Anyone care to share their Lightning Node URI? I wanna make connections to the WO peeps  |
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My Lightning Node is up and connected I should probably read about what it actually does and how to use it. |
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Just started a lightning node.
No idea what I'm doing. Probably just lost the funding i sent it, but, we'll see how it goes.
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thats right please only discuss the dictatorship of the proletariat or else you will be liberated to one of our special farms in the far west  It's this kinda shit and the pepe memes that make me not want to be here. |
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I'm no veterinarian, but I'm still pretty sure that's not a bull.
It's buffalo a different race of bull I guess. But it was a good laugh for me LOL [/quote] Not quite what I'm getting at. A Bull is male, of whatever species (bovine, whales, elephant, etc)... THAT has teats. |
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Actual footage of BTC bulls in 2019   I'm no veterinarian, but I'm still pretty sure that's not a bull. |
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which bitcoin credit card do you guys use, can you recommend one?
Wirex I thought we were all hodling? |
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Why on these 'expert panels' do they continue to invite people to talk about things they don't know anything about? |
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So, err, what's the conclusion? |
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How are exchanges still being hacked these days? Have lessons not been learnt?
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This is something I ponder on and off. That 1-3% figure is pretty far out. I'll bet there are people who've been reading this thread for longer than most of us have been here who've never even registered, let alone written anything. I'm sure it's easy to be intimidated by the astonishing power and paint-stripping insight of titanic intellects such as the one I happen to possess. I still think they should make themselves known. We need a lurker amnesty. Come on out. We won't hurt you. Finally, someone polite enough to invite the guy in the corner. I've been lurking since Spring 2012. AMA. 1. When did you first find out about Bitcoin and how? Pfft. I've been around longer. (just) |
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I anticipate the market will come around to the superior solution. Admittedly, becoming less sure of this as time goes on.
It already has, you're just on the wrong side of it and got deluded. If you don't think Bitcoin TM with Segwit/LN is the *right* long term solution that will endure above all else, then you should just sell all your BTC holdings now get entirely out of the crypto world. Because I got some bad news for you about BCash ABC and SV... they've already failed in the eyes of the public. BCH & SV are already dead, there’s literally zero interest in both. I’d love to see how many people buy & HODL thinking they’re the future. I see value in both for short term profits from random pumps but no way both will become mainstream payment options in the future. Bitcoin will survive but the 2 shit forks are on life support imo, propped up by their scammer creators. That reminds me, whatever happened to solidcoin? |
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call me crazy but I believe over next 72 hours we will test 3200 or come close again to it. then from there we will have an epic rise again. ETH hardfork could be the catalyst to change things over next 3 days.
Next 24 hours are crucial! 'Critical', they're 'critical'. |
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All the news of advances for Bitcoin are nice. But in LN some actors are entering the game ...,of dubious origin, banks, institutions, startups, supported by the same.  This as news is fine, you do not have the coins immobilized in LN waiting. Crypto payment platform Bitrefill has launched Thor, a service that allows customers to open Lightning channels on demand. Thor will connect to Bitrefill's node on the Lightning Network, allowing users to receive Lightning payments whether they have bitcoin loaded into their Lightning wallets or not.https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitrefill-channel-opening-service-makes-accepting-lightning-payments-easy/I wouldn't worry about banks becoming major LN hubs anytime soon. r0ach always posts his chart with Goldman Sachs, Chase, etc. as major LN hubs. What he doesn't tell you is that Theymos alone has more BTC than Goldman Sachs. I can foresee an alternative scenario where the liquidity of LN is provided by all the cypherpunks, computer nerds, and libertarians who mined or bought most of the coins. I see LN being service providers, like *ahem* PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, AmEx, et al. Used for making 'small' value transactions easier and cheaper. I use (some) of these services daily, if they run their own Node, I wouldn't have a too big a problem to use them to buy some milk and bread in the morning. Of course only this time, the majority of my BTC will remain in my possession, not the banks. |
