Thanks, thats really helpful!

Thanks for replying, so in your opinion would a lightning faucet count as a money transmitter? So user A adds a reward and some user claims it.

@koob just curious why reward sats for territory owners are not cowboy credits? Aren't you in custody of territory owner's money and therefore hitting the money transmitter issues?

Why not? Imagine a country with 100 people, 50 are land owners. Each year they pay 10,000 in land tax. That's 500,000 in the communal pot and a UBI of 5,000 for everyone.

Taxing land/property. Some kind of Georgism tax combined with UBI and a min government. No one starves, there's police/army and someone fixes the potholes :D

Ah okay, thanks for the explanation 😊

Awesome write up! How does double spending work? If I have a token, what stops me from giving it to two people?

No as I couldn't get it to work quite right. I also wanted to have key cords and weird stuff. I used libevdev

I couldn't get xkb to work so plugged in directly to evdev to intercept keys and remap then so id get consistency between Linux and macos on all apps

For the sake of argument, let's say there was a way for humans to have ids on the internet. Maybe there would be human only social networks?

Yes that's what I'm thinking too. I can't think of a good way to distinguish between users and ai/bots. Will be interesting to see how the web develops when so much can be generated by ai

Do you think that will change with AI?

Interesting post, how do you suggest we solve this problem? Im not fond of using government ids or worldcoin type solutions

Yep I think that locks of liquidity

Yes that's true, was there something about trampoline payment relays? Duno how that worked out, I think eclair implemented it

I think I agree. However, up until recently, I felt like those limitations would get ironed out. I feel like the mood has changed in the last few months?

In terms of details, I believe opening channels was a limitation which could eventually be solved with channel factories. Another was initial inbound liquidity for new users which LSPs was meant to alleviate. Another was being online which watchtowers was meant to help with. What other limitations are there?

What about lightning and channel factories?

I'm confused, isn't lightning meant to be the scalability solution?

My setup for each project:

Pros: lightweight, I run full gui apps/web servers/dbs in there, everything is in a folder, can just delete it all and reinstall easily, no docker/kubernetes complexity

Cons: systemd-nspawn so no Mac support which is like 80% of Devs

Well personally I like working on making use of micropayments. I guess it depends on your skills and interests. Maybe it could be on the hardware side and doing some mining. Maybe you could build a guide on using bitcoin to buy real estate. Maybe you care about custody of bitcoin. Maybe you care about scaling bitcoin and could work on lightning factories or other L2 ideas.

Apart from bitcoin, I'd say space would be my top choice. New land and resources