Phoenix is from France?! Now I know why it refused to work the other day. 😆🤣

Not low enough 😉

At least this time they will be honest in the fact that they only care about (making more) money.

So you don't see any solution where anyone that want to participate can do it and still keep a good quality network?

Is it similar to Tor, you cannot prevent someone to run a relay or exit on a slow or unreliable connection, still it's better for privacy, decentralization and sensorship resistance to have some slower relays than limiting the ability to run a relay to only the most powerful machines, which could all end up being AWS and Azue hosted relay.

If we can make the software more resiliant with fall back and multi parallel routes to picknup only the best ones and avoid slower and offline nodes + add good automated management then we don't have to restrict anyone to run their node as routing when they want to contribute as much as they can.

Again, maybe I'm wrong and I'm missing something that make this impossible to achieve and true decentralization, censorship resistant and privacy is only an unachiveble dream but I'm not convince yet of it.

My concern is that if we follow your recommandation, then 99% of the Lightning nodes would be edge nodes connected to the top 10 largest routing nodes almost all run by corporation and mostly exchanges.

Maybe it will make the Lightning network (slightly) more reliable and faster but it will surely make it less decentralized, less private, less censorship resistant. In worst case we could end up with a walled garden greenlighted Lightning network were you have no choice than user the approved routing nodes and you must KYC your node to connect to them, and as most merchant will accept Bitcoin Lightning using solution from banks and card payement providers, you will have no choice than connecting to this KYC Lightning otherwise you cannot spend your BTC at most merchants.

Maybe I missunderstood something and this doomsday scenario could never happen but of there a slight chance that it could happen, I would say that we should continue to encourage the core values of Bitcoin and also promote decentralization for the Lightning Network and if it makes it less reliable or slower, then improvements must be made to make it works in such environnement without blocked HTLC, without unwished force closed and with faster confirmation, or improve node management automation to optimize each nodes in the network.

Don't get me wrong, I agree that not all must run routing node and that it requires some investemement (appropriate hardware and time to learn) but with all respect for everything you did and do for the community and all your quality education material you provide, claming that most enthousiats should refrain to run a node with some routing channels and should not run a node with less than 1BTC of liquidity, seams really counter-productive in the adoption we are looking for.

No studies can be make with currwnt adoption and usage. Because as much as I like VR, there is not enough content to spend significant time playing games, not enough friends to meet in VR, it's not convenient enough to work in VR and I never tried a headset comfortable enough that I can wear it more than 1 hour without a break.

Amazing, Android auto then eSIM without google. GrapheneOS is ready for mass adoption now.

Nice weather in Sarissola?

Italian food is among the best.

For real? What happened? Their website is still up.

Why so much hate for LND? If the other peer would have used LND as well, I would not have ended up with so many non-anchors channels, two of them are possibly stuck in mempool limbo.

You mean we should save in fiat and exchange every 89 days at once, then wait again 89days?

I guess it makes sense as ATH are rarely lasting more than a couple of months before an important correction comes, then you risk to buy at ATH only once or twice every 4 years or so.

Correct me if I miss understood.

What a steal! I paid twice as much for a force closed lightning channel with less than $2k in it.

It's a nightmare, as soon as you ask anything with the word help or issue or anything related, you get spammed by bot (or not) inpersonating admin or reputable people in the channel. There should be a way to mitigate that, no? Like a reputation system, or only having PM from users that have an old enough account or are admin in a group you are in or something else.

I even end up once in a complete fake support group for a Bitcoin wallet that was at the top of the results for having more (fake) members than the official group.

Also some migrate Discord, like Umbrel recently, but it's not much better there and Discord and the communities on it are so hard to use and confusing that I can simply not use it propely most of the time. Am I an old idiot or what? Why do you need dozens of channels, bots, pinned posts all over the place. Everytime I'm force to join a support community there I'm like: where should I start? Where can I search for similar questions already posted?

In the end I prefer much more a classic forum for support but these (like Umbrel one) seam more or less deserted or just populated by hopeless users looking for help and 1-2 superheros answering almost everything they could (like nostr:npub1lxktpvp5cnq3wl5ctu2x88e30mc0ahh8v47qvzc5dmneqqjrzlkqpm5xlc at the time, thank you so much for all you did and still do).

Thanks for the detailed information. It's a bit more clear but I still have to use it to understand better the advantages.

So any user of a mint must trust the node running the mint to not steal the sats.

Could we says that it's a layer 3? It comes on top of Lightning which is a layer 2 already.

I just tested #cashu and it looks cool and simple but I'm still puzzeled, what is the advantage over running #LNbits on the host node and the user create wallet on LNbits and connect to it with Zeus, BlueWallet or Alby?

What do you mean by "but touristy spots etc"?

If you mean that it's still a nice place for tourism, obviously it is, but many small shops, bar like the retro games bar and video games arcades closed down or changed drastically since 10-15 years. Not only due to the economy but when economy is tough, it's only the most profitable business that stay alive and they are not necessarly the most interesting ones.

Look at these arcades games full of UFO catcher and other gambling-like machines. Boring as fuck but extremly profitable apparently.

I'm quite the opposite and it's hard to shop nice stuff sometimes.

It must 10x in 2-6 years top or it will be really hard tp reach adoption fast enough to not hit serious global economy trouble.

I highly recommand you to try URLcheck, everytime yon click a link you get a popup to check the URL, choose in which browser or app you will open it, choose if it will be open as icognito tab or normal and options to remove the trackers (=?xxxx) and many many more privacy features.

It's a life saver on android, I would be happy to have an equivalent on Linux.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker

I'm more and more interested by migrating my node to Start9.