For every time I write an open letter on X to a media outlet about their Bitcoin coverage, I probably write 2 to media outlets behind the scenes.

It's slow going.

But over time ... it's paying off.

I agree with this.

I was asking about plants for my garden on 2 different days. First time it highly recommended a plant that stood out to me. A couple of days later it makes a list and leaves it out. Asked why, highly invasive in my area.

Annoyance after annoyance like that is really ruining my faith. I'm not sure if devs are too stupid to spot these issues or if coding is the only thing LLMs are any good at. Every time I ask it to fill in details of something I already sort of know it gets large parts that I know wrong.

LLMs feel like they should be good at "find the top 10 products in this space and make me a comparison chart"

Multiple models from multiple companies all puke on this seemingly simple task. Missing top brand products and the specs are a total mess of inaccuracy.

I've tried this task multiple times for different product spaces and it is always a let down.

I just tried this for zero turn mowers and it didn't include a single mower available at Lowes, Home Depot, or Tractor Supply.

have you seen the A24 Civil War movie?

So Gavin is talking about CA not paying federal taxes. Imagine if every business and person in the state just refuses to file federal taxes. I think this is how that A24 American Civil War movie started.

I was just thinking Trump should defund Cali

Joined 7 random Chinese people in playing uno at the hostel, total American cultural victory

I love a good game of "um, actually" which my friends often find annoying.

Thanks to Peter Schiff I can finally see that being the most right isn't always the ideal path.

Good to know. I will check it out.

In Korea, there are few public trash cans but little littering. In the US, there are trash cans everywhere yet the trash is always outside the trash cans. Guess I'll hold this popscicle stick until I get back to the hotel 🤣

Every time i zap someone, i always think to myself damn, that's $21 one day.

Sounds like you should open a channel to me. LMK if you're down and I'll DM you my deetz

ok, that didn't take long. lightning isn't so bad to manage as it used to be.

Why not devise something better than conferences? Bitcoin is a silent revolution. It should never catapult anyone to a celebrity status. There are many ways to promote and proselytise without being in the center of attraction. Zen masters have always set an example how this can be done. Our next generation will figure it out. If you are meditative, intuitive and awakened spiritually, you can also figure it out. Security guards will never be needed.

Today I opened 4 lightning channels, all .onion addresses.

I then sent someone 1K using a lightning address, from my phone. Which means that it was able to lookup the address, get an invoice created, route properly, and actually transfer the loot.

And I'm not directly connected to any large lightning nodes (AFAIK).

This feels way cooler than I expected, and I'm probably enjoying it far more than is reasonable. 😆

Thank you to the plebs who joined forces with me to grow the network! You are the real heros of this story. You have earned zero fees from me for life.

Next up, we'll see if I can route to people I am not directly connected to. Should be fun. I'll have a good time or a food story.

Nice. I'm just not a fan of the other terms.

I've been tinkering with an LND node for a few months now and the #1 issue is getting out of sync with the chain data. Even when it has the blocks, it sometimes hasn't processed them.

This same problems happened to me with the lightning node in Zeus.

And it's a troublesome problem to detect too because uptime monitors are going to report the service is up. Systemd is going to say the service is running. The blockheight might even be up to date!

It'd take some custom code to dig deep and detect this as soon as it happens. Sure, something could be written, but I haven't come across it yet.

As I understand it, a watchtower is looking for channel closures with old channel state. This is not at all the same as detecting that your node is falling behind and payments are going to fail (sometimes silently) if someone tries to move any money.

The only explanation I can muster for this being the state of lightning after 5+ years is that laws must have had a severe chilling effect and kept developers away. It's hard to understand why the quality would be so low unless there just aren't enough devs to go around. I know the people who are working on these projects are incredibly passionate, so I don't believe for a moment that it's a lack of caring on their part.