I wish I had some bad news to announce cause man this week would be a perfect time for it.

Since when are funds held with a custodian “self-custody”? I guess we need a new word for “custody” now that it has absolutely lost all meaning.

Gonna end up kicking out everyone named Muhammad. Horrendous for long-term competitiveness of the country. View quoted note →

I’m always astounded that windows, still, in the 21st century (let alone a quarter of the way through it!) thinks that cooperative multitasking is an acceptable thing to do. Like…. What?! (It only does this within a single application across its threads, but, still…what?)

SFO has had private security, not TSA, this whole time, and while it’s not wildly better, it’s definitely the best security at a major US airport. View quoted note →

Anyone figured out yet if this is a way for Elon to dilute the other X shareholders by buying it with shares of something he ~fully owns? View quoted note →

New favorite energy usage comparison.

Got somethin cookin… View quoted note →

These days, there are many possible ways to communicate Bitcoin payment instructions. QR Codes, BIP 3/21 bitcoin: URIs, lightning: URIs, LN-Address, BIP 353 HRNs, loose addresses, lighting BOLT 11/12 invoices/offers and all kinds of ways to communicate those. Here's a simple parser to help you figure out your options:

bitcoin_payment_instructions - Rust

These days, there are many possible ways to communicate Bitcoin payment instructions. This crate attempts to unify them into a simple parser which ...

(early version, hope to add more later!)

Lighting absolutely does not take 5-10 seconds to settle a payment. Looking at payments from one of the largest custodial providers settlements are *way* faster than that most of the time. Sure, if you’re sending from a shitty node that doesn’t have good pathfinding[1] then it can take a bunch of retries and a while, but, like, don’t do that? Cashu could take 5 seconds if you hit bad Tor relays, but, again, like, don’t do that 🤷‍♂️. [1]

Lightning Dev Kit Documentation

Pathfinding with LDK

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

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