It's likely to be indestructible like the SR5 so that's probably illegal.

I don't want bigger blocks. Who gave you that idea? 🤔

Just telling you that self-custodial Lightning will not solve Bitcoin scaling.

Check the notes.

I don't want bigger blocks. Who gave you that idea? 🤔

Just telling you that self-custodial Lightning will not solve Bitcoin scaling.

Check the notes.

Many others have done calculations since then. The numbers still don't add up, even assuming we'll have a CISA softfork (I hope we do, but this is not guaranteed by any means).

You've been scammed friend.

Have you read the lightning white paper? It carefully calculates what would be needed to make lightning a suitable scaling solution for mass adoption.

tldr: it would require a block size increase.

People selling non-custodial lightning as a way to onboard masses are scaming, there's just not enough blockspace for everyone to have a non custodial channel and be credibly able to enforce a justice transaction.

And Brazil?

the problem with lightning is there is no onchain history. On bitcoin each transaction is a part of the history

A guy sends me a polite email, and says in a couple paragraphs that 1) he doesn't really see any role for bitcoin in a portfolio, it has no intrinsic value, and it just trades on sentiment and also that 2) it threatens USD hegemony and so politicians are likely going to add friction to it.

So I'm like, well, if there's nothing particularly valuable about it to give it any value or consideration for a portfolio, why does it threaten USD hegemony? Like, it threatens the largest and most globally salable monetary network in the world while having no intrinsic value, no portfolio role, while just being a thing that trades on sentiment?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Are people in general unhappy with Phoenix because of the fees?

Ecash mint without an every-growing database of spent tokens but a comparatively tiny accumulator. Sounds cool but tmk, a perfect accumulator hasn't been found yet.

If the accumulator has a false-positive rate like a bloom filter, it would falsely flag unspent ecash as "already spent" effectively randomly buring some few of the user's tokens (you can control how little).

It can be improved if the mint shares this accumulator publicly. When wallets want to mint tokens, they could "mine" for secrets that don't trigger a false positive hit with the accumulator. It's still not perfect because the accumulator is likely to change between the mint event and the spend (melt) event - which can again lead to new false positives.

Freedom minded people have a much easier time getting Bitcoin.

Statists, naturally, have a much harder time.

The jaded have the hardest time. And sadly, there's a lot of those, especially in finance.

Get people to love freedom first. Bitcoin will make much more sense to them then.

has John “the midwit’s midwit” Carvalho ever actually done anything admirable? the more he attacks me from behind the block and the more I troll him in response and win over his own followers, the dumber and dumber he seems and I’m trying to remember if he’s literally ever said anything worthwhile or built anything anybody uses.

I also feel an amusing sense of calm asking this here because he virtue hates nostr and is building his own version that nobody can explain, including himself, or use, including himself.

fwiw, I mulled over just letting this go an taking the high road but then I’ve been entertained and alarmed in equal measure by my DMs filling up with stories of him being a cunt irl. so now it feels more like bullying a bully and I’m occasionally pretty into it …

I've been gym'ing as directed by Mike Mentzer (an old trainer for former Mr Olympiads of decades ago - died in 2001) and I honestly can't believe how good the results are.

Essentially I've always gone to the gym too hard and never allowed enough time for muscle recovery/repair.

Now I go once a week, do some warm up reps and ONE set of the heaviest I can manage. Then I stay the hell home for about almost a week before going again.

Every single time I return I can lift 10lb heavier than last time.

It's so satisfying breaking a new PR every single week and this is also far less time consuming than every other regimen I've tried in the past.

Many forks of Android like GrapheneOS and LineageOS are going to have problems. It is going to be impossible to debug your own traffic.