loves me some docker.

what's nix?

that sounds like a horrible experience. image all of your channels residing on other people's phones. as they drop mobile connectivity, all of their channels go down. you try to make a payment and half of your channels are offline. Lightning nodes do need to run on mobile devices to make mobile payments easier, but we also need robust and always online and connected nodes too.

I use Solus OS 🤙

Who cares though? Shouldn't you be celebrating a day bc you believe it's special not google?

It's just dumb because those websites list easter first when you click the link.

#[2] does some incredible work #matatagif

#[1]

You use tor to mask your IP address.......

What should be Amethyst's next big feature?

What should be Amethyst's next big feature?

Although some have disagreed, I'd describe a Bitcoin layer as an open protocol that uses either the Bitcoin blockchain or Lightning payments network for settlement or consensus. For example, RGB uses an L1 UTXO for consensus of ownership over an asset, and it also makes use of LN to form a system of token channels.

An open protocol could be defined as software capable of being self-hosted that has an interface that other applications can make use of. This could be accessible by either RPC, REST, or embedded APIs.

One might be tempted to split layers into separate payments layers and application layers. But if one sees Nostr as Cash App, Venmo, or Strike (social payment platforms) but just in a protocol that other applications can build upon, in what traditionally would been used an API, then in every case where a layer has a financial application, it too can be a payments layer, so such a distinction doesn't make sense for the prior definition of layers.

Further, anything worth doing can have a financial application of some sort, especially if built into a protocol. Many protocols don't use money, or worse, they use their own fee token, and this inhibits their capability to scale and mitigate against bad actors.

So, I think it makes sense to call things like Nostr, Fedimint, Cashu, LNBits, Carbonado, etc., L3s. Another interesting case is the future Lightspeed Network (LSN), which builds on RGB... I would still classify it as an L3 payments network, since it helps scale Lightning with even more performance and smaller denominations of a sat. Perhaps in the bitcoinized future, LSN will be a better analog for point-of-sale Visa payments than LN, which would probably be a better analog for something like interbank FedACH.

Indexes like Electrum usually fit between L3s, so they could be considered L2s. The Ordinals index currently has no off-chain payments capability itself, so it could be classified as an L2. Non-fungible assets in most cases can only really be settled on the base layer since there's not enough liquidity for routing between multiple payment channels.