It’s weird that society is now at a point where we can pick (some) traits for our kids (including biasing towards height/attractiveness/intelligence!) but the outrage machine hasn’t caught on yet.

I think people here underestimate just how many users Twitter/X has lost over the last year (not counting AI bots…). Looking back at people who were a major part of The Conversation a few years ago most of them simply don’t post anywhere anymore (or a few do on Bluesky). Turns out a bad algorithm is worse than none. Nostr isn’t losing the user race, people just stopped posting.

We spent a lot of time on pathfinding in LDK to make payments work the first time, all the time. If you’re curious what goes into modern lightning pathfinding, check it out!

Lightning Dev Kit Documentation

Pathfinding with LDK

Learn how LDK built the most advanced pathfinder in the Lightning Network

It’s a real shame the US outlawed this starting next year. Bigger shame the Bitcoin community isn’t constantly beating the drum, too….making it illegal to pay with bitcoin (via a payment processor) without KYC is nuts! View quoted note →

As many problems as Newegg has, the fact that they still take BitPay and it takes lightning makes me but there every time. Real Magic Internet Money.

The feed is: “Trump and Musk are bypassing all the controls we had in place, they’re literally overthrowing the constitution by ignoring Congress” “Trump and Musk are saving democracy by throwing out all the unelected officials that actually control the government and installing the will of the people” Y’all need to chill the fuck out, dear god everyone has lost their damn minds.

If this is true bitcoin will fail. View quoted note →

We’ve got to years to pass the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act. We can’t let this pass us.