Some time ago we had a discussion here about a possible issue with the Lightning Network. Some big blocker was suggesting that the Lightning Network is doomed to fail because routing and because problems.

The potential problem is similar to a double spend attempt. Briefly and roughly: Alice has a channel with Bob, Alice sends funds to Bob and while Bob is offline she broadcasts the channel state as it was before she spent the funds, thus undoing the spend. However, if anyone broadcasts the correct (later) channel state, Alice is done: the whole channel balance goes to Bob. Serves her right for trying to cheat.

The problem is, if Bob's offline he knows nothing about Alice's wrongdoings, so there must be someone watching the channel for him. This someone could be rewarded by Bob with part of the funds if cheating is discovered (and therefore funds are gained by Bob). I speculated that a bounty market could come into existence. It seems there are already some bounty hunters in the present, clunky version of the LN. They are doing it for free at the moment, since the cost of watching a few channels is negligible.

It's in the comments. The video itself is technical. Mention of the bounty hunters was the topic that spurred the most attention in the discussion.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7xrq5g/lightning_network_and_discreet_log_contracts/

I know offtopic posts are frowned upon here, and some topics are more off than other, but I'll risk it.

Have you heard about cryptocurrencies? Well there's this nifty thing called bitcoin, it's my favorite.
It's holding 10.5 k-ish.

Nice plan indeed.


Coolest items ever:

Bitcoin stuff for select bitcoiners. Quite cool, obviously.

Normie stuff I already do as appropriate/necessary, retired or not:

All strictly IMO, of course. Different strokes and all that.

I'm proud for you, and I don't even know you in person. I can barely imagine how you will feel as soon as your adaptation period is through!

Sweet and slow is how we like it right now!

South Korea economic policymaker Jung Ki-Joon found dead in his home. He was one of the main government advisors for cryptocurrency matters. Probably a heart attack.
He was the single most important contributor to the recent KYC/AML crackdown on South Korean exchanges.
Hm. Hm. Don't know what to think. Bullish? Bearish? Dontgiveafuckish?
Was it really his heart, or something he drank/ate?
I'm beginning to sound like Torque, I know, but but...

Not so quickly, honey badger, not too quick. Take a short nap, will you?

You know bitcoin has a ~21M hard limit, don't you? 

I suspected it would be impossible.
We could insta-quote jbreher, then, for posterity and historical documentation.
The necessary edits could be carried out in the quote by us - simple posters, not the moderator.
The moderators could simple come in for a little cleanup after that - which would not be censorship, since the post would have already been quoted... O:-)

Maybe nasty, OK. But this is supposed to be a bitcoin forum after all. That sneaky language is a bit sickening.

I don't know if moderators can edit (rather than delete) posts, but it would be nice to go through all of jbreher's contributions - some of which raise valid points and contain factually correct, useful information - and

s/Bitcoin Segwit/Bitcoin/g
s/Bitcoin Cash/BCash/g

with a FTFY note in the end, for correctness and clarity.

About cucks.

The word "cuck" has nothing to do with polyamorism. I think it denotes males who get excited when they see their woman engage in sex with other men.

I've known two such guys who wanted me to get it on with their lady. One was embarrassingly insistent. This guy was hoping to step in and have a threesome actually. I had to turn him down in a cold, unfriendly manner. The other guy was shy bordering on ashamed, and sent his woman to discuss the matter. I turned that down too, but gently. I later talked alone to the lady (who was my ex), and I suggested the two of us could make a tape for him. We met in private, but the event wasn't taped in the end  

The use of "cuck" as an insult statistically indicates one or more of the following: sexual insecureness, racism, moderate right wing conservatism, fascism, ignorance, protracted adolescence.

I see things the same way.

However, most of the women I had deals with don't care a bit about being free (as in "not sexual property"). They just care about getting the exclusive rights, and are ready to give up their sexual freedom for it - at least in the relationship negotiation phase. There might be truth in the evolutionary explications for this kind of behavior.

Well, but we didn't live as long back then.

(hope I didn't mess up with the quote attribution)

Been away a couple of days, the backlog of unread pages is overwhelming. What if we had been mooning already? I cringe.

Great book. I like your reads!

STOP IT!
I'm trying to forget.
It's still grinding my aching gears, as PG would say.

Thank you. I'll try to go easy on the Mayor.
But but but... my pants... uhhh, fk, forget about that. Try to, at least.

Merited for self-celebration anyway 

Aha! I knew! FOUND IT (proud   )

Sounds a bit like old JJG 

With all due respect, Mayor, can you please stop fucking with us?
This Rosewater business - kidnapped, no, he's just hiding, no, it's my (millionaire BMB's) alter ego... it's exhausting.
And I don't even want to start thinking about reviving that squalid goofy business with our pants...
 

EDIT - This is my post #666. Mean anything?

This time it might be something more substantial. If it's Roger "dont call it bcash, I'm a millionaire" Ver, his timing is not that good.