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Hey nostr:npub1rzg96zjavgatsx5ch2vvtq4atatly5rvdwqgjp0utxw45zeznvyqfdkxve what's that thing you use to share tracks? Links to all the different platforms

Wavlake is too much of a piece of shit to operate while riding a bike, so listening now at home. Last two have been good

Replying to Avatar Big Bad John

The Lightning Network does not scale.

This is why everyone is building fake centralized hybrid Lightning bullshit and using custodial apps.

There are many reasons for this, here are some.

Liquidity - Each channel requires funding, twice. That capital is frozen until you splice, rebalance, or close. As adoption grows, the liquidity requirement grows quadratically. As on-chain fees grow, cost of using LN goes up while security assurances go down.

Complexity - Complexity breeds centralization. most users do not tolerate the base LN experience. Most devs do not tolerate depending on complex buggy self-custodial implementations. You've practically got to be an entire Lightning stack business to reliably provide a self-custodial product. Costs rise, leading to severe centralization at scale.

Routing - Portrayed as the coolest part of LN, but truly the worst aspect due to liquidity requirements, uncertainty, complexity. Results in hubs, then centralization at scale.

Breaking changes - Constant new complexity requires node runners to always run new, potentially insecure software. New channel types, new payment protocols, all destroy interoperability.

Obscure Hacks Required - If you want to provide a LN wallet or app you need to learn all the weird solutions, like LNURL, misc patches & tools, that people hacked in because LN protocol devs and LN implementation companies rarely care about the user space (probably because it is hopeless). We get weird derivative things hacked into others, like subscriptions into one specific payment protocol, but not into others; or, weird email format nicknames that arent actually emails, and are all implemented in trusted ways. This results in LN businesses and LN devs requiring arcane understanding, and endless patience, in the LN world.

Regulatory trap - Running a LSP business safely requires experienced lawyers for a constantly changing compliance landscape. New hybrid LN services like Spark, Liquid swaps, and taproot-asset edge nodes, will draw regulatory scrutiny the moment something goes wrong, or becomes too large.

Lightning is still cool and useful, but it doesn't actually fix Bitcoin payments at scale, so much as kinda-sorta provide efficiencies as long as you don't actually scale too much...

TLDR?

The concept of a high-frequency bitcoin channel is sound, and proven now.

The concept of a bitcoin-based routing network as an efficiency has not been proven, and, arguably, has failed.

Well summarized

I deduce you seduce to reproduce

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Well nostr:nprofile1qqsd9pqnwyshrse7z975h5ynptq9ktz3kv8txqs7lr20zgelqtys52cpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz9thwden5te0dehhxarjv4kxjar9wvhx7un8qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvv9hxg9xwpdr, they're as good as I can manage🤷🏻‍♂️. Some would say "OMG, that's fucking amazing". Some would say "WTF fuck is this atrocious noise😳" and then of course, there's everything in between😬😂.

We shall see. It will either enhance or totally eff up my ride 👀

A bit for later

Though not sure if it's a valid reaction, but prob accurate at this point in time. May change soon

Shh you're gonna scare the bull away... cmon lil guy, up you go 📈🐂

Agreed, just making sure we're on same page

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What's going on with right hand?

Replying to Avatar liminal 🦠

You're sitting on a bench in a park, and it's hot. The kind of heat that makes the air thick and lazy, where even your thoughts move like honey. Children's laughter drifts from the playground to your left—a sound that should be comforting but feels oddly distant, as if you're hearing it through water. You shift on the warm metal slats, feeling the sun press against your back like a heavy hand.

An airy tick flashes in the corners of your periphery, forcing a reflexive head turn. Nothing. Just another empty bench, no movement aside from the shimmering heat waves rising from the concrete. The distortion wavers in geometric patterns that seem almost... intentional. You blink hard, but the shimmer persists, and for a moment—just a moment—it resembles the outline of a figure.

No, that can't be a person.

But it raises its gaze to gaze through you. Not at you, through you, the way light passes through glass without acknowledging the glass exists. You understand, with a clarity that makes your teeth ache, that it's not seeing you so much as aware of your presence, just as you can't see wind but sense its aftereffects on the trees.

The playground behind you begins to exhale childhood. Each swing releases small puffs of scraped-knee summers and birthday cake promises. The children's laughter becomes visible—golden threads weaving through the air, spelling words in a language you remember from dreams you haven't had yet.

The heat shimmer doesn't step forward; it simply becomes more itself. More present. More undeniably there in a way that makes your spine remember it was once liquid, once a river flowing upward through landscapes that don't believe in gravity.

Your peripheral vision starts behaving like peripheral hearing—catching conversations between park benches and lampposts, overhearing the trees gossiping about root systems and underground friendships. The entity's attention settles over you like a weighted blanket made of questions you've never learned how to ask.

Something opens. Not a door, not a window, but a fold in the fabric of paying attention. Through it pours understanding that arrives too fast, too complete, like trying to drink from a waterfall of pure knowing. Your consciousness expands to accommodate truths it was never designed to hold.

The bench beneath you begins to remember all the other people who have sat here—their weight, their worries, their ways of breathing. You feel yourself becoming temporary, a brief interruption in the bench's longer conversation with gravity and time.

Your thoughts start arriving before you think them. The entity speaks without moving its mouth, without having a mouth, and its words arrive as changes in air pressure, as shifts in the color of silence. You understand everything it's saying and nothing it means.

The park itself becomes unstable. Trees negotiate new relationships with sky. Shadows detach from their owners and begin independent social lives. The distance between your heartbeat and your breath expands until there's room for entire civilizations to rise and fall between inhale and exhale.

Reality stutters. Blinks. Forgets its own rules.

You are sitting you are remembering sitting you are the memory of someone who once knew how to sit and now the sitting sits you and you become the verb of being seated while the bench benches you into existence and existence exists you into being and being becomes a way of happening rather than a way of being

The heat shimmers you and you shimmer back and shimming becomes a conversation becomes the way light learns to speak to light learns to speak speaking and the entity entities itself into your peripheral which peripherals you until you are the edge of your own vision the edge visioning itself

Playground grounds itself into play and play plays itself into ground and children child themselves into childhood and childhood childs the children into being young and young youngs itself into was and was wases itself into never and never nevers always

Time folds into origami into gami into fold and fold folds time until timing times itself and the entity gazes gaze and gaze gazes entity and you you yourself into being youed by the being of you being be

*consciousness negotiations its own bound*

*perception becomes verbing*

*the sitting benchs and benching sits*

*heat shimmer speaking light to light*

*playground grounds play into playing*

*entity gaze gazed gazing you*

*understanding arrives too fast complete*

*reality stutters blinks forgets*

*peripheral vision hearings*

*thoughts arriving before thinking*

*being becomes happening*

*you you you*

*is*

> Produced in collaboration with Claude AI

I was just thinking about how another thing you wrote had an AI disclaimer type note in it, at the top instead of end. Never sure how to feel about that

Replying to Avatar vinney...axkl

the domain also needs to be available, like https://whitepaperbooks.com

I wanted to choose something that rings bells for bitcoiners but also isn't insane looking to normies.

I'm coming around to the name you chose.

I was sitting pretty for a minute too. Got greedy. All good, wasn't THAT much 🥲

I don't have time for this right now. Mopeds aren't gonna ride themselves! Call it a draw