No, Lightning is not dead. But let this be a wake-up call that we should not put all our eggs in one basket. We need to explore alternative scaling ideas. Therefore I am supportive of the covenants softfork and the OP_CAT proposal, which help many Layer 2s.

GitHub

Covenant tools softfork by jamesob · Pull Request #28550 · bitcoin/bitcoin

Conceptual discussion here: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/covenant-tools-softfork/98 This draft is a patch that activates the consensus changes outl...

Mobile LN nodes and wallets rock!

People still look at the Bitcoin price?

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A good rule of thumb is DON’T BREAK USER SPACE. This is something Linus Torvalds constantly repeats regarding the Linux kernel development.

⚡️ hampus@blixtwallet.com This Lightning Address is special. When you pay to it, my Lightning Box solution will forward the request to the phone, where Blixt Wallet respond with an invoice. This is the first time a self-custodial LN wallet supports Lightning Address. This is part of my on-going work to support receiving via Lightning Address for mobile self-custodial wallets.

GitHub

GitHub - hsjoberg/lightning-box: A trust-minimized payment inbox for Lightning Addresses

A trust-minimized payment inbox for Lightning Addresses - hsjoberg/lightning-box

Android supports foreground services, meaning that Blixt Wallet can stay online all the time to answer incoming requests (no effect on battery). Though the normal mode of operation for Lightning Box is that it'll take the payment on behalf of the user and then next time the user opens wallet, it will auto-withdraw from the Box, thanks to LNURL-withdraw. But if the wallet is online already, it can just forward the request.

When Satoshi first released Bitcoin, he was out to fix the Byzantime Generals Problem and he did that by PoW and a public ledger (the blockchain). But he put out an imperfect protocol. It's not practically possible to fix everything all at once. The first comment about Bitcoin by another person was about its problematic relationship with scaling. Therefore the idea that Bitcoin is perfect “just the way it is” is a flawed concept. We should strive to improve bitcoin by adding technology that helps for scaling, privacy and other things. Bitcoin is not perfect.

In the end, all scaling to the Bitcoin mainchain has to come down to "put multiple people on the same UTXO". This is how we achieve mass scaling. My favorite solution for this is Drivechains BIP300/301 + an interoperable Lightning Network. What is your favorite solution?

Yippee! Blixt Wallet v0.6.4 has been released. 🟡 Get it while it's hot on Google Play Store and TestFlight. It's a smaller release with some good fixes, while we're working on the special v0.6.9-420 release, coming soon. 😎

GitHub

Release v0.6.4 · smolcars/blixt-wallet

Added the ability to restore with passphrase (25th word) Add the ability to change language on the welcome screen Fixed notifications not working o...

I'm softening up a bit about Ordinals and Inscriptions. I think it's good that we're beating Ethereum and the rest of the shitcoins at their own game. Now these people are flocking en masse to Twitter Spaces about Ordinals and are super-excited. But they have to use Bitcoin lol. But I still think that the witness discount is atrocious and abusive and I've a firm understanding about how NFTs are being pumped up artificially by a small group of elites (in order words, don't buy expensive NFTs!).