ok im trying to get back into bitcoin content posting but not really sure what people want to read at the moment. what’s one thing i could talk about wrt bitcoin technicals that you’d want to hear about?
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maybe that’s me too 🤔
Separate the kernel!
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I'd like deeper dives in nix-bitcoin. like maybe pick a project it doesn't support yet, like Datum, and demonstrate creating a package and module to support it.
Maybe not your exact wheelhouse but the most riveting Bitcoin content I've been consuming lately is @Super Testnet and his rhetoric on lighting privacy.
Would love more about that topic in general.
I'm worn out talking about soft forks and scaling.
Maybe an update on blinded paths progress or other lightning specific progress.
ok yeah retvrn to basics (private txs)
love this idea
write about what you know and the zaps will flow
I made that up just now
Have you been following Bisq 2 at all?
Whatever ignites your passion and interest the most, that’s what I want to hear about. Dampen the urge to cater to the audience, and maybe sometimes write what you would most wish to read. 😊
Current yields among lightning nodes.
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Some interesting things you can try with a small amount of bitcoin and some newer protocol features.
I would add payjoins in here too
I’d love to see better analysis done on the bitcoin treasury companies. Some fundamental analysis to better understand which one will actually be able to succeed in the long run
Talk about Knots
How lightning compares to early internet architecture as it began to scale.
I’m going to second that. I love nix-bitcoin, but if I have to stray from the default config, I gotta ask for help.
owning bitcoin does not mean you get to fall asleep at the wheel of business fundamentals (cashflow, cashflow, cashflow)
Threats from quantum and what we can be doing now to prepare for that potential reality with BIPs, transactions etc.
Heat generation for this winter..Lets get a million heaters going out there, all mining on Ocean.
It’s like a river of information out there and trying to swim upstream ain’t easy.
Maybe talk about where you have learned the best info and how to vet it?
Base58 Taproot plz
The matrix support channel is very helpful.
#general:nixbitcoin.org
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We’d rather just hear about what has your attention at the moment.
Time locks and threshold signature schemes please
Maybe feasability for coinjoins or atomic swaps or multicustodian accounts swaps or similar to look more or less like a standard transaction when it finally touches mainchain?
Woah! Youre finally zappable...but, its a 100sat minimum. My current default is 39sats which i may move up to 88sats later this year but that still wouldnt make the cut i guess.
Most of all, I want to hear why whatever you choose to write about is hard. Why don’t we have p2p mining pools that work well? Why is self custodial lightning hard? Why is lightning liquidity hard? Why are covenants without more op codes hard? Why is privacy hard?
We have a lot of content that’s like “it’ll be amazing when this-cool-thing-thats-theoretical-and-a-decade-away exists” and “this is exactly how this thing works.” I want to know what’s in the way between where we are now and where we want to go.
Write about what Bitcoiners need to attack - not how, but what and why. Layout the unsolved problems without ramming a pet solution down my throat.
Something like this simple LN newsletter, with an every day pill.
The Simple Lightning Newsletter
The Simple Lightning Newsletter
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I'd like to see a commented sample implementation of funding/commitment TXs that implement LN symmetry, so I can understand exactly HOW OP_CTV, OP_CSFS, OP_CAT or whatever actually enable LN symmetry.
If the covenants go well and L2 becomes the main method of remittance, how will L1 blocks fill up with TXs?
It is! I’ve been in there a few times.
Nuts and the technicals behind the Cashu protocol.
Stratum, etc.
the path to becoming a bitcoin dev
I still struggle with how you can generate a new bitcoin receive address for every transaction, but yet you can see your full account balance when you go to a blockchain explorer. Maybe you could do a short video on that? Hope my description makes sense.
yep totally understand the question. this is a really good one!
Why Bitcoin Difficulty Adjustment Is the Most Underrated Feature in Monetary History
We'd love to read more about the underpinning mechanisms of #Payjoin and the impacts of using it in our transactions 😊.
How about telling about what you're personally learning?
core vs knots.
what are planned talks for berlin?
I think the all examples you give are "technically" ready and can be used somehow. Therefore, the "hard" part seems to be that they are high learning costs, reckless, or not usable by the masses.
Recently, I have come to believe that since Wall Street and Silicon Valley will take care of penetrating the masses, it is important for Bitcoiners to keep to stick to telelogical and ontological problem setting, such as non-custodial, decentralization, and privacy, and not focus on the fact that it may be a little difficult to use or that the masses are not using it.
That being said, I understand that there are problems in daily life and business growth and it's getting closer to a something of noblesse oblige. If the BTC price crashes, I may not be able to say this.
To my point, why are learning costs high? Are we saying these problems are categorically UX-hard (in the vein of computational complexity theory)? I'd love to see some formalization of that. I think "bitcoin is good enough, retail is lazy/dumb" might be true, but without probing how easy bitcoin can possibly get, it's equivalent to folding in texas hold'em before we've seen the flop imo.
I think i got your point, probably. But I'd say that "what Bitcoiners need to attack" is kind of "UX-hard" is also rightーChallenge to make it usable on a daily basis while keeping the important principles.
Another suggestion would be to talk about why you should generate a new receive address for every transaction and explaining why reusing addresses is not preferred.
I think these things are hard because self-hosting is hard. Umbrel is probably state of the art on the easy scale but still no normie would touch it