It’s bitcoin, not a shitcoin. All coins on a sidechain is redeemable on mainchain.

But a sidechain can do much more than mainchan while never risking any of the coins there.

With Android 14 is going to be worst; Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root

A couple weeks ago the Relay for Reddit app I've used for many years stopped working because the developer added a dependency on Google Play services to force paid subscriptions. GrapheneOS doesn't play well with that.

So I begrudgingly switched to the Infinity app. Well, this week it appears they started blocking all known VPN and data center IP addresses.

I hate this recurring feeling as a Cypherpunk that the walls keep closing in.

The fact that Bitcoin isn't yet accepted everywheree and for everything really underlines for me how few people have actually used Lightning. Whenever I show somebody how it works, there's always that "wow" moment. But why was it a surprise?

The problem is that normal people still understand BTC from the one half-remembered opinion piece they read in 2017, and are operating under the belief that transactions still take an hour to settle, rather than being instantaneous and irreversible — money transmission without the Paypal Problem. The public mind needs a cache refresh.

It’s funny to think about that most Bitcoiners know what this is!

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(It’s not that but it looks like it)

trying to integrate lightning into shopify only makes me want to build and ecommerce client on nostr. This is why i never get anything done.

GM

That's a lot of sexy time 🥰

You don't care about censorship-resistance?

We need one standard. This timezone thing is just weird.

Bitcoin may not need it.

Let's assume it does not.

Hivecoin is a truth oracle powered by prediction markets.

Let's also asume only one person wants that and you do not.

DC allows bitcoin to stay the same but allow those who want hivecoin backed by their bitcoin to do so.

Bitcoin is the pastry cone, DC is the flavor of icecream. If you want vanilla, keep your vanilla. Bip 300 hundred does not affect your cone or vanilla flavor. But some people want strawberry, or chocolate. Me choosing chocolate does not take away from your vanilla.

If that’s the only reason you’ve heard, then you haven’t heard enough.

Enabling hivemind, is probably the best reason to activate it for example.

Alcohol, absolutely, beyond all reasonable doubt, is a drug that poisons people, and the illusion is that by drinking small amounts of it you are "OK."

Nicotine is an interesting one - you don't realize it really is a sort of drug until you do something like inhale while smoking a cigar or chew tobacco.

Caffeine... Man, I don't know. Chocolate has caffeine in it... and I just can't think of chocolate as this unnatural, poisonous thing to eat. I also think that while caffeine dependence may be a real and undesirable thing, we are not really at a point where we can consider caffeine as functioning as a drug, and thus I do not think of it as a poison.

You know who's funding LayerTwoLabs?

no risk for Bitcoin?

* With the current state of mining centralisation, IMO it would be pretty dumb to send any bitcoins to a drivechain. There are better ways to burn bitcoins or donate to miners.

* But it's not my place to dictate what you can/can't do with your bitcoins, so if there's sufficient community support for drivechains, it should be available for those who want to use them.

* Drivechains were arguably a good idea back in 2017 with the risk of bcash splitting off, but that ship sailed a long time ago. I don't think there's a point now.

* Yes, L2L is funding my work on drivechain code. The code/PR is not an endorsement of drivechains. Many Bitcoin devs receive funding for their work. This is not substantially different.

What’s he up to now? More drivechain stuff?