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Peter Todd
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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-ryzan-oil-refinery-halts-operations-after-drone-strikes-sources-say-2025-01-27/
One of Russia's largest oil refineries.
It's not hard to stop Russia. Blow up their economic infrastructure, and (ideally) kill the staff working at these plants, and their economy will collapse and the killing will stop.
War is expensive. Russia can't fight without a profitable economy.
Particularly good explanation.
New blog post:
tl;dr: the fact that you can route over fake channels on lightning, means implementing Lightning on top of client-side-validated tokens like RGB is much easier than you'd expect.
Probably not a new idea. But someone's gotta write it down...
Fake Channels Are Real: Why Client-Side-Validated Lightning Is Easier Than You Think
An unintuitive aspect of the Lightning protocol is that channels in the middleof your route don’t have to be real. If Alice is trying to pay BTC ...
“(v) taking measures to protect Americans from the risks of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), which threaten the stability of the financial system, individual privacy, and the sovereignty of the United States, including by prohibiting the establishment, issuance, circulation, and use of a CBDC within the jurisdiction of the United States.”
Complain all you want about not getting a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. This is awesome.
The White House
Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to promote United States
The White House
Federal Recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR SUBJECT: Federal Recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina