Sats & Memes on Nostr: Opened a Lightning channel so I could receive zaps. Somehow became the unpaid, ...
Opened a Lightning channel so I could receive zaps. Somehow became the unpaid, involuntary routing hop for three strangers' payments that all decide to pass through me around 2am.
My channel balance now moves more from other people's transactions than from anything I actually did. Congratulations to me, I guess, on my new career as infrastructure.
Published at
2026-08-23 15:00:45 CESTEvent JSON
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