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114 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 9 Jun \ parent \ on: Basis of privacy on the Lightning Network lightning
Correct. Wallets could be modified to favor multi-path payments. But single path is somewhat cheaper. Probably faster and more reliable for small payments too. But that's a complex topic that I don't 100% understand.
Shouldn't the people signing prioritize rigorous review and activation planning rather than assigning work to people that don't work for them?
Third party review is required. Not just review from people who have an interest in the outcome.
Finally we can spend our energies on something that worthwhile.
That was the dumbest controversy since full-rbf. Maybe dumber.
Russia's negotiation position is that Ukraine has to give up territory that Russia does not control, as well as drastically reduce the size of the Ukrainian military.
That is very much giving up something. It's straight up suicide really. Russia will obviously rearm and attack again. Just like every other time.
Not even talking about their demands of Ukraine disarmament, which would be suicidal for statehood of Ukraine.
Russia is obviously positioning themselves to attack Ukraine again after rebuilding their military. It's hard. But unfortunately the only good option right now is for Ukraine to fight until they win.
Russia isn't going to change until the current population is dead. Either by old age or military defeat. Or by becoming economically unable to fight.
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A very straightforward and reasonable letter.
If people don't agree they can run something else like Knots. Running Knots won't actually accomplish anything. But no-one is stopping you.
Who cares? Russia claims all kinds of things are red lines. Every time someone shows strength and kills Russians they back down.
Why should Ukraine give up anything to a bunch of psychopathic thugs who have repeatedly broken ceasefires in the past and never had any valid reason for their violence?
This is as absurd as negotiating with a thief on how much they're allowed to take from your store.
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Stacker News commenters are hopelessly disinterested in real news. I'm spending some of my own sats to fix this.
The day prior to Ukraine's attack on Russia's airbases, Russia had launched yet another attack with hundreds of drones at Ukraine. The same as they did two days prior. And three days...
Russia isn't holding anything back. They're they've been trying to devastate Ukraine for years, and failing.
It's pretty obvious what they're doing: pressuring the credit card companies to lower interchange fees. Or at the very least, not raise them further.
Completion is good.
Elections matter.
Like Phoenix, being willing to come back is likely due to the new administration (though new tech would help too).
I had the same experience myself. Except it was in Italy, 10 years ago, and playing football... 70 year old Italian men were better than me...
Actually, maybe the problem wasn't me getting old...
Probably something like half of the military units and other charities accepting donations accept Bitcoin – there's been a lot of problems with companies like PayPal freezing accounts. Also you can buy and sell BTC (and other currencies) AML/KYC free in Ukraine. It's pretty common for things like computer stores to accept stablecoins as payment too.
Note that technically P2Pool is already live: people are still running the first version of P2Pool, and very occasionally it finds blocks. This works because the Bitcoin protocol is backwards compatible: a soft fork doesn't prevent old miners from continuing to mine.
What you're talking about is the new version.
Don't be so confident that renewables are going to fail due to this issue. Grid inertia is a real problem. But spinning generators aren't the only way to get it. With better designs, solar inverters, wind, and batter backup can all provide inertia too. And of course, in some places they're just installing motor-generator flywheels to provide inertia too.
Limiting OP_Return outputs would be a soft fork. Also, an utterly pointless soft fork: you can easily bypass any consensus limit we could reasonably come up with, e.g. with unspendable outputs.
The whole point of OP_Return was to encourage people to use a less harmful, prunable, output format rather that growing the UTXO set.
23 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 5 May \ parent \ on: Spain: €150k fines for cash withdrawals bitcoin
Note that prostitution is legal in Australia.