All I meant to say is that Bitcoin has some potent attributes in common with organized religion

An unsuccessful payment (in the vast majority of cases) is returned to the sender immediately. In very rare cases, a payment gets stuck and is returned to the sender in some (20-80) blocks, depending on settings.

Many payment failures go completely undetected since payments are attempted iteratively through a trial and error process until success or the timeout.

Failures primarily cost time.

Lightning payment reliability for $100 payments has been launched higher by Bitcoin's price increase.

$100 of BTC can now be sent anywhere in the lightning network with a 77% chance of success, up 20% from last year.

To improve further, lightning network topology must shift.

I'd say this is more 'brutalism' than Art Deco. Sure, it has all the hallmarks of AD but the central mass is just . . . well, mass i.e. brutalism.

Still, it's a hell of a lot better than a strip mall theater.

This is a rendering of Northern Ireland’s last remaining Art Deco picture house, the Strand Arts Centre. It's being revamped.

#nature #naturestr #photography #nostr

Brilliant minds have the biggest blind spots

Liars will literally destroy your life. I don’t say this lightly or hyperbolically. They will LITERALLY destroy your life. NEVER associate with liars. One lie, even the smallest of lies, is the signal to cut off the relationship immediately.

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BULLISH FOR #BITCOIN 🚀

Since when did the human population get so fucking twisted that we are praising and rooting for the billionaires in this world? They are stealing from you, and they will steal everything you own if given the chance.

Your livelihood and your freedom are up for grabs.