🚩 🚩 🚩 Project owners labeling their critics as all "haters" and "not a builder". 🟢 🟢 🟢 Project owners thoughtfully and tactfully engaging critics.

The "devil's comet" will reach it's brightest point in our sky right about the same time as the halvening. Coincidence? I think not.

Sometimes people post really stupid stuff on my feed but I love them anyways because I can feel the freedom in their souls. ⛅

So the narrative for this bull market has pretty clearly materialized: ETFs unlocking huge swaths of demand FASB accounting standardization paving way for huge swaths of demand Recent inflation spikes throughout the world ATH in distrust in Govts around the world What does the next epoch/bull market look like? Give me your crystal ball projections.

So dual-funded lightning channels look pretty amazing...? "v1 lightning channels: one side funds a transaction to make an open, funds are all on their side v2 lightning channels (dual-funded): both sides collaborate to make a transaction, funds can be in any amount on either side. it’s basically a mini coinjoin/payjoin onchain for every lightning channel that uses it you can multifundchannels in CLN; if every peer uses v2 opens that will let you build basically your own decentralized coinjoin that results in channel opens 😎 no coordinator, all in one tx add in liquidity ads and you can get multiple inbound channel capacity, again all in one tx with the payment for that liquidity being just more available inbound. it’s a huge game changer on lightning’s onchain footprint splicing builds on this and will let you do even more complicated liquidity movements in one transaction. move liquidity between channels, fund a new channel from an existing one, etc. All in one transaction"

Stacker News

Dual-funding BOLT Merged! \ stacker news ~bitdevs

@TonyGiorgio stacked 10.5k sats posting https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/851 [10 comments]

So the Bank Term Funding Program is expiring in March again I hear. When next regional bank circus?

Don't trust, verify. This is tough advice because our time and energy are limited. Being able to discern where to put your time an energy is the crux of the matter. I admit that I don't know much at all about lightning in spite of being a software developer by trade and a bitcoiner for quite some time. Oddly enough as a software dev, I am not a bottom-up thinker, more of a top-down thinker that looks for disconnects in reputable views and opinions and then tries to prioritize my time from there on what I perceive to be the most fruitful, low-hanging fruit. Recently, I found an account on stacker.news that went hard against everything I have been trained to believe about the lightning ecosystem. This perplexed me deeply as he made a decent amount of sense talking about all of the VC money acting as a corrupting influence on lightning development. This guy was an infrastructure engineer and had very technical grounding in his views. I also sensed, he could possibly be too strong of a personality and maybe got rejected from VC money and is jaded as a result, etc. So now, amidst my massively overflowing plate of things I want to get done, I feel a strong need to deep dive into all of the lightning tech to build out a cohesive mental working view of the various tech. My gut tells me that the lightning network is going to be the next space for "shitcoinery". Big money, big ideas, but poor implementations getting over-marketed, etc. There is a very visceral "builders culture" on nostr, and I think it's good but needs to be balanced and refined by embracing deep critique of solutions. Not just on a superficial low level code level, but on a high level purpose and architecture level. The projects that do this will attract my attention, usage, and potentially even my development time.