A simple policy recipe to break any society - big and small, liberal and conservative, democratic and autocratic - and to put it on a path of declining living standards and increasing internal and external conflict and chaos:
1. Socialism
2. Fiat money and central banking
3. Empirical economics and lawmaking
Tried and tested. 100% hit rate.
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Notes (5)
So many Lightning wallet models out there to keep track of
•Alby's paid cloud hosting with an option to fully self-host
•Zeus/Blixt Embedded neutrino node with options to choose LSPs
•Phoenix's one-channel, one-LSP with splicing
•Breez SDK + Spark/Liquid/Greenlight
•Aqua/Bull On-chain + Liquid + atomic swaps
•Spark integration - Blitz, Wallet of Satoshi, maybe Blue wallet
•Ark integration - maybe Blue wallet
•Lightning with submarine swaps - Muun
•Ecash mints for custodying connected by lightning for inter-mint transfers - Fedi, Cashu
•Fully custodial - Blink, Strike
Bluewallet is working on integrating Ark and/or Spark


If you'd like to speed up nostr:nprofile1qqsrf5h4ya83jk8u6t9jgc76h6kalz3plp9vusjpm2ygqgalqhxgp9gpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kytcpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uv45qez wallet's startup, I recommend turning off Express Graph Sync on startup (how performant your phone is will also determine startup speeds).
However, you can manually make the wallet do the sync and reset the graph when you're making payments to increase success probability.
You'll find these settings at Embedded Node > Express Graph Sync
The first option is to turn auto EGS at startup on and off.
The second option is to do it manually.
This is for people who want to open the wallet for other things than lightning payments like fetching wallet history, checking balance, managing channels, making on-chain payments, etc. but don't want to wait for long every single time.
No need to advocate for transparency from government if everything is privatised and govt has no data to share
No need to advocate for privacy if there are no taxes that require financial monitoring and no IP laws that give companies the ability to create walled gardens that prevent users from switching easily
No need to advocate for free speech if property rights are strong enough that anyone can purchase spectrum and equipment, provide internet services and create media platforms or enable others to do the same
Big IF's
Or are they?