Good thing we have full control and what we see around here. We can keep stupid things out of sight easily.
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Even a simple wallet node like the one you describe requires a lot of work if it has to support the day to day payments of someone.
It's not a nice experience to be out in the wild and find yourself not being able to pay because your LNbits instance silently went off, for example. Keeping the uptime and liquidity up and ready always (99.9%) instead of mostly (95%) is difficult for normal plebs in my opinion.
Sometimes I worry because:
1. To use Bitcoin as a day to day currency, Lightning is absolutely fundamental. Whoever proposes on-chain transactions as the day to day transaction engine clearly does not pay a lot of things with Bitcoin and has never set up a retail store with it.
2. Using Lightning in a sovereign way is anything but easy. We can't expect the common folk to graduate in Systems Administration just to have a reliable payment medium.
So, combine 1 and 2 and we are either unable to scale Bitcoin as a currency or we can only do so through custodial options. I think this is a serious problem.
I'm hopeful that technology will appear to enable great experiences that are sovereign at the same time, but for now we can only throw people into Wallet of Satoshi and the likes.
Curious to see more points of view on this.
Turn ecash into cash and it still holds true.
Can't wait for a future where I buy online without leaving my name written everywhere, just like I do my shopping in meatspace.
I'm curious calle: why is it near-perfect and not perfect? Is there somewhere where one can read about this?
It has some Counter Strike: Source vibes to it.
Wouldn't it be cool if during the buying stage at the beginning of the round, the terrorist team would use their cashu wallets to buy their guns?
A cualquiera que este usando una wallet que no soporta multisig... Le recomiendo que use una wallet que soporte multisig. Tenemos el privilegio de tener acceso a wallets geniales como Sparrow o Bluewallet. No veo motivo para no usarlas.
Totalmente de acuerdo. Por algun motivo que desconozco mucha gente lo hace. Es posible que hasta que uno no entiende como hacer bien un 2-of-3, no salte a la vista lo mala idea que es la opcion passphrase.
https://stacker.news/items/132503
Los comentarios de @pillar me parecen una buena explicación de porque single sig + passphrase es generalmente inferior a un single sig simple o un multisig 2-of-3.
- Explicar xpubs para que la gente entienda que puede tener watch-onlys. Hay mucho novato por ahi poniendo su seed en un bluewallet hot por ignorancia.
- Explicar multisigs 2-of-3.
- Explicar lo peligroso que es hacer single sig + passphrase en la cabeza. Hay mucha gente que hace esto sin darse cuenta de que lo que tiene es esencialmente un multisig 2-of-2 mal backupeado. Lo peor de ambos mundos.
Some man just want to watch the world burn (so they have material for dank memes)
What would you have them do instead?
Hostias, una ICO. Vuelven flashblacks de 2017.
Hoy reaprendí a convertir a mano un número binario a decimal. Este link y este gráfico tenían el truco
https://indepth.dev/posts/1019/the-simple-math-behind-decimal-binary-conversion-algorithms
Ahora a por hexadecimal.
A mucha gente le iria bien aprender hexadecimal y la idea de las diferentes bases (58, 64, etc) para darse cuenta de que sus claves son simplemente numeros.
La seccion de Mastering Bitcoin donde se explica como una seedphrase se convierte en la seed tambien es una gozada.
#[4] #[5] señores, could you kindly shed some light for Gigi here?
Would be great to start building the Bitcoin European Union. Hopefully this time we can make it right.
The same virus seems to be spreading all over the spanish speaking world.
Tails with electrum was and is great. Tails with sparrow would be awesome.
No more clues then. Next steps would be to prepare a reproducible env, check the logs of both the funding source and LNbits and pull the thread from there.
Let us know if you find out the root cause.
Is the connection between your LNbits and your funding source running on clearnet or Tor?
I had so many problems with tor for this use case that I just deemed it as completely unusable.
I've tested both LNDRest and another LNtips instance without troubles.
Having said, I've never heard anyone complaining about any funding source being unreliable. The coupling with the funding is rather simple: get invoice, pay invoice. If you get the networking in place correctly, there isn't really much that can go wrong.