Telescopes:

2X Stellarvue Access 102mm F7 Refractor

1X Steallrvue 102mm Raptor F7 Refractor

Guide Scope/Cam:

Starlight Lodestar X2

ZWO Off Axis Guider

Camera:

3x ZWO 1600mm Pro Mono Cooled

Mount:

Celestron CGX

"It`s easy to send btc on-chain to someone. You just need their address and nothing more. You can send to it as many times as you want. This hurts privacy, but makes everything really easy for the sender. A charity can simply put their Bitcoin address on their website for example and anyone could donate to them. It`s not the same for Lightning. Since a different invoice is required for every single payment, a youtuber would not be able to accept donations over the LN easily, just on-chain. The goal of this proposal is to make it possible to do both.

Since any message can be routed and sent through the LN we could also make a request and ask our recipient`s node to generate an invoice for an amount chosen by us and then send it to us, just like those text messages. Then we can decode this invoice and if everyone is OK (the amount is correct) we can attempt to pay it. All of this can happen under the hood. The UI/UX doesn't even need to change much. Instead of pasting an invoice in the "send" field of a wallet, we just paste a node's public key.

Allowing anyone to make our node generate invoices is a bad idea. They could send a million requests and crash it. To prevent denial-of-service attacks, we should implement the following measures:

1. Auto-Generated invoices should be with short expiration times. 10 minutes for example.

2. A maximum of X invoices can be generated for a given node at a time. Let`s say X = 10. Once a node has requested 10 invoices it can request another one only when a) at least one of the previous 10 invoices has been paid or b) at least one of the previous invoices has expired.

3. Nodes which have requested Y invoices, but haven't paid any of them could be banned from requesting new invoices for a day. If this behaviour continues the node could be permanently banned and any channels opened with it could be closed. Maybe an option to manually override this ban would be nice to have. A good value for Y might be 30.

4. Nodes which have no channels open should not be allowed to request invoices. This prevents an attacker from spinning up 1000 nodes and requesting 10000 invoices from us.

The idea is to be able to send bitcoins over the Lightning Network to a static node`s public key, instead of having to ask for an invoice each time. The LN itself could be used to route requests for new invoices and the answers to those requests between the sender's and the recipient's nodes. The recipient`s node still needs to be online though. Maybe if we combine this with something like Lightning Rod we could achieve the same experience as with on-chain Bitcoin payments.

It`s also worth mentioning that one would not be able to do this for every node. Older nodes which have not upgraded to newer software which supports this new protocol addition simply won't know what to do when they get such a request and they won't reply with an invoice. If we want consistency we need everyone to upgrade. Or the vast majority at least."

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https://www.pboy-art.com/

"Web browser Opera now allows making payments with Bitcoin (BTC) directly inside the browser.

The company announced the news in a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Oct. 21, detailing that Opera’s 350 million users can now send and receive BTC directly from the browser, as well as use the cryptocurrency for purchasing goods and services on e-commerce websites. 

Additionally, the browser now enables adding a Bitcoin and TRON (TRX) card into the built-in Crypto Wallet to keep track of the cryptocurrency owned. Charles Hamel, head of crypto at Opera, commented on the new feature launch.."

https://cointelegraph.com/news/opera-becomes-first-major-browser-to-enable-direct-bitcoin-payments

Lightning Network ATM prototype made by "𝙘𝙧𝙮𝙥𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙤Ƀ𝙤"

"Over the last eight weeks, the world has watched the yellow vest protests in France as the grassroots political movement has fought for economic justice. On Sunday, the well known street artist Pascal Boyart (Pboy) revealed a mural that contains a solvable puzzle with 0.28 BTC inside. The artist explained that the puzzle cannot be solved remotely and that sleuths must visit the location to decipher the painting’s clues.."

https://news.bitcoin.com/street-artist-hides-1000-in-btc-inside-a-mural-depicting-paris-protests/