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

I’ve been reluctantly building on Lightning because I saw big VC money going in and to ride those coat tails and pick up on what they built. The current fiasco with Ordinals has me doubting Lightning’s future entirely. I don’t see any ROI for VCs when channel openings and random closures will eat all possible profits and cost reductions. Without centralised services and huge nodes investing big BTC bucks, I don’t see any way this works. I don’t see what incentive Miners have to do anything different, they make bank on these fees. They don’t want stupid 1 sat/vb channel openings and at 100+ sat/vb I don’t see how Lightning is viable. Perhaps at some point this destroys Bitcoin completely, I don’t see how the original “best money ever” continues when moving it even via Lightning requires either a huge upfront investment or huge fees. Where is the incentive for Miners to even want to change the code and discourage arbitrary data storage? Unfortunately Bitcoin’s ridiculous governance model (i.e. shouting on Twitter and some email lists with no actual ability to force a change in the code) looks increasingly like its biggest vulnerability. Why am I wrong? #[0]​ #[1]

I decided to check Al-Reuters' story about Hamas no longer taking Bitcoin donations. Fact check True ✅

PeakD

Even the Terrorists in Hamas Know about Bitcoin

I pray that God will consider your support a form of jihad, leading to great rewards in the afterlife.... by brianoflondon

I got some help to check out the recent Reuters story about Hamas terrorists telling supporters not to send Bitcoin because of fears their supporters can be tracked. The story checks out.

#[0]​ my channel to you force closed from your end last night, any issues at your end? I’m always curious why Force closes like this happen.

My voltage Lightning node force closed 3 important channels last night right in the middle of a Mempool Tsunami.... Pain in the arse.

The Bitcoin maxi world should get behind this campaign.

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#StopThePresses 🛑 (@NYTimesUp) on X

The trees cannot speak for themselves, so we will speak for the trees. We call on the New York Times to end their wasteful ways and to #StopThePr...

Finally got around to re-flashing the SD card on my Umbrel. Seems to have made it a bit more stable. The only reason I need to keep this thing is because my dev environment points to it.

Neither #[0]​ nor #[1]​ asked to receive the rewards from the posts I wrote on Hive last week. Adding it up, it looks like the small fraction I set aside was 12,964 sats. I’ll keep ‘em, thanks. I earned 431,520 sats last week, most of it posting about Nostr 😆

This is a pretty amazing piece of work: The complete collected written works of Satoshi

PeakD

satoshi | PeakD

Recording all of Satoshi

Forward Slash Hell: How One Character Cost Me a Day And you won't believe what ChatGPT said at the end.

PeakD

Forward Slash Hell: How One Character Cost Me a Day | PeakD

ChatGPT can

ChatGPT can't code. But it sure as sugar can explain your mess ups to you once you've figured them out.

PeakD

Forward Slash Hell: How One Character Cost Me a Day | PeakD

ChatGPT can

Why is Microstrategy only accepting up to 10,000 sats on their Lightning Addresses? { "tag": "payRequest", "callback": "https://lightning.microstrategy.com/lnurl/pay/saylor", "minSendable": 1000, "maxSendable": 10000000, "metadata": "[[\"text/plain\",\"Deposit to saylor@microstrategy.com\"],

Anyone else got good ideas for a symbol to put in front of sats? Something that is common? This is my favorite. ṩ LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DOT BELOW AND DOT ABOVE Unicode: U+1E69, UTF-8: E1 B9 A9 ṩ1,512

The Bitcoin Maxi Shitcoin Paradox

The Bitcoin Maxi Shitcoin Paradox (@brianoflondon)

This is a value for value post: see the explanation in the footer. Note: @hivecuba gets 10% of the r...

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The Bitcoin Maxi Shitcoin Paradox doesn't allow its devotees to see how this fundamental aspect of the brilliance of the invention of Bitcoin, can ever apply to anything else, whilst still believing it is the most important invention mankind has ever made.

PeakD

The Bitcoin Maxi Shitcoin Paradox | PeakD

Whenever Bitcoin Maxis throw around the Shitcoin slur about EVERYTHING other than Bitcoin I contemplate this paradox... by brianoflondon

#[0] I just tried to send a bug report about nodeless but the captcha crapped out and dumped what I'd written. Problem with adding v4v.app@v4v.app as a lightning withdrawl address I think because of sat minimums.

Interesting little fact about Nostr (we have a similar side issue on Hive). If you log in with someone else's pub key you can't read their DMs but you can see who they've had conversations with. Keep that in mind when using DMs on Nostr.

Can anyone point me to a decent SVG version of the Lightning Flash that is often used as the logo for Lightning? Or a few options?