You want bigger blocks indirectly through DC, even though it solves nothing

Jack: "The downfall was the centralisation of the discovery mechanism"

Food for thought

probably my fav bit of code i’ve ever written (shout-out nostr-tools for the rest). so fun & cool to play with PoW directly

The world is in Anaphase and Bitcoin Nostr is still talking about op codes.

Dude, even bcash block size is not enough. Go join CSW if you want terabyte blocks. Ridiculous.

Now who sounds like a scammer?

Self custody lightning isn't scalable to even a 1 billion people. We know that now even if many don't want to admit it.

It doesn't mean that lightning is not useful for scaling Bitcoin. It doesn't mean that lightning is a scam. That's as intellectually dishonest as saying 3rd party custodial solutions aren't required.

Scaling Bitcoin to 8 billion people will require tradeoffs at the individual level. I'd rather push the trade offs to the edge of the network (to the individual) rather than implement them at the base layer.

There are no risk free changes to the base layer.

yes

remind me again what is so great about rockstars? the cocaine? the limosines? the endless stream of groupies?

It makes that calculation given assumptions that existed back then. So it doesn't consider splicing, channel factories, or CISA, nor any other future changes that address scaling.

This is like the BSVers who think that Bitcoin changes ended when Satoshi wrote the whitepaper

Hmm, how so?

Your ISP knows who you are and what IPs you visit. Depending on how you pay for your VPS, the provider would only know the IPs of websites you visit.

I agree the majority of benefits are not in the privacy department, but still I believe there are some.

That has zero, privacy improvement though

The only VPN can be trusted is one on your own server.