one funny aspect of being a contributor to lightning is that i best understand the part where the funds get locked into bitcoin transactions and the accounting parts; the onion routing and path finding and gossip bits are all things i don’t have deep info about the details of in the same way
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i really understand bitcoin transactions because, ironically, that’s the part of lightning i’ve spent a lot of time on
We take for granted how a couple hundred bytes can be so significant. Was showing an orange-pilled family member the transaction structure and he said, "Wait, I can safely send thousands worth in a thing smaller than a tweet? 🤯"