I should make an emoji pack for #ditto

blockchains scale. when you fill up a blockchain, you make another one. this is what happens naturally and it will always happen. this is the market's preferred method of making more room for transactions and this has not changed for over a decade. you're missing an opportunity because most blockchains when they are created are not denominated in BTC. most blockchains do not pay bitcoin miners (neither does cashu). most blockchains are completely independent and isolated from each other. the have names like "monero" and they completely displace bitcoin in the darknet marketplaces and make you seethe and tell lies behind a keyboard. but this is all avoidable. bitcoin currently lacks the native primitives required to connect multiple blockchains together, protect them all at the same time, and harvest all their fee revenue. at best, bitcoin can only emulate this via federations. some people think that will be good enough, others want to try hashrate escrows or covenant opcodes. then we have you, making centralized garbage which doesn't sustain the bitcoin miners. cashu has no meaningful adoption. View quoted note →

lightning advocacy == trusted third party apologia they almost never admit lightning doesn't scale users without needing trusted third parties

I have no idea how normal people can tolerate legal streaming. I have seen people use a D-pad on their smart tv remote to spell the name of a show or movie on an alphabetical keyboard. they will repeat this process in four separate subscription apps, then completely give up and switch to flipping through slop suggestions. it's fucking horrible. I wouldn't consume media legally even if I had unlimited funds.

"hey guys I forked nostrudel and hardcoded support for litecoin and eddie izzard coin" - don't do this. just make a standard

nostr doesn't have a good enough replacement for the forum. we just have stacker news. it's too focused on earning money and being bitcoin branded and the UX smells like reddit. I hate stacker news. it's totally cringe. I want a UX closer to xenforo or imageboards. and I want it so that anyone can choose to be a moderator of a forum and anyone can ignore the moderator's actions if they do a bad job. we have "groups" in some clients but the UX is all over the place and smells too much like microblogging.

@mister_monster @Hanshan you tricked me into trying amethyst. I hated it. why did you trick me?

I'm not buying drivechains. Paul's design lets miners steal from sidechains, explicitly. He makes social assumptions that they will not. He ensures that if they tried it will take 3-6 months, and he makes more social assumptions that the community will magically coordinate during this window to stop the theft. But the community is so uncoordinated it can no longer tie its own shoes. The "community" is regulated institutions and Michael Saylor. Paul already knows this. If he didn't already know this, he would not have given up and done his own fork. This whole story doesn't add up. On "lightning bad" and "why sidechains," Paul is right. On "how sidechains," he's probably wrong. This solution seems equally as lazy as federations.

why onchain zaps? in bitcoin's infancy people didn't know about scaling and the police didn't look at anything. the onchain UX was quite good and it didn't need any complexity or trusted third parties. we now have scaling and privacy issues and some of you fruitcakes decided the only answer was to reintroduce trusted third parties and throw the original UX in the trash. and now it comes as a surprise that some people value elements of the original UX more than they value dicking around on this ever growing mountain of complexity. time spent on lightning is a waste. cashu, spark, arkade, liquid boltz swaps, LSP businesses?? it's like you're in a competition with ethereum to make the most complex shit imaginable. nobody needs or wants trusted third parties or complexity. stop this nonsense.

things bitcoin doesn't fix >single motherhood >hemorrhoids >nostr