And you know what? That's on me for continually calling any Bitcoin transaction a "payment" as a generalization even when I mean inter-wallet transfer or channel open and close.

I mean yes, but that's not really what this is about. People were complaining mostly for the on-chain cost to withdraw to self custody.

More point I was trying to make it is that its also about the opening and closing cost of lightning channels. When people go to close a lightning channel they just pearl clutch "Oh the humanity these fees are so high!" and the money saved from doing all those lightning transactions are just looked over.

So I was just pointing out that people need to be tricked into things sometimes. Like having part of your lightning fee go to an internal fund for the channel closing fee instead of paying the whole channel closing fee all at once and going "Whoa so high!"

TBH, I'm kinda at a point where I'm like "this is unsafe without a soft fork, but let's implement it anyway and tell users to pray and give them information about the soft fork instead of being scared to touch it at all" lol.

Um... Does it spend my bitcoin too or is that just the views that it backs up?

Darth is just trying to save you some headache. Encourages private nodes instead of routing nodes: https://blixtwallet.github.io/features

And nothing depends on me either, but knowing there's another ack on the network is another step towards confidence about activation.

(I don't expect CTV to activate within 5 years BTW)

You know the funniest thing, I went through your post history because I thought you might just a CTV hater for some reason, but you and I have about the same mindset.

You should learn about CTV more. A lot of people are looking at making a lot of lightning network improvements with it.

Unfortunately CTV is politically unpopular because it's author has a very disagreeable personality. To compensate for that problem, I've just been putting whatever weight I can put behind it (which is basically nothing lol)

Seriously, it's a proposal that can stand on its own merits if you give it the chance to explain itself. It's also upgradable which is something about it that gets over looked a lot. It's very restricted, so if you felt it should be less restricted, instead of another proposal, an CTV upgrade is something that could be considered instead.

My default zap amount is 300 SATs and I like covenant posts. (Especially when they have a demo repo in them)

Why do you think it's sus?

No coinsreporter, CTV is only for shitcoiners and devs don't even want it don't you know?

What's this? https://github.com/stutxo/op_ctv_payment_pool

"Pools are really great for a number of reasons. In particular, Payment Pools are fantastic for Scalability since they mean 1 utxo can serve many masters, and also each txn only requires one signature to make a batched payment from a group. Payment Pools are kinda a killer version of a coin-join where you roll the funds from coinjoin to coinjoin automatically, giving you great privacy."

Ewww coinjoining! I keep all my Bitcoin with an ETF so I don't use this anyway. Don't you know not everyone can own Bitcoin anyway because its not divisible past the sat denomination?

/s

Thanks for the share lol

If you start getting antsy for... Alternative options, you could get a directional antenna and point that to a receiver (or a chain of receivers and transmitters) to a family member or friend's house.

Given you can still text, meshtastic is not a solution here. You're probably looking for video streaming right?

Could leech off of a public library and download enough entertainment to keep you busy for a while.

There's this thing called a "Virtual mailbox". It's a snail mail address with a company that scans your mail in for you. Ever since my Alt-Net series I have thought of setting one up for people to submit web requests to and then I would mail the response from the Internet server they were trying to reach. I haven't because I don't know if anyone would care to use it, but anytime I experience internet issues I think about how nice it would be to mail in a mass video download request (from YouTube or something)

ROSS DON'T DO IT, YOU JUST GOT OUT!!!

Siggy! Why are you waiting on the third post? My last post was post 5!

I made it very easily searchable by calling it "Altnet" as well. That series was one of the ones that inspired me to post less ironically. I wanted to learn more, build more, make the DTN GUI stack of dreams. But I have a long way to go and that isn't even what I'm working on right now lol. I'm just trying to get a simple hello world GUI working with the nix package manager.

What's the best wine for someone who's favorite liquors are the sweet ones (rum, soju, (plum wine doesn't count if you don't make it lol)

Did you ever get a lightning wallet? Last time I bought from you, I had to send on-chain lol.

If so, what are you using?

This video brings up the problem of open source software changing licenses to proprietary ones making FOSS not a safe haven for artists looking to use software they won't later lose access to.

So I pointed out that while this is a problem for FOSS, its not an issue for Libre software which uses the GPL as the GPL restricts that from happening.

You didn't just say Bitcoin has no unit smaller than sats, you are also saying you will do what you can to keep it that way. You will make sure Bitcoin doesn't scale.

So to you, Bitcoin is about propping up a new oligarchy. Not freedom, not hope for the future, not self sovereignty, just a few million elite and billions of servants who can pick between millions of masters.

I may very well create my own shitcoin, if this becomes true and a decade of nothing to change it follows.

When my node activates the next soft fork, I will not blink at the knowledge that OP is not joining us.

I'm getting second hand embarrassment reading this article.

"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0"

Interesting. I logged into my gmail with the NixOS build of librewolf and got a windows 10 sign in alert.