolicited TCP portscan here: https://otx.alienvault.com/pulse/66794486bda6c3cf8823c604
It is updated hourly

2025-03-11 19:30:31

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Tbh I don't see much sense in a MacBook that runs Linux unless it has M chip. But I heard rumors that Asahi still has some difficulties with proper hardware support.

2025-03-11 15:24:08

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Issue is I am convinced that human language is not something strict unlike math. If calling human language a compression (assuming that some specific piece of information in our brain consumes X*N bytes and language is X*N/C where X, N and C are positive real numbers), it is a lossy algorithm.

2025-03-10 23:22:22

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Didn't knew there is X-Nostr bridge and I found it surprising that Mastodon-Nostr bridge became broken first

2025-03-10 23:13:28

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*hacker voice* I'm in 😎

2025-03-09 09:42:30

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Yes, from what I can see, it is one of the fastest implementations, and significantly faster than noStrudel (again, due to parallelism). In my case, most implementations, including wasm in noStrudel, use only one thread.

2025-03-09 09:39:44

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If you like PoW, gossip on desktop is better choice due to parallelism

2025-03-09 09:30:42

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https://docs.kernel.org/networking/ip-sysctl.html
You can change these sysctls values:
temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. If less than the minimum required lifetime (typically 5-7 seconds), temporary addresses will not be created.
Default: 172800 (2 days)
temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. If temp_prefered_lft is less than the minimum required lifetime (typically 5-7 seconds), the preferred lifetime is the minimum required. If temp_prefered_lft is greater than temp_valid_lft, the preferred lifetime is temp_valid_lft.
Default: 86400 (1 day)

2025-03-08 08:59:34

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I mean, aren't protests a thing?

2025-03-07 22:25:50

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Tbh it is "nested virtualization" at this point 😂

2025-03-07 22:16:48

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Might be so, but I am neither American or deep into their domestic politics, I would say Americans should decide if Trumps does what they want
But from outside it definitely doesn't look good, I am agreeing on that with you

2025-03-07 19:19:35

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+1 for Syncthing

2025-03-07 18:03:46

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When anycast bro

2025-03-07 13:31:04

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I am out of ⭕

2025-03-07 13:08:32

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Please share your wisdom about ⭕

2025-03-07 12:52:52

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This will work unless IPv6 address is used to host any website with TLS - Censys and Onyphe AFAIK already use this heuristics to scan IPv6 addresses already

2025-03-06 22:40:02

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2025-03-06 16:42:22

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There are good bots and LLM crap. I don't like the second one

2025-03-05 19:34:14

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Yes, we can announce customers' IP prefixes from our ASN if they don't have an ASN. At no additional cost too.

2025-03-02 17:44:39

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Who is the Linus of nostr world? fiatjaf?

2025-03-01 21:05:49

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This is strange, we are running CLN and no major issues happen (except of being memory-hungry sometimes)

2025-03-01 19:41:10

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You might be correct, but I have an impression that each time both teams are repeating same things to each other, this is not looking collaborative for me.

2025-03-01 19:23:40

When peace deal for #Bitcoin-#Monero war?

2025-03-01 17:10:02

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I am not using Tor but experience the same, sometimes it does not connect until I restart the application

2025-03-01 11:57:48

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#Amethyst has options requested
https://files.sovbit.host/media/2641c5060e4eec82089fdb2c9eb84714660fddf7c23a01d731311481983f0175/a7437fe9f479974680100713fcf0cf70c1d0bf7699593470013f3808f67fa995.webp

2025-03-01 07:51:41

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I am curious what you've chosen?

2025-02-28 16:19:21

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I am not author of the video 😭😭😭

2025-02-28 15:27:20

https://skhron.com.ua/dl/2025028-monero.mp4

2025-02-28 13:55:11

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Sure, I completely understand your viewpoint and respect it. But I think UX can be improved even further - but I am not sure how.
It might be coalescence of all muted events due to npubs being considered "spammers" or some explanation/mention at the UI about kind of safe-mode/extra spam protection enabled. I mean #Amethyst will be much better if user will be able to notice some hidden settings being used even if they aren't willing to change defaults and expect things to behave differently

2025-02-28 13:46:23

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I think detecting "spam" is a nontrivial task solely because each individual wants to read different content. Also, context matters - this bot is more like a notification and not a senseless copypasta - I doubt any automation tooling can distinguish them reliably.

2025-02-28 13:36:46

#Amethyst users - this post is for you
#nevent1q…h6dk

2025-02-28 13:33:50

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Security Filters -> Disable "Filter spam from strangers"
It is known to mute npubs in that way and cause "I wonder why this npub was muted" moments

2025-02-28 13:32:31

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Do you use #Amethyst?

2025-02-28 08:01:12

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It is like timezones exist and always someone is sleeping while someone is not

2025-02-28 07:41:20

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This week I referred one more pleb to nostr (one of Skhron customers)
Nostr is definitely growing

2025-02-28 07:30:39

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For me sometimes it just crashes

2025-02-27 15:35:12

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Meme law does not exist
https://files.sovbit.host/media/2641c5060e4eec82089fdb2c9eb84714660fddf7c23a01d731311481983f0175/21be0bc51f8ec0c5137882c990afdc7ded52ade4e31089cde91c2e1220d2b353.webp

2025-02-27 09:15:41

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Yes!!

2025-02-26 18:04:13

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That's called recursion

2025-02-26 16:26:49

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Sounds like VPN

2025-02-24 23:25:57

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But how does DSA/GDPR whatever else EU regulation differs in that case? They cover only interactions with EU citizens, isn't?

