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Core is largely maintained by salaried developers, people that work on it for a paycheck, not because they love it or even "get it". They are recruited and operationalized.
These salaries are paid by a few NGOs, Spiral and Chaincode notably, others perhaps even some undisclosed.
These are front organizations for well financed interests, like banks, intelligence agencies, private equity, and so on.
Bitcoin Core is to Bitcoin as the World Health Organization is to health.
All devs should work for free always. Food and shelter are overrated, amirite?
'more people should be using Bitcoin in the most direct way possible'
Agree 100% and using it here on Stacker News via LN is a great option to support and build the protocol stornger.
The OP does not even show attached wallets - seems like hes all talk and no walk.
Aren't you a CoinOS user?
Get your own house in order.
I do not claim to be technically expert but do know that almost every post, comment and zap I perform here is transacted via the LN and thus supports the LN and the sats saturation of the SNs economy.
By attaching LN wallets SNs users maximise the use of sats and LN in their transactions.
Those without attached wallets are not doing that.
There are many ordinary folk like me here who lack the technical proficiency to run nodes and self custody on LN at least yet, but they support the network and protocol as best they can.
What is really strange is the OP who clearly knows all the technical jargon but who cannot seem to bother attaching and showing a LN wallet.
Coinos are soon introducing self custody option- they can achieve this level of technical development because users like me use them everyday here on SNs and elsewhere and they glean the transaction fees and liquidity that provides.
At the same time Bit Talk No Walk hypocrits like @Darthcoin moan its too hard to use LN there on SNs - 'its too hard on my nodes' and so @Darthcoin uses CC shitcoins 'because they always work'.
What a useless technocrat and hypocrit.
So much for him 'living on The Bitcoin Standard' what a joke.
Or do you think we should wait until self custody wallets and self running nodes is something everyone can easily do before actually starting to use Bitcoin everyday?
do not claim to be technically expert
Some of the dumbest people here (or anywhere) have figured it out, it just means you wont show PoW.
The irony is you're deranged over CC's, while yourself using CoinOS Credits. Same Same.
Coinos are soon introducing self custody option
I recall maybe seeing some fake L2 garbage but not self-custody for LN.
Fine if you want that, but it's the same as CCs. Another credit with someone using LN because you're too lazy or inept.
do you think we should wait until self custody wallets
I made a node you can set up in under a minute and share with friends/family to be your own CoinOS.
Literally can't get simpler, copy paste one line in, another out.
I timed it to a live audience at a conference, 59 seconds.
It's even the easiest to pair with SN.
@Darthcoin
Darth's proof of work is not in question, he's done as much for the network as anyone.
You have put in zero effort to even attempt using LN however, seems you are the hypocrit.
Justin, in all fairness, a lightning pub is a way to give CCs to friends and family. If something goes wrong, they will blame the pub owner for losing those. Your node is indeed very easy to install, but one must be an IT expert for not to fuck up running it. ))
I am using sats.
People without attached wallets are much more often not.
Attaching a LN wallet ensures and shows that you are using the LN for transactions here on SNs as much as is reasonably practical.
People who do not bother attaching and showing LN wallets attached are not...they are instead debasing the sats saturation of the SN economy with CC shitcoins
You seem to think we must wait until everyone can manage a self custody LN wallet and nodes before we can all use LN everyday for SNs.
That is absurd and defeatist nonsense.
Only by using the LN can it grow stronger.
I am using sats despite my low technical knowledge- if I can do it anyone can- but elitist arrogant hypocrit cunts like @Darthcoin are not.
Do you even know who he really is?
Nobody does except his sock puppets.
What we do know is that state surveillance agencies will be watching and monitoring any group who voice anti establishment opinions and that they will want to infiltrate such groups and understand the technical systems such groups are developing.
@Darthcoin fits perfectly the posture such infiltrator cunts would present.
No you're not using sats. Your using API credits.
Larping hypocrite.
No need to wait, I gave you the resource to run a node in one minute.
Illiterate, lazy, hypocrite.
You're not an LN user, but we know Darth is.
No there is no proof @Darth is using LN in fact he has admitted he prefers using C/Cs because 'they always work'.
He pointedly refuses to attach and use LN here on SNs- this has been stated by him repeatedly.
I am using LN and sats P2P which any recipient can immediately use from their LN wallet whether it is non or self custodial.
You are talking shit to assert otherwise...probably another @DarthCoin sock puppet.
My transactions here occur over the LN as much as is reasonably possible - @DarthCoin s transactions don't.
We've seen his docs and debug logs, he's got proofs.
Enjoy your Coinos credits, hypocrite.
more people should be using Bitcoin in the most direct way possible.
