Nostr and Fedimint are going absolutely nowhere, fast. These are unusable, non-mainstream platforms.
You heard the man, kids. It’s over. Pack up your stuff and go home.
https://twitter.com/dotkrueger/status/1744405415918715327?s=46&t=okvmMSfzcj5BBJybzLcbBg
TIL that nostr is a "platform".
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It's certainly both of those. But I believe it's a spectrum. Softer money can be more laden with ideologies while harder money does more to change the earner/saver.
"i don't know how"...
You could have stopped right there. Both of your comments make no points but only insult the OP and Blockstream. But you don't offer any solutions or any reasons why she is wrong, etc.
It seems to me narratives around lightning are changing a little right now.
When it was newly reckless it was the closet cypherpunks Bitcoin scaling system meant to be run on the merest hardware for individual sovereignty.
As we learned that some of its trade-offs made it impractical for even fairly advanced tinkers we watched as professional lightning nodes emerged. Nodes definitely NOT running on raspberry pis and locking up 10s-100s of btc into htlcs and these nodes were the custodial wallet providers, other LSPs and the individuals willing to work a part time job managing their nodes.
So what is the narrative shift?
I think #Aqua is a great example. We are seeing professionals combined lightning with liquid and probably eventually other later twos and LSPs and other services to provide and at least semi sovereign product for users who couldn't even begin to run a lightning node.
It is beginning to look like lightning is going to be more what liquid was sold to be in the beginning. A way for professionals to move value back and forth between large endpoints. While liquid may end up stealing a little of the stage from lightning when it comes to self sovereign simple value transfer. And the combination is really strong. I think once we start seeing some of the other layer 2 frameworks coming up we can go nowhere but up from here.
It's mainly built for users in LatAm, where the easiest way to escape their currencies and transact is in USDT (usually over Tron).
https://twitter.com/FootprintShow/status/1742878757361455391?t=uq86zIvu-YgIriGe0R2WwA
This is an important point. And it's hard to weigh trade-offs where some things are a slippery slope but other things are worth the risks. I have never been completely comfortable with blockstreams relationship with tether but I also see that there are real world reasons why it is useful like the one just described.
Yes there are definitely some rough edges and there may be trade offs and risks that are serious.
Stop they plan to open source it?
That is a big wart.
The newly released #Aqua wallet ( https://www.aqualabs.io/aqua-wallet ) is an absolute game changer. It combines both #Liquid and #lightning networks inheriting the strengths of each while doing seamless exchange in the background between Bitcoin networks including tokens on #Liquid like tether.
It's very similar to the strike business model but with Bitcoin ultimately being not only the monetary network, but also the unit of account for everything that's happening.
The fees are reasonable for the service. I expect regulatory speed bumps, but this app is going to change the world. It is my true hope that there are other projects in the works that use some of these same ideas.
Bravo nostr:npub1ajlrwgfj4yerhqf7ady03h7wmtk2qr3gs7h3sxcx83k05yld36sswpzx3q and nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a
#stayhumble might have a broader meaning than even you realize. GM.
Ha! So interesting to me. Or brains work so differently, but we think a lot alike.
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Oh man. the newly released Aqua wallet might just be the killer app.
It's using Liquid as the base currency with lightning as the rails. it's kind of like a fully sovereign Strike but set in (liquid) Bitcoin rather than fiat.
nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev, remember when I said technology will find a way? Well, actually YOU said it... I wrote it. I think this might be something.
Maybe so? I do not know. It's been OK to be me so far... But if I can share the ability to relax I will try! Promise!
I just remembered! Today is the anniversary of the date in the genesis block!
“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”
As bold as it gets.
It's an interesting equation. I had no following there (you did). That makes it easier to leave. Also I began to see the algorithm(s) manipulating me... that makes leaving easier too. It's frankly astonishing the difference here at #nostr. There are no tentacles here. and you do feel that hole. Less engaging in some ways. And far more peaceful.
nostr:npub1zuwgrq3s40w69a3tjvuvdeqt945kknckmmfppr6p3usfsn4pfvlq85gyng draw me something with a man playing a Roli seaboard instrument by candlelight
I think it was "bulls", but I like your version better.