@Alby if I wanted to pay to subscribe to your “Pro” account with my Alby Hub and retrieve my lightning address (which you still send me emails about) am I allowed to?

Stuff nobody seems to know about Lightning.... How do you clear a stuck In-Flight payment which failed 1002 days ago? Seriously? I'm working on some new code for my node and both the LND nodes I have have stuck payments like this. Obviously this node has been rebooted and upgraded numerous times in the last 1002 days! ⛱️ Payment: 16397 amount: 99,933 sat pre_image: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 in flight time: 1002 days, 1:47:06.093676 created: 2022-04-04 14:11:24.390480+00:00 status: IN_FLIGHT

Unfortunately @Alby appears to be geo blocking Israel. This renders a lot of the functioning of the so-called self sovereign Alby Hub very hard to access. Full details on my blog.

PeakD

Breaking the ethos of Bitcoin: avoid the Alby and GetAlby Project | PeakD

Alby is geo-blocking Israel because some of their people hate Israel.... by brianoflondon

Are you having trouble withdrawing Lightning from @binance ? I am but I know the reason and its not your fault. For the last few weeks any attempt to withdraw Lightning from Binance to my LND based Lightning node would tell me "no route". I could withdraw to another node: one which was ONLY connected to the rest of the Lightning network via my primary node but not to my primary (obviously withdrawing to this secondary node meant sats passing through my primary so route wasn't an issue). After asking at LND Labs I found out that there is an issue with the current LND 0.18.3 version which inserts a whole lot of extra feature bits in the invoices. This upsets Binance's withdraw system. The only answer is to use another system to receive sats that isn't running LND 0.18.3. This has been fixed in the pending LND 0.18.4 release.

Anyone ever seen a Lightning payment on an Invoice with a 1 hour expiry that confirmed 3 months later? Binance sent a payment, they marked it as failed, refunded it and 3+ months later it shows as settled and they want the refund back (given because they have the Payment Hash). How would a normal user with a Wallet of Satoshi account know what to do about this?

It’s a pity that Lightning is so deeply controlled by ideological Bitcoin Maxis instead of open minded technologists who can think outside a box. Stable coins on a rapidly centralizing Lightning is a very bad idea, there are better, more decentralized systems but they involve another blockchain. Pity, Lightning is a mess.

PeakD

BTC Wrapped on Hive will be better and less centralised than BTC on the Lightning Network. | PeakD

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Sad reality of #LightningNetwork today. @binance implements it but (after initially allowing larger amounts like 3m) has now set a limit on 1.999m sats. They also don't allow @MuunWallet or @Breez_Tech wallets and I know why: both of these solutions offer non-custodial storage but it is too slow and unreliable. So you have to send to either your node or a wallet on a custodial centralized provider like @getAlby or @walletofsatoshi . Both fine products, but not what BTC is supposed to be.

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Daniel Suarez's vision for crypto is literally out of this world.

PeakD

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Why grant the SEC any legitimacy? And WHY does anyone submit to the idea that the SEC should be allowed to "regulate" securities when they've done such a shitty job for so long at actually protecting investors from "regulated" investments like Madoff, FTX or any of the the long list of frauds which they failed to take action against BEFORE the little guys lost their money.

PeakD

Why Bitcoin Is Not Enough: "All these coins stealing market share from bitcoin" | PeakD

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If you believe there even is such a thing as an "unlicensed security" you are granting your government the right to decode what you can invest your money in.

Do you hate Jews having self determination and security in our indigenous homeland?

Have we ever agreed on a simple symbol for sats?

Epic vs Apple & Google in Australia goes to trial early next year. Big case for App store freedom. But the reality is any business relying on the big platforms can be crushed at any time.

My Lightning address service brianoflondon@v4v.app sends an image with every Lightning Address request, what other services do this? I'm testing something and need other examples to test against.

I've been thinking about reputation and trust.

PeakD

How Much Do You Value Your Hive Account? | PeakD

Hive has replaced smart contracts in code, with a smart community to read contracts.... by brianoflondon

Every Lightning channel is a co-owned NFT. You can't sell them and your 50% share is controlled by the other party. And if you opened the channel, your investment in the fees to open it are at risk and entirely out of your control too. https://twitter.com/ctt_podcast/status/1658525094082117642?s=46&t=-KxM0zFkgyJ6HnTuQ-VqWg

The reason the "Nakba" defines this woman's favorite victim group is because there doesn't exist evidence of Arab Palestinian people with a national character before then. It literally is the creation myth of Palestinianism. #nakba #Israel #palestine

There is no Bitcoin community. There are only a bunch of conflicted self interest groups and semi-religious cults. And amongst them, only miners are incentivized by the core protocol.

PeakD

Ordinals and the Mempool Apocalypse | PeakD

I’ve been reluctantly building on Lightning because I saw big VC money going in.... by brianoflondon