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I want to dig into this more, but at first look, it seems strange. Why would a self custodial lightning app rely on a 3rd party API? It seems that this service is trying to fill a hole in the market that maybe won’t exist for much longer. I’m still thinking most self-custodial lightning apps for plebs will disappear. Instead, lightning will just be used by custodians, exchanges and federations. We, the plebs, will just be using ecash soon. Dunno, maybe I’m missing something? View quoted note →
Long and meandering but I found the premise interesting. TLDR: the pyramids show signs of sea water damage from a ~600 ft flood thousands of years ago.
I haven’t dug into this discussion but it strikes me that if we’re having it then bitcoin core is too centralized and powerful. If the software were sufficiently decentralized then it wouldn’t matter what 3 devs did, would it? View quoted note →
We’ve been watching the thesis of the Sovereign Individual play out as the world transitions from the centralized industrial age to the decentralized Information Age. One of the predictions is that the large nations, like the 🇺🇸, would fragment. The trigger could be anything but I’ve always suspected it would be a financial crisis, probably over the federal government plundering the states, an echo of the original Tea Party. I’ve been increasingly seeing signposts like this 👇- financial disputes between the states and federal government. In addition to issues like the border dispute, you can also see how blue states are going to need bailouts soon for their mismanaged pensions and massive state debts. Will the red states pay? Will be interesting to see how this plays out.
I’ve been seeing a few fund managers do this now. Add BTC to their other bond and equity funds to goose returns by taking advantage of BTC’s incredible Sharpe ratio. BTC burrowing itself deeper into the financial system. Game theory at work. Limited supply so always advantageous to acquire BTC before others do. View quoted note →