The fewer lightning channels I have the simpler and more enjoyable life becomes.

My brit-who-has-been-living-in-north-america-for-a-while accent keeps making people think I'm Australian. Gonna need active measures.

Lightning is great when it works - which is never.

Someone please send me an invoice for 100 sats

I have a script to convert sats to dollars. You'd be amazed at how often I have to use this.

Everyone's new favorite bitcoiner:

I'm here in Miami - heading to TGFB.com where I'll be on two panels. Today discussing potential issues with bitcoin, tomorrow a higher level chat on the general state of the freedom movement. I'll be setting up a Start9 booth and we have servers to sell at the most discounted you'll ever find them. Come say hi!

Bitcoin cash < Bitcoin cache (lightning network).

Bitcoin is way better defended against genius adversaries than it is against idiots. Idiots will be the death of it.

Un-normalize using msats in lightning client logs without commas or any kind of readable formatting.

My thoughts on the current state of the bitcoin network/ecosystem:

When we argued for small blocks we cited the need for a fee market. Approximately 0% of us were referring to the blockchain being filled up with nonsense which is now being celebrated as us getting what we intended.

Bitcoin's in the worst shape I've seen it in a long time.

So I select "Close channel" and your silly interface doesn't allow me to manually input the fees - now I have a perma-stuck transaction that I'm going to have to manually re-broadcast when/if fees ever drop down to 4 sats/vb or figure out CPFP again.

What programming language do Mexicans use? Si++

Francis has been making the point really well over in Twitter land. We do plenty of filtering out nonsense from bitcoin's blockchain. Arbitrary data storage is obviously spam and should be treated as such wherever possible and it doesn't violate precedent. Obviously we want a fee market but the fee market should be based on what's native to bitcoin, not nonsense shitcoin fads. That's horrible for incentives.

Brain is fried from feeding prompts into chatGPT all day for shell scripts and typescript code. I'm glad I put off learning JS so long as GPT is making it possible to learn it really efficiently.

If you ever, for any reason whatsoever, use a CBDC you are laying bricks of an inescapable prison for yourself and everyone else. You cannot afford to be this ignorant.