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⚡️ Lightning Routing Node. Running Bitcoin. Running PeerSwap.

Just got off the phone with your mom. Bottom call.


Thinking of lightning node channels, fees, P&L in dollar terms is a massive cognitive load that fluctuates too much. Just think in terms of sats. That’s all that matters.


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Why is Bitcoin still so expensive? Let it come down 😭


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At the Bitcoin Amsterdam conference, I was asked "How best to respond to the 'Bitcoin uses too much energy' attack vector?" I outlined 5 simple talking points that any Bitcoiner can use to snap this absurd yet pervasive attack arrow in two.


HBO documentary Money Electric was entertaining but covered so much territory that it couldn’t get into the details enough to make sense in some parts. Overall an enjoyable watch, but I’m not convinced that Peter Todd is Satoshi.


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48 years ago the US Treasury Secretary recommended we stop minting pennies. 25 years ago the US Mint director noted 2/3 of pennies produced in past 30 years dropped out of circulation. Today the US mints 4.5 billion pennies annually with face value $45M at a cost of over $150M.


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🇺🇸 US Department of Defense: *Burns 4.6B gallons of fuel annually* Media: "#Bitcoin's carbon footprint is a major issue."

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Media: "#Bitcoin's carbon footprint is a major issue."

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Today marks 53 years of the US temporarily suspending the gold standard, kicking off the beginning of clown world. wtfhappenedin1971.com


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This is the most important thread you will read this year.

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the sats must flow

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I really like the notion of being able to route 1 sat transactions, but I'm finding the 3-10 sat rebalancing to be a database/network spam attack 🙁 -- spam should have a cost, so either minimum HTLC has to be higher or Zero Base Fee can't be used to avoid this kind of attack.


What happens to the lightning network when the next bitcoin hard fork happens? If node runners maintain their on-chain multisigs and run a node on the second network, it should result in an extra dividend in the form of a secondary spinoff lighting network for the forked chain.


Years ago, I would wake up every morning frantic to look at the bitcoin price. Now I wake up every morning frantic to check my lightning node and the mempool fee rates. #nodelife

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#nodelife

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Epstein didn’t use #BTC he used @jpmorgan


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LND shipped P2TR channels in 0.17 which means 64 byte signatures instead of ~73, single MuSig2 sigs instead of 2 for both parties, top level pubkeys instead of hash plus both keys, leaf script reveal instead of entire script. They are still private only, but public is coming soon


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