Wow! Pretty cool that it's Lightning specific, Bitcoin would be cool enough, but much better than MIT's Blockchain class.
Our little Lightning Network is growing up.
You know what's funny, I downloaded it, and so I didn't give away where it's from I changed the file name and at first I typed mystery, not on purpose, then I realized that would give it away.
The community needs this one, possibly the most uncontroversial softfork in a while to help us get back on track with these things.
Anyone remember this blast from the past?
Selfish mining is risky to attempt. Sometimes you win big. What I am worried about is collusion with selfish mining (which is basically 2 pools added together being more than 50%) (like foundry and antpool) which can frequently win selfish mining attacks. They would get caught pretty quickly and it would be an industry scandal and tank the price for a bit. But it would definitely shatter mining pools into tiny bits.
Sometimes collusion may be involved. Right now Foundry + antpool is just over 50% of network. So on paper they are separate pools, but who knows if there's communication.
The thing is... why would you assume you can find two blocks before EVERYONE making up the rest of the network can find one? It's pretty rare.
Unfortunately, right now, Foundry and Antpool make up just over 50%, so yeah, their may be collusion starting.
However, the theory is this is bad for the price, and nobody is longer Bitcoin than miners.
There was a possible instance of selfish mining recently, and while reading up on this technique sometimes employed by mining pools I found out that anti-Bitcoin academics think that selfish mining is proof that Bitcoin will never work.
In the distant future when basically only governments or whatever use Layer one, is the game theory of Lightning messed up when you can't really honestly threaten exiting to layer one, due to how expensive that would be?
I'm asking if they were affected by the chip thing, since they announced the phone 3 days ago, they predated the news going around by a day.
It's crazy how many individual differences in opinions and principles I have with that person that cause the end result of a different preference of cryptocurrency.
Up is down, left is right, a 'good idea' is indeed downright evil to me.
Hate to do a Twitter link, but I have to.
Shitcoins fund misinformation campaigns against Bitcoin, I feel XRP is kinda responsible for the NY Bitlicense, BSV may be responsible for a few Bitcoin Core devs, including most recently Marco hanging up his... keyboard. FTX is responsible for so much non-existent (paper Bitcoin) that we probably would have hit 100k, and probably wouldn't have dropped below 20k, our previous cycle's high. Since most VCs prefer the guaranteed returns of pumpanddumps with Ethereum, NGU funds more than our security budget, it helps fund development too. And crypto really screwed us this cycle.
'eXistenZ' is pretty good too.
I really like Goodfellas.
Also Wes Anderson movies:
Royal Tenanbaums
Darjeeling Limited
Moonrise Kingdom
Life Aquatic
Billy was a teenager too then in 1978, and so was I when I first heard it.
It's rough, I really don't like Twitter as much as I like Nostr, but my posts are still far more seen over there. Of course, the engagement per follower is higher here, but I feel like a bunch of people came here a month or two ago, made accounts, and haven't really been back. THIER LOSS!
