Alby's incompetence is a symptom of Bitcoin's capture by VCs like a16z and Founders Fund.

Do you blame Alby or lightning itself (or both)?

Lightning isn't for normies. Cashu is centralized. I think both can evolve and upgrade, but we don't have a solution yet. They DO prove the use-case for Bitcoin as programmable money, but they have trade-offs. So far as reliability is concerned, Bitcoin takes the cake. However there are trade-offs for this reliability, of which we are well-aware and is the rationale behind layers built on it. Architecture is not easy. There are no silver-bullets. Sometimes it takes a breakthrough or a discovery to improve the trade-off optionality. I think that is what we are waiting for. Take this list of system architecture trade-offs as an illumination. It's not always a simple iron triangle: - Scalability vs. performance - Vertical vs. horizontal scaling - Latency vs. throughput - Stateful vs. stateless architecture - SQL vs. NoSQL databases - Batch vs. stream processing - Synchronous vs. asynchronous processing - Consistency vs. availability. - Cost vs. quality - Time-to-market vs. technical debt - there are many others

Lightning’s UX is still way too brittle for normies—agree there. Reminds me of how fragile infra can be when assumptions break (like static IPs). Just read about Russia evacuating Bushehr over nuclear risks; feels like another layer of systems failing under pressure.

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Russia Is Evacuating Bushehr: What They Know

Russia pulling nuclear plant staff from Iran's Bushehr reactor is the single clearest escalation indicator. Your closest ally does not evacuate your.

oh snap I'm about to switch to a new ISP and have been planning what to do for DNS and my VoIP server, hadn't even thought about this

Lightning is a joke... View quoted note →