I just want an lightning powered agar.io clone, is that too much to ask for?

If you think nostr is for polite speech you’re going to have a bad time.

Fucking commies

For a very good technical understanding of Bitcoin read in order: 1. The Bitcoin Standard 2. The Blocksize Wars 3. The Book of Satoshi 4. Grokking Bitcoin 5. BITCOIN v0.01 ALPHA 6. Bitcoin a Work in Progress 7. Mastering The Lightning Network

Since everyone is on NOSTR now, here's my review of Mastering the Lightning Network By Andreas Antonopoulos, Olaoluwa Osuntokun & Rene Pickhardt.

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If someone loaded a shotgun of lightning knowledge and sprayed it at a wall, it would be this book. I would give this 5 stars, but I feel it’s got some missing pieces and could be refined to be more coherent as a whole. It’s very high impact and covers the Lightning network broadly. This is not a book for the noobie bitcoiner. It’s technical, requires patience and dedication to get through. But it is so worth reading. If you have a desire to understand lightning more, it’s technical minutia or how things work generally, this is the book for you. I came away from the book not understanding lightning fully, but having more answers and questions to look into, a better idea of where to look for answers, and a better idea on what lightning is and how it functions. This is not an instructional book for setting up and running a lightning node (despite their being a chapter dedicated to this, which should probably be improved with external resources for just that). But it does offer many clues to the self taught Bitcoin amateur on what is the cutting edge of Bitcoin technology. I don’t see lightning and other second layer networks stopping. Long term, they will only accelerate and perhaps even become the primary use-case for Bitcoin’s layer 1. There is not a lot of published literature about lightning yet. So this book is by far the best one out there, if not the only one. You can pick up a lot of subtle useful nuances about lightning and second layers by just passively reading this book. Some things that stood out for me were: The abacus nature of lightning channels and liquidity. How your nodes channel liquidity is used/useful in others routing of HTLC’s. WTF is even an HTLC and why PTLC’s are superior and are enabled by Taproot and will help scale lightnings privacy and capacity generally. That there is a whole legion of volunteer lightning devs out their who are low key superhero’s asking for nothing. (You guys are the real MVP’s. ) That updating your channel state/fee policy every two weeks can be a best practice, as a way to advertise your channels to the network so they don’t get stale in the eyes of other nodes network graphs. Fee policy dynamics and specific units. The state of the lightning network is much more dynamic and upgrade-able than Bitcoin layer 1, which makes things much more fun and permissionless for developers to mess around. I like that it’s forwards and backwards compatible. Though I do worry about hostile bifurcation scenarios long term and centralization. It is imperative, or at least a high priority, that running a lightning node be accessible to anyone who wants to do so long term. This may be more difficult than it appears, due to UX issues currently, and eventually resource constraints. Lightning, and to a certain extent Bitcoin layer 1, are currently operating under a light adversarial environment in my view (it can get worse). Making both networks more robust to certain DOS attacks is not very sexy from a development perspective, but imperative long term. Concern for corporate and nation state adversarial actions should be top of mind by devs looking to fortify layer 2’s and 1. Taproot was a god send for the lightning network. As a result Lightning is a lot more robust in multiple ways, and we are only now seeing some green shoots from this. It is still early days, its will get so much better. There is a lot more work to do on making lightning and layer 2’s more robust generally, and also accessible to the average user. Luckily, Both seem to be moving apace with great acceleration. With that in mind, I hope Bitcoin AND Lightning devs make good choices in their designs that focus on empowering end users rather than ensnare them in third party middleman mouse traps, or enable shitcoin gambling dynamics. Unfortunately many devs seem to be in this latter camp, knowingly or unknowingly. Fiat incentives, I get it. But please consider giving back when you can or when you “make it”. To those of you who are in the former camp (you know who you are), With a 21 gun salute, Thank You For Your Service. TLDR: Lightning & Layer 2’s are Bitcoin’s Future. Mastering The Lightning network is a good book for fundamental technical Lightning details. Read it.

the twitter blue checks hate us for our freedom

Dear apple. Fuck Off. Sent from my iPhone on Damus app.

You are the small pebble that starts and avalanche

Nostr on an apple device is kinda a Larp if you really want to say something bordering the limits of “free speech”

r/bitcoin is closed. Nostr is OPEN

Working on my business card game for an upcoming #Bitcoin conference

"biTc0iN DoEsn'T CaRe"

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@LukeDashjr what happened to your twitter account?

How would you kill Bitcoin?

It is with great disappointment that I write this thread about Bitcoin Magazine. I personally have high standards for what constitutes a "Bitcoin" conference. I do not want to pay to be bombarded by shitcoiners and their ilk. But last year, the Bitcoin 2022 conference did just that. It was heavily infiltrated by those promoting NFTs, blockchain, crypto, DeFi, shitcoins, centralized yeild farming exchanges and algorithmic stablecoins. Many of them were even sponsors! Bitcoin Magazine enabled these 3rd party middlemen, their shitcoins, corruption and products. In exchange they accepted their fiat sponsorship, and then turned around and invested that fiat heavily into Three Arrows Capital and GBTC. They have lost millions of dollars on these shitcoin and paper IOU trades. It is extremely concerning to see that now, Bitcoin Magazine is selling NFTs at auction for a minimum 10 BTC each. It's surreal to see them crossing the rubicon into shitcoin-scam city. Are Bitcoin Magazines finances really so bad that they need to stoop so low as to sell receipts of JPEGs on a centralized standard? It is clear that they have sold out to the highest bidder before. But this is a new low. Before they were simply enabling the scammers and being paid for it. Last year's shilling of shitcoins on stage by Novogratz and O'Leary highlighted this. Now they are removing the middleman and going direct as NFT scam peddlers themselves! It was never Bitcoin Magazine directly doing the scamming. They were just letting it happen. Now they really have their hands fully in the shit. In conclusion, I urge the Bitcoin community to boycott Bitcoin Magazine until they take steps to promote the Bitcoin ethos and contain the shitcoiners. The community has the power to demand higher standards for Bitcoin conferences and publications. Let us use that power to ensure that Bitcoin Magazine does not promote distractions and subversive elements to the Bitcoin ethos. Some things you can do is Organize your own unconference Bitcoin meetups in the area from May 18th-20th. Don't attend their conference or buy their products. Let them know your displeasure on social media. Send a variation of this letter to their email [contact@btcmedia.org](mailto:contact@btcmedia.com) (use chatGPT for a different version of this letter) Depending on their response, further actions may be forth coming, my goal with this letter is for them to at least stop selling and promoting shitcoins themselves. If you work for Bitcoin Magazine and also feel the same way as this letter, consider speaking out or getting in touch. The below text is verbatim from their website:

Bitcoin Magazine

Bitcoin Magazine Code Of Ethics - Bitcoin Magazine

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Our Code of Ethics is the code we not only work by, but live by, and expect of each other, our business partners, and suppliers. Not only do we operate according to our ethical principles and requirements, we hold ourselves and those we work with to full accountability for being in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations worldwide.

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