GSR would feel like nothing less than a miracle at this point of Bitcoin history where the culture is at End of Roman Empire levels of dysfunction! View quoted note →

Which is more secure (given BitVM or better yet as simple of a softfork as OP_CAT); 1. 200 watchtowers trying to keep 20000 lightning channels opened with a dozen LSPs secure by racing on Bitcoin to challenge a fraud? 2. OR; 200 well incentivized challengers trying to secure a single bridge to a sidechain merge mined with Bitcoin with most of the hashrate, and used by 20000 users. Sometimes I feel like Bitcoiners just hate scaling and division of labour!

This is a clever quote because it sounds a mirror of "the problem with Bitcoin is all the work necessary to trust it" .. I wonder if that was the idea of the quote or just an accident. View quoted note →

Started my day inspired to play with a visualization of decentralised IDs as Go 5*5 board!

I guess six months from now Trump will say there has never been a war in his presidency and it is all fake news and that he doesn't know anything about Hormuz, just like he pretends Houthis don't exist after a brief failure there as well.

I really hope this experiment is well documented so we don't keep reinventing HTTP APIs once every generation. If you want experimenting we already know how to do that; Everything is a file! Create a data store, and let everyone write whatever they want and parse it as they wish, the catch is that you HAVE to deal with access control, otherwise servers will have to make up their own filters, and if you encrypt data then servers are just going to filter out all of that. you have to have owners of data repositories, you can't avoid this. View quoted note →