GN Bitfucks🤦🏻‍♂️🫂.

Hopefully, an enhancement, Sir🙏🏻.

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.

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Yarn friend! Music to my ears. It’s loaded and ready to go already. I wanna watch all the Wes andersons

Watched The Phoenecian Scheme last night. Pleasantly surprised that another new movie wasn't crap. Very enjoyable, made me giggle, big stars...would watch again. #notanodereview #anothernotcrapnewmovie

A not a node review™ is coming.

I was helpful to you 5secs ago and you want to fight? 😂

Vacation is not relaxing or what? 🤣

He says “hell no” however he was asking questions 🤭

Nice you are teaching yodl to make memes ? 🐸 do you still have your android phone ?

You’re welcome.

You can also change the aspect ratio in canvas 😉

In the main menu, collage, on the right of photos. Then choose grid

U game yo DL

We are going to start at 4:20 PST

It lessens my interest somewhat to know author didn't craft each phrase

JOMO is my way of life.

the kiss scam scandal was engineered to distract from the epstein list

come on sheeple! it's an obvious psyop!

He has been known to touch grass extensively

Only way is up bro

Bro volatility is exciting

Photo was taken with a potato 🥔

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

Yeah those are casinos bro. Don’t even try, they’ll liquidate you in no time

Bourbon is a good thing.

Ukraine is offering its front lines as a live testing ground for cutting-edge foreign weapons through a new initiative called “Test in Ukraine,” launched by Brave1 — a government-backed defense technology incubator.

The program invites allied arms manufacturers to trial their latest systems in real combat conditions against Russian forces. In exchange, Brave1 provides comprehensive battlefield performance data, real-time feedback for enhancements, and opportunities for co-production and rapid deployment in partnership with Ukrainian defense firms.

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Can’t believe I missed 1488 yesterday, hope it was a good one.

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