Nostr

6 confirmations or blocks produced since your block which holds your txn.

The more blocks between your initial block vs the current block defines both it's consensus across the network (accepted) and the difficulty required to go back and change it.

Go further back and take a look at confirmations numbers..

mike 1y ago

I get it....

It's block height, number of mined blocks after yours.

YAAAAY

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S!ayer 1y ago

Simple enough, right?

mike 1y ago

Yeh, finally got it

Duh 😂

S!ayer 1y ago

Here's the kicker though, 5 confirmations means it's going to take at least 50 mins minimum to confirm the txn.. now that in itself is slow AF when you have things like Algorand doing near instant finality on change.

mike 1y ago

Yeh, I'm playing with Jam on my node, it needs 5 confirmations before I can use the funds. I had just got to 6, so I'm good.

S!ayer 1y ago

Shit, 1 hour confirmation is shit.

Imagine using mastercard or visa and only being able to validate/confirm every purchase only after an hour...

Nathan Day 1y ago

Imagine sending a billion dollars via MasterCard.

One is a settlement layer, one is a payments later.

mike 1y ago

If you're buying a Lambo or house that's fine, everything else we need layer 2's.

We're never going to buy a coffee with L1 BTC.

S!ayer 1y ago

Therein lies the problem of trusted third parties.

Bitcoin was never meant to be in the sluggish state its in now.

Bitcoin should never have L2's and you should never have to trust a third party I.e. lighting network to do what you need to.

Trust less is meant to be just that.

Once you start questioning and DYOR, you open up a can of worms.

Alex 1y ago

“Bitcoin should never have layer 2s” What kind of nonsense is that lmao. It’s been known since the beginning we would have to scale in layers