And we wonder why end users haven't adopted lightning yet 🤣🤣 it would be easier to pass a paper on nano particle physics than follow all this

Not to mention, I assume all this swapping from ln to stables is all trustodial

Sick one 😭😭

Just read through the comments, some interesting questions and answers

I would have asked his thoughts on Keynesian and Austrian but I would hazard a guess that we would know the answer

Why was it closed for convid lolz 😂

Anyways I read the fear bubble by Ant Middleton who ascended Everest as an ex special forces guy

He reflected on the summit being a massive anticlimax and the journey up with the Sherpas as the best part

Halfway up a massive crevasse appeared and the Sherpa said their only option is to use this aluminium step ladder fully extended to bridge the gap, no ropes or harnesses

Obviously spiked boots on metal isn't the best, one wrong footing and it's goodnight Vienna

Or he said, we can turn back and reattempt another day

Was thinking 🤔 and the thought occured to me that:

• Are whole foods like Bitcoin, where they're considered more pure if you like
• And processed food like fiat, for obvious reasons

And one can take it a step further perhaps, I'm seeing ATM these reels about whole foods like broccoli 🥦 that are sprayed with all sorts of nasties, so could we correlate them with these fake L2s, like they are presenting themselves to the public as the real deal but under the surface there is more to the story

And also why the vast majority of the population eat a processed food diet with a fringe minority eating only whole foods, similar to Bitcoin adoption I'd suggest

Due to the mass marketing of whichever campaign suits the narrative

Just a thought 💭

This post has less meat on the bones than a vegan buffet

Sometimes I wonder if the Lightning Network is a bit like our planet Earth

Earth is far from an ideal, it’s a spinning ball of rock floating through space, with terrible weather patterns, earthquakes, volcanoes and lots of other downsides and despite all that, it works very well as a place for life

You could even take it further and think of the Sun as Bitcoin, the base source of energy and the planets as shitcoins, not suitable for supporting life

Maybe Lightning could have been designed differently, and there are for sure, bits about it that could be improved, but the question isn't whether it's perfect, but whether its tradeoff's allow it to work at scale in the real world

In that way, I hope people will come to appreciate Lightning less as a perfect payment system and more as an effective system that happens to have some rough edges

He mentions in the video that the book is difficult to source and offers a link in the video, you'll have to watch to find it

Whoever built the great pyramid in Egypt had no known access to modern trigonometry

But it was built....

• Situated exactly at true N,S,E,W
• Golden ratio and pie observed
• Coordinates match the speed of light
• Aligned with Orion's belt

But yeah they probably just laid some ropes out and had a good eye 😂😂

My setup really isn't part of this consultation but thanks for your interest

I went to Amsterdam a few years ago for a weekend and our 'meet up' bar had this Dutch barman who had such a command of the English language, he switched accents depending on the person ordering..... He specialised in the Liverpool accent 🤣🤣

I threw that into a translator and it spat out the curse words an all 😂😂 very cool 😎

Run a pub then lolz

Not as widely used as Spanish then mdr 😋

Why not have a play with Shockwallet and give the hosted node a whirl, it'd be good experience to set up and it can send/receive

I have been trying to learn French for years and still struggling with comprehension as you say

Reading writing speaking are intermediate but listening is the weakest discipline for me

Also french is basically a dead language like Latin, I mean apart from the French who are super protective of it, who else uses it? A few bygone former french colonies, Senegal, ivory coast, Algeria perhaps but even they prefer Arabic

I've tried evening school, Duolingo, apps, but I find proof of work is the only real way if you can't live in said country, so I literally take a video and slow it down and break it down piece by piece

The problem with french is, they have classroom french and street french, which I suppose they have for any language but the spoken way drops parts that are always written

My goal is to be able to listen to a political or cultural debate on french TV where there are 4 or 5 guests all shouting over each other lol

I should imagine Dutch is like french in that, it's only used in Holland and a few colonies like Aruba for example, I'm wondering if the Flemish region of Belgium is a type of Dutch?

I'd let operators configure the minimum confirmations, and optionally require higher confirmations for larger deposits

1 leaves the operator open to abuse
2 is on the fence, almost ok
3 I'd say 3 is the sweet spot for general use
4,5,6+ is for incrementally larger amounts which can be set as previously mentioned

What figure would you estimate the number of Bitcoiners globally be? I'd say a rough guess 100 to 150 million

But I'd guess the number of shitcoiners to be 750m to 1B worldwide

So if the shitcoin casino collapses like we say it will, won't it create your disaster scenario even if Bitcoin wins

Obviously it all depends if individuals have gone balls deep or followed their IFAs advice on a 2% allocation lol

Probably too difficult to predict with dormant wallets, lost keys etc

And the many variable effects like shitcoiners seeing too late that Bitcoin is the one and jumping tracks, or the so called laggards following the future majority, just purely out of utility opposed to ngu

I wrote a piece about your life is pointless and that's ok, it was clickbait but essentially it was saying that you should feel liberated because, around 117B people have ever been born, 109B are dead leaving us lot

And out of all those lives only around 500 to a thousand will be timelessly remembered, like Alexander the great, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare etc

So without being nihilistic, nothing matters, we'll all be forgotten, and we're all in this reality together, so why make it difficult for other people, why argue on the road or at the store

Just try and help people to get what they want

But there are so many people plugged into negative ways, they can't bring themselves to see this life for what it is

I chase inner peace and hope one day humanity can learn to unite

We are divided by something that keeps us fighting with each other, whether that's politics, religion, borders, language or the shadowy elites

I haven't always been like this but when you read the old philosophers, you see that what they were saying is relevant in a timeless way

I saw a reel today that said....

You can choose any of three paths in life, and two or all three it's up to you

1. Chase money
2. Chase status
3. Chase knowledge

Wait, are we good after all lol 😂