Your speech is beautifully utopian. There's some truth in it, that's for sure, but there's also some falsehood. But if we take a step back, we realize that all this will always depend on the USA. They'll never let BTC (or anything else) overshadow the dollar, never. Everything will always be done to control BTC. As long as they think it's fun, they'll make money out of it, and when the toy breaks, they'll throw it away. It's hard to read that, I realize, but let's face it... 🤷🏻‍♂️

Not that I can think off the top of my head. I would who to a good grocery store or a boutique fine foods store and ask the people that work there

Also if you have funds missing from your onchain wallet when your force closes get confirmed the sweepremoteclosed command from chantools is something you may need to do as well. With your node being offline sometimes when the other side force closes and your node isn't alive, funds can languish in sweep addresses that your main three pubkeys won't pick up. So don't despair if that happens, that one is fairly easy to do.

I'll shut up now about it, lol 🤓

Thinking about #bitcoin privacy in a high fee environment where mixing isn't a great option. It occurs to me that a big ass lightning node is an innocent and useful way to pseudo wash inbound KYC sats, get your sats into custody sooner, and have bigger UTXOs on chain.

Buy lightning sats KYC, send to your node ASAP, loop out big UTXOs to cold storage when your channels start to fill up. Creative use of loop out instead of the designer intended purpose.

Any ideas why it’s stuck like this ?

and getting longer! Dune also springs to mind.

Atlas is first amongst equals for me. Absolutely the book of my life.

Car.

Based on the current difficulty level of the network, the miner adds a “nonce”, basically an incremental counter for each guess they take, and hashes data from the prior block and the pending block transactions which yields a fixed size big number (total input could be one character or LOTS, that doesn’t matter). If that hash output number has enough leading zeros to satisfy the network difficulty level, they get to mine the block. Since hashing yields completely unpredictable outputs for every input, you just have to keep changing the nonce and see what happens.

The beauty is that once it works, is very simple to confirm you earned the right to mine the block with that nonce (guess).

Including the prior block’s hash in that calculation, links it to the new block so nothing can be altered in the past, because the hash would no longer verify if ANYTHING changed. Immutability is ensured and easy (ish) to verify.

The difficulty is adjusted every 2,016 blocks so that you need a hash result with more leading zeros if the average block finding time is less that 10 minutes and less leading zeros if the blocks are discovered in more that 10 minutes.

I’m pretty sure this is the idea HA…

On a call with some less technical bitcoiners. One asks "where does the random guess come from for mining?"

I well aktually'd so hard. Two dropped of the call immediately. Cowards.

But two remained. Finally people want to listen to nerd talk! We're going to win!

Thank you bitcoin!

If you have a comp and some patience you can mine one too

Nice collection

A little reckless but ok 😁

And even Liquid is custodial too...

Ark in it's current architecture will not be feasible.

RGB doesn't work for transacting bitcoin (at least until prime and radiant).

eCash is the cheapest option, by far.