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I can think of at least one strong reason why satoshi would like to sow doubt about his existence. So in your example of a possible scenario he (Satoshi) would come out and pretend to be a total dick to not be outed properly as a genius? Or perhaps satoshi is a total dick. I mean, why not? As I recall, the initial outing was not uttered by CSW. Yes he did, he told various people 'in confidence' and left clues lying around in the hope they would be picked up. https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/bizarre-saga-craig-wright-latest-inventor-bitcoinA particularity dickish thing to do. |
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Here is what I use:  Cost me a few satoshis and I've been saving my bitcoins on it since last year. I don't see the point of hardware wallets if you are in bitcoin to hodl them. To spend them actively i would still use my iphone for the job insead of hw wallets since I would carry my wealth in a paper wallet and my play money on my phone. But most importantly, it is just easier with a phone. To me money spent on hw wallets is a waste. I would buy more crypto instead. It's really all about the value of the amount you are storing, and therefore the risk. Paper wallet is fine for smaller amounts, but... - Where do you store the paper wallet safely - What happens if you are burgled and the thief steals the wallet (wether or not they know what to do with it) - Where do you store a backup, (and increase the risk of compromise)? - What happens if your house burns down? - Something gets split on the wallet and obscures the ink. - 3 Years later, and you've simply lost the wallet, or thrown it out accidentally. - When you spend the wallet and enter the address into a computer, are you 100% sure that computer is totally free from trojans/viruses, an attacker could steal the funds on the happy day when you cash-out. These risks are small (ish) but if you had $100k or $100m, they would be much more important. A paper wallet requires multiple diverse location copies, but each copy increases the risk of theft, and you need to trust someone else to look after other copies (family?) So you can securely split the secret (Shamir's secret splitting https://iancoleman.io/shamir/) , you can then choose how many parts of the total eg. 2 of 3 are needed to reconstruct the private key, Then split it - 1 copy with a good friend or your lawyer, 1 with a family member, and 1 in your safe. As its 2 of 3, 1 person can lose their key and its not a problem, and both the family member and friend need to collude to steal you coins. You could of course increase this from 2 of 3 to any value such as 4 of 7, whatever makes sense to you. When you come to spend the paper wallet, you should use a clean machine, install a new version of the OS ,and then only the wallet software. I wouldn't use brand new software releases and I would check the authenticity of the code using release signing keys or hashes. If you really want to do it properly, you should probably read Glacier protocol https://glacierprotocol.org/, it discusses all the risks and possible solutions, you can then cherry pick the things you think are important to you. You want to also factor in your own death to the scheme. Making sure 'your' people know about, and can actually get possession of the coins without you. Exactly, for the amount i have, I'd need the whole airgapped/secure printer - computer combo thing. I don't have the space for that. And at the time I bought it, it was $100. Cyptosteel is an option, but the thought of making sure I get all those number and letters right! And I do occasionally move some coins around - for example in Nov, when the funding % return rocketed on Bitfinex. Made a nice bit of BTC doing that. Then moved it all back before Jan. Trezor's just so much more convenient. And now it work with Mycelium again! |
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I know, I know, you guys have made your case and kwukduck has been gone almost a year but I too believe his reappearance is the only trusted buy signal for Bitcoin (and Monero too, which he also took to hating!), which means I'm waiting for him more anxiously than most (but happy if he stays away till 2020).
What I'm really curious to know about him is which Bcash highway he went down... it's really sad that we lose such treasures.
Yeah, I'm not calling bull until Kwuk rears his ugly head. |
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Only Satoshi can speak for Satoshi. So much bullshit floating about. Usually big blockers to blame
I never really understood this 'What Satoshi would have wanted' thing. He is no messiah. His thoughts are not the be-all and end-all. If they were, we'd still all be on version 0.001 alpha release. Who's to say if he was still directing Bitcoin he wouldn't take it down a route to oblivion? Everyone would mindlessly follow? Well, if BSV is actually Satoshi's vision, the price and uptake of it just shows it was a poor choice. |
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