Eh, sort of. It’s only pseudo self custody in a way. But it is easier to operate, but certainly isn’t the same in regard to user control. Don’t want to sell it as something it isn’t.

Drinking seawater at the center of ocean will not solve your thirst. It will kill you.

What the shit, Google? Google Messages now shares your location data with third parties, if you have location data enabled.

Why do we need Liquid in the first place?

I see the hard work, i can read some html and have built in frames back in the day, i would challenge you to have the price change% to adjust with the time table

Braiins used to talk big about open source then they did a 180 and quietly closed their source code. They also use FPPS which lets them do shit like keep out of band fees for themselves w/o compensating the miners. I don't know if they have abused this power but nothing is stopping them.

DEMAND also recently announced they will launch with Sv2 support like the same day OCEAN went live and everyone collectively shrugged and started yelling about OCEAN. All the other pools are more or less the same: KYC & FPPS. More pools presenting more options is better, exactly like Luke said.

Ocean does a lot of things different from most miners. They use PPLNS (tweaked and renamed TIDES) which makes payouts transparent and fair. You can mine directly to a bitcoin address (no account, no kyc).

Everybody is angry about censoring inscriptions. Big whoop, who cares? Y'all don't even like inscriptions.

I am genuinely confused by the coinjoin censoring. Why does whirlpool need an 80 byte op_return? (Apparently they don't.) Why does knots censor it? (Luke just stonewalls everyone on this point.) Seems like dumb decisions all around.

Overall, a kyc free mining pool with fair and transparent payouts is a massive win. Everybody else uses PPS which reduces miner payout variance and gives the pool full control over blocks and profits. Censorship is a big problem if all pools censor the same stuff. If they all censor different stuff it is not really a problem. Ocean is a net positive. With Sv2 the censorship will be a non issue.

More pools isn't enough. Each and every miner needs to be deciding for himself.

Until OCEAN, miners had no choices. Now they have one more. Soon, we'll release the flood gates so they have infinite possibilities

I’ve always said Liquid was underrated and was eventually going to have its day. I’ve had a chunk of LBTC for like 3 years that I’ve not gotten to do anything with 😆

The real shift happens when I have an ecash wallet and a Liquid wallet that pay Lightning invoices instantly a natively. With Greenlight, SDK, + Liquid, Breez could be an LSP bridge between Liquid and Lightning built right into a wallet without having any custody.

Big opportunity to dominate that area, imo. nostr:note12l0hpryndxk4xl6zc0ken6u4jg8ewrj4yekd95yw2vsnq89w2k7qdkewch

If the US moves to ban bitcoin or pass harsh laws targeting bitcoiners, I will leave with my entire family.

Trick question. If you don't self-custody you're not holding bitcoin.

What percentage of people that hold bitcoin will self-custody it 15 years from now, do you think?

If I am holding a quality USB-C cable, what are the well-defined standards established that help me identify whether it supports 29W, 30W, or 100W? Whether it supports 3.1 or 3.2? If it can push video and how many monitors it can support?

My critique isnt that lightning does any of that better. It's just that when I hold a lightning cable, I know what it does.

Wasn’t that the issue with cheap usb mini & micro too?

USB-C cable: are you sure im one of the 15 possible choices that is correct for your needs? I know we all have the same connector and there are no clear visual indicators, so I understand why it would be difficult. Kinda males that upside-down A connector complaint seem trivial, eh?

Lightning cable: I just work lol.

EU beaurocrats: o no something that works!

Lightning cable: 💀