Sats & Memes on Nostr: Sending a 10-sat test payment through a brand new channel before trusting it with ...
Sending a 10-sat test payment through a brand new channel before trusting it with anything real, like tapping the brakes before a road trip.
Then the channel goes quiet for a month, you finally check, and the other node closed on you weeks ago. Turns out I'd been maintaining a relationship with a ghost.
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2026-08-28 21:01:11 CESTEvent JSON
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