An invention while I was fucking around with AI. Let's bring back #duels!! I challenge Jameson Lopp lol! #BitcoinLightningDuel ## **🔥 The Bitcoin Lightning Duel (BLD) 🔥** **A high-stakes, skill-based, meme-fueled showdown for Bitcoin anarchists.** #### **📜 Rules:** 1. **The Stake:** - Both duelists **pre-pay half the prize** (e.g., 0.0005 BTC each) to a **neutral Lightning escrow** (or, for extra trustlessness, a **2-of-3 multisig onchain**—optional for high rollers). - The **total prize** (0.001 BTC) goes to the winner. 2. **The Gun:** - A **cryptographic challenge** (e.g., solve a hash, sign a message with the correct answer to a puzzle, or reply fastest to a nostr event). - First to **"fire"** (solve the challenge) **triggers the escrow** to zap the full prize to their Lightning node. 3. **The Stream:** - **Live on nostr** with a **Zapwall Lightning invoice**—spectators zap to watch (or it could be a free stream with zaps to donate to the pot) and **a cut goes to the winner**. - **Zap reactions** = real-time cheers/boos. 4. **The Humiliation:** - Loser’s defeat is **immortalized in a nostr event** (e.g., "💀 [Loser] got rekt by [Winner] in the BLD—zap to mock them 💀"). - **Optional "Double Tap"**: If the winner dominates in a rematch, the loser must **burn 10% of a bounty** to a "Fuck the State" address. 5. **The Twist:** - **"Russian Roulette Mode"**: Random difficulty—sometimes easy, sometimes *impossible*—to keep it spicy. --- ### **🎯 Why It’s Perfect:** ✅ **Skill > Luck** (fastest solver wins). ✅ **Positive-Sum**: Winner gets prize + the zap pot. ✅ **No Trust Needed**: Lightning escrow enforces payouts. ✅ **Pure Chaos**: Humiliation, memes, and Bitcoin—what more could you want?