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I'm finding myself intuitively opening nostr note than twitter lately

no other way but monetizing everything on the public

you will interactively sign your yearly provisioned LN channel in a timeout tree, through your always connected home node, and you will be happy

regardless of any soft forks, life finds a way

cryptography can never truly replace trust. what it can do is push it as far to the edges as possible, and that's huge. because trust at the edges is truly practical

that's a different issue, but for this you'll have to have visibility into the code that your counterparty runs, and that's impractical

you can use tor or vpn, and provide as little information as possible to the process that runs on your machine, but you can never validate what information your counterparty keeps and how it uses it

is it even possible to log back into your ubuntu after a few days without it insisting that you must restart or the world will end?

since fedi is practically just keeping pieces of strings for you (no cryptography as an ecash end user), i guess it’s tolerable. fountain is also an LN custodian with no client side cryptography afaik. as for keet i never used it so don’t know

open source is mostly critical for applications that implement cryptographic protocols, to be able to verify they are not backdoored

not only liquidity constraints in realistically practical 2nd layer bitcoin (LN, Ark, ToT) isn’t a “ux problem”, it might be the only way that makes sense from a TANSTAAFL perspective

translating the pain of block size limit into the pain of funding the time value of money of illiquid inbound capacity is a great bargain. dormant HODL coins are a much larger resource than blocks space

there are no silver bullets. no magical 2-way pegs. all magical solutions are no different from a block size increase from an economic standpoint. a magical scaling solution without pain isn’t trading-off any comfort, which indirectly means no fees

twitter is practically divided into 1000s of different twitters yet they’ll say nostr is not scalable because it doesn’t have a global state.. when was the last time you “explored” twitter?

maybe the global state is the problem to begin with?