I think most Bitcoiners haven’t fully grokked how much work Gloria (and Greg Sanders and others) did to get package relay and zero-fee anchors and TRUC over the line and how absolutely critical this work is to Lightning, Ark, Spark, and nearly everything bitcoiners are going to be using over the next few years.

Cool. Now GitHub’s rarely-used “git” feature is down.

Most of nostr not loading cause it’s actually all cloudflare is kinda hilarious, ngl.

As the only person to have ever implemented both spillman channels and lightning, I can state confidently that adapting spillman channels to support HTLCs will result in something equally as complicated as lightning. You aren’t getting away from the challenges of lightning with spillman channels, sorry.

3% doesn’t sound like a lot, but at a 2x normal retail margin that’s a 6% increase in margin. With high retail costs that’s easily a 10-20% increase in profit! 3% on the retail price on everything you sell is *huge*! Talk to merchants. They’ll use it. View quoted note →

If you work on a project (like Bitcoin, but really any) and don’t use it, you’re missing out on the most valuable product feedback - experiencing it for yourself. I get it, Bitcoin often isn’t super easy to pay with everywhere so it seems like a low priority task to get yourself set up to only use infrequently, but even infrequent use is incredibly valuable feedback! View quoted note →