Happy Sat-urday Stackers,
Lightning channels are a decent metaphor for relationships if you think about it. It's a binding agreement with a counter-party that ideally is dual-funded, maintains its balance, and is hopefully never force closed.
Open up a big channel to your heart this weekend!
Upcoming AMA: We haven't scheduled an AMA for the upcoming week yet. When I have one I'll share it on SN and the Stacker News Twitter account.

Top Posts

  1. @lnvisualizer made a cool Lightning Network visualizer. You can filter the graph by things like channel count, fee rate, capacity. It's open source and pretty nifty.
  2. This is somewhat old, misrepesented news but someone posted a link to a Tweet announcing, "Panama passed a law giving #Bitcoin legal status and zero capital gains tax." AFAIK it hasn't passed and still needs to be signed by El Presidente. It's also not a legal tender law, but it does give Bitcoin a legal tender-like tax status.
  3. BTCSessions did a tutorial on one of my most used Bitcoin products, Zeus. Zeus is a mobile Lightning wallet and channel manager backed by a remote node you control.
  4. Jestopher, Co-founder of Amboss, the goto Lightning explorer, did an AMA. The prospect of earning 2+% APY non-custodial yield on Bitcoin through their channel marketplace, Magma, got a lot of users talking. Peep the AMA.
  5. sethforprivacy, host of the privacy-focused Opt Out podcast and Monero proponent, has been exploring Lightning and Stacker News recently. He asks SN for tips/tricks for gaining "good enough" receive privacy on Lightning while having a public routing node.

Top Jobs

  1. PHP Laravel Backend Engineer \ Madali Ventures \ Remote
  2. Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) \ NOAH \ London or Remote
  3. Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) \ Strike \ Remote
  4. Golang Developer \ NOAH.COM \ Remote
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