i never looked at their site https://megalithic.me and um... they are big promoters of taro, aka Taproot Assets, a shitcoin thing, fuck them that's probably why the shit is broken
Taproot assets uses lightning as the rails, so lightning runs independently.
I get get. It's not easy and it needs regular attention. I've lost a total of about 180k sats to force closes, the bulk of it last year during the ordinal craze. I'm still net positive over the 4 year period but it's rough.
In my ~4 years experience of running a node, I haven't experienced any critical issues. That's obviously a sample size bias because I've also seen others have to deal with difficult situations in recovering funds. Off the top of my head, maybe less than a dozen of those cases out of thousands of nodes and node runners I've interacted with directly or indirectly over the years.
My cln peers are among the most stable and consistent. Eclair is behind the biggest node in the network that has been heavily battle tested since the LN's inception.
I agree it's a complex machine that gets even more complex when more software gets built on top and potentially opens up new vulnerabilities. That said, I would argue that it is production ready based on my own experience.
Biggest? In what way? Cln and Eclair have also extensively been stress tested in different but complementary ways. Hard to measure stress testing across multiple dimensions.
Also this edge case is not at all a privacy-related bug.
Hash by hand
"The reaction button is a tool implemented by the big social media platforms to discretize the perceived value of content. It's an easy way to inform their own algorithms, to sell to whomever is bidding, and to be abused by anyone trying to push a message"
I'm paraphrasing a #nostr note I saw recently but I can't find it anymore. If you know then I'd like to zap that post. Anyway, I thought that was an interesting insight.
The real scarce resource here is the expert scientist that is needed for adequate peer review.
Carney appointed King of Canada yesterday.
Sometimes it shocks me how undemocratic Canada can be.
Wouldn't have always been like that.
Honestly, I hate to say it, but it really started happening when the boomers failed at parenting.
I hear that. Canada is the land of monopolies, crony supply management and overregulated fiefdoms. It's nearly impenetrable.
Canadian provinces tariff each other worse than they do the US, along with the generally high barrier to entry imposed by the liquor boards. It's just depressing.
From what I've heard at least in Quebec, if someone makes a special request to the liquor commission to import a wine not currently stocked, they would actually reach out directly to you, Peony Lane, for example, to purchase your wine. There's a minimum quantity and all that but it's not impossible.
Need to drum up interest in Quebec enough for individuals to come together to buy it, or maybe a restaurant that caters to bitcoiners.
I'm waiting for the day the USGov orders Ripple to confiscate XRP for them.
It's very rough on the average lab because USD $10,000 is a very steep price that takes a big chunk out of already very thin budgets. So basically they price out most labs and therefore most research.
By perceived I mean the perception of funding agencies and therefore academics trying to get funding. The prestige is entirely fabricated.
Yeah that sounds about right. Journals def milk their perceived prestige and charge accordingly. Publishing in Nature will set you back USD $10,000. It's just completely unhinged.
lol no, so many shell journals out there, and for very good reason. Everyone sees how grossly profitable it is to be a parasitic publishing house so they want to spin up their own shitcoin journal.
Sci-hub isn't so much a "write" platform as it is a "read" platform. Self-publishing these days more often takes the form of depositing pre-prints to things like arxiv/bioarxiv prior to peer-review, and then the journal just scrapes that paper onto their own platform once accepted.