This idea that lightning nodes, by default, store every single invoice or offer you generate over RPC is insane. There’s no reason to bloat the DB and expose users to DoS risk if they generate invoices automatically, the damn things can be stateless and additional metadata you need can be stored in the invoice and retrieved on payment, rather than stored.

I fully do not understand the desire of lightning people to build protocols to “buy a channel”. No one has ever wanted to “buy a channel”, they want to buy reliable HTLC delivery. That might imply multiple channels, splicing, and probably implies just-in-time channels, but it definitely doesn’t imply just buying a channel and calling it a day.

The thing I love most about Bitcoiners is everyone has their own view of what the most urgent issue for Bitcoin is and they’re all trying to solve it.

If you can’t kill it by regulation, kill it by taxation. View quoted note →

Two weeks of crazy travel and suddenly I can barely walk out of the gym after my workout. Blood sugar is rough.