2025-02-24 23:14:15

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I am not expert in China legislation, but Cloudflare has local Chinese version for China market and from what I heard it obeys blacklist policies

2025-02-24 22:16:44

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I don't see it in my global feed. What relays do you use?

2025-02-24 22:10:43

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Fun fact: there is no censorship in China

2025-02-24 22:07:32

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Isn't GPU mining less efficient than CPU mining for Monero?

2025-02-24 18:14:00

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But isn't it still possible for anyone having access to private relay rebroadcast private notes?

2025-02-24 16:03:17

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Sounds like callback, completely forgot about this one

2025-02-24 15:57:00

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In C, threading uses pointer to function

2025-02-24 14:54:41

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Don't you think that B2B options be limited as long as businesses care about regulation frameworks?

2025-02-24 11:56:00

Infographics on Linux distribution usage by our clients as measured by `virsh guestinfo` (not all virtual machines report it)
https://skhron.com.ua/dl/20250224-distro-usage-stats.png
#Debian is a strong top-1 💪

2025-02-23 10:11:27

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Yes, own node

2025-02-22 08:55:58

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Sincere question - what is problem/risk for you when someone you dislike follows you?

2025-02-22 08:42:36

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What are alternative options then?

2025-02-21 19:18:21

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Why? Do you have that much active feed? Or you browse global?

2025-02-21 19:13:54

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It is not how "following" in nostr is supposed to look like

2025-02-21 18:14:22

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I would say that GrapheneOS is way better for advanced users than iPhone, but it is definitely vice versa for casual users.

2025-02-21 18:09:09

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Did I understood you correct that you prefer iPhone? If so, why?

2025-02-21 17:02:37

Just have added #Gentoo Linux template to our VPS

2025-02-21 10:03:40

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Btw is there any statistics on custodial vs self-custodial LN Address usage on nostr?

2025-02-21 09:42:19

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Amethyst handled it without a crash

2025-02-21 09:31:10

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https://files.sovbit.host/media/2641c5060e4eec82089fdb2c9eb84714660fddf7c23a01d731311481983f0175/b41d98e341f4dfe90645544b92e681a2426c24fe7a506f7e70899dc79ecdee91.webp

2025-02-20 13:16:06

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Why Rooky and not Rocky?)

2025-02-20 11:29:18

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Have you tried rebooting it?

2025-02-19 17:22:23

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Well sometimes it IS the network :)

2025-02-17 16:59:53

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It does not for me. I am using F-Droid build.

2025-02-12 17:35:13

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Stay strong! I like your relay A LOT ♥

2025-02-12 17:33:47

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You run pretty many services, what do attackers target? Relay? CDN?

2025-02-11 23:02:54

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Ah okay, thanks for the tip!

2025-02-11 23:00:31

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What is wrong with GCC? I was told by some C devs that GCC is one of the best compilers available

2025-02-11 22:56:29

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What is NFDB?

2025-02-11 07:01:17

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My English can be not sufficient to express my views precisely, but it is not a reason to mark me a troll.

2025-02-11 06:59:19

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I didn't meant that verification is not needed. What I mean is that instead of relying on the code from each client/relay introducing new NIP as a reference implementation, developer first define what they are imolementing and leaving reasoning of their decisions, and then implementing it.

2025-02-10 22:05:42

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Undocumented blackbox driven development does not sounds right to me. Anyway, thanks for explaining your point of view!

2025-02-10 21:56:29

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How do you think, is similar collaboration tool required or not for nostr nowadays?
My naive assumption is yes, because without proper standardization and documentation, interoperability could get really bad. However, I am far from understanding nostr development scene.

2025-02-10 21:53:07

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Gentoo and NixOS might be an option, but it is way more advanced and I am not sure if it isn't an overkill for your case.

2025-02-07 09:12:26

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I doubt that rich people just sit on fiat money and do nothing while their net value is magically increasing

2025-02-06 21:01:19

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New DMs are cool but still not that well adopted in clients :(

2025-02-06 18:46:14

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Well, technically, nostr shares them with anyone 😅

2025-02-06 18:29:58

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Yes, I've checked both

2025-02-06 18:25:14

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Works now 🤙

2025-02-06 18:22:31

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I mean that Lightning Address is old one at the profile and when selecting vote option it uses same old address, not the one you mentioned
https://files.sovbit.host/media/2641c5060e4eec82089fdb2c9eb84714660fddf7c23a01d731311481983f0175/aa916ec6cc19efe74f939f605767986b9460b45c7281b845a8cdc00835e50760.webp

2025-02-06 18:20:06

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For some reason I get same error and lightning address did not change (no clue why though).

2025-02-06 18:04:23

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The only thing you should keep in mind - don't host it in Europe

2025-02-06 18:00:03

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🥺
https://files.sovbit.host/media/2641c5060e4eec82089fdb2c9eb84714660fddf7c23a01d731311481983f0175/a3cf786bea8ad52699faf3548a6966cc88e9714af361a419a727d04d5cead0c0.webp

2025-02-02 19:09:59

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Teaching Lightning will be more tough task I guess 😅
However I do agree that it might be actually a good idea to pay for a paid relay to bootstrap them

2025-02-02 19:07:15

Any recommendations for onboarding newbies?
Recently I have convinced one friend to join nostr and give a it try, however he does not want to pay for any relays unless he is confident it will be actually useful for him. Unfortunately, he struggles to find interesting content (he is not in Bitcoin). Besides hashtags, what would be your recommendations?
#asknostr

2025-02-01 09:57:31

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Get a domain and VPS to host it