Well, I taught everyone how to run an effective lightning node at tabconf last year so no excuse now.

Yea. And there arent enough node runners to begin with which is a prereq

cooking tasty jam require a license? 👀

Name one truly good comedy movie made after 2008.

I don't think others will compete against Bitcoin successfully, due to bitcoins network effect. but if I'm wrong, it'll still take years, as a tug of war. plenty of time to switch to the better coin. 15 years in, and no need to change yet. if there's a better coin, it'll probably be a 5 year window of time to switch to that other coin.

make a fork with proposed changes. if it works, being the change to regular network. sort of like a testnet

- Learn to code

- Get well-paid tech job

- Realize it's all a scam

- Realize lack of personal fulfillment

- What if I could work for something meaningful and good

- Find Bitcoin

- Become open source contributor

- Finally apply your skills to a monumental human project

- Be good

What is CivKit?

Bitcoin fees are currently only a dollar, but niche programmers are suggesting to change the fundamental nature of bitcoin and increase its attack surface to make it more scalable… for people who don’t necessarily know or understand the trade offs of that scaling.

Scaling is an important discussion, but everything is a trade off. I like many of the scaling discussions, but rushing them is another matter.

It costs me $100 to buy a 1oz gold coin by mail, or to send signed documents internationally in a few days. Verification is expensive.

The idea that global monetary verification should be super cheap inherently comes with security trade offs.

All ideas should be evaluated carefully and come to major consensus. Otherwise change proposers risk a fork war.

Bitcoin fees are currently only a dollar, but niche programmers are suggesting to change the fundamental nature of bitcoin and increase its attack surface to make it more scalable… for people who don’t necessarily know or understand the trade offs of that scaling.

Scaling is an important discussion, but everything is a trade off. I like many of the scaling discussions, but rushing them is another matter.

It costs me $100 to buy a 1oz gold coin by mail, or to send signed documents internationally in a few days. Verification is expensive.

The idea that global monetary verification should be super cheap inherently comes with security trade offs.

All ideas should be evaluated carefully and come to major consensus. Otherwise change proposers risk a fork war.

Before the 1990s most computing was done on mainframes that were expensive and difficult to access, because that was simply the state of hardware.

Then we had a couple decades of software running on personal computing hardware because networking hardware sucked.

Now with broadband we're back to running software on servers because cloud computing has made it cost efficient, and software companies can have far greater control over the user experience.

The looming question in my mind: can we swing the pendulum back in the other direction by focusing on development of p2p apps and infrastructure?

this would be awesome.

No it doesn't. It can be installed on any machine but it has to be able to connect to the node in question in order to get the invoice. I'll put together a guide but no guarantees I won't make a mistake somewhere.

If you'd like to try mine out I can dm you the url. It's got several domains to choose from.

nope~!!

i have mine setup via vps