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become ungovernable.
Replying to Avatar Peter Todd

Good example of how stupid current lightning implementations are re: fees.

This tx paid $38/89,907sats to spend a single anchor output at 497 sats/vbyte (6x higher than necessary to get the tx mined), producing a single output just 6437 sats in size.

https://mempool.space/tx/158b0c7bfcdc32c4e3fed95c26b5b0f54fde5b7182d933fcff1563375e8ec77f

It's not a CPFP: the commitment transaction was mined 3 days before the anchor output was spent.

It's just an idiotic implementation that wasn't willing to forget about the anchor output; I know LND does this. The channel itself only had $2540 in capacity, so that one transaction spent 1.5% of the entire capacity on fees.

Yes. Lightning implementations were built in a low fee environment and it shows. All of them overpay basically all the time, but the avoidable force closes due to implementation miscommunications are an even bigger issue.

But there is progress - and: The focus only shifts to these issues if they become real pain points.

Oh wow. That was about 99.99% easier than expected. Thank you!

Stupid question: I am using Damus (iOS) - how can I zap single events most easily (using nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 as my lightning wallet)? I know nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s had to remove the functionality due to brain damaged App Store restrictions.

Nevertheless I really like the concept of your mom app. Especially when considering it as a gateway to a sovereign social media experience.

People like things simple - it doesn’t make sense to fight reality.

We already have Nostr apps for the thinkers and tinkerers, maybe it’s time for an app that targets people who like things simple.

Just realized I read that wrong and completely missed the double negation. So please ignore my previous comment.

There is a bunch of non custodial lightning wallets already out there. I especially like Phoenix from ACINQ for beginners, because it very much abstracts the complexities away.

Gamify it by having multiple tiers (3?), like 1/5/20 bucks a month or so.

Replying to Avatar Tuur Demeestr

A call to crypto flippers

Whether or not there is another “alt season”, I invite all you crypto aficionados to redirect your life’s energy, up to now invested in feeding this addiction to coin flipping/“invoosting”, towards cleaning up your act instead. Come join us on the bitcoin front—we have a lot to give, yes, but we need you, too.

You see we’re approaching a battle of the ages here. One that will likely involve bank runs, devaluations, and wars in the West. A conflict whose outcomes will certainly impact the lives of our children and many generations after. And for that years’ long struggle our world needs all the help it can get.

I have a lot of sympathy for people suffering from behavioral addictions and general lack of impulse control—I struggle with this still myself. In fact I believe addiction is the dominant challenge of our current era, co-created by the fiat system which drastically reduces the rewards people can earn from deferral of gratification and a virtuous life in general.

But this is not the place to get in the intellectual weeds.

I’m just here to send you, to the best of my ability, a warm invitation to try and clean up your life. I’m here to remind you that the world is worth it, and to valiantly assure you that you are worth it.

So get yourself to a meeting (yes the one you’ve been telling yourself you don’t need), pick up that book you bookmarked a while ago, ask someone for advice or support, cue up that meditation podcast, walk a dog, go on a walk in nature, or take a cold shower for 30 seconds. I suggest beginning small, so small that you can take that first step right now.

We’re all going to die one day. You know it, and deep down you also know what kind of life will make you feel proud to have lived. Sure, you can keep trying to get that chuckle out of other degen traders, and get on a little buzz by setting up that 10x leveraged play, but deep down you know that is just a poor surrogate for making a real connection with yourself and the rest of this world.

Here is the good news: once you start walking the path towards the good life (not as in hedonism but as in doing the right thing), you will, little by little, start noticing that you are in fact not alone, that in fact we are all in this together. You’ll start developing friendships and rekindling old ones that you’d forgotten you lost. And, paradoxically, as you slowly face your fears of “not having enough” head on, you’ll realize you already have so much to be grateful for, and you’ll start to feel happier than you’ve ever been.

Help yourself, you’re worth it! Under that thin cynical veneer, a truly beautiful person resides. That person knows in his bones that this little planet, with all its male and female silliness, with its songs of pain and sorrow, this blue-green-orange place teeming with life, is surely worth it too. Your possible reaction to this paragraph, that “meh…” or eye rolling part of you, that’s not all of you, that’s not who you are deep down. There is wonder in you, and joy, and a thirst for worthwhile adventure. If you can’t feel it, it doesn’t mean the sun isn’t there for you, but just that there’s clouds hanging out in your sky. An ominous sky makes place for a cheerful one, over time but inevitably, once one starts walking the path of the good life.

So join us my friend. Join us bitcoiners in the fight to defend life and liberty on earth. Lord of the Rings is real, and we are the Hobbits: weak physically, sure, but possessing a unique power to save the world of man. Time to leave the Shire!

Well said. As always.

Thank you for your contributions to this space.

Hey Chat-GPT, create an image of a sunset on a beach with a lighthouse in the foreground.