Knock knock?

Visa decides to eat Ripple:   https://usa.visa.com/visa-everywhere/innovation/visa-b2b-connect.html

Does RSK support tokens like ERC20? 

Roached....

Thanks for the props.  I think it’s the requirement for an “always online” connnection. Just easier with cloud. 

Don’t ask me to explain what happens if your node goes offline.  I don’t know.

Plus ca change

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$6700?  Why so high?  Why not wait to retest $1288?  You are patient, yes?

LN is up and starting to grow exponentially and you lot think Bitcoin is going to dump?  Really? 

Lightning node how to:  https://medium.com/@dougvk/run-your-own-mainnet-lightning-node-2d2eab628a8b

I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.

“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”

“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”

“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”

The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”

“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”

“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”

He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”

“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”

I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.

“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.

“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.

“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”

It didn’t seem like they did.

“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”

Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.

I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.

“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.

Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.

“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.

I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”

He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.

“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”

“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.

“Because I was afraid.”

“Afraid?”

“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”

I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.

“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”

He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.

Acknowledgements to /u/shichyah1 on Reddit

I’m wondering whether lightning might turn out to be the privacy layer.


Is lightning + TOR superior to Monero?  Serious question.  I don’t know the answer. 

Or maybe we atomic swap tumble through Monero.

We know about it. The Weiss ratings were linked and discussed earlier. At this stage Wall Street types have a poor understanding of crypto.  So any ratings will need to be taken with a grain of salt.  

In particular, we don’t know how Weiss will deal with massive overhang of founders’ holdings like in XRP or how they will try to calculate concentration of ownership in XMR.  Or maybe they won’t take it into account, which would be a mistake in my books.

Best Bear is REKT Bear.

Not a guppy, krill.   Whale food. 

My comment could have been worded better.  

It’s game over for many altcoins when exchanges allow users to send BTC between exchanges using lightning.  BTC is already the reserve currency.  Things like Raiblocks will be smashed if lightning is instant and free.  

This is hilarious.  As I sit at my computer pulling all my profits back into BTC.

Ok.  12 words is a seed not a private key.  A private key is a gibberish string of numbers and letters. I have never used a Blockchain wallet.  But I would expect the seed to work for all 3.  But I am only extrapolating from how a hardware wallet works.  So no promises. 

Holy fuck 30 sat transactions being mined.

Coinbase must have adopted batching + Segwit and not told anyone.

Hmmm. 

I have so many accounts on so many exchanges I have lost a couple of Eth and have no idea where they are.  Have been looking for half an hour...  I have the outgoing TX just don’t know where it went.  I haven’t been hacked.   

I don’t understand the question.  You have the private key for the Bitcoin address?  If so, that’s not going to help you with the Ethereum address.   Unless you mean seed and not private key.

What are you trying to achieve?