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自由閪。Defund the system! Passionate about privacy, encryption and ⚡️bitcoin. Forbidden lands, forgotten empires. Hong Kong is my home.

I used the suggestion, 30. It said it succeeded every time I tried, but only one of the transactions eventually appeared onchain.

Awesome, thanks again for the suggestion! Just got some signet sats and am ready to open channels!

I do need enough to meet the minimum requirements for channels, practically speaking that’s probably 100k sats per channel. I am open to the idea of permissioned public testing networks, where I pay for “cycles” in the form of coins.

Fascinating, thank you! Just tried it out, let’s see if these coins arrive!

Anybody else running a Signet Lightning node? I’d appreciate the inbound!

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So where does one buy these signet coins? What’s the rate? Pointers welcome!

The ultimate status symbol for Hong Kong geeks is a domain like this:

https://網誌.獅草地.香港

It should absolutely blow your mind that we now have open source money and open source payment networks. Even the boldest cypherpunks weren’t confident this would ever be possible just 20 years ago. Don’t sleep on it!

Two individuals, both using the web checkin. The map was very different, for one passenger it only showed almost all middle seats as available, but no other seats. For the other it showed a more random map, with some middle seats, a few aisle seats and very few window seats available.

I learned that when you check in for a flight, the seat map may not show all available seats. Pretty mind blown when I noticed two passengers on the same Air Canada flight were presented with entirely different seat maps

Saw this machine near Toronto airport that lets you withdraw cash from your bank card, buy Bitcoin (currently disabled) with cash and take out loans. It says a gambling functionality will come soon

Being able to perform swaps with other providers on existing infrastructure is a great benefit, no? I can’t run all swap services on my local network and also one day hope to be able to interact with RGB channels. Having to spin up a new node, acquire coins and open channels for each system i might interact with feels cumbersome and wasteful. I desire a “common” testnet Lightning Network

And then convince competitors to join that same signet to test their infrastructure too? Why would they? Yet testing the compatibility of these infrastructures seem to be the primary benefit of a public testnet

LL will have to make the decision where to move testing infrastructure to, but from this conversation it doesn’t sound like testnet3/4 have a future or is run with expectations that are compatible with what we need in the long run. Having a network that allows for connectivity with people testing other implementations and services (LSPs, swap providers, payment processors) on the same network is important though. Paying a tiny amount for testing is fine though from my perspective. Test/signet coins are API tokens, aren’t they?