Seems like whoever you bought Bitcoin via Lightning from before piping it through the LN could be left holding the bag.
How does the USG know *which* USDT to confiscate after it has been teleported across the Lightning Network? ht nostr:nprofile1qqsg2zqd8wkhpnxu6lm5c2dyfa2mhpwte57apjae2ldp6g2mmwf3ypqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgcwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxvmt59emkj73wvf5h5tcpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9urj9dyf and Luke Gromen chat about this topic.
Since nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9uju6mpd4czuumfw3jsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvql3tqm has been asking some interesting questions about fiction, I wanted to ask about something that has been done well in a series I'm reading, summed up as:
"The good guys suffer a substantial loss and the bad guys seem to prevail at the end of each book in the series."
Any other books you can recommend that do this?
If you liked Ayn Rand's fiction you might like Doug Casey's "High Ground" series: "Speculator", "Drug Lord", "Assassin" and "Terrorist".
Spoiler... the main bad guy runs the Federal Reserve. 🤑
This brings up an important aspect of automation vs human labor: cost. In California we always paid a service to mow and blow the lawn, but in Sweden even well off people mostly do their own lawn care. Robot lawn mowers have really taken off in Sweden because labor costs are so high (mostly taxes tbh). I wonder if reducing imported illegal labor will not create more business for automation products. Even hiring a backhoe operator vs. team of day workers is a win for automation.
I sat > 1 ore, the smallest unit of the Swedish krona, still used for things like energy price per kWh.
Leaves are an attack on our OCD tendency's. This year I successfully resisted the urge to rake them into straight lines, and then the lines into piles.
This year I mowed them into mulch! 🍂 #fall #leavester 
When they (eventually) outlaw Bitcoin, will they then be forced to destroy seized Bitcoin like they do with seized drugs? 😉
Any chance you can get them to put up "Night of January 16th"? I'd come over the bridge to see that one live.
I think Danish audiences would like the interactive aspect of it.
hear me out, CPFP but IRL 😀
Welcome! I'm also going between Gossip and Amethyst on Android.
Content discovery is harder, but that can be a feature if you want to avoid endless doom scrolling. 🙃
This is why the Bitcoin ETF is picking up nickles in front of a steam roller. You get price exposure, but it's capped because at some point when the USG is ready to debase for real, they say, "naw, we're done letting this thing run - we'll cash you out now at a price of our choosing."
more of an "anti-heros journey" than a reverse hero's journey actually
Great to hear about your writing progress.
I want to recommend the book "Tambu" by Robert Lynn Asprin. If you're interested in a character arch from protagonist to antagonist, a reverse heros journey, it's a great read. It's also a fun (short) space pirate romp. 🏴☠️🚀
Might find some writing inspiration from it. It's a book I have re-read many times in the last 30 years.
I assume you're aware of https://chat.bitcoinsearch.xyz/
It's not general purpose but a great dev resource.
This will likely required liquidity ads too, because your counter party won't want to provide free inbound liquidity to anyone who asks, right?
Or are you thinking to only peer with nodes that are motivated by privacy and balanced channels?
Eclair and CL implementations seem to have converged on a splice spec that includes the tx negotiation used for dual funding. This is in heavy development so hopefully not much longer!
Does anyone have an update from the recent LN Dev meeting?
fwiw Sweden has had digital ID for 20 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankID
Much depends on how it's implemented. For example, private alternatives are allowed/accepted and banks must allow anyone to open account.
TIL that Wells Fargo only lets you transfer $500 to a newly added external account if that account is from $cashapp. The default is $5000 for a bank or credit union. Support told me they have a different lower limit due to "fraud" risk but give no message about why higher transfers failed on the web site.
Is this just a blatant attempt to supress a competitor with a new more dynamic business model?
Tell your lawyers nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyfehcpn I'd be happy to provide evidence about my experience.
'Merely “making available” a “communications protocol” can, by the SEC’s own admission, trigger an obligation to register.' 👀
https://www.therage.co/gensler-to-rule-on-licensing-requirements-for-communication-protocols-2/
This is also the kind of "rule by regulation" that the SC made illegal when they overturned the Chevron doctrine.
Is D++ not here? Repost of interesting project just posted on xitter:
@D_plus__plus wrote:
I created this Lightning message board to make my #bitcoin presentations more interactive.
It makes hosting a bitcoin talk, panel, party, livestream, or webinar infinitely more fun. BOLT 12 and private rooms coming soon.