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How it started:
"Lol only 0.2% of hashrate is available for rent, the bip110 people can't possibly rent enough to punch this through"
How it's going:
Due to unprecedented demand, hashrate markets are expanding the amount of hashrate available for rent
3 mining pools are signaling for BIP110 now:
- 234 Alberta |199 petahash |
- Barefoot Mining | 108 petahash |
- Pyblock | 3 petahash |
Total: 310 petahash | .0304% of network hashrate
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LND's master version merged a new privacy feature a few hours ago: DeleteForwardingHistory
I posted about the feature in January. Now it's in the codebase and is expected in v0.21 of LND, which is now scheduled for May, not April
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GitHub
multi: add DeleteForwardingHistory to selectively purge old forwarding history by ziggie1984 · Pull Request #10666 · lightningnetwork/lnd
This PR supersedes #10319.
Overview
Routing nodes and LSPs accumulate forwarding history over time which, if
compromised or subpoenaed, could revea...
And then there were three
Red Blocks
Things are heating up. Blocks 1038 and 1250 in this epoch both signal for BIP110
Red Blocks
If you're into macrofinance, this is interesting: $1 of USD has been worth over 160 JPY for over 24 hours. Usually, the Japanese government treats the 160 mark as a "red line," and within a few hours, they intervene by selling loads of USD. This time maybe they aren't doing that? 
A bip110 block was mined yesterday and few seemed to notice 
I think it's funny when bitcoiners get excited about AI agents "adopting bitcoin"
It's your agent (in some sense, anyway) -- it does what you tell it to
We've moved on from getting excited when "other people" adopt bitcoin, now we get excited when "we ourselves" adopt bitcoin
How Burak explained Ark to me
How the lightning network works
The average number of contracts processed per day on robosats, since its inception in 2022, is 15. Today they processed 137 contracts. Robosats is running hot today.
robostats.supertestnet.org
If you ever feel like your product or service would lose users by providing them with the truth (informed consent), stop and reflect. Honesty is only in conflict with adoption among scammers. If you ever feel that tension, sacrifice adoption, and keep being honest.