Thanks for this phrase. It is what I was stretching for and failing to come up with. I have always had the sense that the less stuff that sits between me and bitcoin, the better. I figured if I was going to use a wallet that still made calls to Bitcoin Core, I might as well use Bitcoin Core.
Exactly, everything beyond Bitcoin is additional surface risk... You depend on Bitcoin, the OS under it, and then anything over top of it... Over the top introduces new variables.
The QT interface is of course still over the RPC, but the case is the Bitcoin repo has the maximum number of eyes on it vs anything in the stack beyond it.
QT also doesn't support seed phrases, which have been responsible for more lost and stolen coin than anything, so users are automatically in better position by using QT by default.
100%
'more people should be using Bitcoin in the most direct way possible'
But you @Scoresby do not have and show attached LN wallet here on Stacker News.
How can content consumers, the lifeblood of Stacker News economic model take you seriously when you are stubbornly refusing to use and show you are using LN here?
Guess I'll need to keep copy pasting the facts and context that you cannot refute so that maybe one day you might get it...or so that at least your blatant hypocrisy is highlighted.
What is Stacker News?
It is a social media platform intentionally created to enable a P2P V4V BTC denominated community.
Originally Stacker News (SN) custodyed sats on behalf of participants but the threat of government regulatory prosecution on the pretext of money transmitter forced a move away from the custody of sats by the platform to the platform enabling participants to send sats via their wallets.
To achieve this participants need to attach wallets to both send and receive sats.
Where participants do not or cannot attach LN wallets transactions will often default to Cowboy Credits.
This change was a compromise forced by the threat of government prosecution.
The difficulty of attaching both sending and receiving wallets is moderate- it takes some effort and newbie or non tech people may struggle with it, but most competent Bitcoiners can succeed in attaching wallets and thus enabling sats denominated P2P transactions.
But a number of Stackers have chosen not to attach wallets- in particular sending wallets which enable you to send sats into the SN community.
Very few have attached just a sending wallet- many have attach just a receiving wallet.
Those who only attach a receiving wallet can receive sats from others but cannot send sats into the community. They may feel that as content providers they have no need or obligation to send sats into and within the SN community. I disagree.
Where these receive but not send (horse but no gun) Stackers proclaim to be Bitcoiners but refuse to enable a sending wallet they are demonstrably hypocrits. They claim they want to build and grow the BTC LN MoE network but they cannot be bothered contributing toward that growth by attaching a sending wallet and demonstrating they are not just talking, but are also walking and supporting a sats denominated platform.
If we do not use the LN wherever and whenever we can it will not grow and develop.
Some claim it is too hard to attach wallets- its too hard on their self custody nodes or wallets- this just highlights how much work the LN still needs before it is capable of anything approaching 100% reliable MoE capability.
But the best way to grow and strengthen the LN is it use it – despite its remaining flaws and glitches.
When wallets are supported by people using them they receives transaction fees and can develop liquidity and systems further.
When LN wallets are not used the LN decays- it does not have the usage and fees income to grow.
So when self proclaimed advocates for BTC and LN refuse to attach wallets (especially sending wallets) I see hypocrit.
I will continue to see hypocrit until and unless someone can explain why I should not.
Calling me a Nazi, trolling and making fun of me crudely seeking to avoid the issues I raise will not stop me from asking why are you claiming to be a Bitcoiner but refusing to attach wallets and use the LN here where we can help it grow.
Now some are deliberately concealing their wallet status, as if this is about a right to privacy.
Concealing your wallet status means nobody else can verify whether or not you are serious about using BTC LN, or whether you are just an all talk no walk hypocrit.
Do not trust- verify.
What about this fundamental principle do they not understand?
And then they talk about 'content' being more important than whether or not you have attached wallets - in this context the intentional lack of attached wallets undermines your credibility as your actions do not match your words.
Your submitted content may be great, but you as someone claiming to be a serious Bitcoiner are undermining your credibility and the credibility of your content by being a hypocrit.
Your content, is tainted by your verifiable hypocrisy.
SNs needs both good content providers and those who pay for that content if it is succeed.
I am more in the latter group than the former but both are required overall or the model does not work.
So as a net contributor of sats and thus a net consumer of content I object where content providers refuse to engage in the P2P V4V ethos by refusing to attach both sending and receiving wallets and I will both withhold my contribution of sats and sometimes downvote in response.
V4V needs to work reciprocally or it will not work at all.
The content providers need net sats contributors/content consumers who send sats into the platform, or the entire platform fails.
On the one hand, this is retarded, more people should be using Bitcoin in the most direct way possible... and that's a native UI. It speaks to the dysfunctional priorities and NGO capture of Core that the users are an afterthought.
On the other hand, dropping it removes a reason for users to run Core, and is a step towards librarification that undermines the squatting on its legacy to hijack its distribution.
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