Maybe it dovetails into The Age of Reason. With the full pursuit of scientific measurement, analysis and digital facsimile of every human minuture within our environment.

Maybe a shame that the myriad potentials of technology is exploited to manage us collectively, and not employed individually to manage ourselves or our collectives.

I'm trying to imagine that after the wheel was created, people were sat besides themselves in confusion as horses and carts started to whip by. Or perhaps in those days, people started to fashion themselves a cart out of offcuts in the shed and started hanging out at long distance coach stations and moving stuff around in their carts.

and such.

Would be niceto see all those 1sat/vByte transactions to get to their final destinations 👀

On my reading list too.

My short answer is that being that his image is still around on every Yuan, maybe he would force the use of paper with his image printed on it instead.

edit. I know the title is toungue in cheek, just being a douchbag.

I'm with you, but if you could relay LN PSBT pre-images over fax, VOIP, or carrier pigeon, does that mean that we can't have fax machines, internet or birds? Maybe I'm being a bit simplistic but the same can be said for many things. Knife crime is a problem. Every kitchen has a knife and they are extermely useful for cutting meat, vegetables and bread. What are you going to do about it? Either you live in an autharitarian backwater where governments start demanding you have a license for a pencil and a sheet of paper. Or society deals with crime how it has generally in the civilized world. You have police forces, inverstigations and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. Otherwise, what are we paying taxes for?

People do good and bad with Tether I guess (after they convert it into currency.)

You don't?

Would it be possible to have an LN daemon that only opens channes to nodes that do not transmit RGB / taproot assets, like segwit only wallets?

I suppose this would not stop routing of taproot assets over LN but is that a huge problem? I see the problem that I don't want to open a channel with a node that solely wants to facilitate messing around with non-Bitcoin 'assets'.

;D I forgot that..

I just mean for non-home setups. Is there any development on the Sphinx type of keys at home node in cloud set up?

That is an interesting point, but thr same applies to the whole internet, no?

Not to cast whataboutism, but it's not specifically a problem related to LN, more the internet.

Thanks, that helps shed some light on things.

I'm running a pruned back end that serves another node fine. I don't notice any difference in practical usage of a node ( I imagine if I wanted to do accounting or any kind of retroactive query it's not going to be much use though)

My OP was mostly hoping to get an answer about diagnosing issues when doing an initial synctograph. So far, I think I've got it syncing, although it was not getting pongs back sometimes.

For the time being, I think I'm going to stick with pruning as smaller flexible nodes that don't require a shit tonne of resources.

No doubt will look into Neutrino in time (if my next abode has wireless internet)

I'm retarded when it comes to being on the cutting edge of technology. I'm building up my knowledge of Debian, Ubuntu, Bitcoin Core and LND only. PostmarketOS, LineageOS on mobile.

Maybe in the future I'll get a Pixel, look into Graphene and get the node in my hand.

I did try Blixt, that worked well on my iphone, but I dropped the iphone in the sea on holiday this summer.

Appreciate the ideas.

Interesting. had not really considered looking at Neutrino yet.

What do you do for the bitcoin node back end if you were travelling and didn't have a synced node, so you need to connect to public back end? It's not particularly fitting to my use case, but I appreciate the response.

While I guess there's always risks. I think that graph looks way different to three to four years ago, in both scope and distribution. Similar to mining situation, to some degree, I guess.

On my list. Thanks, never heard of that.

I tend to think the opposite. Less transaction demand = more hodling

Insightful.

That's a subjective observation. There must be a dime to be made offering some kind of walk in cashfor x that's not just stolen shit and gold rounds.

I'm a big Lego fan. Not sure what happened to it all of it. Apparently I have it somewhere. On the economic side, it's a bit over my head to think about but love the idea of an economy of Lego. If I relocate it all some day, I think I'd be happy to find a P2P swap and buy/sell market. My favorite is the bonsai tree but I don't have that.

Sounds pretty reasonable. Ultimately, it's your decision. I guess being as reasonable as you can is the best way. 5 months sounds pretty damn reasonable. Extend it out for as long as you need to complete everything and that way it should make the change as smooth as possible, I'd of guessed. Anyway, good luck with it all.

Interesting read. I understand the worry. Being a prospective buyer for years and years but not becoming an owner, it's almost hard to understand such an issue.

Since when do renters start making demands about terms of their lease, or is this just 'I want...'? If you already made the decision to sell, way back, could you substantiate that in any way if needed to? Not doubting you of course, just thinking evidence is pretty useful. If you have a renter wanting to extend, until you clarify the situation, and go ahead with the sale, is that going to derail your plans?

Doesn't sound so bad.

Yeah, I'd imagine so.

It's nice that, like the original Llama model and it's myriad iterations, it's free to download, but I feel this is being made into more of a big deal than it is. As I hear, this is optimized to perform as well as open ai's subscription service, the industry being touted as the thing we need to throw billions at, as well as nuclear powered data centres for the computational requirements of Sam Altman.

First, optimizing something is a lot easier than discovering and implimenting new things, secdond, I don't really think there was much hegemony as the llama model was initially made public, which started this whole optimization game. What is Nature saying?